Zeug, it starts of with two groups (of eight at the moment as there are sixteen cars), each with a 15 minute session. The top four in each go through to the knockout stage and the other eight get sorted on their times in the group (a bit like Q1 in F1, but two of them).
Then, it's a knockout tournament. Four quarter finals, two semi finals, one final. Ten second gap between the cars. It's like the last bit of Q3 in F1, but seven times
The cars are great too, a bit like a champcar but with a great V12 sound
Surprise to see SPOILER ALERT Davide Rigon (Guandong Beijing) on pole, and the current GP2 guys getting a bit of a hammering. Andy Zuber (Al Ain) didn't even reach the knockout phase. Great result for Duncan Tappy (Spurs) to get in to the knockout section.
I don't quite see how this concept is meant to work. Can someone explain to me what they are trying to achieve by doing this?
Hardly anyone seems to be able to find footage of the bloody races, it won't convert football fans into motorsport fans, it won't convert motorsport fans into football fans. So they have poured all this money into entertaining about 5 people that have expensive TV channel packages, like motorsport and football, and happen to support one of the football teams that has a car in the series.
You would think the whole series was set up just for the publicity shots of a nicely painted single seater on a football pitch, with a bunch of overpaid egotistical crybaby footballers, pretending to enjoy the company of some slightly less overpaid and even more egotistical racing drivers.
Kinda, except that instead of having a single lap run to decide who gets through to the knockout there are two fifteen minute sessions.
Geolocation free highlights (1 hour of them) of Round 1 on the site, streams for certain countries, and those channels. And torrents for the technically minded
EDIT : Lost half of the post, it's being shown on
UK Setanta Sports
Spain & Andorra Cuatro / Canal + Eventos / Canal+ Deportes / Sportmania
Portugal TVI
Brazil SporTV Globo
France Direct 8
Holland RTL
Greece Alpha TV
Cyprus MiVision
Turkey Show TV
UAE & Middle East countries Abu Dhabi Sport
Remaining European countries Eurosport 2
There are streams of Abu Dhabi sport available (it shows them live and in English) and they have a stream - there is geolocation to turn the races off in those countries but not qualifying.
I'mn not going to post spoilers as much of the TV is delayed but it's interesting to see that the GP2 guys aren't doing as well as the FR3.5 and US rejects.