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The race has been brought forward, it will get underway in exactly 2 hours from this post.

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Dan Wheldon ¦ 1978-2011
Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Do the TV channels know? RTL7 still has the start time of their live broadcast set at 18:20

Sky knows, and will be broadcasting from 4pm BST.

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Dan Wheldon ¦ 1978-2011
Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Now the race has been pushed forward by about 20 minutes, so it will start at half-past the next hour.

They are trying to find the best window for the weather.

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Dan Wheldon ¦ 1978-2011
Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Do they want as little people as possible to see this race? Pushing a race forward is stupid unless you announce it well in advance.

And they better reschedule this race to another time in the year, seems to always rain in Brazil at this time of the year (that's the reason why F1 pushed it's Brazilian round back to the end of the season)

Coverage is something ironical here. Bandeirantes, the owner of rights here, only showed St. Petersburg race completely. The final part clashed with local football but it was discovered the broadcast of the race was only kept because Castroneves was leading. Alabama race was totally ignored, available only on their cable channel, and only the final third of Long Beach was shown as the earlier parts of the race clashed with football.

Now for São Paulo race, which is promoted by them, with race initially schedule for 12:30 here we're having a "pre-race" since 7:00. With free-practice and qualifying being shown yesterday. We'll get back to reality later.

less than an hour till start and my cable goes out

Maybe it helps. Stream from Brazilian transmission.

http://www.aovivoagora.com/AoVivo/band-tv-on-line/

That happens everywhere. FTA channels here don't give a toss about racing, but when it's in the country they'll talk about it as if it were aliens falling from the sky.

I don't know about aliens, but now they just showed a clip calling brazilian drivers 'heroes' and Power and Dario as the 'villains'. So fucking childish!

thank you sir. cable co says it should be back on in the next few minutes but this is a good backup plan.

when does the race start?

No one knows. Whenever they feel like it.

Coverage started.... woooo!!! 40mins till green?

Sometime in the next half hour.

Sky's coverage on the F1 channel has just started, Coverage will also be on SS2 from 5 when the Rugby coverage ends.

If nothing changes, within 30 minutes. Drivers parade is going on now.

Radar:

Anyone got an english language stream?

You know, watching Marco's airbourne again it's clear that the front is bounced back into the air.