Sprint is back
After a month’s break, F1 returns to be the protagonist next weekend with the first stage of the first of the two hat-tricks that will bring the curtain down on a 2024 which, unlike the last two years, sees the fight for the conquest of both titles decidedly alive world. The race will take place in Austin, Texasa complete circuit that will give important answers on how much Lando Norris can actually challenge Max Verstappen’s world championship crown and on how much his rivals can hope to catch up with a McLaren that has slipped away in the Constructors’ standings thanks to the latest successes in Baku with Oscar Piastri and in Singapore with the English pilot.
Red Bull will bring to Texas the latest major package of updates through which the Milton Keynes team hopes to recover the balance lost along the way in 2024. Ferrari in Austin it will be able to definitively put to the test the innovations brought to the track in Monza, updates which have allowed the SF-24s to be protagonists in the last three races (qualifying compromised the weekend in Singapore which could have been decidedly bigger for the Scuderia from Maranello ). Furthermore, the return to F1 of Liam Lawson who replaced Daniel Ricciardo alongside Yuki Tsunoda at the wheel of Racing Bulls.
The event will be broadcast live in full on Sky Sports F1up TV8 Sprint will be broadcast free-to-air on Saturday evening at 8pm. The Grand Prix will instead be broadcast on a delayed basis on Sunday at 10.30pm. Both the Sprint and GP broadcasts will be preceded by reruns of Sprint Qualifying on Saturday and Qualifying on Sunday. On FormulaPassion.it you will find the live written of all the sessions. Below i details of television programming and the features of the ‘Circuit of the Americas’ circuit in Austin, Texas.
2024 United States GP: TV schedule and session times
Friday 18 October
7.30pm Free Practice 1 F1 (Sky Sport F1, live written on FormulaPassion.it)
11.30pm Sprint Qualifying (Sky Sport F1, live written on FormulaPassion.itrepeat on TV8 Saturday before the Sprint)
Saturday 19 October
8.00pm Sprint F1 (24 laps, Sky Sport F1 and TV8, live written on FormulaPassion.it)
00:00 F1 Qualifying (Sky Sport F1, live written on FormulaPassion.itrepeat on TV8 on Sunday before the Grand Prix)
Sunday 20 October
9.00pm F1 race (Sky Sport F1, live written on FormulaPassion.it, delayed on TV8 at 10.30pm)
The characteristics of the Austin circuit
Route: 5.513 km
DRS zones: 2
Laps: 56
Race distance: 308.405 km
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