Ian's reason to be cheerful, BBC 2 to show live practice

[John S]

Only their live race weekends, but hey better than none.

The BBC has confirmed that it will air free practice sessions live on terrestrial TV for the events it is to cover during the 2013 F1 season.

Currently, the BBC is set to provide coverage of nine races during the season ahead, starting with the Chinese Grand Prix on 14 April and including events in Canada, Britain, Belgium and the season finale in Brazil.

For those events, the BBC will show practice sessions live on BBC2 and BBC2 HD, marking the first time such sessions will be available on network TV without being behind the Red Button.

Crash.net, Today.

[Ian]

I saw it earlier John, looks like the dodgy site for the first two though, unless I can get a gift off of Virgin for them like last year, fingers crossed.

[Irisado]

While I can watch by the red button, it will be a refreshing change not to have to, at least on Saturday morning, when I'm at home.