F1 Bahrain Grand Prix 2023: Learn how to watch, begin time, TV schedule, streaming and extra

Components 1 returns to the monitor this week, because the groups are in Bahrain for the Bahrain Grand Prix, the primary race of the 2024 season. Following per week of pre-season testing on the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit, now the lap occasions rely for actual.

This 12 months is shaping as much as be a transformative 12 months for F1. The beautiful announcement that Lewis Hamilton was leaving Mercedes for Ferrari on the finish of 2024 is ready to ignite an explosive driver switch market. With greater than half the grid — 13 drivers to be actual — set to see their contracts lapse on the finish of the season, driver motion could be the most important story of the 12 months.

That, and the lingering query over whether or not anybody can catch Max Verstappen.

All of it will get underway this week. Right here is methods to watch, and what to look at for.

How To Watch:

• Follow 1 – Thursday February 29 – 6:25 a.m. – ESPN2/ESPN Deportes/WatchESPN
• Follow 2 – Thursday February 29 – 9:55 a.m. – ESPN2/ESPN Deportes/WatchESPN
• F1 Present: Bahrain – Thursday February 29 – 11:10 a.m. – ESPN3/WatchESPN
• Follow 3 – Friday March 1 – 7:25 a.m. – ESPN2/ESPN Deportes/WatchESPN
• Qualifying Pre-Present – Friday March 1 – 10:00 a.m. – ESPN3/WatchESPN
• Qualifying – Friday March 1 – 10:55 a.m. – ESPN2/ESPN Deportes/WatchESPN
• F1: Ted’s Qualifying Pocket book – Friday March 1 – 1:00 p.m. ESPN3/WatchESPN
• Grand Prix Sunday (Pre-Race Present) – Saturday March 2 – 8:30 a.m. – ESPN/ESPN Deportes/WatchESPN
• Grand Prix Race – Saturday March 2 – 9:55 a.m. – ESPN/ESPN Deportes/WatchESPN
• F1: Checkered Flag – Saturday March 2 – 12:00 p.m. – ESPN3/WatchESPN
• F1: Ted’s Race Pocket book – Saturday March 2 – 1:00 p.m. – ESPN3/WatchESPN
• Grand Prix Race (Replay) – Saturday March 2 – 8:00 p.m. – ESPNNews/WatchESPN

As well as, you may stream the Bahrain Grand Prix and far, way more on F1TV. With an F1TV subscription followers can watch observe periods, cycle by driver onboard cameras, watch F2 and F3 practices, qualifying, and have races, and achieve entry to unique F1TV content material. Exhibits on F1TV embrace “Jolyon Palmer’s Evaluation,” “Tech Speak” with Sam Collins, “Weekend Heat-Up,” and extra.

What to Watch:

There may be Bahrain Worldwide Circuit, website of final week’s pre-season testing. As you may see from the above circuit map, courtesy of F1.com, the format in Bahrain combines a variety of totally different components, which makes it maybe the perfect location for testing. The circuit comprises a variety of lengthy straights, most notably the straight popping out of Turns 14 and 15, by the beginning/end line, and into Turns 1, 2 and three. The circuit has three DRS zones as effectively.

For extra on the circuit, you may experience alongside as Alpine driver Pierre Gasly takes you on a tour of Bahrain Worldwide Circuit:

Listed below are a number of the main storylines heading into the primary race of the season.

• Will Alpine be caught within the center once more?
• How will Logan Sargeant fare in his second F1 season?
• Will McLaren begin out on the entrance foot this season after a sluggish begin in 2023?
• Has Mercedes lastly gotten “the physics” proper with the W15?
• Is Ferrari actually “Workforce Two” on the grid?
• Will anybody catch Max Verstappen and Crimson Bull?
• Crimson Bull’s investigation into Workforce Principal Christian Horner dismissed
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