Chequered Flag podcast,<\/a> which previews and reviews every race of the season.<\/p>\nAll times BST<\/p>\n
Friday, 17 October <\/b><\/p>\n
First practice: 18:30-19:30 (Sports Extra 2 via BBC Sounds and smart speakers) <\/p>\n
Sprint qualifying: 22:30-23:14 (Sports Extra 2 via BBC Sounds and smart speakers) <\/p>\n
Saturday, 18 October <\/b><\/p>\n
Sprint: 18:00-18:30 (Sports Extra 2 via BBC Sounds and smart speakers) <\/p>\n
Qualfying: 22:00-23:00 (BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, BBC Sounds and smart speakers) <\/p>\n
Sunday, 19 October <\/b><\/p>\n
Race: 20:00 (BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and smart speakers with build-up from 19:30) <\/p>\n
What is the Austin weather forecast? <\/p>\n
The early forecast in Austin looks fine and dry across the all three days of track running, with temperatures reaching highs of 34C. <\/p>\n
Sunday’s race, which starts at 2pm local time, is set for bright sunshine and clear. <\/p>\n
How does the F1 sprint race work?<\/p>\n
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen held off the McLarens of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris to win a tense sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix in July<\/p>\n
Sprint qualifying has three sessions, where the five slowest cars are eliminated from the first two – like normal qualifying.<\/p>\n
These sessions, known as SQ1, SQ2 and SQ3, last 12, 10 and eight minutes respectively.<\/p>\n
This will make up the grid for the sprint race, which is 100km.<\/p>\n
The top eight finishers score points, from eight for first place to one for eighth spot, which will get added to the overall drivers’ championship standings.<\/p>\n
After Austin, the final two sprint events of the season take place in Brazil and Qatar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The United States Grand Prix is the fourth sprint weekend of the season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-495584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115365710553367045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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