I'm surprised NBC is running Formula 1 car racing on their flagship network this morning at 7:30AM Eastern. Usually on Sundays it's on either CNBC or NBC Sports Network. (And in Spanish on UniMas. Yes UniMas usually has the Spanish language rights even though their rival Telemundo is owned by NBC).
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Formula 1 Car Racing on NBC this morning
- Thread starter MarcB
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The race began at 4:30AM PDT so I am willing to bet the majority of viewers were in the East and judging by the results posted on Yahoo Sports the race must have been pretty boring as F1 tends to be. The first six starters all finished in the top six so I am guessing the race had a bare minimum of passing among the top qualifiers. Seems although Bernie is gone, thankfully, not much has changed in F1.
It wasn't a bad race. F1 can be "dry" to American racing fans, true, but this one with a potential one pit stop strategy was made more interesting by Jenson Button's crash that turned Pascal Wehrlein's car on it's side at the tunnel entrance.
Fox and NBC have made the Monaco race available to American fans for several years to hype the day's racing calendar. When you've got Monaco, Indy, and Charlotte in one day the diehard fans (like ME) plan ahead for it.
Fox and NBC have made the Monaco race available to American fans for several years to hype the day's racing calendar. When you've got Monaco, Indy, and Charlotte in one day the diehard fans (like ME) plan ahead for it.
another reason NBC does this race lice is that on Memorial Day Weekend you have the three big racing series with three of the flagship events of the respective series.(Although NASCAR does start the season with a flagship event also). And since Monaco is a flagship event and kicks off perhaps the single biggest day of motorsports of the year NBC decides to run it on the OTA network.
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