Also known as C4F1 Original language(s) English No. of episodes 72 Theme song The Chain | Country of origin United Kingdom No. of seasons 1 First episode date 18 March 2016 Network Channel 4 | |
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Opening theme "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac Genre Broadcasting of sports events Presented by Steve Jones, Lee McKenzie, David Coulthard, Eddie Jordan, Mark Webber, Susie Wolff Cast David Coulthard, Steve Jones, Lee McKenzie, Mark Webber, Eddie Jordan Similar Formula 1: BBC Sport, Formula One coverage, T4, Grand Prix, Channel 4 Racing Profiles | ||
Channel 4 F1, commonly abbreviated to C4F1, is a British television programme dedicated to the coverage of Formula One motor racing and is broadcast by the British broadcaster Channel 4 from 2016 onwards. Half of practices shown live, all qualifying and races, highlights or live are televised on Channel 4 or More 4, and streamed live on All 4.
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History
On 21 December 2015, the BBC announced that it would end its deal with Formula One three years early due to budget cuts and would transfer the remaining three years to Channel 4. Channel 4 will be showing ten selected races live without advertisements and every race (even live) will be shown as highlights. Channel 4 will be the first free-to-air station that will not run commercial breaks during its ten live races.
Channel 4 will broadcast from 2016 to the end of the 2018 seasons after purchasing the rights shared with Sky Sports from BBC. Channel 4 will also show the race and associated events of the British Grand Prix and final race weekend. Extended highlights will be shown of all races a few hours after the finish, early evening for European and Asian which are shown live races, afternoon for Asian races or late night for live races and ones in the Americas. Qualifying highlights for live races will only be shown if they are live races in Asia. Live race coverage will be produced by Whisper Films, with North One Television to produce accompanying programmes. Channel 4's full presenting team was announced on 8 March 2016.
Channel 4 also announced that "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac would be their title music, the song previously used by the BBC's coverage.
Frequent references to social media are made in the programme's break bumpers, usually in the form of hashtags in response to events as they unfold, driver/fan tweets, or simply the appearance of the #C4F1 hashtag.
For Practice Two of the 2016 European Grand Prix and 2016 Mexican Grand Prix, More 4 had the coverage due to Channel 4 having the Royal Ascot horse race and due to scheduling.
Online
Channel 4's website has reports & analysis from David Coulthard, Ben Edwards, Karun Chandhok (view from the pits), Jolyon Palmer
Presenting team
2017 appearances are to be confirmed. Wolff will at some point be on maternity leave during the season.