Okay, here’s the blog post about the F1 Sprint race, written from a personal experience perspective:
So, I got caught up in this whole F1 Sprint race thing today. I’m not a huge racing fanatic or anything, but I do like to check it out from time to time. The thing is, I always get confused about when these Sprint races are actually happening. Regular races, yeah, I get those. But the Sprint races? They throw me off.
Anyway, I decided to figure it out today, once and for all. I grabbed my phone and started poking around online. And let me tell you, it wasn’t as straightforward as I thought it would be. I went down a few rabbit holes, for sure. It felt like people couldn’t agree on what time it started!
I saw some people saying it was 2:00 PM GMT, others were saying it’s 1:00 PM local time, which apparently translates to 7:00 PM BST. I mean, come on! I even found something about the Brazilian GP time! What the heck? It’s 2:00 PM GMT which is 11:00 AM local time and 24 laps, or 60 minutes. The winner gets 8 points. Then I found some information about the number of points. Like second place gets 7 points, third place gets 6 points… you get the idea, right? Finally, someone mentioned the US GP time, which is today, Saturday, October 19, and it’s at 1:00 PM local time. They said it’s also 7:00 PM BST.
I finally found a site that seemed to have it all laid out clearly. They had this whole schedule thing:
- Sprint Race: 17:00 – 18:00 local time
- 23:00 – 00:00 London
- 15:00 – 16:00 Los Angeles
- 18:00 – 19:00 New York
And another site confirmed the Sprint race today, October 19th, is 19 laps or roughly 100km. So now I know.
I decided to write it all down so I wouldn’t forget. Plus, I figured if I was this confused, maybe someone else was, too. So, here you go, folks. I cracked the code. Hopefully, this helps someone else out there. I saved the time and date on my calendar. Now I can finally relax and watch the race without all that time zone mess in my head!
