Next weekend is a fairly big weekend of motor sport, with two annual events taking place. The Race of Champions will take place at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and is being broadcast exclusively live on Sky Sports F1. It looks like they have taken the live rights from Motors TV, I suspect that is a ‘one year only’ thing given that the event is in London.

Given the number of Formula 1 stars competing, such as Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button and Felipe Massa, the channel are presumably hoping that the event will do better than usual non-race weekend coverage, which should be do-able. Sky are providing their own studio coverage, hence a 30-minute edition of The F1 Show live from the Olympic Park. They are taking the World Feed commentary, which is being provided by Martin Haven and Jennie Gow, the first time I believe that either voice has been heard on the channel.

Elsewhere on Sky Sports F1, there is live GP2 and GP3 action from Bahrain, the two series supporting the World Endurance Championship this weekend, itself airing on Motors TV. What this means is that Sky Sports F1 has six and a half hours of live action on Friday, none of which actually contains F1! This is a good thing though, it is about time Sky airs non-F1 content on non-F1 weekends, a case of all things falling at once here.

The other big annual event is the Macau Grand Prix, which will air exclusively live on BT Sport. The channel will be airing just over eight hours of coverage next Saturday and Sunday including the 33rd running of the Formula 3 race.

Race of Champions – London (Sky Sports F1)

20/11 – 19:00 to 23:00

=> 19:00 – The F1 Show

=> 19:30 – Nations Cup

21/11 – 15:00 to 18:00

GP2 Series – Bahrain (Sky Sports F1)

19/11 – 08:30 to 09:20 – Practice

19/11 – 11:15 to 11:55 – Qualifying

20/11 – 12:25 to 13:55 – Race 1

21/11 – 07:40 to 08:55 – Race 2

GP3 Series – Bahrain (Sky Sports F1)

19/11 – 09:40 to 10:15 – Qualifying

20/11 – 10:15 to 11:15 – Race 1

21/11 – 05:55 to 06:55 – Race 2

Macau Grand Prix (BT Sport 1)

21/11 – 04:15 to 08:15

=> 04:15 – FIA GT World Cup Qualifying and F3 Grand Prix

=> 07:00 – Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix

22/11 – 04:45 to 09:00

=> 04:45 – FIA GT World Cup

=> 07:00 – F3 Grand Prix

V8 Supercars – Philip Island

21/11 – 03:45 to 04:45 – Race 31 (BT Sport 2)

21/11 – 05:45 to 06:45 – Race 32 (BT Sport 2)

22/11 – 02:45 to 04:45 – Race 33 (BT Sport 1)

World Endurance Championship – Bahrain

21/11 – 11:30 to 18:35 – Race (Motors TV)

21/11 – 17:00 to 18:15 – Race (British Eurosport)

25/11 – 18:00 to 19:00 – Highlights (Quest)

If anything changes, I will update the above.

Update on November 19th at 09:15 – Per GP2’s official Twitter page, it looks like no World Feed is being provided for practice or qualifying (same applies for GP3), meaning that the scheduled programmes on Sky Sports F1 will no longer air.