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Start Times: 30 April – 1 May 2011

A guide to this week’s racing.

All start times are UK (GMT+1 / British Summer Time) and are taken from official series websites or if necessary, educated guesses from elsewhere. Live TV or web coverage is not guaranteed. I include only races and a few notable qualifying sessions of larger series, and not practice sessions or warm-ups or rally stage times.

Saturday

12.30am – NASCAR Nationwide – Richmond

5.30am – V8 Supercar – Barbagallo Race 1

ALL DAY – Donington Park – Donington Historic Festival

10am – F3 Int’l Trophy – Hockenheim Race 1

1.30pm – FR3.5 – Spa-Franchorchamps Race 1

2pm – MotoGP – Estoril qualifying

2pm – International GT Open – Imola Race 1

5pm – F3 Int’l Trophy – Hockenheim Race 2

7pm – IndyCar – Sao Paulo qualifying

Sunday

12.30am – NASCAR Cup – Richmond

4.30am – V8 Supercar – Barbagallo Race 2

ALL DAY – Donington Park – Donington Historic Festival

10am – F3 Int’l Trophy – Hockenheim Race 3

11.15am – Moto2 – Estoril

11.30am – BTCC – Thruxton Race 1

11.50am – International GT Open – Imola Race 2

Midday – FR3.5 – Spa-Francorchamps Race 2

1pm – MotoGP – Estoril

1pm – DTM – Hockenheim

2pm – BTCC – Thruxton Race 2

2.30pm – 125cc – Estoril

5pm – IndyCar – Sao Paulo

5pm – BTCC – Thruxton Race 3

Monday

1pm – BSB – Oulton Park Race 1

4.05pm – BSB – Oulton Park Race 2

Enjoy the weekend!

Start Times: 16-17 April 2011

A Guide To This Week’s Racing

I used to do versions of this quite a while ago. Now I shall do it again.

All times are UK / GMT+1 / British Summer Time and are based on official series websites, or educated guesses from elsewhere. Live TV or web coverage is not guaranteed. I include only races, as well as a few notable qualifying sessions of larger series, and not practice sessions or warm-ups or rally stage times.

Saturday

5am – V8 Supercar – Hamilton Race 1

7am – F1 – Shanghai Qualifying

1pm – FR3.5 – Aragon Race 1

2pm – F2 – Silverstone Race 1

3.40pm – British F3 – Monza Race 1

7pm – Nationwide – Talladega

10.30pm – IndyCar – Long Beach Qualifying

12.30am – ALMS – Long Beach

Sunday

4am – V8 Supercar – Hamilton Race 2

8am – F1 – Shanghai

8am – British F3 – Monza Race 2

9am – London Marathon – Women’s Elite Race

9.45am – London Marathon – Men’s Elite Race, Wheelchair Elite Race, Mass Start

11am – WSBK – Assen Race 1

11.15am – British F3 – Monza Race 3

11.30am – BTCC – Donington Park Race 1

1pm – FR3.5 – Aragon Race 2

1pm – Blancpain Endurance – Monza

2.30pm – F2 – Silverstone Race 2

2.30pm – WSBK – Assen Race 2

2.30pm – BTCC – Donington Park Race 2

5pm – NSC – Talladega

5pm – BTCC – Donington Park Race 3

6.30pm – Indy Lights – Long Beach

9.30pm – IndyCar – Long Beach

Rallies running for most of the day:

WRC – Rally Jordan

With thanks to @RaceElectric for the Blancpain start time.

2011 Motorsport Calendar

For the second year running, I have created motorsport calendars for a variety of race series for use with Google Calendar and iCal. They ought to work with other things too such as Outlook but your mileage may vary – give it a go and see what happens!

I created the dedicated Calendar page a few weeks ago but never got around to plugging it in the main blog. This was by design, I was waiting for official start times from racing bodies. There still aren’t many around, but with the Formula 1 times released in the last few days and others gradually emerging, and with the racing season now truly upon us, it is time to plug it properly!

What Are They?

If you want an online calendar you can use to easily look up which races are happening on a given weekend, here is your answer. You can pick and choose which series you want to add, so you can choose F1, IndyCar, MotoGP and ILMC if you like, while ignoring NASCAR and BTCC.

Each series is listed independently, and the different ‘Le Mans’ series are independent of one another as well, so you can colour-code them if you choose (this does mean some ILMC duplication).

This is what they look like when used with Google Calendar:

IWTMR Motorsport Calendar for March 2011 shown in Google Calendar. Disclaimer: Only a handful events have published start times as of 6-Feb, those without are shown as 'all-day events' until start times are released.

How Do I Use Them?

To choose your series simply go to the list on this page and add them at will. Unfortunately WordPress and Google don’t seem to be friends so I can’t embed them.

Notes

– Events with start times are listed in colour text. Events with no start times (or those spanning more than a day like Le Mans) are listed in colour blocks. I hope to add start times as they become available, this might not be until a week before the event.

– Practice sessions are NOT included. If you viewed more than a handful of championships the races and qualifying sessions got lost among hundreds of practice sessions, so I deleted them. Let’s focus on the interesting and important things.

– For more notes please read here.

I really hope you like these and find them useful throughout 2011!