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NASCAR LAS VEGAS - LIVE
Eurosport 2
Sunday 1800-2000
The new season of World Touring Car
action gets under way in Argentina, with
Jose Maria Lopez hoping home advantage
can help him get off to the perfect start in
his title defence. His shock win on his
series debut at Termas de Rio Hondo just
a year and a half ago launched his
international touring car career, and he’ll
certainly have the crowd on his side.
Citroen team-mates Yvan Muller and
Sebastien Loeb will surely be his main
opposition, although Honda should be
closer to the pace this season.
Premier Sports
Sunday 1900-2300
NASCAR hits the progressive banking
of Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the
third race of the Sprint Cup Series.
This time last year Brad Keselowski
grabbed the win after plucky Dale
Earnhardt Jr ran out of fuel only half a
lap from the finish, so there’s a bit of
unfinished business for Junior, who has
yet to win at Vegas in the top series.
After the lottery element of Daytona
and Atlanta’s ‘winter’ event, Vegas
could be where the 2015 pecking
order begins to emerge.
best winter, rather than which
team looked in the best shape for
Melbourne. Obviously the answer to
the latter is Mercedes, and there’s
every chance the reigning world
champion has more in the tank than
it showed on those race runs or
soft-tyre laps at Barcelona.
So who topped our original ‘best
winter’ list? To let you in on a little
secret, Mercedes was third, behind
Ferrari (first) and Williams.
Does that mean either of those
teams is likely to outperform the Silver
Arrows next weekend? We doubt it.
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WTCC ARGENTINA - LIVE
DURING THE COURSE OF LAST
week’s final pre-season Formula 1
test, the AUTOSPORT team was
coming up with a ranking judging
how we think the teams all stack up
heading to Australia. It’s not meant to
be a prediction along the lines of “this
is what we expect the final order in the
constructors’ championship to be” –
that would be even harder to predict.
But it reflects the here and now.
One of the main challenges we
came across was deciding how to
rank the teams. Initially our list was
based on which team had enjoyed the
V8 SUPERCARS:
ADELAIDE HIGHLIGHTS
Motors TV
Friday 1340-1650
If you missed the opening round of
Australia’s premier tin-top racing series,
or needed a bit of sleep last weekend,
then fear not – Motors TV is rounding
up the entire Clipsal 500 in three-hour
highlights packages shown regularly
through the week. It was another classic
mixture of door-to-door racing and
sporadic chaos on the streets of
Adelaide, perfectly setting up another
year of fire-breathing thrills from the
rambunctious V8 pack – though Jamie
Whincup already looks hard to beat.
THE F1 SHOW
Sky Sports F1
Friday 2000-2100
It’s now just a week until the Formula 1
field will be gathering in Melbourne
ready to finally begin the 2015 season,
and that means Sky’s weekly magazine
programme is firing up for the new
year. The F1 Show can be a hit-andmiss affair depending on who’s
appearing on it, but with plenty of
content gathered from testing and
huge pre-Melbourne anticipation, this
is going to be a good chance to
summarise how F1 2015 is shaping
up so far with Sky’s line-up of in-house
pundits and star guests.
SEARCH FOR: GoPro – A lap with James Courtney
Holden Racing Team’s James Courtney straps a bunch of cameras to his V8
Commodore for a wild ride around the Adelaide Parklands circuit. This is a
man who clearly enjoys his job: “Sounds beautiful on the limiter, doesn’t it…”
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