topic Re: F1 qualifying repeats in What's On

F1 qualifying repeats

Whiteladder61 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:18:27 GMT

PLEASE if you are going to repeat the F1 qualifying for races in different time zones, don't have Ted's note book before hand. If the listed broadcast time is pushed back ( because of a delay in qualifying)and the previous program is still playing you end up turn on and finding out the results. Its really annoying and entirely avoidable.

Re: F1 qualifying repeats

Daniel0210 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:40:52 GMT

@Whiteladder61
You may not be aware but you haven’t contacted Sky by posting on here. This is a customer ▶️ customer discussion forum where we try to help other customers.

It may be worthwhile you emailing the Viewer Relations Team at Sky with your observations at viewerR@sky.uk

Re: F1 qualifying repeats

Tanglewood37 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:55:52 GMT

Yep, they have done it again.

We avoided all the news to watch the repeat of the qualifying at 11:30, and they are showing the winning qualifier interview.

They appear to be running over 30 minutes late.

Why can't they broadcast the new updated schedule to help avoid this?

It happens every year.

Re: F1 qualifying repeats

Hutchie91 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:18:47 GMT

So will this mean the race repeat times for Sunday will all be wrong as well? I was pretty miffed that I tuned in at 11:30am only to be greeted with the top 3 interview, and to add insult to injury, it decided to show Ted's Notebook after instead of the qualifying replay that was originally scheduled for 11:30?

Re: F1 qualifying repeats

joe+pineapples — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:14:45 GMT

This happened for me with the Australian GP. Tuned in to watch the quali highlghts, and was immeidately presnted with the post quali interviews with the top 3 finishers.

Going to watch the China GP FP1 highlights on Friday (scheduled to start) at 12:30pm. There's a 1hr 15mins buffer with unrelated progarmmes before hand, so hopefully that will cover any run-overs. Then the sprint quali at 2:30pm.

Fingers crossed.

Re: F1 qualifying repeats

joe+pineapples — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:21:47 GMT

Noticed they've scheduled 'Ted's quali notebook' right before the quali highlights, How stupid.

Re: F1 qualifying repeats

MarkGoldsmith — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:36:20 GMT

@joe+pineapples wrote:
Noticed they've scheduled 'Ted's quali notebook' right before the quali highlights, How stupid.

Thats normal. Ted's Notebook airs live after the session, and if they then typically either schedule in the highlights or the full race rerun ( for the flyaway races) straight after the live broadcasts have ended.

Re: F1 qualifying repeats

mr.tickle — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:49:11 GMT

@MarkGoldsmith wrote:
@joe+pineapples wrote:
Noticed they've scheduled 'Ted's quali notebook' right before the quali highlights, How stupid.
Thats normal. Ted's Notebook airs live after the session, and if they then typically either schedule in the highlights or the full race rerun ( for the flyaway races) straight after the live broadcasts have ended.

Yes, it's not stupid IMHO and if - for whatever reason - I failed to set recordings of the original live sessions, and wanted to watch re-runs of Quali/Ted's Notebook, then I would far rather there were plenty of showings of them than the "filler" programmes.

Also, even though he doesn't have to and it should be obvious not to watch it, Ted bends over backwards in warning people not to watch his Notebook if they won't want spoilers.

Re: F1 qualifying repeats

MarkGoldsmith — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:06:14 GMT

@mr.tickle wrote:
@MarkGoldsmith wrote:
@joe+pineapples wrote:
Noticed they've scheduled 'Ted's quali notebook' right before the quali highlights, How stupid.
Thats normal. Ted's Notebook airs live after the session, and if they then typically either schedule in the highlights or the full race rerun ( for the flyaway races) straight after the live broadcasts have ended.
Yes, it's not stupid IMHO and if - for whatever reason - I failed to set recordings of the original live sessions, and wanted to watch re-runs of Quali/Ted's Notebook, then I would far rather there were plenty of showings of them than the "filler" programmes.

Also, even though he doesn't have to and it should be obvious not to watch it, Ted bends over backwards in warning people not to watch his Notebook if they won't want spoilers.

Agreed - with the Australian Notebook i think it turned pretty farcial the number of times Ted explained " if you are seeing me, and haven't watched the F1 yet then TURN ME OFF".

Please sort out your F1 Channel Schedule.

Hutchie91 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:52:22 GMT

This is becoming an absolute farce.

Last weekend for the Australian GP, I tuned in at 11:30 expecting to watch the replay of Qualifying. Instead, I get greeted with Top 3 interviews and get spoiled immediately, and to top it off, it decides to show Ted's Notebook instead even though it wasn't scheduled for 1 or 2pm. Instead of looking forward to the first Qualifying of the new season, it gets spoiled and I have to resort to watching a 8 minute highlight video on F1's Youtube channel instead.

Now this weekend, I again tune in at 11am to watch the Sprint Race, obviously I'm not going to tune in any earlier and risk myself watching the tail end of a previous repeat or Ted's Notebook and have things spoiled. So why on earth, when I turn it on at 11am, it's already lap 4, and when I go back and click 'Watch from start', it still only starts from lap 2!?

Why is it so difficult for a paying customer to be able to watch a scheduled repeat without being spoiled or miss parts of the event?

If I don't want to risk missing anything or get results spoiled for these fly-away races at awkward timezones, do you just expect us to destroy our sleep schedules and watch it live only? This is simply not good enough, especially when we have to pay the extortionate prices that we have to for these channels.

Re: Please sort out your F1 Channel Schedule.

caesarome — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:57:36 GMT

@Hutchie91

The people at Sky to contact about this are the Viewer Relations team and you can do so via this email address as they should reply to you about this - viewerR@sky.uk

Re: F1 qualifying repeats

Whiteladder61 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:34:55 GMT

@mr.tickle wrote:
Yes, it's not stupid IMHO and if - for whatever reason - I failed to set recordings of the original live sessions, and wanted to watch re-runs of Quali/Ted's Notebook, then I would far rather there were plenty of showings of them than the "filler" programmes.

Also, even though he doesn't have to and it should be obvious not to watch it, Ted bends over backwards in warning people not to watch his Notebook if they won't want spoilers.

I think you have completely missed the point of the original post, I know it obvious not to watch Ted note book if I don`t want to see the results.

But if for example as in the Australian GP the start of the race is delayed by 30 minutes that means the published scheduled time for for all the repeated programs gets pushed back, so you turn on the TV expecting the start the of the Race and get Ted talking about the winners!

I like most people who don`t want to wake up at 4:00 am on a Sunday , so I spend the morning on a complete media black out, no phone, no radio, no social media, avoiding the results only for Sky to make that a complete waste of time with their stupid scheduling.

As some poeple have pointed out this is not the place to get this resolved and I have emailed customer support.

Re: F1 qualifying repeats

mr.tickle — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:05:25 GMT

@Whiteladder61 wrote:
@mr.tickle wrote:
Yes, it's not stupid IMHO and if - for whatever reason - I failed to set recordings of the original live sessions, and wanted to watch re-runs of Quali/Ted's Notebook, then I would far rather there were plenty of showings of them than the "filler" programmes.

Also, even though he doesn't have to and it should be obvious not to watch it, Ted bends over backwards in warning people not to watch his Notebook if they won't want spoilers.

I think you have completely missed the point of the original post, I know it obvious not to watch Ted note book if I don`t want to see the results.

But if for example as in the Australian GP the start of the race is delayed by 30 minutes that means the published scheduled time for for all the repeated programs gets pushed back, so you turn on the TV expecting the start the of the Race and get Ted talking about the winners!

I like most people who don`t want to wake up at 4:00 am on a Sunday , so I spend the morning on a complete media black out, no phone, no radio, no social media, avoiding the results only for Sky to make that a complete waste of time with their stupid scheduling.

As some poeple have pointed out this is not the place to get this resolved and I have emailed customer support.

Ok first, I understand the annoyance if it happened. I did my own black-out for the Saturday quali and spent the day watching the F3 sprint, then FP3, then the F2 Sprint, then I didn't get to the F1 quali until about 3pm. I would have been annoyed if any were spoiled.

I don't remember the start of the Aus race being delayed by 30mins, I watched it live. But anyway, to prevent the "turn on the TV and be blasted into live F1 with no way to stop it" problem, that can be avoided easily. You need to set the Sky box not to show Live TV by default. Do this by selecting a channel number of a channel you don't pay for - I use Sky Sports Main Event for this and I have it as my no. 1 Favourite. There will always be one channel that's not in your package, select that, and always leave it on that before putting it into Standby. The added benefit is that you get peace and quiet in the EPG, but mainly it's that nothing ever crashes into your earshot/eyelines without your say-so.

Then on the race day, turn on TV and the Sky box will land on that channel again, with a "phone to upgrade" message and blissful silence. Use the TV guide to get to the F1 channel, and you can see the title of the currently broadast programme shown live without/before changing channel. Don't type the number, select the programme to do the channel change. That way you won't crash into any broadast you're not expecting. Eg if the current broadcast is a delayed Ted's Notebook, that will be as clear as day without you ever changing to the channel or seeing anything.

You originally wrote "Its really annoying and entirely avoidable." - yes, but asking for particular programmes not to be scheduled isn't the only way to avoid it, you can easily avoid it by taking control at your end with the above tip. 🙂 HTH