topic Re: Indy practise in What's On

Indy practise

Loseinit — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:37:48 GMT

Why is sky sports f1 showing football instead of Indy practice. I pay for for this channel because of the racing not football. There's enough of it everywhere else.

Re: Indy practise

TimmyBGood — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:40:13 GMT

@Loseinit

Realistically if sufficiently high profile matches are taking place simultaneously then they are likely to bump a niche event with a correspondingly small potential audience off the EPG: historically Sky Sports (and Sky itself) exists because of its link with football.

Re: Indy practise

Daniel0210 — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:35:24 GMT

@Loseinit

This has been discussed on here earlier in the season but I can't find the thread at the moment.

edit: found it. See the post marked as the answer

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/What-s-On/Football-encroaching-everywhere/td-p/5125327

Re: Indy practise

Loseinit — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:42:57 GMT

Thanks but I don't pay to watch football

it's a motorsports channel not football. Some of use motor sports fans want to watch the live major motorsport events that's what I pay for there's enough football channels on sky.

Re: Indy practise

Daniel0210 — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:54:46 GMT

@Loseinit wrote:
there's enough football channels on sky.

@Loseinit

All the remaining Premier League games are being televised live so next Sunday all the last games of the season kick off at 4pm. There's likely to be other channels used again then.

Re: Indy practise

TimmyBGood — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:17:19 GMT

@Loseinit wrote:

it's a motorsports channel not football.

It's a Sky Sports channel, so it's their editorial choice.

Re: Indy practise

Daniel0210 — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:27:53 GMT

@Loseinit

So next Sunday afternoon F1 channel has been left alone. The last PL games will be on Main Event, PL, F'ball, Tennis, and Action with the remaining games apparently on Sky Sports+.

Re: Indy practise

MarkGoldsmith — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:54:38 GMT

@Daniel0210 wrote:
@Loseinit
So next Sunday afternoon F1 channel has been left alone. The last PL games will be on Main Event, PL, F'ball, Tennis, and Action with the remaining games apparently on Sky Sports+.

That makes sense as next weekend is an F1 weekend.

Re: Indy practise

TimmyBGood — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:33:02 GMT

@MarkGoldsmith wrote:

@Daniel0210 wrote:

@Loseinit

So next Sunday afternoon F1 channel has been left alone. The last PL games will be on Main Event, PL, F'ball, Tennis, and Action with the remaining games apparently on Sky Sports+.

That makes sense as next weekend is an F1 weekend.

And the 110th Indianapolis 500, which is presumably what the OP was referring to.

Re: Indy practise

MarkGoldsmith — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:36:29 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:
@MarkGoldsmith wrote:
@Daniel0210 wrote:
@Loseinit
So next Sunday afternoon F1 channel has been left alone. The last PL games will be on Main Event, PL, F'ball, Tennis, and Action with the remaining games apparently on Sky Sports+.
That makes sense as next weekend is an F1 weekend.
And the 110th Indianapolis 500, which is presumably what the OP was referring to.

Which, as it clashes with the Canadian Grand Prix this year, isn't being fully broadcast on the F1 channel, its on Sky Sports Mix. The F1 channel is only going to broadcast coverage in-between all the various support races from Canada that Sky also broadcasts.

Re: Indy practise

TimmyBGood — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:33:21 GMT

@MarkGoldsmith wrote:

Which, as it clashes with the Canadian Grand Prix this year

I hope no-one has told POTUS ; )