Weekend sport (on TV)
It's been a busy weekend for sporting events, starting with England's 'shock' win over the Aussies in the Rugby World Cup - Laura and I stayed up to watch the match which started at 11pm here and it was a gripping game with a good outcome. Nice to see the Aussies put in their place occasionally!
The weekend was also the annual Bathhurst 1000km, which is the biggest annual motor racing event in Australia between Ford and Holden v8 'supercars'. It takes place the other side of the Blue Mountains and is a spectacular track on mostly public roads and an amazing sight with 30 powerful 'road cars' powering around. However, the race on Sunday takes around 6 hours to complete, so it's a 'dip in' viewing event when there's other things to do!
And then it was the second Grand Prix in two weekends that were within out time zone - the Japanese race last week was televised in the afternoon which makes a change from the usual late at night transmissions of the European races. Yesterday's race in China was demoted to a 1am showing due to the TV schedules, however, so it meant recording it and watching it first thing today. Lewis Hamilton didn't quite clinch the title in another eventful wet race but it will make it exciting viewing for the last race with 3 drivers in with a chance of winning - however, being in Brazil this is likely to be televised in the very small hours of the morning!
The weekend was also the annual Bathhurst 1000km, which is the biggest annual motor racing event in Australia between Ford and Holden v8 'supercars'. It takes place the other side of the Blue Mountains and is a spectacular track on mostly public roads and an amazing sight with 30 powerful 'road cars' powering around. However, the race on Sunday takes around 6 hours to complete, so it's a 'dip in' viewing event when there's other things to do!
And then it was the second Grand Prix in two weekends that were within out time zone - the Japanese race last week was televised in the afternoon which makes a change from the usual late at night transmissions of the European races. Yesterday's race in China was demoted to a 1am showing due to the TV schedules, however, so it meant recording it and watching it first thing today. Lewis Hamilton didn't quite clinch the title in another eventful wet race but it will make it exciting viewing for the last race with 3 drivers in with a chance of winning - however, being in Brazil this is likely to be televised in the very small hours of the morning!
posted by Hawkins Family @ 9:08 am
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