I have taken the OP duties as far I can this year. It was requested I post a template thread that can be used by future OPs for the race threads, so here it is.

Perhaps a mod can sticky this.

Bolded & Italicised comments are helpful tips (or placeholders) to find the various bits that make up the OP.

Title: The Official 2018 Race Grand Prix Thread **SPOILERS**

Date(s): Friday 27 July 2018 - Sunday 29 July 2018

UK Broadcast Timings (and local time)

All sessions are live on Sky F1 and highlights on Channel 4.

Session	Day	Sky F1	Channel 4	Session Start	Local Time
Practice 1	Fri	0945		1000	1100
Practice 2	Fri	1345		1400	1500
Practice 3	Sat	1045		1100	1200
Qualifying	Sat	1300	1730	1400	1500
Race	Sun	1230	1845	1410	1510

The timings above you can find in the F1 app or in the TV guides.

Circuit Name

[pic]<insert track map link here>[/pic]

Can be found in the circuit information page of every race in the calendar: https://www.fia.com/events/fia-formula-one-world-c...

Or here: https://www.formula1.com/en/championship/races/201...

Live timing for all sessions available here:

https://www.formula1.com/en/f1-live.html

Lap times, PU component use, technical reports and Stewards' decisions for the weekend will appear here:

<insert link here> This is the Event Timings page in the race page in the above fia link

Weather forecast:

[Your favourite weather page or find the link here: http://www.myweather2.com/motor-racing.aspx]

The tyre choices:

[pic]This graphic will normally be posted at Pirelli’s twitter account (https://twitter.com/pirellisport), ten days before a race weekend[/pic]

__2017[previous year’s] Qualifying__

[pic]You can google this or screen shot of previous year’s results from a wiki page or something[/pic]

__2017[previous year’s] Race__

[pic]As above[/pic]

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Your race expectations/comments - optional