F1 British Grand Prix: Start time, TV channel, how to stream 2019 race

Tadd Haislop

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The F1 2019 schedule reaches its 10th race of the season Sunday, the British Grand Prix in Northamptonshire, England. ESPN2 returns as the TV channel that will broadcast this weekend's Formula 1 race, with a start time of 9:05 a.m. ET on Sunday. The British Grand Prix also can be live streamed via the ESPN app.

The British Grand Prix in 2019 returns to the iconic Silverstone Circuit (where it will stay for the next five years). The 18-turn, 5.891-kilometer course hosted the first ever Formula 1 World Championship round back in 1950 and remains one of the fastest tracks on the F1 schedule. Sunday's British Grand Prix is scheduled for 52 laps and a total distance of 306.198 kilometers. This will be the 70th British Grand Prix, making it the race with the most appearances in F1 history over the Italian Grand Prix (69).

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Ferrari — and Sebastian Vettel in particular — is desperate to break through with the team's first win of the 2019 F1 season, especially after Red Bull's Max Verstappen became the first non-Mercedes driver to win a race this year with his victory in Austria two weeks ago. Vettel, who is battling through the longest winless streak of his F1 career, won the British Grand Prix last year.

Even so, Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, the leader in F1 points standings, will be the favorite to win the 2019 British Grand Prix. Vettel's win last year broke Hamilton's record streak of four consecutive victories at Silverstone. Hamilton is looking for his sixth career British Grand Prix win, which would be a new record for this race.

Hamilton is coming off a season-worst fifth place finish in Austria, but he has not missed out on a podium in back-to-back races since 2017.

Below is all you need to know about the 2019 British Grand Prix, including how to watch and live stream the race.

F1 2019 British Grand Prix start time, how to watch

  • Date: Sunday, July 14
  • Time: 9:05 a.m. ET
  • TV channel: ESPN2
  • Live stream: ESPN app

F1 TV schedule, live stream for British Grand Prix

As it has in years past, in the United States, ESPN will broadcast Sky Sports' presentation of all 2019 F1 races.

Below is the TV and live streaming schedule for British Grand Prix practice, qualifying and race presentations on ESPN platforms Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Friday, July 12

Event Start time TV channel Live stream
Practice 1 4:55 a.m. ET ESPN2 ESPN app
Practice 2 8:55 a.m. ET ESPNU ESPN app

Saturday, July 13

Event Start time TV channel Live stream
Practice 3 5:55 a.m. ET ESPN2 ESPN app
Qualifying 8:55 a.m. ET ESPNEWS ESPN app

Sunday, July 14

Event Start time TV channel Live stream
Pre-race show 8:30 a.m. ET ESPN2 ESPN app
Race 9:05 a.m. ET ESPN2 ESPN app
Race (re-air) 6 p.m. ET ESPNEWS N/A
Race (re-air) 1 a.m. ET (July 15th) ESPNEWS N/A

British Grand Prix qualifying results, starting lineup

F1 qualifying for the 2019 British Grand Prix is scheduled to take place Saturday, July 14 at 8:55 a.m. ET and will be shown live on ESPNEWS and the ESPN app.

Fun fact: The next driver to secure a maiden career pole position will be the 100th different driver to do so in F1 history.

The F1 qualifying results and starting grid for the 2019 British Grand Prix will be posted upon completion of Saturday's session.

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British Grand Prix facts, notes

F1 Opta facts:

  • This will be the 70th British Grand Prix, breaking a tie with the Italian Grand Prix as the race with most appearances in F1 history.
  • Hamilton's four British GP wins in a row from 2014-17 marked one of the two best runs in this race's history alongside the four consecutive wins recorded by Jim Clark from 1962-65.
  • Hamilton has a chance to record his sixth British Grand Prix, more than any other driver in the race's history (tied at five with Clark and Alain Prost).
  • Hamilton not only has taken the most British GP pole positions ever (six), but the five-time F1 World Champion also has a chance to take his fifth consecutive pole in Great Britain.
  • Mercedes is one pole away from equaling Williams as the team to have taken the most pole positions in a row at the British GP (seven) — Hamilton five times and Nico Rosberg in 2014.
  • Ferrari needs 19 points at the British Grand Prix to be the first team to collect 8,000 points in F1.
  • The two Ferrari drivers, Vettel and Charles Leclerc, have finished between second and fifth in each of the opening nine races in 2019 (except Leclerc’s retirement in Monaco).
  • The two Williams drivers, George Russell and Robert Kubica, are the only drivers who have failed to earn points this year; Russell’s 15th in Bahrein, Azerbaijan and Monaco are best finishes this season.
  • After Verstappen’s win in Austria, a Honda engine could win two Grand Prix races in a row for the first time in F1 since 1992, when Ayrton Senna (Monaco) and Gerhard Berger (Canada) won back-to-back for McLaren.
  • Bottas is one win away from securing as many races wins in 2019 as in the rest of his F1 career combined (three, all in 2017).
  • Vettel has gone 17 Grand Prix races in a row without winning (excluding retirements), the worst such run in his F1 career.
  • If Leclerc wins the British Grand Prix, he will become the third-youngest driver to win a race in F1 (21 years, eight months and 28 days), after Verstappen and Vettel.
  • Verstappen could win back-to-back races for the first time in his F1 career.
  • Without retirements, Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo is one Grand Prix away from equaling his five finished races without collecting points in his five seasons for Red Bull combined.
  • McLaren’s Carlos Sainz has a chance to record the 100th F1 podium for Spanish drivers (Fernando Alonso with 97, Pedro Martínez de la Rosa and Alfonso de Portago).
  • McLaren’s Lando Norris has collected points in each of the last two F1 races — ninth in France and sixth in Austria — the best run in his first F1 season. His sixth in Austria was his best place in a single GP (alongside Bahrein).

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Tadd Haislop

Tadd Haislop is the Associate NFL Editor at SportingNews.com.