Channel 4 F1

Channel 4 are the current terrestrial British broadcasters of Formula One races, holding the rights alongside Sky Sports F1. Channel 4's first race was the 2016 Australian Grand Prix, and they will host one of the 17 races scheduled for live and the rest with extended highlights.
With the BBC looking to make cost cuts in late 2015, they decided to cut F1 from the programming and passed on the remaining three years of the contract to Channel 4, who agreed to run the races without commercial breaks. On 12 February 2016, it was confirmed that the coverage's intro would include Fleetwood Mac's song "The Chain" like the BBC's coverage intros, and the complete line-up was announced on 8 March 2016, having some of the people part of the BBC's latest line-up. On 12 September 2018, Channel 4 and Sky announced a deal for 2019 that would have Channel 4 broadcast the 2019 British Grand Prix live and show free-to-air highlights of the twenty remaining races of 2019, while Sky would broadcast every race live. On 13 March 2019, Channel 4 were confirmed to not be having interviews on the "pen" and in the pit lane, nor do grid walks. Their 2019 intro also does not use "The Chain".
Channel 4 first looked to take the exclusive rights of Formula 1 back in 2011, but failed when Sky and BBC put a higher bid in.
==2020 races==
These are the races that Channel 4 did show live in .
Round	Race	Date
4 	 	August 2
==Line-up==
To be completed
Role 	Name 	Duration
Anchor 	David Coulthard	2016–present (Except the 2019 Azerbaijan Grand Prix and 2019 Russian Grand Prix, being replaced by Jordan and Allan McNish respectively)
Anchor 	Steve Jones 	2016–present
Pit Lane Reporter	Karun Chandhok 	2016–2018
Paddock Reporter 	Lee McKenzie 	2016-Present
Paddock Reporter 	Holly Samos 	2016–present (Selected races only, filling in for McKenzie)
Lead Commentator 	Ben Edwards 	2016–2020
Lead Commentator 	Alex Jacques 	2021-Present
Co-Commentator 	David Coulthard	2016–present (Except the 2019 Azerbaijan Grand Prix and 2019 Japanese Grand Prix, being replaced by Webber, and the 2019 Russian Grand Prix, being replaced by McNish)
Co-Commentator 	Jolyon Palmer 	2023-Present
Co-Commentator 	Billy Monger 	2021-Present
Analyst 	Mark Webber 	2016–present (Live races only)
Analyst 	Susie Wolff 	2016–2018 (Live races only)
Analyst 	Eddie Jordan 	2016–present (Some live races only)
Technical Analyst	Karun Chandhok 	2016–2018
Nicolas Hamilton, Bruno Senna, Alain Prost, Alex Zanardi, Murray Walker have also been part of the team.
==See also==
*Sky Sports F1, who host all the races live on pay television
*BBC Sport F1
*ITV-F1
==Notes==
==External links==
*Official website
Category:F1 on TV