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Despite having our own 1Malaysia Lotus F1 team on the grid this year and having Petronas keep throwing money on F1 sponsorship, NTV7 has failed again on bringing live telecast for most of the races.

Last year, it only managed to broadcast 5 races live. This year, it will broadcast only 7 races live out of 19 races in total.

Ntv7 was announced yesterday as the official host broadcaster of the Petronas Malaysian F1 Grand Prix at the Sepang Circuit from April 2-4.

It will air seven races ‘live’ this year – the GPs in Australia, Malaysia, Brazil, China, Canada, Japan and South Korea.

Twelve other races – in Bahrain, Singapore, Spain, Monaco, Turkey, Europe, Britain, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Italy and Abu Dhabi – will be delayed telecasts.

Link: Berita Harian News

When the broadcast rights is given to 8TV in2006, all the races are aired live.

NTV7 F1 2010 show schedule:

Credit: The schedule above is obtained from NTV7 blog.

With so much of involvement in F1 over these years, with millions of ringgit wasted on F1, we will be catching the first qualifying for the 2010 season in Abu Dhabi tonight at 11pm on NTV7 with a delay 4 hours of original schedule time of 7pm.

Way to go Malaysia! Go go 1Malaysia!

Alternatives

What you can do to stay ‘live’?

You may use the F1′s live timing application online to view the official live timing sheet.

Visually, you may try to use online streaming services like TVUPlayer, PPStream, or other direct streaming links. (This requires a bit of digging in search engine though)

If you are hooked on satellite service like Astro, you may tune in to Star Sports if you don’t mind the very bad commentary.

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