The 2005 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 59th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 56th FIA Formula One World Championship, contested over a then-record 19 Grands Prix. It commenced on 6 March 2005 and ended 16 October.
U.S. Spanish Language Coverage Begins on ESPN Deportes
With the new season of the FIA Formula One World Championship set to launch this week in Australia, ESPN begins its third consecutive year of coverage with expanded offerings, a new availability for Spanish-speaking fans and a continuation of commercial-free race telecasts.
The Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix from the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit will air Sunday, March 15, at 1:05 a.m. ET (late Saturday night) on ESPN and ESPN Deportes. The Grand Prix Sunday pre-race show (formerly On the Grid, now expanded to one hour) will precede the race at midnight on ESPN. Live coverage of the weekend’s three practice sessions and qualifying also will air on ESPN platforms.
On the heels of double-digit television viewership growth in the United States over the past two seasons, ESPN and Formula 1 forged a new agreement last fall that will keep the Championship on ESPN and ABC through 2022. F1 returned to the ESPN networks in 2018.
As an additional element of the new deal, ESPN Deportes is now the exclusive Spanish-language home for all Formula 1 races in the U.S. Crossfire soccer. Spanish-language coverage of F1 races, qualifying and practice sessions will be made available to fans on the ESPN Deportes television network and other ESPN platforms all season.
Once again in 2020, the race telecasts will be presented commercial-free with sponsorship from Mothers Polish, which recently signed a new, three-year agreement with ESPN. The expanded new deal also includes presenting sponsorship of practice and qualifying telecasts.
ESPN is again teaming with Sky Sports and Formula 1 to bring Sky Sports’ award-winning presentation of Formula 1 racing to American viewers. Sky’s Welcome to the Weekend program, which will air on ESPN3 leading into the weekend’s first practice session, returns this year with a race preview, driver interviews and commentary and analysis from the Sky team. The Australia edition of the program airs on Thursday, March 12, at 8:30 p.m. with replays available on the ESPN App.
In addition to the expanded pre-race show, ESPN will continue to air Sunday Social (formerly Pit Lane Live), a one-hour program airing on race day. Sunday Social features the Sky F1 commentators discussing the upcoming race and all the latest news from the paddock, with the show also including feature stories. Sunday Social from Australia will air at 11 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, on ESPN3, also streaming on the ESPN App.
Formula 1 returned to its original U.S. television home in 2018 – the first race ever aired in the country was on ABC in 1962. F1 races also aired on ESPN from 1984-1997.
ESPN’s coverage of Formula 1 also includes a dedicated website that reports on the championship year-round.
Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix on ESPN Networks
(all times Eastern)
Thursday, March 12 | 8:30 p.m. | Welcome to the Weekend | ESPN3 |
8:55 p.m. | Practice 1 | ESPNEWS | |
8:55 p.m. | Practice 1 (Spanish) | ESPN3 | |
Friday, March 13 | 12:55 a.m. | Practice 2 | ESPNEWS |
12:55 a.m. | Practice 2 (Spanish) | ESPN3 | |
10:55 p.m. | Practice 3 | ESPNEWS | |
10:55 p.m. | Practice 3 (Spanish) | ESPN3 | |
Saturday, March 14 | 1:55 a.m. | Qualifying | ESPN2 |
1:55 a.m. | Qualifying (Spanish) | ESPN3 | |
11 p.m. | Sunday Social | ESPN3 | |
Sunday, March 15 | Midnight | Grand Prix Sunday | ESPNEWS |
12:30 a.m. | Grand Prix Sunday | ESPN | |
1:05 a.m. | Race | ESPN | |
1:05 a.m. | Race (Spanish) | ESPN Deportes | |
9:30 a.m. | Race (re-air) | ESPN2 | |
7 p.m. | Race (re-air) | ESPNEWS |
(All telecasts also streaming live and available for replay on the ESPN App)
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Formula One 05 | |
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Developer(s) | SCE Studio Liverpool |
Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment |
Series | Formula One |
Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
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Genre(s) | Racing |
Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Formula One 05, also known as Formula One 2005, is a game for the PlayStation 2, released in Europe on July 1, 2005, and in Australia later that year. It featured the 'Career Mode' concept from Formula One 04, which allows players to work their way through the Formula One teams over the course of five years (albeit a repeat version of the 2005 season each time). This game also supports EyeToy: Cameo, allowing players to place their own face on a driver when creating their profile, but unlike F1 04, though they cannot choose their own helmet at the start, the player assumes a white unmarked helmet and only later unlocks other colours and designs. The cover athletes are Jenson Button, David Coulthard and Narain Karthikeyan.
Players start out testing for smaller teams (Minardi, Jordan and Red Bull Racing (Like in F1 04, a generic car does exist, but it is only used in Time Attack mode)). Players then work their way up the grid throughout their 'career' through a mixture of good tests and impressive race performances. As before, consistently poor performances will lead to dismissal from the player's current team. There are also occasional 'shoot-out' tests against the team's second driver (or third driver, depending on the player's current status within the team), in which both drivers complete a set of five laps each and whoever has the fastest overall time (one time based on the fastest first, second and third sectors added together) then takes the race seat. Players can now also view trophies they have received from winning races and championships after each is won in Career Mode for the first time.
As with F1 04, 'classic' cars (like the Williams FW11) are unlocked once certain terms are fulfilled, such as winning a World Championship. Helmets for Career Mode are also unlocked, and there is also a hidden track (the Detroit street circuit which was used for Detroit Grand Prix and the Paul Ricard circuit in France([citation needed])) available for Time Attack Mode. Notably, since this game was developed before the change in the qualifying regulations midway through the actual 2005 season, this game runs the original 'aggregated times' format from the early part of the actual 2005 season in every race in Race Weekend, Championship and Career Mode. This game also has Net Play available. A notable credit is the opening video features the song 'Butterflies & Hurricanes' from English alternative rock band Muse.
The game features all the drivers and tracks from the 2005 season, but does not represent the replacement drivers that featured in the real F1 season, therefore Vitantonio Liuzzi, Alexander Wurz, Ricardo Zonta, Anthony Davidson, Pedro de la Rosa, Robert Doornbos and Antônio Pizzonia are not featured.
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The game received 'generally favorable reviews' according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[1] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of all four sevens for a total of 28 out of 40.[4][10]
For the first time in a number of years, the fans agreed that this was a massive improvement in the series and the shot in the arm it had so desperately needed. A lot of people had criticised Studio Liverpool for the lack of ambition and progress since the series appeared on the PS2 platform up to that point. With the release of Formula One 05, people saw that great strides had been made by Studio Liverpool in terms of gameplay handling and AI.
However, there were criticisms in terms of the AI being too easy on the most difficult of settings, and about the penalty system that had been introduced on Formula One 05 which automatically reduced the revs during a penalty instead of the traditional 'drive-through' penalties that previous games had seen. Overall though, the fans agreed that apart from these minor issues, Studio Liverpool had redeveloped the brand as a stepping stone for improvement for the inevitable release of the 2006 edition.
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References[edit]
- ^ ab'Formula One 05 (ps2: 2005): Reviews'. Metacritic. CNET. Archived from the original on September 13, 2008. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ^PSW staff (July 1, 2005). 'PS2 Review: Formula One 05'. Computer and Video Games (PlayStation World). Future plc. Archived from the original on February 8, 2007. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ^Bramwell, Tom (June 30, 2005). 'Formula One 05'. Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ^ ab'フォーミュラワン 2005 [PS2]'. Famitsu (in Japanese). Enterbrain. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ^'Formula One 05'. GamesMaster. Future plc. August 2005.
- ^Killy (June 28, 2005). 'Test: Formula One 05'. Jeuxvideo.com (in French). Webedia. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ^'Review: Formula One 05'. Play UK. Imagine Publishing. August 2005.
- ^'Formula One 05'. PSM2. Future plc. October 2005.
- ^Hill, Jason (July 21, 2005). 'Short-term entertainer'. The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
- ^'Famitsu scores'. NeoGAF. NeoGaf LLC. September 14, 2005. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
External links[edit]
- Formula One 05 at MobyGames
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