Formula 1 Grand Prix (TM) and Moto Grand Prix (TM) Calendars

2016 update. Apologies to anyone who liked using these. I miss them too. My life's just been too busy to fit in doing them over the last few years.

"Caveat Emptor" - I have taken great care in constructing these, but there may be errors and you are personally responsible to check the times against the official websites to be really sure when using these dates.

Ok, some improvements this year in internal data quality to conform to standard timezone formats. I have tested these on Sunbird, Outlook and Apple devices and the only errors I've found are:

1/ In the Australian Timezones on an Apple Mac, for some reason the Australian races show up an hour later than the race runs on that Apple.

2/ Again on the Mac, India's timezone is rejected, since it's one I made up, as there appears to be no timezone standard for India! Sunbird and Outlook don't seem to mind my fake one, but Apple rejects it.

I will try to fix these ... sometime!

Here's a history lesson and tutorial, if you feel you need one.

Hi, I put together an iCal version of the GP calendar for myself in past seasons (2007-2009), and thought it might be of general public benefit.
Late in 2007 a user informed me that they could not cancel alarms, not having the password. Consequently I've dropped using alarms in these calendars.

2007-2009 Season dates have been retained for historic info, but alarms have been removed from all events.

All events are recorded in local race time and timezone combination, so that anyone who looks at it from their own pc should see it correctly adjusted to their own timezone times.

I have done some basic testing and it seems ok so far. In 2007 I found some timezone anomalies in the official calendar and also in the Mozilla calendar resource and I will try to catalog any that I find this year and send info to them.

I may attempt to complete two additional calendars (one for F1, one for Moto) showing the times for all the practice and qualifying sessions, but that's a pretty big task and I'm a little busy otherwise, so that may not get done. Other suggestions welcome.

This year I am producing split (1 year static) calendars for each year for those using calendars like Outlook with "Import" only (vs "Subscribe", where you get a dynamically updated one.)

iCal readers are everywhere, have a look around here: iCalShare. Outlook isn't particularly good at it, but will load a static copy if that's all you have.
Here's one: Sunbird

Then:
- "new calendar"
- "on the network"
- "icalendar (ics)"
- Location: http://icalx.com/public/motogp/motogp.ics
- pick a name (Moto GP) and colour.
voila!
Repeat for the 125 and Moto2 calendars.

Please report any errors you find so that others can also benefit.
mail: gpcalendars AT liveonthe DOT net