To feel that F1 is taking over my weekends?!

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DH is a massive F1 fan, he likes to watch the qualifiers and race. He watches the practices on a Friday on his tablet when he's working so that doesn't bother me.

But.... on the Saturday and Sunday everything has to revolve around d when the quali and race is on tv.

He has to watch them live as otherwise gets the results spoilt.

He says it's not long and not unreasonable for him to ask to watch 2/3 hours of tv every other week or so.

But my argument is that there in smack bang in the middle of the day so whatever we plan to do that weekend we have to be back in time for it starting or wait until it finished to go out.

It's driving me mad!!!!!

My dH was like this. I really sympathise with you as it is bloody annoying. Do you have kids? We did which made it much more of a problem I think. I wonder if there is a compromise he can make where some weekends he watches it on catch up. It’s a long season so I feel your pain.

I had a bf for nearly 5 years like this.
The first year I thought it was sweet, but then, omg 6 months of the year were awful. I became so resentful. He was a lazy fuck anyway but the weekend he'd get up in the middle of the night or super early in the morning really used to wind me up.
He used to drink during them whatever time of day it was too which was another major issue.
I went to the gp at Silverstone one year. It was OK
It took over his life but he was an awful horrid man. I could have prob coped if he hadn't been so selfish and horrible.
I do feel for his current gf, we've been split up over 8 years and I still shudder when I hear "the chain"

Poor Dd had that with me growing up
No, really though, not as bad as that, she was little, that wouldn't have been fair so first, last, Monaco, Silverstone and Spa were sacred, the rest I'd prioritise her.

I think needing to watch practice and qualifying in real time / live is a bit much but I quite like F1 and do like to watch the races live.

Maybe say to him the races every other Sunday, okay but not the practices and qualifying - he'll have to watch them on catch up or something, or after you have gone to bed.

I've always been on my own with her too so no other parent, she's 19 now and just the other week was reminiscing over Murray Walker with me, and since she has her own place its not like I pushed that on her.
Hopefully that means I got the balance right, and there is a balance.

I would hate that. Always been v glad that eg the Six Nations - DP's weapon of choice - is fairly contained. I'd do my own thing, and make sure my options sounded lots of fun. Def wouldn't cater to timing everything around him and F1.

Sounds like my DH ... I just sit there commenting on how much I love Sebastian Vettel (he’s gorgeous ) which entertains me during F1 season

Could be worse, it’s could be F1, Moto GP, British Superbikes and football 🙈.

DH and two DSs love it. And TBF I love that they love it as they all sit together to watch and I do prefer it to football. Loved it back in the nineties with Scumacher v Hill.

It's not every weekend.

It's only every other weekend for about 9 months a year. Can you not hi-jack the other weekends for something you like!

We manage with watching it recorded in the evenings. Just tell him to stay off Facebook until he’s watched it.

It’s every other weekend as an average and not all of the races are in the middle of the day, some are early morning/in the evening depending on where they are held. Needing to watch quali live every single time is probably a bit extreme - that should perhaps be treated as ‘if possible’ - but I can completely understand wanting to watch the race live. Sports on catch up just aren’t the same.

Do you not have your own things to go and do? It’s a hobby, they are allowed. DH loves it, I didn’t mind it, but I don’t have to hang around and watch it, I can happily amuse myself. It’s not every weekend.

We follow F1 but I think needing to watch qualifying and the race live every race weekend is a bit too much. The way the calendar is looking this season, there is almost a race every other weekend, which I wouldn’t be happy to write off totally. And both Sky and C4 have race replays later in the evening, and it’s really not hard to avoid the result for an afternoon. All things being equal, I might have a preference to plan things for the non-F1 weekend, but I wouldn’t let it control my life. Can you go out and plan things without him when the race is on, so at least you’re not just waiting around for him?

The idea of just a few races, such as Monaco, British, last one as @IHaveBrilloHair related seems reasonable. YANBU to dislike 18 weekends a year disrupted, especially as many are in spring and summer.

With young children its fair to compromise.
I'm not saying I didn't watch any others live but Dd was the priority.
I chose first and last for obvious reasons, then my three favourites, (I actually went to Spa in 2005 and Dd spent a few days with my friend who she knew really well)
I didn't do practice at all though, not that I could starting in 2001!

I’m a big F1 fan, and I agree that it has become too much of a good thing. Back in the day there were 16 or 17 races per season, and many of them were held in Asia or North America, which meant they were on very early in the mornings or in the evenings U.K. time so they didn’t take over the daytime.

This season 23 races are scheduled, almost all of them in Europe. Trying to watch all the races and qualifying live would take over most of my weekends for the rest of the year, so I will be recording many of them.

I grew up with F1 because of my parents, and I'm afraid my family now have to live with it - and everything else that goes on in the weekend like F2/F3 or Indycar!

TBF, the DC love it as much as I do. DH maybe tolerates (prefers rugby) but DC and I are hoping to go to one more GP before Lewis retires! We do have whole weekends that feel like we don't move from the TV because there's always some form of motorsport on to watch. We like MotoGP too.

So I'm afraid I'm with the OP's husband here (no help to the OP, sorry!)

Some are early of course too.
Japan 2007 anyone, my favourite race ever.
(Yes, Im a Kimi fan)

My 12 year-old is autistic and his obsession is F1. I know way more about F1 than I ever wanted to know but it keeps him happy.

Admittedly we don’t have children but DP is a huge rugby fan and anything that isn’t watching the six nations when that is on is out
However I am a big fan of a premier league team.
I also knew when I met him he was a bit of a rugger bugger and I think it would be unreasonable for me to expect him to act differently. I knew what I was getting into.
We don’t have kids and he’s otherwise completely selfless and willing to agree with all my shitty plans/idea

You just can't watch recorded sport. It wasbad enough for Bob and Terry in the 70s and they didn't have the communications we have. I'd rather not watch than watch a recording as I'd end up fast forwarding because I'd know it wasn't live. Luckily my partner is a normal person and doesn't complain that I want to do something different to them every now and then. Difference between being with a controlling arsehole and not, I suppose.

The only thing that would bother me about this scenario is the sport involved as F1 has to be amongst the most boring ‘sports’ in the world . However I don’t think it’s unreasonable to want to watch something for a few hours every other weekend .

My DH has to put up with my own F1 habit but I think it's fair because I have to live with his NFL and rugby . To be fair I do sometimes only watch the C4 highlights

@Floralnomad
My Dad used to say watching F1 was like watching traffic go by.
Strangely, he'd often call me after the race and somehow know everything that had happened in it, even though he'd never watch, terribly boring etc.
He died 8 years ago at age 89 and I still miss those phonecalls.