Indian Grand Prix Friday 28 October: Practice one Live

Venue: Buddh International Circuit, Greater Noida

Date: 28-30 October

Timings: Friday 28 October: Practice one - 0530-0700 BST; Practice two - 0930-1100. Saturday 29 October: Practice three - 0630-0730; Qualifying - 0930-1030. Sunday 30 October: Race - 0930

Coverage: BBC One coverage of qualifying and race, Radio 5 live and 5 live Sports Extra coverage of all sessions. Live video,

Force India driver Paul di Resta insists Formula 1 is safe despite motorsport being rocked by two on-track deaths in the last two weeks.

British IndyCar racer Dan Wheldon died following an accident in Las Vegas while Italian Marco Simoncelli died at Sunday's Malaysian MotoGP.

"I don't feel in any danger when I'm in the car," said Di Resta ahead of Sunday's Indian Grand Prix.

"The [governing body] FIA has done a great job with safety over the years."

Motorsport has been shocked by the deaths which came on successive Sundays with Red Bull driver Mark Webber writing in his BBC column: "To have two crashes like this in one week has obviously put the focus on safety."


There has not been a fatality amongst F1 drivers since Brazil's triple world champion Ayrton Senna died at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, Austrian Roland Ratzenberger having died in qualifying a day earlier.

The traumatic events of that weekend saw F1's legislators begin sweeping rule changes aimed at making the cars safer.

Triple world champion Sir Jackie Stewart told BBC Sport at India's Buddh International Circuit that the recent accidents could act as a similar "wake-up call" to IndyCar and MotoGP.

"The corrective medicine is one thing but the preventative medicine is considerably less expensive and less painful so we've got to look at that," said Stewart, who was influential in improving F1 safety during his racing career in the 1960s and 70s

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