F1 2025 Discussion
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Ready for some real racetracks, might even see someone make a pass on track....
If I’m Oscar I’m not listening to any team order for **** the rest of the way. McLaren has botched the handling of these situations constantly and, more often than not, in Lando’s favor.
Pulling for Oscar to win the title for sure
Pulling for Oscar to win the title for sure
F1, Apple, reportedly hoping to announce deal at USGP
Formula 1 and Apple are hoping to announce their new media rights deal in as soon as two weeks at the U.S. Grand Prix, John Ourand of Puck reported Monday. Progress had stalled due to a dispute over the F1 TV streaming service, which Apple wants to shut down in the United States.F1 TV, which launched in 2018, offers the ability to stream all F1 races, secondary series, onboard cameras and team radio feeds for as little as $11/mo ($85/year). Its continued existence would keep Apple from having exclusive F1 rights in the U.S., no doubt a point of contention given the nine-figure annual rights fee the streamer is expected to pay.
But F1 is reluctant to shut down the U.S. version of the app, which has been profitable, per Ourand. And it is not clear that F1 TV is eating into the audience watching races on current rights partner ESPN. The app debuted the same year that ESPN began airing F1, and it has not stopped the network from steadily growing its audience.
The dispute has reportedly been the “main holdup” keeping F1 and Apple from announcing their widely expected media rights deal, which was first reported over the summer. That an official announcement seems to be on the horizon would indicate that the conflict has potentially been resolved. But according to Ourand, it is not yet clear which side won out.
News: F1-Apple, Sox-RSNs, Gretzky extension and more
F1 and Apple are reportedly close to announcing their media deal; the Red Sox express support for MLB's plan to centralize local rights.
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F1, Apple, reportedly hoping to announce deal at USGP
Formula 1 and Apple are hoping to announce their new media rights deal in as soon as two weeks at the U.S. Grand Prix, John Ourand of Puck reported Monday. Progress had stalled due to a dispute over the F1 TV streaming service, which Apple wants to shut down in the United States.
F1 TV, which launched in 2018, offers the ability to stream all F1 races, secondary series, onboard cameras and team radio feeds for as little as $11/mo ($85/year). Its continued existence would keep Apple from having exclusive F1 rights in the U.S., no doubt a point of contention given the nine-figure annual rights fee the streamer is expected to pay.
But F1 is reluctant to shut down the U.S. version of the app, which has been profitable, per Ourand. And it is not clear that F1 TV is eating into the audience watching races on current rights partner ESPN. The app debuted the same year that ESPN began airing F1, and it has not stopped the network from steadily growing its audience.
The dispute has reportedly been the “main holdup” keeping F1 and Apple from announcing their widely expected media rights deal, which was first reported over the summer. That an official announcement seems to be on the horizon would indicate that the conflict has potentially been resolved. But according to Ourand, it is not yet clear which side won out.
News: F1-Apple, Sox-RSNs, Gretzky extension and more
F1 and Apple are reportedly close to announcing their media deal; the Red Sox express support for MLB's plan to centralize local rights.
Losing F1TV would be a huge deal for me, hopefully they told Apple to **** off.
Good lord, bring back cable tv. It would actually be a better deal these days now that ever single channel wants their own subscription.
Yeah, why not just have your standalone app only and use social media and YouTube to advertise. I am sure I am naive to the benefits of having apple or anyone else involved.
I also think the B12 should buy each team the proper cameras and control the production of their own games. There is such disparity between networks them having consistent high-quality production at each school would enhance the product.
I was kinda half watching after the first bit of the race because nothing was happening. Was there something that happened outside of turn 1?
I saw a dude who is still in the hunt for a title make a move that we've seen countless times in other races. It's racing. Nobody had damage outside of Lando. To me it looked like Max hit the brakes earlier than Lando thought and Lando tried to avoid them. Not sure why everyone is so worked up about it.
It was either make the move there or play follow the leader for an hour and a half on a track where nobody can pass. Every single racer out there wants to win more than they want to play nice with their teammate.
In all honesty. I am kind of sick of Racers always complaining about people making moves. Especially in F1 where a ton of tracks don't have hardly any passing areas. Then someone finally makes a move and it's all crying and whining about it. Especially from the Mclaren driver's.
It's kind of becoming a problem in racing these days, at least for me. Any aggressive move now is met with constant complaining. Most of these drivers would absolutely lose their minds if they had to race with Senna, Mansell, Prost, Schumacher and countless others from before them. This, "I'm ahead, he can't do that to me." attitude is becoming tiresome.
I get Oscar is upset about the team orders thing not coming his way also, but Lando actually made a good move and made it stick. I have a feeling if Oscar had been able to keep it close to Lando, they might have let him have the position back, but it honestly seemed like Lando had the faster car that day.
Built up a great following in the U.S. only to put it behind a paid streaming service. They’ll never learn
I'm an apple tv subscriber and even I think this is dumb.
Yep and the way I read it the standalone F1 TV is no longer available in the US, which is also dumb as hell.
Countdown to the Apple TV Plus price increase begins. Corporations will always find a way to ruin every good thing in search of more money.
Back when I was young all sports were always trying to make it easier to get to watch your team or race. Now it's like they are trying to figure out how to make it as hard as possible and expensive as possible.
It just went from 9.99 to 12.99 at the end of September. I can see another one before next season kicks off.
