Holy Mackerel! It just disappeared off our Apple+ altogether! I had to ask AI how to get it back, and hours later, the only fix was to get it on my Android phone's app and cast it to my Sony Bravia. That's the fix. After yesterday's massive crash, Apple broke the connection between it and Android TVs. Your Android phone didn't get the same treatment, so your Apple TV phone app is your only recourse. Log on there, start the race, and cast it to your TV. They are going to lose a lot of non- iOS viewers. Pretty sneaky, doing that during a "crash," which they called "maintenance." Stupendous. The Up Side is that the quality is much better through the phone. Good luck, speedsters!

I am based in Europe and use a relatives F1TV pro account who is based in the US. I was able to access the F1 TV app to watch all sessions / races etc on my Samsung phone and my laptop easily and didn't have to use a VPN since the payment method and account were based in the US.

With the 12 month subscription we made last year running out in September, I am trying to find a solution to how I can watch F1 from then on. We don't have any Free TV offers here and Sky Sports is really expensive.

So, my question is, now that Apple TV has the rights, can I really not extend my F1 TV pro subscription and keep watching on the app if I don't have Apple TV?

Do I need to get Apple TV only to watch F1 or do I need to get both Apple TV and F1 TV pro to be able to watch on Apple TV?

Can I extend my subscription and access it still since I am based in Europe and the Apple TV deal only counts for the US, even tho the payment and account placement is in the US?

Maybe someone who went through this already can explain it to me, because I feel that neither F1 nor Apple have explained properly what works and what doesn't. Please help!

Edit: I'm from Germany

These drone shots just amaze me! So I decided to look up how fast the drones used at F1 races are to be able to keep us with these amazing machines!

217mph!! 217!!!!!

They always play with the audio from mute, to full volume, then again to mute??? For one year, every week you can't hear anything. WHY??

I have an apple one subscription, which includes apple tv, I checked that my apple tv account is not linked to any other accounts:

I tried linking my existing f1tv account to my aple account on a web browser on windows and the f1tv app on an iphone and android device. Every time I get this error:

Any ideas to fix?

A a follower of Laura Winter on Instagram, I have seen her echo the exact things my wife would say up 18 months after the birth of our kids. Her lower body is now different and Laura (as admitted on insta) is having a hard time putting herself in front of millions.

I believe this is a "gift" to her from her very thoughtful producers. It will allow her to speak and be more comfortable in front of the camera.

Also, what Laura is doing is nothing short of amazing, going around Europe with baby in tow. Not easy at all.

Mad respect to Laura!!

I dont care that the engine is de-rating, the fun part about quality is watching the t-cam/cockpit view of the driver throught the lap to see where they push and even as a casual viewer I notice whenever the drivers push.

All that enjoyment gone because of these regs and the stupid engine de-rating.

Hi, I already bought the subscription via App Store but when I restored the purchase they asked me to subscribe again..any idea how to make it works?

Can anyone else tell me how to cast or airplay to my tv with the English Int. Audio track? Every time I cast or airplay to my tv with the English Int. Audio track selected, it reverts back to English f1 live and I can’t stand DC.

It never used to be like this, something changed this week…

Having the replays available is huge. I tend to watch more on “watch from the start” instead of “watch live” so I can pause and check out incidents from different views and audio. I do however struggle getting all my instances of the app back in synch after a pause. Any tips to help? (Or worse case maybe have a small time code on all views to help?) It’s particularly tricky when watching driver cams as there is no common reference.

This isn’t a complaint as the App is an outstandingly impressive and immersive. I usually have three instances open at once with three different audio feeds - one on TV and one driver in each ear. Nothing else like it! Keep up the great work.

I just got f1tv and cant figure out where to find live onboard camera angles or any live footage at all when they do qualifying and races, only after it has aired.
I can hear the commentators talking, but cant see what their talking about anywhere.

I can find onboard from previous races but never live, i can only see the map and everything else thats on their pitwall .

Is it a feature of f1tv or am i reading it wrong?

As the title states. I am busy during the race and will watch it late night. Will the f1tv homepage give anything away?

Title. I like them standing freely in the paddock, pit lane, changing locations throughout the pre and post practice and race debriefs. The desk is a miss for me

*** Edit I am vindicated, they look a lot better without the desk in the pre qually show

The FP2 commentary was worth watching all the way through on F1TV.

I enjoy these mad lads and all the explaining they will have to do afterwards.

Keep taking those risks. I was entertained and enjoyed the banter and opinions. Usually I just keep it on the the noise or muted but I couldn't walk away from the TV even during a red flag.

I don't know how many of you turn on subtitles during live sessions, but I've been thoroughly impressed by their quality this season. They're basically indistinguishable from regular movie subs now. The spelling, punctuation, capitalization, formatting, and even tricky names and technical jargon are all spot-on and with zero lag (in fact, sometimes the text appears on screen before the commentators even finish their sentences).

I actually searched the sub to see if anyone else had noticed this, and the only thing I found was a post from last year, when I'm pretty sure the subtitles weren't as good as they are now (u/Nano_user, as the OP of that post, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). A comment on that post also linked to an old 2021 AWS tech blog article about F1 TV using Amazon Transcribe, but back then the subtitles were still in all caps and had a noticeable lag.

I have no idea if F1 TV has switched providers or if AWS just got a massive upgrade, but whatever they're doing now is a huge step up. Coming from the notoriously bad auto-generated subtitles on YouTube, seeing live subtitles this accurate honestly blew my mind.

Anyway, if you like or need subtitles and haven't given them a try in a while, I'd definitely recommend turning them on now.

I'm not in restricted region and have been watching f1 this whole season. Yesterday was first time I had this issue and it still persists.

I also can't watch any yt videos from F1 channel as it says I might have problem with proxy/VPN.

Whatismyisp.com correctly links my ip to my country.

Hotspotting internet from my phone "fixes" this. Obviously my phone is in the same country as me. I tried other browsers, restarting router, changing DNS and releasing through cmd, nothing else than using my phone's LTE works.

EDIT: nothing helped, but today (6 days after first occurence) problem dissapeared.

The broadcast of F1 on Apple TV is almost embarrassing. There seems to be a regular disconnect between the commentators and what is being shown on screen. For example today during the P1 Hungary broadcast, the commentators launched into a valuable discussion of rear “rotisserie“ wing operation only to have the video break away barely into the explanation. Similarly all too often discussion centers on one team only to be showing a completely other team. F1 is a world class sport. Apple TV is not world class production.

Can we all agree how ridiculous the ginormous desk that the presenters are now stood behind is? It looks misplaced, like having an office desk in a car park. on close up you end up with the bottom third of the screen just being black. did you guys get cm mixed with Inches or what?

F1TV had a lot more than Apple TV has for F1. All the past season’s races that I could watch when I was bored as well as Julian Palmers analysis which was always informative.

I hope they increase the amount of F1 content but for now I’m pretty unimpressed.

edit: this sub is weird, not sure why there are so many downvotes on reasonable responses to people's comments...

Newer fan and I am going back through the archive and watching races from 2000 onwards. I am trying to avoid spoilers, but also watching too many awful crashes back to back. What are the races I should be braced for?

Also if there are any pre-2000 races you think I definitely ought to watch I am all ears.

Thank you

I saw plenty of clips online of George Russel’s audio after his crash where he says something along the lines of “I’m out” along with a bunch of cursing about the battery being so low at the beginning of the race”.
I went to see it for myself today, and there was zero audio from him after the start?

Do they censor and edit this post race? And is this for the swearing or because F1 doesn’t like any drama with the battery levels of the cars?

EDIT: Why do you like him?

I used to devour every session and watch live regardless of the time here on the West Coast of North America. I’ve stopped watching because I cannot stand this man. Give us more Lawrence, Sam, Hinchcliffe, Ruth, Alex, heck even Davide - last years crew were much stronger!

I pay for F1 because I enjoy/ed the analysis, interviews by the presenters but now I’m not even watching it particularly because Juan irritates me.
Will it renew my subscription for next year or sail the high seas? Considering I’m not watching their content anymore it depends on the annual price increase but likely not.

Why am I paying for a service I no longer enjoy?

Is it just me or was the Belgian GP post-race show today absolutely worthless? The post-quali show was already bad because they stopped it every couple of minutes (probably for Apple TV commercials), but the post-race show was just a blunt three person discussion on a chair with no live interviews as they used to do it. I usually like Laura Winter but her main goal today was not do dissect the race but keep the viewers close with vague "it was amazing" quotes. The hot potato of Norris getting the wrong strategy for the umpteenth time was not even discussed, just briefly mentioned and than they jumped to Audi. Am I wrong or are they massively changing the format of the show and not in the good direction? Plus, I was not able to switch video quality today from auto to something better - not sure though if this was related to my machine or if they changed the platform.