If you live in a region where F1TV is standalone (eg: US) and not part of an expensive sports package (eg: UK) it's good value. You can watch old races and related content, and each race weekend there is a good 4 hours worth watching live (qualifying and race, with good pre/post content). You can open multiple streams with the main race footage, any driver's live on-board video and radio, and various screens of telemetry. It's worth watching on a mobile device even if you are at a race watching live from the stands.
The movie is itself (I think) capitalising on the increased popularity of F1 brought about by the Netflix series. It is a great series and by all accounts has really turned the sport around in terms of popularity, a very clever move by the FIA. Netflix have tried to replicate it for other sports but, I believe, without the same success.
Give yourself a treat and visit an Apple Store for a Vision Pro demo: ask to see the newly released immersive video where you're in the cockpit with Brad Pitt as he roars down the road. Fantastic!
This would be much cooler if right-click accelerated scrolling / moving through the timeline (or just scrolled for you when held down) and left-click quickly stopped scrolling.
Other than the strange scrolling (works on my iOS Safari, but why?) this is very well done. Clearly a lot of thought went in to it, many nice details in the assets and overall presentation. The illustrations of the drivers and their cars are separate layers than move ever so slightly. That amount of care isn't strictly required but it was done and my day is better for it. Thanks.
No affiliation, no interest in F1, just basking in good work.
Finally, the v12 Ferrari engine sounds the best. Fight me.
I used to like the V12 sound on TV but when I watched a race in Monza I could barely take the sound after a while. It was just too loud and intense. Even with earplugs.
Seconded. If you want to learn about the basics of race cars in a pop sci way while being told an entertaining story then How To Build A Car is a great book and a very easy read.
Interesting that they just skipped the entire Verstappen dominance era, but decided instead to jump to the budgeoning McLaren Piastri-Norris dominance (about a year old only).
Of course with 75 years of history you need to trim it down, but that's an interesting choice...
I've only recently gotten (back) into F1 but a lot of the technical stuff is really interesting to read about. Like the Williams FW14, which absolutely dominated for a season before its active suspension technology was banned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_FW14
Not a follower of F1, I never knew that Red Bull built their own cars. I thought they were just sponsoring a team using other cars. I don't know if knowing that caffeinated drinks made enough profit to finance building race cars from the ground up is something to be impressed by or not. That's a lot of caustic swill that humans have ingested over the years to make that happen
They also have sponsors (this year the team's name is Oracle Red Bull Racing, another team has the Google Chrome logo on their cars), and each place in the championship comes with a monetary prize.
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It's a shame that all this lovely artwork and data is trapped in this horrid presentation automation.
PS I am sure there are some examples but you get what I mean.
I’ve been getting into F1 this summer since the movie got my interest up.
No affiliation, no interest in F1, just basking in good work.
Finally, the v12 Ferrari engine sounds the best. Fight me.
I think even Hamilton agrees! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I0R5yZ80rA
Here it is, after winning the championship at the hands of Alonso, “singing” we are the champions:
https://youtu.be/8aArSn4IhHI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBxw4whvBiA
How to build a car by Adrian Newey
Total Competition by Ross Brawn
You will know more about the world of F1 than you need to
Bonus:
The Mechanic by Marc Priestley
Of course with 75 years of history you need to trim it down, but that's an interesting choice...
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I've only recently gotten (back) into F1 but a lot of the technical stuff is really interesting to read about. Like the Williams FW14, which absolutely dominated for a season before its active suspension technology was banned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_FW14
Ground skirts, banned, and then Lotus 88 immediately after that also banned. McLaren's multiple brake pedals got banned after like one race?
Pretty sure if you go back to the 70s and earlier there's a long list of banned tech.