re: 2026 Formula 1 (F1) Season Thread

Nothing more American than capitalism!!

Everyone knew the renewed F1 ride would come to an end. Tough to see Liberty kill it to boost profits before selling it to the Saudi's.

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I'll watch until May due to $5.99 promo I got at xmas from Apple... Just wanted to watch Severance and the likes again. After that, I'm not worried about it. To each his own, but I'm out.

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While I agree with everyone that it doesn't seem in F1's best interest to take a significant hit to their US viewership by putting it behind another wall, my situation is that I previously subscribed to F1TV, so the switch to Apple TV means my annual cost has gone down, so my situation has improved.

For those in your situation, where you only signed up for Apple TV because of the Christmas deal (I signed up for that as well), and you expect to drop it when the deal is over, I will second BottomlandBrew's advice and do the following:

1. Go to F1TV and find the button to Activate your account with your Apple TV subscription (it looks like you have to create an F1TV account then link it to your Apple TV subscription): formula1.com/en-us/subscribe-to-f1-tv

2. After they are linked up, you can watch all the F1 sessions via the F1TV system rather than the Apple TV app. You can watch from the F1TV web site or the F1TV app.

3. Download and install the Multiviewer app. It takes a little time to learn how to use it, but it gives you a ton of live information and you can watch the race from multiple viewpoints simulatneously. multiviewer.app

So if you have a favorite driver or team, you can watch the race from the main feed and from the cockpits of your favorite drivers at the same time, as well as having a live timing screen and a track map that shows the position of each driver in real time.

The ideal situation is to have a computer with a large monitor (e.g., I have a 32" monitor) showing the live timing screen and a couple of cockpit views, and a big screen TV in the same room showing the main feed. The only problem with watching the race from separate systems is that they will be out of sync until you adjust the delay in Multiviewer's feeds. Multiviewer users share pictures of their setups (on reddit and Discord), and it can get pretty wild with an array of monitors.

If you enjoy this enhanced viewing experience, it might convince you to extend your Apple TV subscription.

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Like I said earlier, I had F1TV pro from like 2021-2024 when they ran the $59 deal usually 3 weeks before season start.

It wasn't worth it for me. I don't care about all the extras.

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Ah, missed that. But what I wrote is something to think about for those who signed up for Apple TV for the deal, but never subscribed to F1TV.

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Yeah, some may enjoy it but I don't see how Apple exceeds ESPN viewership at the end of the day... Especially ABC for the America's races.

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Well. They can play it on Netflix too apparently and haven’t they said they’re going to put the US races out for free or something like that?

One thing not mentioned yet in this thread is that Apple is integrating the broadcast with Apple Vision. Apple has also invested a lot into updating Apple Maps with very detailed track maps. We are not far from this being a reality:

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. I don't know if they announced which races will be free, but it must include at least one US race if not all of them, plus Monaco.

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Maybe the ones that were usually on ABC. Monaco, Austin, Brazil (i think)

Yea all the us races sans Vegas I think

Dts dropped today. Episode two with scooby Doohan and flavio is entertaining so far.

I downloaded the app on my TVs and linked it to Apple

Gotcha. I've got 2 big tv's.

My older samsung can't locate F1 tv app, and on my new Samsung I can't even figure out how to search the apps. It wants to suggest everything for me instead of letting me look. It makes me feel so old and dumb.