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Huh. ESPN supposedly uses the Sky feed and I saw nothing.

 

ESPN did not show the post race interviews

 

Post Race interview , he said that a computer glitch caused them to underestimate the pit lane delta they needed for Hamilton to stay ahead of Vettel

 

"Silver Arrows chief Toto Wolff told Sky Sports F1 immediately after the race that Mercedes suspected a computer glitch had caused them to miscalculate Hamilton's vulnerability to any Virtual Safety Car while Vettel extended his opening stint."

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/24...n-in-disbelief-after-sebastian-vettel-victory

 

Good info, we didnt get to see post race...

*EDIT* sorry for the late response, seems that my fellow Muricans already chimed in

 

The only issue I had with the broadcast was that the announcers didn't know the US audience was on a commercial. ESPN said they'll fix that which will allow them to catch us up and/or show some highlights if anything was missed. The PIP is nice and the quality of the feed was great.

 

Streaming wise they didn't provide PIP at all. Just straight commercial.

But like everything it was ESPN's first time so Im giving them some slack. Its the second and third races that will determine how much they truly care about the audience

 

Yeah, they may have to run it on a delay that is the length of their commercial breaks so that they can pick a block where nothing happens to run the commercials and be sure they will be back before anything important

 

I would be willing to bet that the commercial breaks are pre determined intervals that are overlayed onto the Sky broadcast / World feed because it seems like the TSN (Canada provider) / Sky feed went to commercials at the same time as the ESPN feed ( Grosjean retirement , etc )

I don't think its a matter of whether Sky F1 knows whether or not the US feed is on commercial , I doubt they care . They are running a commercial free pay channel broadcast for consumption in the UK and TSN and ESPN are just using their feed for their own domestic audiences .

 

I was so aggravated with the adds, it seemed like every time something was going to happen, control room monkey went, add time and boom I was watching some BS.
Hopefully they will do a better job next time...

 

I cant wait for the F1 TV subscription based feed comes out.

 

I was thinking the same thing. If they are going to continue to use the Sky F1 feed instead of creating their own program it's going to be up to ESPN to find a way to better integrate their commercials and whatever else they want to broadcast into what Sky is showing because they are certainly not going to change anything on their end.

 

I'd be down for this also

 

McLaren , Force India call for investigation of the Ferrari / Haas partnership

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/135071/rivals-want-magic-haasferrari-investigated

 

Well right now the Sky F1 Channel is £18 or $25 a month. I bet if there is a US package it will be at least $15 or thereabouts.

 

I was going to say probably $20/month

 

From their own website...granted this is from March 1st

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/...v-a-live-grand-prix-subscription-service.html

Im excited for it. Its not just F1. But they will offer the races for F2, GP3, and Porsche Supercup.

 

Now that's a sick deal

 

That's assuming they keep to that pricing. If ESPN doesn't improve they would have no problem selling it for 15+ a month in the US market lol

 

Can you imagine if they had Ferrari quality pit crews?