because i'm cheap, i decided to pay $85. New email, new CC and we are away. 

I have Sky Sport Now, trying to decide if it's worth getting F1 TV Pro as well. Never subscribed before.

heapsort:

 

I have Sky Sport Now, trying to decide if it's worth getting F1 TV Pro as well. Never subscribed before.

 

If you want to stream on demand then Sky Sport Now will let you down hard. If you're happy to watch live then its probably fine. The streaming quality of F1TV is better though. If there's nothing else on Sky Sport Now you watch I'd strongly recommend F1TV over SSN. If you watch other sports (Rugby for example) then its probably fine.

24 races.

12 are doable to watch live.

The European races are out for me. 

nzkc:

 

heapsort:

 

I have Sky Sport Now, trying to decide if it's worth getting F1 TV Pro as well. Never subscribed before.

 

 

If you want to stream on demand then Sky Sport Now will let you down hard. If you're happy to watch live then its probably fine. The streaming quality of F1TV is better though. If there's nothing else on Sky Sport Now you watch I'd strongly recommend F1TV over SSN. If you watch other sports (Rugby for example) then its probably fine.

 

Thanks, I haven't found watching sports delayed on SSN to be a problem yet (and I'd keep it anyway as premier league football and cycling were the main reason I got it) but I see F1 TV Pro has additional camera angles and other features. I think I'll get it for a year and see how it goes.

Last year on Sky the OnDemand was only limited until after the first replay of a GP was run (normally around 7-8am the next morning), I can only assume this was as the first replay would typically remove all the ad breaks and give them the OnDemand package?  

nzkc:

 

heapsort:

 

I have Sky Sport Now, trying to decide if it's worth getting F1 TV Pro as well. Never subscribed before.

 

 

If you want to stream on demand then Sky Sport Now will let you down hard. If you're happy to watch live then its probably fine. The streaming quality of F1TV is better though. If there's nothing else on Sky Sport Now you watch I'd strongly recommend F1TV over SSN. If you watch other sports (Rugby for example) then its probably fine.

 

Pre-season testing starts tomorrow night at 8:00pm our time, really looking forward to things basically getting underway in earnest.

Can't see anyone getting near the Red Bull again this year, Newey and Verstappen are a level apart in their respective jobs.  Quite interested to see if the Mercedes-inspired sidepods on the RB make the car go fast with Newey's genius with ground-effect aero.

As a fair-weather follower of McLaren, hoping they can make progress on last year and become the leading team chasing RBR.  Then it's Merc and the Ferrari I reckon.  And a bunch of other teams making up the numbers.

Also hoping Liam Lawson might get another go this season, depending on what's happening with Perez I guess.  I wonder if Tsunoda announced he was following the Honda engine to Aston Martin, whether RB would put him on gardening leave and chuck Lawson in the car.

Some are suggesting Horner gets the boot from RBR, then gets picked up by Lawrence Stroll, takes Newey with him, has the Honda engine headed there as well, and they become the "new" RBR.

Anyway, interested in what you guys think we have in store this season.

thermonuclear:

 

Pre-season testing starts tomorrow night at 8:00pm our time, really looking forward to things basically getting underway in earnest.

 

Can't see anyone getting near the Red Bull again this year, Newey and Verstappen are a level apart in their respective jobs.  Quite interested to see if the Mercedes-inspired sidepods on the RB make the car go fast with Newey's genius with ground-effect aero.

 

As a fair-weather follower of McLaren, hoping they can make progress on last year and become the leading team chasing RBR.  Then it's Merc and the Ferrari I reckon.  And a bunch of other teams making up the numbers.

 

Also hoping Liam Lawson might get another go this season, depending on what's happening with Perez I guess.  I wonder if Tsunoda announced he was following the Honda engine to Aston Martin, whether RB would put him on gardening leave and chuck Lawson in the car.

 

Some are suggesting Horner gets the boot from RBR, then gets picked up by Lawrence Stroll, takes Newey with him, has the Honda engine headed there as well, and they become the "new" RBR.

 

Anyway, interested in what you guys think we have in store this season.

 

 

 

Great post. If anything can happen in Formula 1 it will, the late and great Murray Walker

In store? RB will be strong but as the field closes up with the top teams have less wind tunnel time, and the solid and lower teams have more, it will/should be tight. Max, love him or hate him he is rock solid. McLaren Im hoping for BIG things. Mercedes, everything is there, except the car! If they are big, wont surprise me or anyone

Horner. From what Ive read he had/has an issue with an employee. Thats not big news but if Lewis stubbed his toe thats also big news If Horner was angry and violent, then gone, but IMHO the newsworthyness of two people that clashed is a bit overstated. Last I read, the employee is still working there 

More importantly how can I watch pre season testing? Ive got Sky, and Youtube :-). Im good to pay for something else. As long as I can record it or access it afterwards with no Sky Sport Now type of issues 

tdgeek:

 

More importantly how can I watch pre season testing? Ive got Sky, and Youtube :-). Im good to pay for something else. As long as I can record it or access it afterwards with no Sky Sport Now type of issues 

 

Wow, I didn't realise that Sky NZ wouldn't carry pre-season testing.  In that case only way is F1TV, they don't have onboards/etc for pre-season but otherwise great coverage. If they follow what they did last year, each session gets split into two and the F1TV team take one half, and the Sky UK team take the second half.

As for recent events/and expectations. Williams' first track running is tonight, most teams did their filming days last week in the UK/etc. Hopefully they've got their ducks in order. I've got hopes that McLaren will do well but I'm going to wait to see the car run before I get them too high.

The Horner stuff... thats just become a real hot mess of rumours... if where they're current pointing is proven (sexual harassment) I'd be shocked if he remained in his position. (Side note: recent reports have said the complaint is on sick leave now, but again it's all part of the current mess of reporting with not much evidence so little to no confidence of any part of this)

Yeah the horner one is a mess of being big role tied up in something they're not discussing at all.
If it is indeed sexual phone message in nature then that could be the end of it.

I too have high hopes for McLaren but it's still hard to see them as real contenders given the likes of Mercedes and Ferrari have been consistently close for quite some time now.  Do hope we see Lando actually pull off a win though. 

Would be a crackup to see Mercedes come back with a vengeance this year just as Hamilton has announced his move to Ferrari.
Also keen for old times sake to see another champion in Mercedes.  Don't care if it's Kimi, Alonso or Vettel!
Don't see George as being mature enough to lead the team on his own yet.


Also looking forward to the VCARB crash app car and the seat with red bull shenanigans there with DR and Liam Lawson possibly in the mix.

Alonso all good.  Love what that man can do with a car.
hASS should just pack up and sell the spot to andretti.
Also Carlos to Audi eventually is getting some rumour time but will be interesting to see who gets that spot this year.

Bring it on.  Suspect we're watching RB repeat from last year but will know more after testing.

Something interesting I saw on Reddit this morning... tyre allocations for testing week. Seems like this year the teams have been able to pick their exact allocations, no C0 (that was already announced) and no experimental compounds. C1-3 are what will be used next weekend.  Alpine picking so many C1's looks weird, but to be honest McLaren not opting for any C4/C5s for glory runs is also a bit surprising too.

Anyway... 8pm tonight! Multiviewer also just got updated for the 2024 season and hopefully you'll be able to open the live timings in it for testing like you could last year (kinda depends on FIA though).

As for the racing, RB going with a zero sidepod design and making it work will just wind poor Toto up long before the final race of the season - It's going to be great.

I must admit I like the idea of that also, particularly when Mercedes have dumped the idea as a mistake and not workable.  If Newey then shows it can be a winning aero solution in conjunction with whatever RB have going on under the car, it'll be a little embarrassing for Merc's design dept that they weren't smart enough to make it work.

tdgeek:

 

More importantly how can I watch pre season testing? Ive got Sky, and Youtube :-). Im good to pay for something else. As long as I can record it or access it afterwards with no Sky Sport Now type of issues 

 

As has been mentioned F1TV is the way to go, if you're happy to pay another sub when you already have access to Sky for the actual season itself.  F1TV do have the Sky UK commentary as an alternative if you want to stick with Croft and Brundle, though it is worth noting that when the Sky team cut away to Ted or one of the track-side team and use their own cameras, you don't get any of that video.  You'll hear Ted, etc but the F1TV video feed of the race will continue.

With F1TV you should be fine to watch the pre-season at any point without needing to record it as such.  I'm going to try and catch the cricket tonight, then watch the start of testing after that match concludes.  As the testing session will have already commenced I'll just select the option to watch the live stream from the start.

F1TV's started their stream (still on "Coverage will begin shortly") but they'll probably do a 10 minute ramp up before the green light, so get those streams started.