I pretty much missed last year, because I never figured out how to watch it now that is no longer on NBC Sports, or any other channel in the US. I want to watch it this year, but I am still not sure of what the options are. It’s only online in the US I believe. But hows the coverage? Can you record it (and the app won’t spoil the results before you can see them)? Anyone watch it last year? How was it? (Meaning the US coverage.)
For those who haven’t seen it, I thought Amazon’s Grand Prix Driver TV show was great. Four 25-30 minute episodes. Free for anyone who has Amazon Prime.
It tracks McLaren during the off-season of 2017 following along several different areas including engineering and manufacturing the new car, off season driver training (mostly focusing on rookie Stoffel Vandoorne, although Fernando Alonso makes appearances), looking for sponsors and marketing. The series wraps up with testing in Barcelona.
It was really great seeing what was going on behind the scenes. Kind of unfortunate that McLaren’s season didn’t go better.
To entertain those who are locked in, F1 has coverage of the 2016 Brazilian GP going live in about five minutes on their youtube channel.
This is on top of their announcement that they’re running an F1 eSports series featuring a lot of pro drivers from different disciplines, (F1, Indycar, FE, GT, DTM and karts), and a sprinkling of streamers.
The Race one from yesterday was pretty good. They had two pro heats, one streamer-only heat and then a loser’s bracket heat. Five people qualified into the final from each heat.
Jolyon Palmer and Jack Nicholls commentated and the final race starts around 2:18.43 if you want to just jump to that.