Launching in 2018, F1 TV has grown from just being a cheap way to watch Formula 1 after cutting the cord to the optimal way to watch it in the English language.
For a little over $80 a year, F1 TV remains the cheapest way to watch every single practice, qualifying, and race session of every single Grand Prix weekend. Not to mention it’s also the exclusive home for preseason testing, too.
But that’s not all. Slipstream’s focus today is on the exclusive English broadcast the service provides and how, just a few years into its run, F1 TV has accumulated an exceptional talent lineup.
First things first. The clear MVP of F1 TV is Sam Collins.
Collins is a technical expert who is very adept at breaking things down in a series that has a number of technical variations from team to team.
Unlike other broadcast experts, such as Larry McReynolds, Collins usually doesn’t have the luxury of having a fancy graphic that takes up the entire screen as F1 TV still uses the world feed. It means he has to articulate his points with little-to-no visual reference, and he’s able to do it very well.
Collins also has a knack for numbers on occasion. For example, he was the first one on the broadcast to note last week Max Verstappen used up all of his allocated engines after losing another one in FP2.
Verstappen will now serve a five-place grid penalty this weekend for Sunday’s (Nov. 2) race, a massive shift in the championship chase; Collins was the first one to notice.
He’s also a really fun follow on social media, sometimes.
Will Buxton is a nerd, in a good way. He’ll reference something from say the 1960s and will try and bring historical context to everything, even if he overdoes it a bit. Lawrence Barretto, to be honest, is just kind of there but he’s fine with what they have him doing in the broadcast, which is usually just sticking him in the pre-race and post-race shows.
Something F1 TV is also really good at is bringing in people and getting them up to speed immediately on broadcasting. As an example, Ruth Buscombe Divey has only been part of the broadcast for a few months now, after years of working for Alfa Romeo and Ferrari as a race strategist. But she’s transitioned very well.
Something I can appreciate with Divey and Collins is both make sure to complement each other; they do well to not step on each other’s toes or repeat themselves. Collins has started focusing more on technical aspects, such as…
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