*** As with last season's thread, we'll be talking freely about races without spoiler tags, so please beware if you watch races on a delay! ***
How to watch in the US:
- ESPN carries races live both on their various broadcast channels, but also on their various apps as long as you’ve got a TV provider login with the appropriate access to ESPN.
- F1TV is an official streaming service that offers two tiers. The “Pro” tier lets you stream races live for about $80 a year, but you can get on demand streams of all races for a much more reasonable $26 a year if you don’t fancy waking up at 5 AM or something for like 2/3rds of the races. There are also month to month subscriptions available, and if you sign up before the season starts you can get a 25% discount with the EARLYBIRD25 promo code.
- The official F1 YouTube channel doesn't offer full replays, but they do have great highlights packages for every practice, qualifying, and race session throughout the year, as well as great interview an analysis coverage throughout race weekends, and a variety of other miscellaneous interesting video clips in between.
Who are the teams?
Spotter's guides aren't quite available yet because Renault is still using a temporary testing livery, but here's a fun pixel art thing in the meantime.
Short team descriptions from the F1 Official YouTube channel (more will be added as they are published)
Other Useful Links:
GWJ F1 Fantasy League: https://fantasy.formula1.com/league/790
The invite code to join is: c5479a3832
Official Site
Drive to Survive, Netflix's excellent documentary series about the sport, an EXCELLENT way to introduced yourself to the sport. You'll learn all about the sport in general, meet the current drivers, and get a full recap of the 2018 and (once the second season is available at the end of February) 2019 seasons of the sport.
Shift-F1, a podcast about F1 hosted by video game media personalities Drew Scanlon (Cloth Map, formerly of Giant Bomb), Danny O’Dwyer (No Clip), and Rob Zacny (Waypoint).
Fantasy Formula 1
F1 Reddits: Formula 1 , Formula 1.5 , Formula 1 Posters, Inspector Seb
I'll be editing in more resources and links to this main post as we go along, but I figured that since preseason testing has started, we should get a thread going for the year.
Rad. Testing sessions today were fun. Some items of note:
- The Williams livery is fantastic. What a turnaround from last year's garbage. Maybe my favorite?
- AlphaTauri livery is also fantastic, but man that blue just looks black.
- Ferrari is trying a new strategy this year - being slow. Oh wait.
- George Russell said that the FW43 feels drastically improved.
- Ocon says that the Renault has the most grip he has ever felt in an F1 car.
The new season on Netflix is coming at the end of the month, I'm looking forward to it.
Zero, what do you mean by 'customer team approach' for Racing Point?
Agreed, I like the McLaren a lot. One exception for me might be the papaya halo. I think it should either be blue, or be two-toned like the Williams / three-toned like the Racing Point.
I'm super excited already, though, for the season.
Just let it not be as much of a procession this year.
That's what you get for actually putting effort into your posting.
While we wait for the season to commence, may I recommend the wonderful world of Marbula One in the meantime?
Hey Kubica fans:
We're back!
Kubica gonna get a real seat with Alfa next year assuming Kimi retires?
I hope Gio continues to improve. Seems like a good dude.
Mercedes seems to be having some reliability issues with their ICEs this year. I'm sure they'll get it sorted, but it seems unusual.
If you'd like a solid explanation of Mercedes' mystery wheel, Chain Bear has a good one (as usual).
Happy Drive to Survive Season 2 day, everyone!
Cannot wait to get involved.
I am really enjoying Jolyon Palmer on F1's YT channel thus far:
Palmer has been a great addition to F1's YT channel. I hope they do even more content with him this year.
More Jolyon, More Will Buxton, less of the "talk us through it" lispy guy they started having do driver interviews in Paddock Pass. He's terrible.
Finished DtS Season 2. Really good stuff.
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