Exactly this. It was expensive but it was going to (the commercial interests of) the thing I enjoy. Now I'll be paying for F1 and a boatload of 'quirky dystopian sci-fi' I'm not going to watch and despise. I really just dont' wanna.
Pirating to watch low-quality streams of just the race day or maybe qualifying is way more hassle than dealing with Apple to get the same content I was getting with F1 TV. The only way I’d resort to pirating is if I was forced to use ESPN lol.
Literal skill issue.
It's going to be yet another boring year of some frenchman named Sebastien winning everything and nobody really caring about it.
In the Loeb and Vettel era the roomie and I would go 'dunno if I wanna watch racing, some guy named Seb will just win'.
The whole reason some people got into it was that ESPN was airing F1 when they were channel surfing. Or when they were in a restaurant. Or when they got ESPN+ in a bundle. Apple TV is one of the most isolated services out there. You can't get it reduced price, as a bundle, anything. MLS went to Apple TV and the ratings died. Friday night baseball also had the ratings killed. I know ratings couldn't matter less: the sports league will always go to the highest bidding TV network, and the TV network will make money off ads. But I think F1's popularity in America will fade quickly. Cadillac aren't going to make Colton Herta the face of the sport if nobody can actually watch him trundle around in 16th place.
It's not the RB22, but it does show the livery nicely. Since nobody else posted it here's the VCARB livery. Ford blue is much nicer than the same boring matte.
The MLS deal has been a disaster for MLS. It's not just their ratings have nose dived. People just straight up stopped going to games.
