Formula 1 has confirmed details of its new top-tier streaming service, F1 TV Premium.
The upgraded service, priced at $129.99 in the USA, will allow viewers to watch races live in 4K Ultra HD and HDR for the first time. All F1 sessions are covered, along with Formula 2, Formula 3, F1 Academy and the Porsche Supercup support races.The new service has been launched this week ahead of the opening round of the world championship in Australia. F1 indicated some of its features are limited to certain platforms.
The new Multiview personalised viewing feature is initially available through Google’s Chrome browser, Apple iOS devices and TVOS-compatible hardware. Multiview gives viewers the ability to combine the world feed, onboard cameras and timing pages as they choose.
“Since its launch, F1 TV has evolved to become one of the most sophisticated streaming platforms in sports,” he said. “F1 TV Premium further elevates the viewing experience by allowing fans to create a personalised platform that enables them to become fully immersed in every incident, wheel-to-wheel battle and victory across all 24 races.
“This new service signifies our continued commitment to improve our content offering for our fans and creating an experience which is worthy of their passion.”
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As is already the case for F1’s standard live streaming service, F1 TV Pro, the new premium offering will only be available in certain regions. F1 TV Pro was offered in 92 territories last season. Viewers outside those regions can only obtain F1 TV Access, which does not offer live streams.
The official F1 channel’s presenters this year are Laura Winter, James Hinchcliffe, Lawrence
Barretto, Alex Jacques, Jolyon Palmer, Ruth Buscombe-Divey, Davide Valsecchi, Alex Brundle and Sam Collins.
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Steve Naive
10th March 2025, 11:47
Steve announces you can watch any race for free by typing reddit f1 streams into a google search.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
10th March 2025, 12:07
Indeed, or looking for totalsportek streams, lots of streams there.
Kringle
10th March 2025, 14:52
The hero we don’t deserve.
Coventry Climax
10th March 2025, 11:58
Coventry Climax confirms not purchasing it.
PeteB (@peteb)
10th March 2025, 13:04
Personally, I’d love to buy it but it’s not available to me so I’ll continue watching for free instead.
Tony Mansell (@tonymansell)
10th March 2025, 13:33
Me too. f1 coverage can be effectively ruined by a poor lead commentator and so it is with Sky. Paying quite a big price for it too and id pay an equal sum to anyone else but we are barred from it in the UK
Yes (@come-on-kubica)
10th March 2025, 12:07
Yes confirms Sky subscription is still being used.
F1statsfan (@f1statsfan)
10th March 2025, 12:15
“The upgraded service, priced at $129.99 in the USA”
Well I just checked – the normal TV Pro subscription I have cost €94.99 – auto renewed for another year.
The new Premium Subscription shows available for me but the price is €142.99 so NO thank you.
It happens often that US prices are inflated for people in Europe – in this case 10% is added and FX is set at 1=1.
Dan Vary
10th March 2025, 12:59
Does the € price include tax? US prices (and similar in Canada) usually don’t include sales tax because it varies by state/province. So might explain some of price difference.
Coventry Climax
10th March 2025, 13:34
While it may explain the price difference, it does not explain the exorbitant base price level to begin with.
BasCB (@bascb)
10th March 2025, 14:22
Interesting, right. After the last article about their US price hike, I checked what they are expecting me to pay (renewal up next weekend) and it is pretty clear there are huge differences in pricing in various countries.
For me the renewal will come in at about 60 EUR and the pricing for the premium was given as some 96 EUR if I remember correctly (not interested, I don’t need 4k)
RZenith (@zenith)
10th March 2025, 15:43
Just make sure you are subscribing from the website and not from a mobile app. It could be that an extra mobile application store fee is applied? For me in Latvia it was 75€ annually when I renewed last year in October and now the Premium is 99€ annually. So I upgraded and it refunded me the time difference from the previous subscription.
Icarus
10th March 2025, 12:59
Zero support for Android devices, Google TV, Fire TV….
Way to make sure a huge portion of your market is left out on your new offering. Nothing helps your reputation like disregarding half of your customer base.
Elgsdyr
10th March 2025, 13:13
It’s just the premium features that doesn’t work on Android, but it’s extremely disappointing nonetheless… It’s enough for me to stay on the Pro offering.
Roger Ayles (@roger-ayles)
10th March 2025, 13:19
I’ve already upgraded to the premium tier.
The price is still significantly cheaper than Sky and it offers far better coverage than Sky with a far better commentary so i’m happy to pay the bit extra for the 4K coverage.
The multiview stuff isn’t really a selling point for me as you could already do that anyway with the F1 Multiviewer app on PC and it was never something I really used as I just prefer to focus on the main feed and not have extra boxes all over the screen.
I would however love to see them add the onboard mix feed which F1 direct themselves to F1TV as having that up on a second monitor was how I always used to watch the races on the BBC/Sky. I know we have all the onboard cameras to switch about ourselvs on F1TV but I don’t like doing it as it distracts from the coverage when your having to look away to switch around, i’d just much rather have the F1 directed feed.
It’s actually silly that they have feeds which they are producing and making available to broadcasters which them aren’t including on there own streaming service (the onboard mix and pit lane channels for example. I think they produce a love rolling highlights channel as well). F1TV should have access to every feed they are producing.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
10th March 2025, 13:53
It’s very clear they’re greedy though, it can be seen by some decisions they take, such as las vegas race, spa risking to lose its place and so on, so it’s not surprising that they try to get more money from us too.
Ideals (@ideals)
10th March 2025, 13:38
The multiview stuff is a nice to have, but the 4K HDR was an easy sell to me. Looked amazing during the test.
Kinda wild to think back to how we used to watch F1 in the 90s compared to watching it now on a 65-inch OLED. Tech advancements are kinda wild when you stop to think about them.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
10th March 2025, 13:56
Yes, in some categories, such as this, or pc stuff, where in the 90s hard drives could barely reach the mega bytes, and now you have tiny usb drives that can hold hundreds of gb, the technology really took giant steps in these 30 years.
Imre (@f1mre)
10th March 2025, 13:45
4K is only on Apple TV and Roku for the time being. This is a key info missing from the article.
Andres Menacho Avila (@f1natic)
10th March 2025, 14:36
I love the F1 pass but their complicated broadcast rights are a nightmare.
I moved to a euro country where I was almost forced to pay for the rights holder digital channel plus F1 if i wanted to use it.
They where at least flexible enough to let me keep a plan with no replay (which frankly i never use).
Also the fact the the app is useless if you travel to an unauthorized country makes it kind of useless from time to time.
And one would think streaming was going to make things easier for paying users.
J.R. Love (@dermechaniker)
10th March 2025, 15:41
For a media company’s product, the information about the Premium service is quite lacking.
I watch nearly every race on replay due to live times conflicting with my time zone. It would be smart marketing to indicate if the race replays are going to be available in 4K.
Every “click here for more info” link kept sending me off to another page with little detail about the service.
At this point, I have no idea if the replays are recorded in 4K, too. Furthermore, I would often find downshifted resolution when streaming issues necessitated it. I’m not too keen on upgrading to 4K, only to have it not available in replay and/or downshifted due to their poor server-to-peer connection.
More detail please, Liberty.
Roger Ayles (@roger-ayles)
10th March 2025, 19:42
@dermechaniker The replays will be available in 4K as they aren’t new uploads but just the live stream archived so if the live version is streamed in 4K on the premium tier then the archived version will also be 4K.
And because they are simply the live stream archived you can watch from the beginning of a live stream if you join a bit late and the full race replay is also available as soon as the race ends because your simply skipping back to the start of the stream rather than waiting for a new upload.
Allan Kelley
14th March 2025, 18:10
Will the split screen features be available for the recorded version? As I am not usually available for the live streams.
MurasamaRA300 (@murasamara300)
10th March 2025, 19:10
Everything is too much hassle these days.
F1TV would have been interesting, but I’m in the UK so it’s not available.
I shall read the race reports afterwards and watch some highlights on Youtube.
I will pay nothing and I will be happy. :)
Dirk
11th March 2025, 14:49
Still missing audio for a main broadcast in a better quality than 2 channel pcm stereo.
That’s the deal breaker for me. Sky and ESPN have 5.1
What the hell doesn’t f1tv?
Martin Knud Henrichsen
11th March 2025, 15:48
I can purchase the Premium version for €179,99.
Will continue with Pro for €139,99.
Denmark. Where everything is just more expensive than in almost every other country.
isthatglock21
11th March 2025, 15:58
Watched F1 since I was a kid on the BBC days, when it switched to Sky in my teens, thankfully I had my own PC & the stormy pirate site seas existed. So that’s now 10+ years of streaming for me. During the same time I stopped pirating things like movies/music, I’m more than happy to pay for various Netflix subs/Apple Music etc. But sports especially in the UK has always been priced in a silly way. I would’ve gladly signed up for F1 TV if it was allowed in the UK…alas the Sky monopoly continues. If you price something fairly…people will pay. Until then no thanks. UK/European/legacy fans pay the most for their loyalty. Make it make sense. Americans get a cheaper AND BETTER product whilst paying far less, despite earning more! Liberty took us for mugs! Now I’ll continue streaming even if they release F1 TV Pro in the UK out of spite tbh!
mega
11th March 2025, 20:21
so far nothing beats multiviewer for me.
Migue
12th March 2025, 17:12
300% increase! Are they crazy? This is insane! Last year got the Pro for 59.99 euros which would allow 6 devices at same time (we need that at home as we are a famíly of four and we are unable to see all GPs togheter). Now, for getting that you need a Premium for 179.99 euros! Yeah prices for Portugal (as you may know we are a rich country, like Denmark)
Alesici
14th March 2025, 11:19
Just found that Sky disabled my ability to watch on board cameras on my phone or tablet, as my Sky Sports F1 subcription was insufficient. It is odd, as I can still watch the on board cameras via the red button on my TV via the Q box, whilst watching the main feed on my phone. But that would be dumb, as my phone is not 4k and the on board cameras are 720p… So to swap the displays back the sensible way round, and get back to my previous setup, they told me I’d have to pay an extra £100 per year to upgrade to the complete Sky Sports package – including the football etc. So I told them to stuff the whole thing. Pathetic. I’m off.