And it looks incredibly different!!

I don't like it <no>

Looked cooler before

This topic is being moved to the F1 media forum. :)

I actually prefer the new style. Looks alot less bland and seems to be more easier to use

I agree that it is a bit better, but apart from the live timing which is excellent it is still by far the worse main F1 site on the internet and that is pretty bad for the offical site, they need to be doing alot more.

I think it's a bit crap, but it might grow on me.

I've changed my mind!
I like it a lot now because I can actually view the photos in the gallery section
Glad you don't need flash installed for it anymore! :)

It doesnt seem to have the sector times, speed trap anymore after each session. Also no longer seems to have the results archive <no>

They do, see the RESULTS section.

I got the results I posted in the Practice thread from there

It's still light years behind other series official sites. It's unbelievable that there's no video on there. MotoGP.com is now offering (very expensive) HD coverage of the main race.

It would be a bit pointless to do that, because presumably people would be watching it on TV?

Formula1.com is useless, but there are other sites which give good coverage of news stories and so on, such as autosport.

Yes nearly everyone would watch it on TV, but if your country has rubbish TV coverage, and plenty of people think ITV's is terrible there would be another option.

It depends how many extras Bernie would throw in, if he wasn't too greedy, offered exclusive on-boards and put FOCA's vast archive for viewing it would probably attract a few people.

If MotoGP.com and Champ Cars Race Director can survive then surely F1 would make shed load out of it?

Nice new look. Very sharp.

That's a bit harsh, it's good for stats - every single race since 1950 is covered in the results section....

Presumably, however, the TV companies who are paying Bernie big money to have exclusive F1 coverage would not be happy that their "exclusiveness" was being compromised by the availability of coverage on the official F1 website. I suppose they could use this as a bargaining chip to get Bernie to drop the costs of screening F1, which, of course, he doesn't want.

A1GP used to have a system where a live race stream was available on the Internet, but only in countries where there was no coverage of the race on television. Maybe this is a way forward for Bernie - although I guess most countries screen F1 on TV anyway.

I think the broadcasters would only care if it was free coverage, and it's unlikely that any such coverage through Formula1.com would be free. They complained a little about digitial F1, but not enough to try and get the rights for cheaper.