The last race of a long year is almost with us, the qualifying is still to run, and it marks the end of an era. F1 has always been available free-to-air in the UK except for a short time when Ecclestone had a dedicated channel that removed a lot of the info and in-car from the free-to-air. That proved to be a failure and it all returned to the public feed.
The coverage improved over time, the only hick-up was when it moved to ITV and the dreaded adverts, even with this overall the coverage improved. The BBC regained the coverage and improved it even more to a point where I could not see where more improvements could come from. We all looked forward to many years of such quality coverage when the rug was pulled from under us and the coverage moves behind the SKY paywall with a restricted feed on the BBC seemingly designed to discorage people from watching and instead paying £300-£600 per year to get the new SKY channel.
I will continue watching it on the BBC as I do not have the money to spare for SKY and I am unwilling to give up my fast Internet connection with Virgin to downgrade to copper internet with SKY and BT.
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