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I tried to read this. I gave up after the forced slow-scroll and convoluted layout.

It's a shame that all this lovely artwork and data is trapped in this horrid presentation automation.

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A bit like tring to read a pop-up book. I think there's a reason they're not made for adults.

PS I am sure there are some examples but you get what I mean.

It's terrible. They should just add a button to switch to a normal layout without scroll jacking. What were they thinking?

Wow, I read your comment before I clicked. What were they thinking.

I’ve been getting into F1 this summer since the movie got my interest up.

The movie is itself (I think) capitalising on the increased popularity of F1 brought about by the Netflix series. It is a great series and by all accounts has really turned the sport around in terms of popularity, a very clever move by the FIA. Netflix have tried to replicate it for other sports but, I believe, without the same success.

> It is a great series and by all accounts has really turned the sport around in terms of popularity

Is this causation or correlation ? Should your comment have a "in the US" asterisk? The series premiered in 2019 and F1 still had global audience drops in 2020 and 2021 (TV, so covid isn't solely to blame). Meanwhile, F1 audiences is now growing while DTS viewership is dropping [1].

> Netflix have tried to replicate it for other sports but, I believe, without the same success.

Maybe because F1 has long been one of the most popular worldwide sports and DTS wasn't actually driving the increase. The cumulative DTS viewership is in the single digit (edit: mid double digit million, actually) millions. Global F1 viewership is in the high three digit millions and the increase in viewership from 2020 to 2024 is in the hundred million range.

1- https://www.planetf1.com/news/drive-to-survive-viewing-figur...

2- https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/formula-1-drive-to-sur...

Give yourself a treat and visit an Apple Store for a Vision Pro demo: ask to see the newly released immersive video where you're in the cockpit with Brad Pitt as he roars down the road. Fantastic!

…I will definitely do that

If you live in a region where F1TV is standalone (eg: US) and not part of an expensive sports package (eg: UK) it's good value. You can watch old races and related content, and each race weekend there is a good 4 hours worth watching live (qualifying and race, with good pre/post content). You can open multiple streams with the main race footage, any driver's live on-board video and radio, and various screens of telemetry. It's worth watching on a mobile device even if you are at a race watching live from the stands.

Yea, I subscribed and used it to watch the Hungarian GP this past weekend. The driver view was really intense!

I’ve been catching up by binging a lot of content that was recommended to me. The movie Rush (2013) was great. Brawn on Hulu was a fantastic story. Currently shopping for some vintage gear from them.

Watching a little Drive to Survive on Netflix too.

The Senna series from 2024 is also pretty good.

I really enjoyed it, worked really well on my desktop

This would be much cooler if right-click accelerated scrolling / moving through the timeline (or just scrolled for you when held down) and left-click quickly stopped scrolling.

And it breaks the cookie popup, I can't scroll that to switch them off! Incognito mode it it then.

Worked great on iPad. Was nice to see something designed well for a swipe oriented experience.

Not sure what you mean. This is an art director's wet dream. It's got animated 2.5D/parallax, it's got killer art, and it's different! /s

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