calmbonsai3 days ago
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.
beardyw3 days ago
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.
pier253 days ago
It's terrible. They should just add a button to switch to a normal layout without scroll jacking. What were they thinking?
brightball3 days ago
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.
johnwalkr3 days ago
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.
brightball3 days ago
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.
broeng2 days ago
The Senna series from 2024 is also pretty good.
NoboruWataya3 days ago
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.
rkomorn3 days ago
> 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...
bookofjoe3 days ago
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!
brightball3 days ago
…I will definitely do that
dom963 days ago
I really enjoyed it, worked really well on my desktop
neogodless3 days ago
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.
HPsquared3 days ago
And it breaks the cookie popup, I can't scroll that to switch them off! Incognito mode it it then.
snorrah3 days ago
Worked great on iPad. Was nice to see something designed well for a swipe oriented experience.
dylan6043 days ago
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
gherkinnn3 days ago
Other than the strange scrolling (works on my iOS Safari, but why?) this is very well done. Clearly a lot of thought went in to it, many nice details in the assets and overall presentation. The illustrations of the drivers and their cars are separate layers than move ever so slightly. That amount of care isn't strictly required but it was done and my day is better for it. Thanks.
No affiliation, no interest in F1, just basking in good work.
Finally, the v12 Ferrari engine sounds the best. Fight me.
juancn3 days ago
I like the Renault V10 better, although the Ferrari V12 is a close second.
I think even Hamilton agrees! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I0R5yZ80rA
drunkonvinyl2 days ago
Love all of these, but my ears say the Mazda 787b beats everything. Chorus, oh the chorus! https://youtu.be/QtUEPwHnxmU
aryonoco2 days ago
The Renault V10 is simply sublime.
Here it is, after winning the championship at the hands of Alonso, “singing” we are the champions:
blueside3 days ago
F1 has never been the same for me since they got rid of the engine sound, I miss it so much
pixxel2 days ago
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WillPostForFood3 days ago
Not a great engine, but I loved the sound the BAR Honda V10:
gherkinnn3 days ago
I only have those four samples to compare. The v12 is violence. Though Lewis' expression is priceless.
vjvjvjvjghv3 days ago
I used to like the V12 sound on TV but when I watched a race in Monza I could barely take the sound after a while. It was just too loud and intense. Even with earplugs.
tmtvl3 days ago
I kinda prefer the Honda V12 like they used in the RA300. Sounds like Godzilla's about to eat you.
NoboruWataya3 days ago
Normally I find complaints about scrolljacking on HN tiresome but the comments here are entirely justified. A truly awful design.
twilo3 days ago
Books to read:
How to build a car by Adrian Newey
Total Competition by Ross Brawn
You will know more about the world of F1 than you need to
Bonus:
The Mechanic by Marc Priestley
Schnitz3 days ago
Seconded. If you want to learn about the basics of race cars in a pop sci way while being told an entertaining story then How To Build A Car is a great book and a very easy read.
nchagnet3 days ago
Interesting that they just skipped the entire Verstappen dominance era, but decided instead to jump to the budgeoning McLaren Piastri-Norris dominance (about a year old only).
Of course with 75 years of history you need to trim it down, but that's an interesting choice...
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sikhnerd3 days ago
Really cool, too bad the scroll design is so janky
NoboruWataya3 days ago
Another good article along these lines: https://www.ft.com/content/e6a19b6c-331d-46b5-b239-fa7f4d90b...
I've only recently gotten (back) into F1 but a lot of the technical stuff is really interesting to read about. Like the Williams FW14, which absolutely dominated for a season before its active suspension technology was banned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_FW14
dmoy3 days ago
There was a lot of innovation crushing people until it got banned. (Or sometimes banned before it could crush).
Ground skirts, banned, and then Lotus 88 immediately after that also banned. McLaren's multiple brake pedals got banned after like one race?
Pretty sure if you go back to the 70s and earlier there's a long list of banned tech.
vjvjvjvjghv3 days ago
Six wheelers were cool. I kind of miss the times when they had way more technical freedom.
dylan6043 days ago
Not a follower of F1, I never knew that Red Bull built their own cars. I thought they were just sponsoring a team using other cars. I don't know if knowing that caffeinated drinks made enough profit to finance building race cars from the ground up is something to be impressed by or not. That's a lot of caustic swill that humans have ingested over the years to make that happen
netsharc3 days ago
They also have sponsors (this year the team's name is Oracle Red Bull Racing, another team has the Google Chrome logo on their cars), and each place in the championship comes with a monetary prize.
yazantapuz3 days ago
I have fond memories of watching F1 races with my dad in the late '90s and early '00s. Legends like Lauda and Gilles Villeneuve were mythical figures from a distant past to me. Now, for my children, Schumacher, Häkkinen, and Damon Hill are in that very same position... how time flies.
inshard3 days ago
How much of this is Disney trying to retain the streaming rights for F1 when Apple is now invested and interested? I would buy an Apple Vision Pro if they could get races covered by those new 8k spatial video cameras! And skipping Verstappen for Norris is kinda ridiculous.
blueside3 days ago
Agreed, I couldn't believe they skipped the RB19
pentagrama3 days ago
This is exactly what happens when Chrome lacks native autoplay controls and most designers do not even consider that some users might block autoplay altogether. On Firefox, which I have configured to block autoplay, the article opens with a blank space. No video, no fallback, no context. Just dead air.
It is honestly bad practice that Chrome does not provide proper user-level control over autoplay anymore. This encourages lazy design patterns where autoplay is assumed as default behavior and accessibility or user preference gets ignored.
That said, Firefox could improve too. At least show a play button, a poster frame, or something to indicate there is a video element there. Right now it just looks broken. Both browser vendors and designers need to do better.
t1234s3 days ago
Scroll hijacking at its worst
alberth3 days ago
So odd they just skipped over Max in their history timeline.
4 consecutive world championships. Most wins in single season ever in history.
Though no one probably got to the end due to the horrible UI of that page.
turtle_samurai3 days ago
Crazy to me they had Prost instead of Senna in the 80s section
Mobius013 days ago
Skipping the MP4/4 is an odd choice too, as it is widely considered the pinnacle of F1 car design and with results to show for it.
hu33 days ago
Indeed. The only thing that stopped Senna was that unfortunate fatal accident :(
He was on track to easily surpass Prost in titles. 3 vs 4.
turtle_samurai3 days ago
Senna should have 4, got robbed in 1989
pruufsocial3 days ago
We’re actually working on racetrack.ai as we speak since this sport is gaining traction.
dzonga2 days ago
seems the f1 cars that are already difficult to drive, will now push drivers to the limits in terms of skill under 2026 regulations.
ghostpepper3 days ago
I waited about 30 seconds in safari on macOS 15.6 and couldn't scroll at all
anonyonoorop3 days ago
I opened it, got some coffee, and then tried opening it again in a new window. Somehow it worked perfectly on the second attempt after being broken.
Maybe give it another try? I'm on Safari as well.
Sucks that you even have to consider this though.
Cockbrand3 days ago
Well, I guess it's not a coincidence that the F1 race car on the initial view bears Chrome sponsoring
concinds3 days ago
Could be your adblocker.
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pmontra3 days ago
Firefox reader mode gets all the text and some pictures.
tatersolid2 days ago
Unusable on an iPhone. Can’t scroll
DrNosferatu2 days ago
Too little focus on early F1 evolution!
mjamesaustin3 days ago
Doesn't scroll at all after loading.
silverfrost3 days ago
unusable for me
anonyonoorop3 days ago
Safari/WebKit seems to be the issue. Perhaps try another browser?
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Polarity3 days ago
"designer" website = pass
dang3 days ago
Please don't do this here. We're looking for curious conversation, not dyspeptic dismissals.