It's not really free, though, is it? It's included in the monthly costs of, I think, around £45. For BBC live broadcasts you can get live timing from Formula1.com and driver cam and driver tracker from bbc.co.uk for around £12 a month. The extra content isn't the big win for Sky. It's just repackaging what's been freely available for three years or more and selling it as something new.
This isn't really BBC win but he's a BBC commentator so it fits as well here as anywhere else. JAonF1's strategy calculator.
It may be the last one we get for a while. This is a bit faily but the overall series is still positive:
Finally got round to watching Madness on Wheels: Rallying's Craziest Years. Interesting watch on the rise and fall of group B cars in a period where safety was usually an afterthought.
When you compare a Group B car to a modern WRC car, there is no contest, the new cars are too boring. Give me a 500BHP Peugeot 405 any day.
The BBC has launched a new F1 app, currently available only on Virgin Media TiVO boxes. From a quick look I think it carries the same content as the BBC Sport website. During races it'll carry the race feed, several on-board cameras, timing data and their driver tracker.
This is the first race at which both Sky and the BBC are providing coverage and for 3.8m households at least the choice is clear: the BBC wins hands down by providing HD coverage whilst Sky still pumps its outdated SD coverage out to Virgin Cable customers.
To be fair, Sky does provide HD coverage to its own customers so that's only a winning argument for Virgin customers.
I thought Sky's subsidiary company, NDS, hacking into the ITV Digital database and selling its security card codes to online pirates was what brought down ITV Digital. Yeah, it's shady tactics from Sky but it's their IP so they can distribute it however they see fit.
