Sky are always banging on about how you can ride on board with all 20 drivers during the entire race with some enhanced payment service (I never tend to pay attention to those adverts) so it should already be somewhere in the public domain*. I personally think in this day and age there's no excuse for not having onboards immediately available as it would put to bed any question marks over incidents like these.

*in fact I remember this with Ocon's onboard at the end of the Azerbaijan 2023 race when he nearly ploughed into a bunch of photographers. Sky buried this and pretended like it didn't exist but it was all over Youtube fan channels almost immediately.

Was a good race until the VSC gave everyone a free pit stop. Lando will always find a way to screw up a great position. You can see Hamilton and Ferrari is going to end badly too. Lewis ego cannot handle being second choice

2 hours ago, Dobbo said:

Sky are always banging on about how you can ride on board with all 20 drivers during the entire race with some enhanced payment service (I never tend to pay attention to those adverts) so it should already be somewhere in the public domain*. I personally think in this day and age there's no excuse for not having onboards immediately available as it would put to bed any question marks over incidents like these.

*in fact I remember this with Ocon's onboard at the end of the Azerbaijan 2023 race when he nearly ploughed into a bunch of photographers. Sky buried this and pretended like it didn't exist but it was all over Youtube fan channels almost immediately.

As far as I understand it from others, you can ride onboard with any of the 20 drivers but you can't pick which camera on the car to view, that's decided by the live feed and it switches between the 4 or so cameras on each car during the race.

All of the cameras are recording simultaneously but because of the huge amount of data being recorded it is too much to transmit all cameras as options to the live feed at once. However, all of the footage is sent to the stewards in case they need to review it. Although the footage comes in on a slight delay which is why sometimes they take time to review it.

At some point after the race is completed all of the footage is available but it is down to Formula One to decide what they release to the world.

Edit - Found the Verstappen onboard from lap one -

Edited May 5May 5 by Severin

Well that's useful to know re your first paragraph. Definitely not missing out on anything special then.

In separate news we're about to see our first driver casualty of the season according to reports. Doohan is out and Colapinto is in for Imola! Alpine the new Red Bull.

Alpine get through more team principals than Red Bull do drivers

Alpine not be a mess for just one season challenge

Only five races it says which implies some Toro Rosso Liuzzi/Klien back and forth bullshit. I’m guessing that Oakes was very strongly against this and decided he’d rather quit than defend what has clearly been Briatores plan from the start

really expected, Doohan must have had huge sponsor to get those races in the first place,

but not sure if he was F1 material

A lot of teams upgraded parts this weekend it will be interesting to see how it plays out

Good to see a proper classic circuit giving the drivers a real challenge today.

Shame it may be the last ever GP at Imola.

It's s great track for driving but unfortunately terrible for racing with the new cars.

Crashapinto picking up from where he left off I see.

Both Ferrari’s didn’t make it to Q3 another tough year for them

Time to form a prayer circle for Ferrari, now the 3rd slowest car on the grid...

Stroll Q3, Antonelli flopping, I think the world is ending at this point

Huge accident for Tsunoda that reminded me of Greg Moore's fatal crash in CART in 1999.

Moore's was much bigger though. Greg was airbourne before the impact and concrete walls make cars disintegrate way easier than a tyre wall.

Also, turns out it's not even the biggest crash of the day. Herta's was way worse.

Thankfully everyone's been OK.

Yeah Max is winning the championship again. Hes too elite for these McLaren’s

Completely agree and clearly that upgrade has done its job as the car has absolutely eroded Mclarens pace dominance we saw in Miami. That said it was still an amazing and crucial pass at turn 1. Piastri uncharacteristically way too cautious there...

Fantastic comeback from Ferrari then, Lewis' best drive in a GP so far. And the Aston Martin mini-revival bubble bursting in 1 day lol

Whilst the Red Bull upgrades looks to have closed the gap, I'm not going to get carried away just yet. Imola is a very Red Bull friendly circuit and Max always goes well there. Adding in the very helpful timing of the SC and VSC it all lined up nicely for him and was pretty much job done once he'd taken the lead in that rather brilliant move.

McLaren didn't optimise their potential today either and were unlucky with the yellows too.

But if this is a sign of things to come, they need to step it up.

This mandatory two-stop for the Monaco Grand Prix, will it do anything to liven the race up at all?

Highly doubt it. Just watch Q3, that'll be the top 10 on Sunday too.