![]() Some of the setups in MultiViewer for F1’s showcase are absolutely wild, including the hero image for this article. “I didn’t expect so many people to like it, I thought maybe at most a few hundred people would use it.” “Honestly, it was a surprise to me,” he says of the app’s new-found popularity. Now the app offers lap times, splits, mini sectors, DRS, telemetry, and more. ![]() (Image credit: first design was a little more rudimentary than it is now, but even so, it was far more enticing than anything Sky Sports or other broadcasters have to offer, “basically just taking what they offer but in a single package.” With no initial intention to go public, the app wasn’t released until June 9th last year, work having only started at the end of April 2022. In a world where every millisecond counts, timing is everything in Formula 1 as much for the viewer as it is for the teams and the drivers. The biggest undertaking was syncing up all of the data and feeds to ensure all the information was delivered in sync and at the right time. “There were no other alternatives out there, so I thought, how hard can it be?” Unsatisfied with F1TV’s own lack of multi-stream playback options, he got the initial version working in just two days. A software engineer for over half his life, he too used the aforementioned f1viewer with his F1TV subscription, before new DRM protections rendered that app and many others defunct. “Because I'm not coding as much as before, I wanted to pick it back up,” he says. The story of how MultiViewer for F1 came about “isn't as good of a story as you'd like,” he tells me. MultiViewer’s Reddit and Discord chats also don’t allow any talk of using VPNs or other tools to circumvent geo-based broadcasting restrictions. It’s really just a browser, plenty of examples of which have existed in the past, just as f1viewer, Race Control, and VROOM. ![]() As noted, you can’t access any of the content without a paid subscription to either F1TV Access or F1TV Pro, and the software doesn’t let you access anything that isn’t available through that service otherwise. (Image credit: for F1’s users, however, remain very much in the clear. ![]()
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