Formula 1’s official live streaming service F1 TV Pro will have more feeds added to it for the 2019 F1 season.

The over-the-top streaming service already gives subscribers the choice of more than 20 feeds including the world feed and each drivers’ onboard camera. However F1’s commercial managing director Sean Bratches confirmed to RaceFans in an exclusive interview more is coming next year.

“We are going to continue to add elements to it,” said Bratches. “We are going to materially increase the number of feeds next year [and] the number of languages.” The coverage is currently available in English, French, German and Spanish.

F1 TV Pro was criticised following its first appearance during the Spanish Grand Prix weekend, two months after its intended launch to coincide with the start of the season. Early race broadcasts were blighted by buffering and other problems.

Bratches defended F1 TV’s performance, pointing out rival products had similar problems when they were launched.

“If you look at just the La Liga platform, [that] had trouble coming out of the gate. World Surf League had trouble, AC Milan too.

“This is a complicated business. We’re not hiding from it, we’re being very transparent about it, but we want to do it right.”

Speaking to RaceFans during the Italian Grand Prix weekend, Bratches said the initial teething problems with F1 TV have now been fixed and the service is being scaled up to reach users through more devices.

“Our aspiration last year was to have Formula One Television launched for the beginning of this grand prix season. I think we are in an accuracy-over-speed mode at Formula One and what we want to do is provision the content to the consumer that actually works.

“We felt comfortable in Spain, and the demand for the product created complexities that we didn’t anticipate. And so we’ve managed it to web-only until this grand prix where we launched an iOS and Android, because it’s stable now.

“Once we get it stable on those two platforms, we’re going to launch it to internet-connected televisions. Once it’s stable on that platform we’re going to introduce it to game consoles and so on and so forth.”

Don’t miss our full exclusive interview with Sean Bratches later today on RaceFans.

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