

“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.
