Official F1 ® App

- May 16, 2017

Everyone

Sports

Offers in-app purchases

( 56,873)

Description

Live the excitement of the 2017 Formula 1® season with the Official F1® App: the best way to follow your favourite teams and drivers with news, video and live race features.

► Follow F1® absolutely free on your Android with:
* Live Race Leaderboards (limited)
* Latest news and videos
* Post-race highlights
* 2017 Schedule, Team and Driver Standings

► With an F1® Access annual or monthly subscription, the Official F1® App offers the premium digital race experience, with features including:
* Official Live Timing of all F1® sessions
* Sector times with intervals and gaps, live tyre and pit stop information
* Interactive 3D maps with driver gears and speeds, plus Drag Reduction System (DRS) usage indicator
* In-Corner Analysis comparing drivers’ entry, apex and exit speeds
* Immersive dashboard with text commentary (English, French and German), and English audio commentary during all F1® sessions
* Team Radio Transmissions and Race Control Messages
* Personalisation Options and more!

Get F1® Access to premium content through the App with either an annual or monthly subscription. If you choose to subscribe, you will be charged a price according to your country. The price will be shown in the App before you complete the payment. The monthly subscription renews every month unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your Google Play account will automatically be charged within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period and you will be charged for one month at a time. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your Play Store account settings.

Reviews

3.9

56,873 total

5 28,661

4 11,024

3 6,216

2 3,233

1 7,739

Tiaan du Preez

Awful app. Crashes the whole time.

Jack

It is great... When it's working. Overall it isn't too great. This is because it crashes most times I open it. If the developers at F1 Digital Media Limited could solve the crashing issue, I would highly recommended it. The app's features are already amazing, it just needs refinement. Thanks for reading.

Phil Crawford

This is an interesting app, for those interested in F1. It is a good rework since Liberty Media took over. However, I am frequently interrupted, while reading a story in the app, by it suddenly reloading the story in my default browser. This uses more of my limited download allowance. Another long-standing issue is the use of TCP for transmission of commentary. Regularly hearing a phrase repeated 3 or 4 times is annoying. This has been an issue for quite a while. I have also found, since upgrading to an Android 7 phone, that it reports No Network Access. I have to Force Stop to get network access back.

Martin Stradling

Sound quality for both the international & local feed isounds like a badly tuned battery powered AM radío from the 1970s. If your track side and want audio commentary it's impossible to hear. The app also uses an excessive amount on CPU, causing my phone it become almost too hot to hold.

Warning to all potential new download users. This app has many issues as per many comments below. The biggest annoyance for me was trying to read the latest articles only to have the same article reload everytime and often then freeze the page forcing my phone (S7) to re boot. The phone would also get quite hot. I should have unistalled the app as no other app i had caused any issues. I stopped reading the articles on this app and my phone was great. Last week (silly me i should not have done this) the same thing happened again whilst looking at an article, but this time the 14 month S7 froze, tried to re boot several times but failed and died. Samsung gave me a new S7. Yes the phone may have had some glitch already from manufacture but it was only ever having an issue while on the Official F1 app and if i had not gone back on the app i beleive my old S7 would still be working now. Dare say i have not installed this app on this new S7. F1 should have an app that NASA would be proud to have considering its budget.

Philip Carpenter

If you want a comprehensive list of races and results, the free version does the job. News items come through quickly, but not instantaneously. The app will put all the grand prix dates into your calendar, but it puts in every practice session and quali. If you then delete the ones you don't want, the app replaces them almost immediately. Once they're there I can't find a way of removing them.

User reviews

Tiaan du Preez June 23, 2017

Awful app. Crashes the whole time.

Jack June 1, 2017

Phil Crawford June 24, 2017

Formula One Digital Media Limited March 14, 2017

Phil, thank you for your email. We released a build today that fixes the back button behaviour.

Martin Stradling June 11, 2017

June 21, 2017

Philip Carpenter May 19, 2017

Ernst Jan Bos May 14, 2017

Get rooted and this app is for free because nobody wants to pay for an app that can't show decent videos. Billions of dollars and they still can't make a simple app. Look at Dorna with their MOTOGP app. Learn from it suckers 🖕 You're rooted? Get lucky patcher and you don't have to pay. The app still sucks but it doesn't cost you money. Update May 15 2017: I get quicker updates from newspapers.....

Matthys J Strydom May 23, 2017

Dear support team. When trying to read any articles via the application it would initially open it and then within seconds open a browser window with the same article from your website while returning to the main page in the application. This is super frustrating, and rendering the application pretty pointless to stay up to date with news. Can just as well bookmark the website. Even after a factory reset of my phone I'm still getting the same issue.

Jonny Wright May 28, 2017

This app is clunky and not easy to navigate. Why is the navbar hidden? There is no back button in the app and then you hide the navbar? No swipe gestures available between screens and still way overpriced for what you get. God knows how it has an average rating of 3.9

May 17, 2017

Audio commentary is slightly delayed this season. Doesn't matter if I tune in live or if I download the replay. I hope this can be fixed, worked great last year. But other than that I absolutely love this app, can't imagine watching formula one without it anymore :)

April 29, 2017

Uninstalled after a few months of hoping this season's redesign of the app would get fixed with updates. Extraordinarily buggy and poorly designed. Opens some things in browser(even though the last version of this app opened it in app) and then continues to randomly open the browser in your face while you're trying to read something. Takes control of audio output even when it's not using audio. Randomly closes articles and the app while you're reading. Randomly opens the app hours later when you are switching windows. Video player can't scrub, it will stop playing. Header covers top part of the screen when watching a video. I could go on for hours. I can't imagine the developer ever tried using the app. Absolute piece of bloated needless redesign junk.

Susan Gee June 7, 2017

Huh? No way to exit the app, Android home and back buttons disappear. Super idiotic. Uninstalled immediately, after force restarting my phone to be able to exit the app.

Justin Hui June 14, 2017

This app heats up the phone so much that it's preferably used in a freezer during winter. The paid version is decent but should not warrant the price. The free version is almost unusable.

David Clark April 30, 2017

Absolute waste of money - DO NOT SUBSCRIBE! I've finally taken the plunge and paid for a 30 day subscription, primarily to listen to some more team radio. Unfortunately, I wish I hadn't bothered. Here are the initial problems discovered : 1.) There is hardly any team radio - Sky has at least 3x as much 2.) The timing tracker shows incorrect times and doesn't update 3.) The live map is a joke - the cars jump and jerk around, sometimes just pause. This is one of the most amateur and unprofessional looking and performing apps I've had the misfortune to install. I'm about to uninstall it. I had expected better, given the publisher. AVOID. Does anyone know how I can get my money back?

Patrick Gaul June 1, 2017

Downgrading my previous review. In the current Android version I open a news article and begin reading, when it inexplicably reopens the article in Chrome! This has been happening for quite a while now..And the app doesn't add much value over the web site without buying a premium subscription. Surprising that an organization like F1 - with such advanced technology and so much money - can't come up with a better app than this. Other professional sports apps are vastly superior and more functional. Formula One Digital Media Limited really needs to hire some good UX people.

Patrick Rosenheim May 13, 2017

The app is designed for iPhones.. I hate apps that closes when I use my back-button on Android. I expected more from such a big organization.

Stefan Ilijevski April 28, 2017

How do expect for anybody to pay for this app, since the redesign app is closing by itself, opening a news article sometimes opens web browser few seconds after it opens the article in the app itself, timings are not working force closes also... and lastly it's a simple webview app, I thought F1 would pay to have a native android app that is working properly...

iain1102 June 10, 2017

This app is awful. Plain awful. If I pay for a service, I would like that service provided. Please can I have my money back?

djph30n1x April 29, 2017

Refreshed app continually crashes on Google pixel. Cannot enter my F1 access account to use the app on my phone during sessions. Worse than ever!

Tim Robinson June 24, 2017

£19.99 a year to make this actually worthwhile! Don't you make enough money as it is from TV rights? Your having a laugh, this is a joke, pure greed!

Shmu'el May 25, 2017

Useless app! I use it to keep up with the latest news and when I get a notification I open the app and it sends me to the website... What's the point of the app if I can't use it but I have to use my browser to go to your website?!?

John G May 28, 2017

This app is once again a complete mess. Every single time you swipe to the commentary page, it flashes the end of the race comments. So thanks to this I had the race results shown to me on the first lap of the race. This overpriced piece of junk ruined the Monaco GP for me. Now after spending all this money I'm too scared to ever use it again. I want my money back.

Christopher Russo June 21, 2017

Horrible scaling on LG G8. Massive black bar at the top, no hamburger menu to navigate. Unuserable.

Fons Dorrestijn May 18, 2017

Great content but notoriously unstable. Crashes regularly and links to articles often don't ooen in-app put put you through to the webbrowser which doesn't bring you to the same article

Rony Sikder June 12, 2017

Update: used this app (full/paid version) at the race track in Montreal. While the tracker works well, the audio commentary is so quiet I could barely understand a word even before the grand prix started.

Osv4 May 13, 2017

Every time I open the app and start looking at something, without even touching the screen, the app will go and open the same thing in the website form.. If you hit back, the app opens back up and then crashes.. Impossible to look or read anything on it..

Tristan Rose May 25, 2017

App is looking better but still needs some work. For instance, when opening an article from a notification, it will open the app and then 2 seconds later jump into the browser, where as if you click articles from the app it doesn't do this. Video player is slow to load sometimes and you can't scrub through videos, quality is good though. The relocation of the menus is obviously a iPhone optimised one and gets rid of my on screen buttons which I don't like. I want to go back but I keep hitting latest or races, it quite annoying. I would like this app to show live race highlights, for example when there an accident or when there is some risky overtakes, and more exclusive F1 access videos for subscribers, as all the videos are released on YouTube as well. Being an F1 access sub I want more exclusive content.

Jason Leslie May 25, 2017

Why does this app allow me to read news stories but then open the same story in my Internet browser, you are doubling up my data usage.

Meganova 98 May 14, 2017

App doesn't work on my tablet... shame... it used to work when I had this app earlier on

Vijay Sankar June 17, 2017

Yes, they have quality content up here these days, but a terrible app on Android! Cannot stay in the background while switching apps. Always stutters for no reason while loading an article. The live tracking is also rubbish and hard to use.

Raimonds G May 12, 2017

Terrible app. Always opening browser for no reason and too many app crashes. Please fix.

François Manichon June 7, 2017

Great app despite a bug: When viewing notification and entering the app from there, the app loads up the article and after a while, you get pushed to your default browser with the same link. Upon pressing back, you get pushed back to the F1 app homepage. Not the article.

Tony Pettinato May 30, 2017

There needs to be a setting to disable the forced fullscreen mode. This is such an obvious iOS port. Let us use our back buttons like normal Android users...

Mike Dust May 2, 2017

Why does this app keep opening my browser? Never used to do that unti, the last update. Extremely aggravating.

May 14, 2017

Absolute rubbish, paid a for premium version constantly asking me to turn off airplane mode, but is off WiFi connected, data live, if I could I would get refund, but I option.

Eric Smit May 27, 2017

Everytime I open this App to read news, my phone heats up and it ends up opening my web browser to read the news....what is the point of the app? Disappointing! Will uninstall.

Mark Cadby June 16, 2017

Same as last year, in app purchase not working correctly. You pay your money and the Updates have stopped. Latest results is from FP2 before the last race. This app is as unstable as a McLaren Honda engine

Formula One Digital Media Limited March 11, 2015

Dear Mark, there was an issue with the link to Google Play store. If you completely quit the app and go back in you should no longer see that error. Please email us at F1App-Android@formula1.com if it's still not working correctly for you.

sridhar tempalle April 30, 2017

Russian GP happened yesterday. Why the f... is it not yet updated yet on app. Poor app. I gave single star. But it gives 2 stars on submission. Pity on you app guys.

Sander de Rooy June 11, 2017

Updated to the latest version but still a lot of bugs. Slow and keeps going to the browser 2-3 seconds after opening an article. Annoying, especially when you pay $3 a month.

Dave McAlister June 10, 2017

Can't paste my password into the login screen. Not all of us use weak passwords and I'm not manually typing in my secure 20 character random password on my phone!