{"id":306558,"date":"2025-11-25T19:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306558\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:44:10","slug":"desperate-f1-fans-found-a-legal-way-to-stream-the-vegas-gp-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306558\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate F1 Fans Found a Legal Way to Stream the Vegas GP for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">The biggest car news and reviews, no BS<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pw-incontent-excluded article-paragraph skip\">If you know anything about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/category\/f1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Formula 1<\/a>\u2018s time in Las Vegas thus far, you know that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/f1-las-vegas-grand-prix-tickets-technically-start-at-just-50-this-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hasn\u2019t exactly been a cheap race<\/a> to attend. We can spend all day dragging F1 for celebrating its big break in America by punishing its newest viewers, but that\u2019s been done many times before. Instead, we\u2019re going to call attention to an amusing workaround fans discovered to watch the event for free. Granted, it\u2019s not exactly what you\u2019d call a high-def feed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Hat tip to reader Kevin, who informed us that the action on track was in fact visible from Las Vegas\u2019 CCTV cameras, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvroads.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anyone can tune into<\/a>. The video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CpllBGmvSqA\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ThatOneFormula<\/a> below shows public domain Grand Prix racing in all its macroblocked glory. As one commenter said, there \u201clowkey is an aesthetic to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazied-youtube-frame-thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764099850_827_hqdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Sort of like those Twitter accounts that used to post \u201climinal spaces\u201d that appear subtly haunted, modern F1 racing through the lens of what might as well be a VHS recording viewed on a 4K TV has a certain aura about it. It feels kind of like found footage, or one of those early internet videos designed to shock, disgust, or horrify. Except, of course, that doesn\u2019t happen\u2014it\u2019s just cars speeding around, usually alone. Now and then, you might catch a glimpse of a pass in the making, and that\u2019s basically the highlight of the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">It doesn\u2019t help that CCTV cameras don\u2019t capture sound, so the only thing more eerie than 2025 F1 racing filmed at flip-phone resolution is just that, except silent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">So, thank you, Nevada DOT, for offering us a rare look at the pinnacle of motorsport with the broadcast technology of 40 years ago. We had the Brad Pitt F1 movie to show us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/apple-had-to-invent-a-camera-for-the-f1-movie-because-broadcast-ones-werent-good-enough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">how beautiful the sport can be<\/a>; we needed something to make 220 mph look as dull as physically possible to balance things out. And props to anyone who organized a pirate-free watch party with this feed. Because now that F1 knows this exists, it\u2019ll sure as hell be blocked next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Got a tip? Email us at tips@thedrive.com<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/authors\/jerry-perez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>Backed by a decade of covering cars and consumer tech, Adam Ismail is a Senior Editor at The Drive, focused on curating and producing the site\u2019s slate of daily stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-306558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}