Formula 1®

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Formula 1® is a single player sport game. It received neutral reviews from players.

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59%

Audience ScoreBased on 10,000 reviews

graphics10 positive mentions

monetization181 negative mentions

Provides comprehensive real-time F1 news, race schedules, live timing, and standings; great for keeping up to date during race weekends.
User-friendly interface with detailed articles, videos, and driver/team information for F1 fans.
Offers interactive features such as F1 Fantasy and countdown timers, enhancing fan engagement.

App frequently crashes and fails to open on many Android devices, requiring repeated reinstallations or clearing data.
Compatibility issues exclude many users with relatively recent devices, often without warning, making the app unusable for a significant portion of fans.
Frequent bugs include needing to log in repeatedly, notifications that do not open content, laggy performance, misleading spoiler management, and intrusive ads even for paying subscribers.

monetization
189 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
3%
1%
96%
Users overwhelmingly criticize the app's monetization for displaying intrusive ads despite paid subscriptions, with many frustrated by ads blocking race schedules, appearing before videos, and degrading the premium experience. They feel the presence of ads in a paid app contradicts expectations of an ad-free environment, leading to perceptions of a cash grab and diminished usability. There is a strong demand for ads to be removed for subscribers to align with the premium pricing.
- “Liked that it was free and there were no ads.”
- “Its awesome there are some in-app purchases but they are not necessary.”
- “Amazing app no ads and lets you know everything F1.”
- “I pay for a pro subscription and despite that you decide to show ads?”
- “Having ads in an app even after paying for an annual subscription is absolutely ridiculous.”
- “Considering what it costs to be a paid subscriber, I should never see an advertisement on this app (or F1 TV). If a company wants to advertise with F1, they can sponsor a team, driver, event, or buy ad time on a local broadcast carrier. The 'new' live timing is even worse.”
stability
146 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
2%
98%
The app is widely reported as unstable, frequently freezing, crashing, and lagging across devices. Users experience persistent bugs with notifications, live timing, fantasy features, and connectivity, severely impacting usability. Despite offering valuable content, the app's performance issues and glitches make it frustrating and unreliable.
- “Extremely quick app, no glitches whatsoever, superb work team!”
- “Love it, no glitches”
- “It seems to crash every time I open it, but then when I reopen it, it runs great. Might be my phone though.”
- “If I try to click any notification, it freezes, doesn't open, and I have to force the phone into the app window mode so I can force close the app.”
- “More and more bugs, timing freezes and won't update or goes blank, text commentary can't be accessed, live commentary won't load for ages in the middle of a session.”
- “The app lags and crashes, I can't open any notification of the app from the notification tray because it just freezes.”
optimization
39 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
18%
44%
38%
The app suffers from widespread optimization issues, including frequent crashes, laggy and choppy performance, slow loading, and poor battery management, especially on Android devices. Many users report that updates often fail to improve—and sometimes worsen—performance, with non-native components contributing to sluggishness. While a few note smoother experiences, the consensus calls for urgent, comprehensive optimization to enhance stability, responsiveness, and overall usability.
- “The app runs smoothly too, no problems whatsoever.”
- “User friendly and seems to be light on data as it runs smoothly and quickly.”
- “The new update is very good.. app performance and fluidity is smooth..”
- “The app works only 1/5 of the time, I always have to sign in again for live updates, and the app update introduces almost no change, random crashes that I can't even spot why it crashed (literally random), not optimized, always lags when scrolling posts, and I can't use the app until I update it which makes me want to use the app way less than I should... please fix.”
- “App is very poorly optimized for Android giving a very choppy experience, so please improve the frame rate for Android and also live notifications are not supported so please implement these changes.”
- “It's surprising that for a huge juggernaut of a brand/sport, for quite a while now the F1 app is very clunky in performance and not very good.”
graphics
31 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
32%
52%
16%
User opinions on the app's graphics are highly mixed, with some praising the improved design, high-quality visuals, and pleasing aesthetics, while others criticize the graphics for being distracting, cluttered, and negatively impacting usability. Several users lament the removal of detailed track and timing graphics, noting a loss of important information and poorer navigation. Overall, while the graphics quality is often described as impressive, many feel this has come at the cost of functionality and user experience.
- “In this version, the launch graphics and animation are just amazing.”
- “The graphics and video are high quality.”
- “Instant updates, very easy navigation, pleasing graphics, as precise as F1 race.”
- “Hence spoilers everywhere, the timing graphics sucks, track graphics sucks, not enough info.”
- “Well, this has to be the greatest change from what was a great app to something that is absolutely appalling: pathetic graphics, wasted screen area, chunky unwieldy text and just really, really bad interface.”
- “For the sake of pretty graphics the usability of the app was abandoned.”
story
11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
27%
46%
27%
Users find the story content informative and engaging but are frustrated by navigation issues, frequent redirects, and access restrictions requiring sign-in or subscription. Returning to stories often resets their browsing position, and spoilers in headlines diminish the experience. Overall, the story coverage is appreciated but usability and access problems detract from enjoyment.
- “I was interested in the story you wrote.”
- “Brilliant to keep you up to date with F1 and all F1 news stories.”
- “Great to be able to download and replay live timing sessions for those of us that record and watch the race a few hours later, but very annoying that you can't get to the live timing menu within the app without seeing the main news page which inevitably has a story headline that gives away some of the race result!”
- “Then I try to tap to go back so I can finish reading, and it moves me to a different story.”
- “Every time you read a news story and press back, it goes back to the top instead of the previous position.”
- “When I exit a story, it returns to the first story instead of where I was browsing.”
music
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
29%
28%
43%
Users report significant issues with the music aspect, including poor performance, playback glitches that prevent proper music pausing during video play, and bugs causing unwanted music playback when exiting videos. Additionally, there is a desire for more notification settings and customizable notification sounds.
- “There is a bug whenever you exit a video on the app Google Play Music starts playing music.”
- “More settings for notifications and choosing the notification soundtrack.”
- “The music is back on even after I turned it off.”
- “There is a bug: whenever you exit a video on the app, Google Play Music starts playing music.”
- “Performance is very poor on a Pixel 10 Pro, lags while scrolling, and media playback doesn't appear in the OS media player, so it doesn't pause music when playing video.”
grinding
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Users find the grinding aspect frustrating due to a cumbersome new interface that requires excessive manual scrolling and selection to access information, combined with a tedious account deletion process. This makes using the app feel overly time-consuming and discourages continued use.
- “Really, the grinding has gotten so tedious I don't even want to use the app anymore.”
- “The grinding makes the app too tedious to bother using and makes it too hard to follow F1.”
- “The process has become so tedious and repetitive that it severely impacts the enjoyment and usability of the game.”
humor
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The humor is noted for its relatable and amusing moments, particularly involving situations like phone hacking. Additionally, there are elements of satire, such as mocking shameless greed, that add to the comedic appeal.
- “The shameless greed is borderline funny.”
emotional
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Users express strong negative emotions toward the app, describing it as a source of frustration and emotional distress, to the point where they prefer to avoid using it altogether.
gameplay
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
The gameplay offers detailed and up-to-date information on F1 races and car mechanics, including live timing, which is appreciated. However, some users find the gameplay experience unsatisfactory, particularly criticizing the value and mechanics related to in-game purchases.
- “Only a fool would spend money on a game with such bad gameplay.”
atmosphere
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The atmosphere is highly praised for being immersive and enjoyable, creating a positive and engaging experience for players.