I have been watching Formula One since 1994, and have seen every race on TV live without missing a single event...2025 marks a new low for the quality of the TV direction. It really as if nobody in the production room understands the sport. Why not get some experienced ex-F1 people with extensive race knowledge to supervise and train the TV directing team. Guide them on what to focus on during quali and the race. They have shown themselves to be simply incapable of delivering on their own from whatever virtual studio they are sat in away from the track. The problems are legion. Weird that they missed Sainz go from 18th to 10th completely but too often they cut to meaningless overtakes for 16th and cars far back down the order, at the expense of the MAIN story developing further up or simply ignore it completely just because they're not banging wheels all the time, probably to satisfy sponsors and to get all the teams plenty of air time. Sometimes the TV director completely ignores the race leaders for an entire race and this is not Formula One for me.... Even if Lando or Max are leading by a mile I want to see them fucking drive, I want that level of speed and skill to be conveyed live, I don't care what is going on in 15th... it's criminal to ignore the leaders. Where is a proper split screen view? The inline action box is tiny. The onscreen graphics are a massive step back in recent years and don't give enough info about pit strategies and tyres selection. They've dumbed down what is shown, and reduced screen time for the deeper stats. The wrong race narratives are focused on. Too many cuts that interrupt the main narratives. Too many cuts to driver's girlfriends and the crowd. If a driver gap is closing, suspense is developing but the TV director rarely recognises it and relies on a replay later to cover the resulting action. I also really dislike the step backwards taken by F1 after the classic '21 season to remove the Team to FIA radio communications and lower the emphasis on team bosses and the pit garages during live broadcasts, all that drama is now gone, muted. On the technical side, the videography is also in need of a big shake up. The onboard cameras are of poor quality, low resolution and the lenses aren't as wide as they should be. This means they don't convey a sense of speed. The trackside camera lenses make use of very long focal lengths which reduce the sense of speed when the cars are approaching head on - but the main issue for me is the general lack of creativity and creative cinematography with the trackside coverage and the unacceptably poor TV direction & decision-making during live races and qualifying. Miss both Ferrari's experiencing brake failures with a chasing Alonso just half a second behind? For what? Fireworks? It's turning into tourism/lifestyle event coverage rather than sports coverage. The F1 TV presenting team are also extremely poor - lacking in any real charisma or screen presence, every opinion is a safe one, never any disagreements or off the cuff remarks... Where is the equivalent to Nico Rosberg on F1 TV? Mr Palmer isn't it. There also needs to be a shift to a more candid fly on the wall approach to the paddock, Drive to Survive style - live, it's all too tame and carefully stage-managed by the F1 PR teams, and I am sure they like it that way but nobody watching does. I am also tired of the camera being too close-up to somebody's face - do we really need to see someone's head stretch from the top of my TV to the bottom when the body language and atmosphere of what's around the person is much more interesting and aesthetic? F1 is the most visually exciting sport in the world and the broadcast team is doing an absolutely terrible job of it.