Wow I clicked on the F1 Live website and now it's ESPN F1

Your thought's?

Cool; looks like ESPN is trying to garner a more global viewership and content.

ESPN purchased F1-Live a while ago, but it's good to see the brand attached. I'll need to get used to the new navigation, but I think it's a good thing.

The site is worse than before. It used to be a website dedicated to rallying, sportscars, motogp, and formula 1. F1-Live was just one part of the Racing-Live website. Now they streamlined the website and have only formula 1 content with no high res images, less content, not to mention they got rid of the forums as well. From one of the sites I frequent, one of the members who worked at Racing-Live told us that they laid off most of the staff and did this to save money.

That's going to happen when ESPN takes over, it begins to suck

The just ruined it It was my favorite F1 site I had the Mclaren car with launguage options as my front page It was the first thing I watch on the day in the internet. Now the news are less even if there were only rumours I hate it.
They turn it from the best(in my opinion) to the worst like that.

I'm really really upset

I agree, it was also the first motorsports-related site I visited every day. I sent them feedback that their new format has lost them a patron. I was not just complaining, I won't go back there again.

Ah, the typical rejection of change. I spent 30 minutes surfing around and, once I acclimated to where the material now was located, I found more than was previously available.

Maybe it's just me and what I used it for. btw, the old site seems to be back today, at least for me.

RichS - 11 December 2009 02:32 PM

Ah, the typical rejection of change. I spent 30 minutes surfing around and, once I acclimated to where the material now was located, I found more than was previously available.

Maybe it's just me and what I used it for. btw, the old site seems to be back today, at least for me.

Well, if change is for the sake of change, then what is the point. From what I have seen the website has less content than before, that is not an improvement.

It took me about 10 seconds today to find and click the news button, which shows everything that my bookmark used to link directly to. So right there, I have everything I used to use it for.

But I also read the section on Q&A;from audience members, finding some interesting trivia. And the quotes section, which I had never seen before, was great:

"Bernie, what does Silverstone need to do to close the deal for the British GP?"

Bernie - "they need to buy a pen".

So I have already used found and consumed 3x the content as I ever did on the old site, on my second visit. So the change has brought benefit to me.

Similarly, rejection of change just because of the change is a rather pointless reaction.

If in the past it was a "7" on a 10 point scale, it would now rate a solid "4". The "original" site had an arrow button to take one forward to the next story, now one has to back up and select the next story (but from a very much shorter list). To say it sucks would be too easy, but nevertheless it would be true.

As one who was intimately involved in a buyout/merger consolidation I can safely say that these actions are not taken to "improve" anything but someone's bottom line. Whenever you see the word 'synergies' think "layoffs and firings".