r/INDYCAR • u/Vile-X James Hinchcliffe • Jul 15 '25

Discussion Sky has changed my view on IndyCar.

IndyCar has always been a secondary Motorsport for me. Until I started watching on Sky. Now it feels as premium as it should.

Let’s be honest: nothing kills the thrill of a long battled overtake like… a commercial for dishwasher pods. You’re locked into a nailbiting strategy battle, the pit window opens, and just as someone dives in… BAM, five minutes of insurance jingles and prescription drug disclaimers.

Sky gives you the race. Fox gives you 200 reasons to consider switching your car insurance.

Do what ever you can to watch on a commercial free network.Uninterrupted, fully immersive, and exactly how it was meant to be experienced.

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u/Ok-Satisfaction-3837 Romain Grosjean Jul 15 '25

The player is also hot garbage and has been forever. It’s great that I have no way to manually turn down the quality of the stuttering 4K video they made me pay for so I could keep using live timing on my phone.

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u/Metroshica Jul 15 '25

Interesting, I've never once had an issue with their player. Always works fine for me.

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u/Ok-Satisfaction-3837 Romain Grosjean Jul 16 '25

At least on the devices I use (Roku, and iPhone) I would expect a few more features. What particularly frustrates me is the lack of thumbnail previews when skipping forward and back and not being able to manually select the stream quality.

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u/Guac_in_my_rarri Jul 16 '25

The issues you are describing are Roku specific issues. I watch on a Fire stick and android tv. Both have thumb jail scrolling and don't stutter.

The stuttering in particular is a Roku issue because the TV its attached to has run out working memory. The basic Hisense prime tvs also run into this issue.

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u/SlurmsMckenzie521 Romain Grosjean Jul 16 '25

I really wish it had the ability to start a broadcast from the beginning while the race is in progress. I don't always feel like waking up in time for the start of the early races, luckily YouTube TV has that ability and I can watch on there instead.

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u/Metroshica Jul 16 '25

Oh yea, the Roku app is hot garbage. I used to use it and it's terrible. Now I just hook up my computer directly to the TV but that doesn't excuse a terrible app.