[Neil Jones]

Do F1 offer a clean feed without the permanent results standing on screen? As a casual viewer feels like too much info that distracts from the actual action rather than ads to the viewing experience with interim updates a better way of tracking the race.

Is the way sport graphics seem to have gone too - I feel less is more really.

Pretty sure Sky have switched to a clean feed temporarily to show their own graphics to prevent them obscuring anything else on the feed, so its probably only available to the broadcasters.

Although that being said, all the "top ten times <something happened in F1>" videos they shove up on YouTube, the more recent races where they're highlighting something that would have been covered in graphics is clean, but anything pre 1990s seems to have been harvested from various highlight programmes which may suggest they don't have those races clean, as IIRC it used to to be the host broadcaster who handled the whole affair before that became centralised so what got archives may vary.

The whole point of relaunching the graphics 20 odd years ago now was there wasn't enough information on them for anybody to follow what was going on, which was something they resolved to an extent and have continued to evolve ever since. It must be remembered though Liberty Media is an American company, and they must have taken inspiration from Indycar or Nascar racing as those sports are covered in copious amounts of varying stages of ugly (but very American) graphics as well, and applied it to the F1 coverage.