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Given how much of the coverage has been a piggyback of Sky's in recent years, this makes a lot of sense resourcewise. To be honest, at this stage I'm still shocked Channel 4 are producing any coverage independently.

ITV did a bit of this at different times, just using a small studio in the South Bank with a video wall to whoever was out on track. They didn't lose much in the presentation in terms of content, but it did look noticably low budget.

Rights aside, the programme has more content derived from F1TV than Sky as of last year. The only Sky content they used (I think) were the media pen interviews - and again I think this is because they are compelled to by their contract with Sky (except in Silverstone).

There's murmourings that Sky are keen to use more of that F1TV content themselves and scale down their own production now, which would make a lot of sense but would probably have the effect of moving the two programmes closer together.