Build an explainer channel for new F1 fans
F1 has gained a lot of new fans in the last few years. Interest grows further at the end of the season, when the title fight and news of driver moves for next year arrive together. But F1 is hard for a newcomer. Tyre compounds, pit strategy, penalties and the points system all have to be learned.
That leaves plenty of room on an F1 channel for videos that explain things. They can be made entirely with graphics and charts, with no race footage.
Formats that work for an F1 channel
- Grand Prix preview — the circuit, last year’s result and what to watch for.
- Race review — lap-time trends and pit stop timing as charts, showing where the race was decided.
- Terms explained — the undercut, DRS, tyre compounds, one per video. Search keeps bringing viewers to these.
- Driver timeline — one driver’s career as a timeline.
- Points Shorts — a single calculation, such as “how many points the leader needs from the remaining races”.
How to make them with OneStep
- Enter the topic together with the numbers. For example: “Review of this race. The lap-time gap between first and second, pit stop timing, final order”. OneStep builds chart scenes only when the script contains real numbers, so take lap times and points from the official results and enter them yourself.
- Turn on motion graphics. Lap times become a line chart, the points standings a bar chart, and the season calendar a timeline.
- Add languages. F1 has fans all over the world. Make the same topic in Spanish, Japanese, German and more, and post each to its own channel.
- Schedule around the race calendar. Publish the preview early in race week and the review the morning after the race.
Videos that explain terms are not tied to a date, so you can keep making them after the season ends. Build up a library over the winter and it will be there in search when new fans arrive for the next season opener.
Broadcast footage, team logos and liveries, and driver photos all have rights holders. Build the video around graphics you make yourself.
See who fans are backing right now
The Motorsport board on Stardona Ranking is an unofficial fan vote where fans vote for drivers directly. It lists F1 drivers along with racers from other series, and you can view it by period and by country.
See this week's motorsport fan-vote ranking →
- The ranking moves in the week after a race. Put a driver who climbed in the weekly ranking at the centre of your review.
- Set the championship standings beside the monthly fan-vote ranking for a video on how far results and popularity differ.
- When you quote it, say that it is an unofficial fan vote, not an official statistic.
Before the next Grand Prix
During the season a race comes round every week or two, and in between you need a preview, a review and explainers. OneStep carries a video from script to YouTube upload in one job, so one person can keep to that schedule.
See the OneStep All-in-One Package →
For everything OneStep does and what you need to run it, read Introducing OneStep.
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