FIA WEC TV Reviews

The old App was difficult to navigate and view, but this version won’t even let you in without a social media account. I can watch WEC on TV; I want FIAWECTV for news. App deleted.

FIAWECTV is genuinely much better than the one that came before it, but you have to REALLY fight it to get to a working state.

First I went to log in, it’s been a minute so I chose to recover my account. Selecting forgot password brought me back around to the same page I was just on. In short, that account is now lost to the ether.

That’s fine, I like the idea of signing up for a WEC account anyway so I’m not just limited to watching races on my phone. So I signed up for a new account. It’s at this point that any error message FIAWECTV threw at me was in French, despite the language being set to English. My French is limited to begging for an ambulance, so this wasn’t much help.

I sign up and I get emailed a verification code. This code does not work. It sent me to a blank webpage. Thinking maybe it worked I went back and tried to sign in and now FIAWECTV is shouting at me in French again.

Long story short I finally got signed up and logged in about a half hour later of just resending the email over and over until one code finally took. A half hour isn’t a long time, and I have patience after all I’m an endurance race fan, we have to have at least a little. But it doesn’t bode well when every aspect of signing up is broken in someway, what is the rest of the season going to be like?

I suppose this is the replacement for the FIA WEC app I used to use to watch 24 Hours of Le Mans, but, geez, what a regression. My biggest complaint is that, when not actually watching a live feed, or a replay of the live coverage, FIAWECTV automatically switches to portrait orientation. I set my iPad up on its stand in landscape mode, which is best for viewing videos, and it’s really annoying that when I need to return to the Home Screen to select the next video, I’m presented with a UI tipped on its side. C’mon, guys, you can do much better than that.

Many have criticized FIAWECTV for poor user interface and lack of things like start times for races. Although I wish there was still a constructors and drivers standings page, most of the issues seem to have been fixed. I have not had FIAWECTV for more than the day, but the majority of the issues from other reviews seem resolved.

I am not computer savvy just a dedicated racing fan. I wonder if the people who wrote the application software know that it doesn’t work at all. When I was using the basic app (although it didn’t give much detail) it worked much better than the purchased upgrades. Now all I get are error messages and notifications to install updates which revert to more error messages. Can I have my money back?

I've set my language to English yet 90% of the text is still French, the UI is horrible, it lacks information the previous app had (or maybe I'm missing it since I can't read French) and seems solely meant for streaming, and I generally don't like using it. Whoever's company that made this must know someone high up at the WEC because FIAWECTV is objectively worse than the previous app in every way.

The races need to show when each session is starting. We also need an easier place to see the championship standings. Maybe add which car a driver uses so it’s easy to find your favorite on the leaderboard? I would say use some of F1’s app ideas or even Indycar. We also need a page dedicated to each teams car specs. That would be awesome!

Didn’t port over usernames and password info from FIAWECTV in use through last season, so new ID/PW. Sign-up requires EULA in French (not multi-lingual?) and even now, it doesn’t appear to respect my language choice. Sign-up oddities are one thing, but for this first Sebring round, you can’t send via Airplay on iPhone or iPad - a feature the predecessor had.

Incomplete and feels it. Please do better.

if you want to find ANYTHING about anything look elsewhere because FIAWECTV is so confusing and difficult to navigate i couldnt even find the race results.. like why is it easier to find a list of every sponsor on the main screen then any results or anything about the races? they definitely screwed up forcing everyone off the old app

Changed the display language to English and it’s still in French. Social media connection doesn’t even work. Why would you even launch an app that’s not even fully optimised? Motorsports is so bad at social media, that’s what you get when you have a bunch of old people running a sport. Do better and hire younger and better

They sell subscriptions early in the season only to tell you later that they will not be offering coverage of the 24 hours of Le Mans, because they sold those rights to a different app. Absolute rubbish. Watched on FIAWECTV for the last several years. Now I get to sign up for another streaming service.

Errors at every turn. Totally unusable to track races. Why even bother creating an app. If I ever encounter a developer who created this trash needing a job, I’ll pass on them and wish them the best of luck. Apple shouldn’t even allow such error ridden crap in their App Store and should toss this one immediately.

Seems like they are make a hint of progress improving this disastrous “upgrade.” Give it another year or two and I suspect they’ll get it to function as well as the old app. Bonus insult: was sold and paid for full race package and am not allowed to watch Le Mans from the USA. (Loaded a VPN and figured it out, but come on guys.)

App’s screen only displays vertically on iPad, and isn’t properly sized to display correctly on iPhone 13 Mini. Went to purchase the season pass, and the conditions I have to agree to aren’t in English. The previous app was amazing, far better than IMSA’s and on par with F1’s current app. Why the switch to this one?

It is recommended that WEC TV App add the function of importing examples into iOS Calendar or Google Calendar.

This is by far the biggest piece of digital garbage on FIAWECTV Store . The developer needs to finish high school first and take another introduction to coding workshop because obviously he/she slept through the first one. Nothing works , the orientation is wrong , I blew money to watch the Sebring race and cannot access it .DO NOT THROW YOUR MONEY AWAY !

Terrible user interface. Sometimes video seems to play but no picture appears - blank screen. Will ask for money back. FIA should be ashamed of themselves! Apple should remove FIAWECTV until it actually works.

Also if you’re in the US it’s completely region blocked, couldn’t even work with a French VPN… I thought the old app was awful years ago but I’d kill to have it back at this point!

User Experience: Too bad there isn’t a lower rating than 1. FIAWECTV is not intuitive to utilize and the HELP is worse. I’m going to delete FIAWECTV off my phone immediately after posting this.

The most charitable thing I can share is goodbye!

Don’t waste your money on FIAWECTV low quality picture streaming stopped during the last hour.
Had to buy another app to finish watching the race

First off why do I have to log in??? All I want to do is follow the leaderboard. The WEC app from last year was straightforward and had all the information I wanted right at my fingertips, FIAWECTV defiantly not worth having.

I don’t know how you can process my subscription but then block all the content because you can’t serve it in my country. Absolutely shambolic state of affairs and will be requesting a refund.

Downloaded it today to watch the Fuji practice and qualifying and henceforth, had no issues. Casted it to my big TV as well, so for watching the races it works great

App is getting there but needs some serious improvements. First suggestion is showing the schedule, no where does it tell you what the times practices, qualifying, or races are (local or your time zone). Another suggestion is better UI/menu. It took me way too long to find the current standings.

FIAWECTV used to be ok to get WEC news, because the website was never very good. So, it’s best to get WEC news from other apps and websites, which is unfortunate. Ultimately, changing the rules to control the results isn’t worth reading anywhere, which is even more unfortunate.

Race replays take forever to load if at all, and the "rewind by 10 seconds" button takes you back to the start of the recording, which resets the wait to get the video going again. Would also appreciate spoilers and news to be hidden from the front page of FIAWECTV so nothing is ruined for me before i'm able to watch the race. $50 is steep for an app that is basically not functional.

Some small UI things could be improved but it was overall a good experience