FIA WEC TV Reviews

by PhillyApp

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.

by D Bonham

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.

by Osteomeatl

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 !

by Dimorf26

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?

by Dog Walker NYC

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.)

by User 981.1

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.

by Med Student KCOM

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.

by Fjnemo711

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

by 162656262

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

by TheKis3r

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.

by Im No Superman

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!

by EpicSilverGum

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.

by 6001 Gofer

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?

by ExTexan

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.

by Wildwilly40pa

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

by Watchmanusa

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!

by Zebra23

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.

by PghApp

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.

by RPN Man57

I am disappointed that FIAWECTV does not provide live or delayed video coverage of Le Mans in the United States; rather we have to either be a Max cable subscriber or have a convoluted two part streaming subscription. This was the first year I over a decade I was not able to watch the race here in the US. Very disappointing, but thank goodness for Radio Le Mans streaming audio.

by Majid Jaber

Very frustrating after paying for full version, I cannot watch most do the 24 Hours of Lemans free practice videos because the content is blocked in my country. I have been using FIAWECTV since January and I managed to watch coverage of the earlier WEC races, but since the 24 hours is Lemans update came out last week the expertise has been utterly horrible!!! I feel stupid that I recommended it to my friends 😡

by Janice Bogerman

Almost everything on this is hard to navigate, confusing, or straight up annoying. When watching races if you tilt you phone slightly it will switch to a vertical posture showing it much smaller. Also, when you try to revert back to the horizontal position, the screen shrinks a bit and blocks some of the driver/team stats. Compared to an app such as the IMSA or Formula 1 app, this needs a lot of improvements and updates. Finally it is also extremly difficult to find qualifying results.

by JP 57

While I have been just fine getting it to work in English. The user interface (UI) is awful. You get stuck in pages, items don’t load and there’s no back button. FIAWECTV also doesn’t adjust the top interface for the notch on current iPhone and it’s not user friendly to find other races, timing or camera views.
I’m truly shocked that in 2023 and with the high cost of this service that this company has such a bad app. FIA should be ashamed to publish this quality or lack there of in a app that represents them as a company.
Apple should take this down and require them to provide a fully functional app.

by Brendan SF

For years this has been one of the worst engineered and designed apps I’ve ever seen. It makes watching WEC so painful. The video fails to start constantly, it won’t rotate to landscape properly and often jumps back to portrait at the slightest movement, it also changes the ratio to be the wrong landscape size cutting off the bottom of the video, you can’t easily jump around the video with the slider, there’s no 10-30s skip forward/backward buttons next to play button which is so basic, the order screen takes up too much space per car and doesn’t show all the gap to class and next car timing, nor does it make it easy to see the energy remaining or pit order… it’s just so bad in so many ways, yet it’s such a simple app. It feels like there’s zero engineering or product leadership or accountability. PLEASE hire a new team to make FIAWECTV usable. PLEASE.

by Thesaltyapple

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.

by Mike Clancy

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.

by DiRTKiNG541

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!

by S-marshall

The iPad app seriously needs a portrait view for the interface. Yes, it rotates when activating a video. But we need portrait view 100% going back as forth from FIAWECTV stats to video.

by FndrStrat06

FIAWECTV works. News, live streaming, it’s all there.

But FIAWECTV doesn’t let you control portrait/landscape orientation on iPad. Videos are always played in landscape, and the UI is always set to portrait. I thought Apple required orientation switching by the user…

by AJ97000

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.

by Sinerem

FIAWECTV for some reason can't cast to another device. It never requests local network access so iOS doesn't give the option to allow it local network access.

by Mousetrap94

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?

by DaGamer12321

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

by KMAC69642

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

by Nanonation_07

Overall I love the sport, especially the WEC, this is a great way to watch the races and everything prior to the race day, however FIAWECTV could use updates, mainly in the UI, also a settings option for video quality.

by Thunderbot3568

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.

by Ho898

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

by Choyt Lturboman9912

As a US- based endurance racing fan, our coverage is very biased towards NASCAR and Indy, which I find boring. The WEC app has the info I’m interested in and I highly recommend it! Great information!

by Thak Navari

FIAWECTV is clean and gives me everything I am looking for to keep up with WEC! It’s not difficult to find what I am looking for like with other apps. Keep up the good work

by River Road NB

FIAWECTV keeps you up to date and gives you everything you need to enjoy this spectacular series.

by Daddyjunior13

I love that it provides you with all the details you need to know for the races I especially love all the live timing features they are amazing it actually feels like I’m right there in the stands

by Drivergrl887

FIAWECTV is essentially a web viewer for the WEC TV website, but it works well and it is easy to find the current race as well as recordings for earlier in the season. There is a seasonal race calendar as well as live timing tables. Licensing restrictions for the US make finding all of the races a little complicated, 24h of Le Mans and the Lone Star race are unavailable on FIAWECTV .

by MacLov'n

I want more news / updates content. But I am glad to have it!

by MikeScuderia

Really enjoy FIAWECTV being able to watch the WEC series live! Would be nice if FIAWECTV would be available for Apple TV devices.

by Johnnygumba

Love FIAWECTV, best way to watch all the races while you’re on the road.