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Reserving judgement a little, but not a bad start.

Plus:

• Like the lack of emphasis on aero - fun to see the card skidding about.
• Good close running between the cars.
• Safety of the cars' crash structure seems to be up to the job
• Great entertaining drives from Bird and Montagny.
• Cars look great.
• Got better as it went on.

Minus:

• What a hideously banal car park of a track. Hard to imagine how it could have been duller.
• Felt a tad slow, but not disastrously so, and stopped noticing so much once my attention had switched to the racing.
• Minimum time pit stop is anticlimactic, but can see why they've gone that route. The "fast stop, hold everyone up down the or exit lane" could be an interesting tactic.
• Coverage wasn't great - when they did bother to show the positions lost/gained it showed lots of changes of position - shame so few of them got caught on camera.
• Fan boost was even worse than expected - I could understand it if we could award boosts to an underdog in real time, but to announce it beforehand? Utterly pointless.
• Commentators seemed fine, but not too impressed with the standard of the rest of the punditry.
• On screen info was terrible: driver positions were only put up a couple of times; I'd have thought colour coding to match liveries would be pretty much essential when we're only just trying to wrap our heads around 20 new drivers in 10 new teams in 10 new liveries; interesting info is rendered completely useless by tiny white text on light blue background.

All in all, not bad, will be interesting to see how it continues - will definitely give it a few more races