@tom.developer: Formula E’s broadcast tech is so… portable. 🏎️ Last week I attended the final stop of the @Formula E 2026 season, and thanks to their tech team, I got to see behind the scenes of the entire broadcast. 🤯 Motorsport broadcasting is a different beast to traditional sports broadcasting, because a lot of the equipment travels with the series, rather than being permanently installed at the venue. And when you’re hosting a race weekend inside of a conference hall, you really are starting with just a big empty box. So what does Formula E’s broadcast setup actually look like? 👀 Each of the “pods” has its own job to process the incoming data. Circuit cameras. Onboard cameras. Audio. Etc. Each of those circuit camera produces a 3Gbit/s feed which is sent to the “mini data center” in the video, all of those feeds are then put through the network and encoded into a 20Mbit/s feed. An on-site broadcast team follows the different stories unfolding on track and sends everything back to Formula E’s permanent Broadcast HQ in London using a cloud-based connection. That HQ stays in exactly the same place whether the race is in Berlin, Tokyo or anywhere else in the world, and it's where the final broadcast is put together. So while the cars travel around the world, a surprising amount of the technology responsible for showing us the race travels with them.

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Friday 21 August 2026 11:19:51 GMT