Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1
I'm fortunate enough to have Sky Sports so will be able to watch all F1 races live, but if I did not I suspect my interest in watching the highlights after the event would suffer as much as my enjoyment of NASCAR has.
Sky had NASCAR live last year, but dropped that for hour long highlights on the Monday evenings after the race. Almost inevitably during the course of Monday I will, accidentally, see the result simply because I keep up with motorsport news generally.
Once you know the result the sense of anticipation and excitement of what's going to happen, who will be challenging and who will win, will be lost and half the time I don't get around to watching the highlights because of that. Not only that, but by watching the live event you pick up on snippets of news and information that add to your interest so that interest in what's going on around the sport can fade.
When, in the 1970's & 80's, all we had was half-hour highlights of the F1 races it didn't matter so much because that was the only option available to us!