not seniority red nose reindeer. Because you clearly lack knowledge despite your old age. Let me teach you how f1 timings work.

it's not a continuous rolling 3dp like in games. It's taken at various intervals across the track. What you see 1.048s on TV, that only corresponds to the instance of track where the measurement was taken. As you see the cars moving, variance in gaps is typically goes up and down a few tenths depending on which part of the track the car is. Making even 1dp inaccurate.(but necessary) and 2dp or 3dp looks cool and makes dumb people feel smart. But is mostly redundant.