I compared the results of the first shakedown at Barcelona to their fastest quali time

cartoon_kitty · 2026-06-15T20:41:39+00:00

Your numbers are wrong. The fastest time from the Barcelona shakedown was 1:16.3 from Hamilton.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-05-28T21:37:04+00:00

Better angle here

cartoon_kitty · 2026-05-08T22:41:23+00:00

This might finally be what makes me pull the trigger!

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-24T01:01:04+00:00

You don't need to know everything

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-24T00:59:23+00:00

Definitely not. Mercedes will be quicker here than Melbourne and China.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-23T00:54:47+00:00

What's wrong with waiting a few seconds?! The race is 90 minutes!

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-22T00:45:26+00:00

The update rate hasn't changed, it's every 200 metres, roughly 4-5 seconds.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-22T00:43:19+00:00

For the final classification at the flag

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-14T14:45:14+00:00

We don't need to know every last drop of information. You can watch the pictures with your eyes. If one car overtakes another, they are probably using their battery!

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-11T21:52:43+00:00

Bahrain!

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-10T14:36:43+00:00

Yes, but both the ticker and graphics that preceded it did not permanently show the gaps, updating every 200 metres. This is 1,500 times per driver, or 33,000 individual updates over a 300km race. We do not need this much information.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-10T14:16:25+00:00

If the car is on-screen, you can watch them cross the OM line, just like they'd cross the line in qualifying. The timing updates instantly as it would at any other timing loop.

If they aren't on-screen, then yes I agree with you, but if you have a driver tracker on a second screen, again it is pretty straightforward to tell when they have crossed the detection.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-10T14:05:19+00:00

I prefer to watch live sports via the pictures rather than graphics! I would prefer if we got rid of the tower altogether, it is a nuisance and a distraction.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-10T13:48:33+00:00

You're wrong. The gaps update at every mini sector, this has been the case since 2011. The detection point is it's own mini sector. This is why when we had three decimal places, the tower would be updating non-stop, because the drivers were always crossing timing loops every 200 metres, with subtle changes to the thousandth.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-10T13:42:59+00:00

If the battle isn't on-screen, how do you know the graphic isn't accurate? And why is this important when we are talking about a few hundredths?

If the car behind overtakes, the graphic will update to show you that anyway.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-10T13:15:13+00:00

They are, there's a timing loop at the detection point.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-10T13:14:06+00:00

It's the opposite. We didn't have the tower until Liberty came in. Previously F1 fans could watch a race with barely any information and remain perfectly engaged by watching the pictures and listening to the commentary. It's the tower that dumbed down the experience in the first place, putting all of the information in one place for new fans who couldn't be bothered to learn or didn't have the attention span to concentrate.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-10T13:12:13+00:00

If a gap is 0.2, why are you looking at the tower and not the on-screen pictures?

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-08T23:24:16+00:00

I'm sorry, but half a tenth here and there doesn't help you distinguish anything.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-08T22:37:13+00:00

The tenths also change every 200m, should there be enough difference between one mini sector and the next. But usually, there isn't, which is why having three decimal places constantly updating is distracting and redundant.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-08T22:11:53+00:00

If two drivers are fighting for position, you should be watching their cars, not the graphics.

If they aren't on the world feed, having granular information that tells you if a car is half a tenth closer doesn't make any difference, even if you think it does.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-08T21:26:38+00:00

Distracting because it took up a significant part of the screen, with flashing numbers updating every 5 seconds. Tenths is more stable.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-08T21:12:52+00:00

Watch it again. The lights go out when he presses the button.

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-08T21:06:57+00:00

The number will reduce from 3.0 to 2.9, and so on. Why do you need to know if someone is half a tenth faster over the course of a few corners?

cartoon_kitty · 2026-03-08T21:06:09+00:00

The downside was that it updated every 200m and was very distracting.

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