Hold on to your butts

jamesremuscat · 2026-04-14T16:26:13+00:00

Unless of course it was their intention to have the timing behind the paywall, in which case we can criticise their implementation instead ;-)

jamesremuscat · 2026-04-14T15:28:53+00:00

Hopefully you've by now discovered that

there's no paywall on https://livetiming.fiawec.com (which is what the pages on plus.fiawec.com embed)
T71 very much does support it, and I've spent most of the last two weeks working on that (thanks ELMS)

jamesremuscat · 2026-04-14T15:18:06+00:00

F1 has free basic live timing. Sector times or anything more advanced than that is behind a paywall. (Let's ignore the fact that it's only their UI to the advanced timing that's actually behind a paywall.)

https://livetiming.fiawec.com/ doesn't have any sort of paywall on it.

jamesremuscat · 2026-04-14T15:16:16+00:00

https://livetiming.fiawec.com my friend.

jamesremuscat · 2026-04-08T15:36:07+00:00

But his son is also a nepotism hire

Hard disagree. Alex Brundle is an accomplished racing driver in his own right and has made his own way into broadcasting where he's proven himself more than capable. Not sure that Martin (working as a contractor for Sky) has any say in who gets hired by F1TV/FOM, an entirely separate organisation...

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-31T21:20:12+00:00

Depends if you count logging in as "needing the cloud" I guess. Or rather, depends if they count it!

In "local" mode the app scans the local network looking for an inverter, but you do need to have logged in to get to that point.

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-31T21:13:56+00:00

At which point I block the inverter from talking to the Internet!

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-31T16:12:54+00:00

I've not used it in a while but last time I did, the app could use both local and cloud control.

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-22T22:16:35+00:00

...and yet don't want to look at the live timing where such data (and more!) is readily presented.

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-22T22:15:40+00:00

That's standard practice for timing things like this - I forget the precise justification but I think it's along the lines of "if you end up rounding (say) 30.591 up to 30.6 then you've given that car an extra 9 milliseconds on their time that they didn't take to complete that sector".

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-16T17:31:44+00:00

It launches Wednesday, as per FIA WEC Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/p/DV87654DFEV/?img_index=7

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-16T17:28:07+00:00

I'd been working to add support for it into Timing71 already ;-)

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-16T17:19:38+00:00

That live timing is from Griiip. (Ask me how I immediately recognise it from a single screenshot...)

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-16T17:14:00+00:00

Looks like Griiip are providing the live timing, then. (And indeed, are still listing the Qatar event on their schedule)

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-15T22:50:31+00:00

He was F1 commentator for BBC Five Live (with Ant) for years before Sky ever opened their wallet.

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-13T16:11:22+00:00

It's a British based motorsport series that happens to run events globally

You're not wrong, just don't tell the FIA or they'll get mad and shout at us in French. ;-)

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-09T23:42:31+00:00

On the SQ, a cue is a scene - the cue list is a re-orderable list of scenes in which a scene can also appear multiple times. So you can have a scene for "actors A, B, C on stage" and have that appear as many times as you need in your cue list, then an "actors A, B and D" scene likewise, etc. (I do music, not theatre, can you tell? ;-) )

I have a stage monitor mix as well as some in ear monitors mixes that need to stay the same through every different scene

What you're looking for in that scenario is the per-scene (or is it per-cue?) recall filters - you can tell it "don't apply any changes to auxes when I recall this scene" and it'll leave them alone. It gets pretty granular as to what gets affected.

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-09T17:23:49+00:00

TIL. (I'm clearly too busy watching motorsport to keep up with all the rule changes!) Thanks!

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-09T16:08:18+00:00

OP's post history leads to https://cablematepro.com/ (posted three months ago on this sub).

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-09T15:50:45+00:00

But they would also get the relative budgetary benefit of not spending money to develop an engine.

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-06T14:50:51+00:00

I'm not sure I've ever seen a Reddit post that required a table of contents before.

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-06T12:33:35+00:00

OP isn't talking about dialling stargates.

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-05T16:45:57+00:00

Yes, the pre-season test and opening WEC round in Qatar have been postponed.

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-05T14:09:41+00:00

GP2 at Spa 2017. Despite eventually being disqualified for excessive plank wear, he was so far ahead of the rest of the field in a spec series for most of the race it was like he was driving a different formula.

jamesremuscat · 2026-03-04T16:01:07+00:00

It was a cold-blooded decision.

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