I turned the entire 2026 season so far into a single image — every driver, every lap, one pixel each
Each horizontal strip is one driver's whole season so far. Each pixel in that strip is a single racing lap, coloured by how that lap was run:
🟣 their fastest lap of the race · 🟢 strong lap (near their own best pace) · 🔵 normal racing lap · 🟡 off-pace lap · ⚫ pit in/out lap · ⚪ neutralised (Safety Car / VSC) · 🔴 retired
Drivers are ordered top-to-bottom by raw race pace, so you can read the whole grid at a glance — the front-runners carry far more green, and you can spot exactly where someone's race unravelled (the red).
On the methodology, because someone will (rightly) ask: every single category is derived from real lap timing data. The one thing I deliberately refused to do was guess intent. A slow lap is just labelled "off-pace" — I don't dress it up as "tyre management" or "traffic," because that's not in the data and I'd only be guessing. "Retired" comes from the official classification, not me eyeballing where the laps stop. "Neutralised" is detected from the whole field slowing at once, not assumed. I'd rather it be something you can trust than something that looks clever but invents detail.
It's pulled from public timing data and rendered with a tool I've been building. ~9,900 laps in this one image.
If this is interesting, what would you want mapped next — a single driver's entire career this way? Two title rivals' seasons side by side? Open to ideas.