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Monaco -Cant measure a Pitlane Austria -Cant work yellow/red flags Britain -Messed up the safety car. The #Fia are not fit for purpose. #F1

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But the FIA president got his go kart ride with the drivers so all good!

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u/1000_stars — 1 day ago
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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.

u/Fun_Meeting_9850 — 6 days ago
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At the 1987 British Grand Prix weekend, future F1 World Champion Damon Hill took part in two support events, his usual British F3 Championship campaign (finished 5th) and a one-off outing in the MG Metro Turbo Challenge.

The picture is from a test on Friday, 3rd July 1987, in preparation for the Esso MG Metro Challenge Race at Silverstone on 11th July.

A picture of Damon Hill testing the Metro is in the Autosport issue of 9th July which reported he would be racing the car at the British GP support race for Gray-Woolf Racing alongside teammates Michael Cullen, Barbara Cowell and Chris Taylor.

Hill is not mentioned in the report of the race in the Autosport issue dated 16th July, and the results only show the top ten finishers, so he would have had to have finished 11th at the highest, unless he retired. There were 38 starters, so he could have had an anonymous race in the midfield.

In this race, the celebrity cars were driven by David Sears and Mark Hales, though the Autosport 1987 British GP supplement suggested Johnny Dumfries was going to be driving one of the celebrity cars.

Damon's #16 car was usually driven by Featherweight boxer Barry McGuigan, which suggests he stood in for McGuigan, following the recent passing of McGuigan's father Patrick, though I have yet to find any sources to support this.

u/Brief-Poetry6434 — 5 days ago
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I built a free, F1 stats & telemetry app — looking for a few people to try it and tell me what's broken / what to build next

I've been building an F1 stats and analysis web app on my own, and it's at the point where I need other eyes on it. It's completely free, no ads, no signup, no catch — I'm not trying to sell anything, I just want honest feedback before I keep building.

What it does right now:

  • Driver head-to-heads — compare two drivers in a season, across careers, or across different seasons (e.g. one driver's 2024 vs another's 2026)
  • Telemetry insights — take two qualifying laps and compare them properly: exact sector times, speeds, and a track map that colours each corner and straight by who was faster through it
  • Driver skill & car ratings, track records, career profiles — the usual deep-stats stuff, built from real timing data
  • A "season in one image" view where every driver's whole season is mapped as one lap-by-lap fingerprint

One thing I care about: everything is derived from real data, and I've tried hard not to fake precision or guess. If the data can't tell you why a lap was slow, I don't pretend it can. That honesty is kind of the whole point of the project.

What I'd love from you:

  1. Break it. Click around, try weird inputs, tell me what errors, looks off, or confuses you — especially on mobile.
  2. Tell me what to build next. What's missing? What would make you actually come back to it?
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u/Fun_Meeting_9850 — 5 days ago
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Best F1 Innovation of all time

This is just my personal ranking of the most ingenious F1 technical innovations ever. I'm judging them based on a mix of engineering creativity, competitive advantage, and the impact they had on the sport.

  1. Active Suspension – Williams (1992)
    • The sheer level of control this gave the FW14B was decades ahead of its time. It completely transformed how the car behaved and is still one of the most sophisticated systems ever seen in F1, so much so it was outlawed for being dangerous, allowing drivers to take corners with much higher speeds than previously seen.
  2. Double Diffuser – Brawn GP (2009)
    • Probably the greatest example of exploiting a loophole in the regulations. It turned a team that was purchased for £1 into championship winners.
  3. Ground Effect – Lotus
    • Changed Formula 1 forever. The amount of downforce generated without huge drag was revolutionary, and it forced the FIA to rethink the regulations completely.
  4. DAS (Dual Axis Steering) – Mercedes
    • Such a clever interpretation of the rules. Letting drivers alter the front toe angle while driving to improve tyre temperatures and straight-line efficiency was something nobody saw coming, leading to some of the likes of the W11 producing more grip than ever seen in a car before. To quote martin Brundle "the car looked like it was on rails"
  5. "Macarena Wing" – Ferrari (2026)
    • It might be too early to judge, but the way Ferrari appears to be using controlled flexing to optimise aero performance across different speeds is one of the most creative interpretations of the current regulations I've seen in years.

There are loads of others that could make the list—fan cars, F-duct, blown diffusers, Brabham's hydropneumatic suspension, mass dampers, etc.

What's in your top five? And what do you think deserves to be #1?

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u/Fun_Meeting_9850 — 4 days ago