Huge props to FOM for finally taking my suggestion and keeping the tower graphic only to the tenth of a second. This removed 44 points of useless data from the screen. It made it very easy to watch George so rapidly bring his gap down 9.5 9.4 9.3 9.2 9.1 - seemed like he was gaining a tenth every 5 seconds for a while there.
I absolutely hated that it was rounded to a tenth of a second. It’s not like the graphic was any smaller and I’d rather have more data than less.
I prefer the more compact timing board during the race. Hundredths and thousandths have no practical use during the race, only qualifying.
But you would not be alone if you did not like the change. Social media was having a field day with it. I don’t know what anyone is using that information for and maybe it’s just people are used to what they’re used to and change is hard.
Rumours that an announcement is is imminent that Bahrain and Saudi GP’s being cancelled.
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I prefer the more compact timing board during the race. Hundredths and thousandths have no practical use during the race, only qualifying.
Overtake mode requires a driver to be within one second of the driver that they are following so it creates ambiguity for someone following between 0.95 and 1.04 of a second as to whether overtake mode would actually be in effect for them.
Last edited by ben voyonsdonc; 03-09-2026 at 12:09 PM.
Overtake mode requires a driver to be within one second of the driver that they are following so it creates ambiguity for someone following between 0.95 and 1.04 of a second as to whether overtake mode would actually be in effect for them.
You know I bet I read about a thousand comments on Reddit of people complaining about this and not one mentioned that. That’s actually a legitimate gripe.
Every single one of them said that they absolutely need the hundredths and thousandths because it’s vital to their enjoyment of F1 but never specified why. lol.
Ok I’m in favour of hundredths being brought back then.
Isn't there a single detection point now for the overtake mode? Nobody watching the timing tower knows exactly when a car is passing that point, so I do declare that this complaint is full of ####.
The better solution would be to highlight a given time blue once that mode is enabled. I'd rather have those 2 extra digits denote tire life than useless thousandths. While we're at it, lap times should flash up for 3-5 seconds every single time a driver crosses the line.
The multiviewer thing looks promising for watching races on replay. It was annoying to try to sync up two tabs (one with live timing).
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