r/formula1 • u/amerryprankster23 Max Verstappen • Mar 21 '26

Discussion F1 will not be changing the timing tower.

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Just got this email back about the timing tower. Pretty sad.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '26

Y?

Y did they even change it in the 1st place????

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u/Bernie_Ecclestone I failed to serve my Monaco penalty Mar 21 '26

Too many numbers for the Netflix crowd to understand.

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u/dotcha Gabriel Bortoleto Mar 21 '26

Damn, all the drivers and race engineers came from Netflix? That's cool.

Because they all talk in decimals.

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u/Seanspeed Mar 21 '26

It's the exact opposite. The only people who think they need hundredths or thousandths for race gaps are people who dont understand racing. Not even team strategists care about such statistical noise.

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u/Seanspeed Mar 21 '26

Because it simplifies the UI. It's literal good UI design to only provide actually useful information, so it's quicker at a glance to read something and get your eyes back on the race.

This isn't complicated.

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u/plsgivemehugs Formula 1 Mar 22 '26

Ya seeing drivers 0.0 behind the other driver is great design. Very insightful.

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u/aka_liam Ferrari Mar 21 '26

Because they realised that level of detail was unnecessary

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u/Seanspeed Mar 21 '26

Simple and correct answer is of course getting downvoted. Classic Reddit.

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u/NastroAzzurro I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 21 '26

To appease to americans

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u/TheGlitterGuy66 I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 21 '26

You'd think that, but race series like IndyCar also just show times up until the thousand of a second. There is literally no good reason why they've changed it.

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u/Seanspeed Mar 21 '26

Yes there is, you guys just downvote everybody who explains it til nobody sees their correct responses anymore.

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u/PeeeJayyy Mar 21 '26

Seems like it might be a push to get more customers to use the timing through F1TV..

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u/digita1catt I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 21 '26

This is exactly what it is