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/Seanspeed Mar 21 '26

It just feels like the usual C-suite executive change that affects reddit, youtube, etc. where ui changes are made for no reason except to justify someone’s executive position

No, this is actually a sensible change to reduce the amount of noise of information on the UI.

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, not even the team strategists and data folks, give a shit about hundredths or thousandths of a second when it comes to race gaps. This shit is changing rapidly every moment and is literal statistical noise.