Live Timing Documentation
A reference for every panel, column and setting on the live timing screen. The sections follow the same order as the dashboard itself (the Timing page first, then Lap times and Charts), top to bottom and left to right, so you can find whatever you are looking at on screen.
Colour is used throughout the dashboard as a shortcut, never as the only signal. Wherever a colour carries meaning, this guide also gives it in words, and the underlying value on screen always says the same thing.
The Three Live Pages
Location on screen: Tab bar under the session info bar: Timing, Lap times, Charts, Help
Live timing is split into three pages that share the same session info bar and the same data connection. Switching between them does not interrupt the feed. The Help button at the right end of the tab bar opens this guide.
| Page | Address | What it contains |
|---|---|---|
| Timing | /livetiming | The leaderboard, track map, driver timeline, championship projections, team radio, penalties, track limits and race control. |
| Lap times | /livetiming/lap-times | The lap time series: a lap-by-lap table for the drivers you choose. |
| Charts | /livetiming/charts | Every live chart for the current session type, one under the other, with a row of buttons to jump to any of them. |
Good to know
- The session info bar stays fixed at the top on all three pages, so session, weather and track status are always visible.
- Settings, the timing delay and notifications apply to all three pages. The custom layout (Premium) arranges the Timing page, chooses which charts appear and in what order on the Charts page, and shows or hides the lap time series.
- Free accounts see a limited set of drivers in some panels and a lock on some charts; each section says which.
Session Info Bar
Location on screen: Fixed bar across the top of the screen, on all three live pages
A bar that never scrolls away, so you can always see which session is running, what the weather is doing and whether the track is currently clear. Check it first whenever you come back to the page.
Session details (left)
| Field | What it shows | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Country flag | The flag of the country hosting the meeting. | None |
| Meeting and session | For example “Monaco Grand Prix · Qualifying”. | During qualifying the current segment is appended: Q1, Q2 or Q3. Sprint qualifying uses SQ1, SQ2, SQ3. |
| Countdown clock | Time remaining in the session, as hours:minutes:seconds. | Hidden during Race and Sprint sessions, which end on laps rather than a clock. If you have set a delay, the countdown is shifted to match. |
| Chequered flag | Replaces the clock once the session has ended. | Appears when the session status is Finished, Finalised or Ends. |
Weather (right of centre)
On narrow screens (below the large breakpoint) the weather and the track status move to a second fixed row directly under the session bar, to make room for the session name.
| Label | Meaning | Units |
|---|---|---|
| TRC | Track surface temperature. | Degrees, in your chosen temperature unit. |
| AIR | Air temperature. | Degrees, in your chosen temperature unit. |
| HUM | Relative humidity. | Percentage. |
| Wind | Wind speed, with the compass direction above it (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW). | Metres per second. |
| Rain icon | A cloud-and-rain icon appears only while rain is actually being reported. | None |
Track status (right)
A coloured pill showing what the marshals are signalling right now, next to the lap counter (current lap and total laps). The label text is always shown alongside the colour on wider screens.
| Status | Colour | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Track Clear | Green | Racing is running normally, no hazards reported. |
| Yellow Flag | Yellow | A hazard in one or more sectors. Drivers must slow and may not overtake in that sector. |
| Flag | Yellow | A generic sector flag from the timing feed, treated the same as a yellow. |
| Safety Car | Yellow | A physical safety car is on track. The field bunches up behind it and overtaking is forbidden. |
| Red Flag | Red | The session is stopped. Cars return to the pit lane. |
| VSC Deployed | Yellow | Virtual Safety Car: no physical car, but every driver must hold a delta time and cannot overtake. |
| VSC Ending | Yellow | The Virtual Safety Car period is about to finish and racing is about to resume. |
Leaderboard
Location on screen: Main panel, top left
The live classification. Every driver is one row; every piece of timing information is a column you can switch on or off. This is where you check who is where, who is quick right now, and who is about to be caught.
⋮⋮Driver↑ | ⋮⋮GapAHEAD | ⋮⋮Leader | ⋮⋮Tyre↕ | ⋮⋮Last lap↕ | ⋮⋮Best lap↕ | ⋮⋮PIT | ⋮⋮Pos↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1  LEC | Interval | Leader | 12  | 1:23.456 | 1:23.456 | +1 | |
2  VER | +0.412 | +0.412 | 18  | 1:23.912 | 1:23.789 | -1 | |
3  RUS | +0.792 | +1.204 | 9  | 1:24.301 | 1:24.011 | - | |
4 ANT | +1.346 | +2.550 | 2 | 1:25.114 | 1:24.220 | PIT | +3 |
5  NOR | +1.431 | +3.981 | 14  | 1:24.667 | 1:24.400 | - | |
6  ALO | +1.121 | +5.102 | 20  | 1:24.902 | 1:24.550 | -2 |
Qualifying knockout coloring, a separate, session-specific state, not shown above:
17  OCO | Below the cut, danger zone |
16 LEC | Danger zone and favourite |
20 NOR | Knocked out or retired |
A slice of the real leaderboard, with example data, showing how columns render.
Every column
23 columns are available. 11 are shown by default; the rest you can add from Settings. The first name is what you will see in the Settings list, the second is the heading on the table itself.
| Column | Shown by default | What it shows | How it works |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driver | Yes | Position, team logo and the driver's three-letter code (TLA), on the team colour. | Live classification position. A yellow ring means this is your primary favourite driver (whoever you clicked most recently), a purple ring means your secondary favourite. A penalty icon appears alongside if the driver has an unserved penalty. |
| Gap Premium below P3 (Fav mode) | Yes | Time to the car directly ahead or to your fav driver. | Interval to the car in front. In qualifying and practice it falls back to the gap for the current segment (Q1/Q2/Q3). Click the header to switch between Ahead and Fav (gap to your favourite). |
| Leader | Yes | Cumulative time behind the session leader. | Gap to leader from the timing feed. For lapped cars the feed sends a lap count instead of a time (for example “1 L”), which is shown as-is. |
| Number of laps Header: Laps | No | Laps completed, followed by a small “L”. | Raw completed-lap count from the feed. |
| Tyre | Yes | Laps on the current set, plus the compound icon. | Current stint. A “used” icon variant is shown when the set was not new when fitted. Compounds outside soft/medium/hard/intermediate/wet render an “unknown” icon. |
| Tyre history | No | Every stint so far, oldest first: one compound icon per stint with its lap count. | Stint list, with each stint's length and tyre. |
| Last lap | Yes | The most recently completed lap time. | Highlighted purple when it is the fastest lap of the session so far, green when it is that driver's own best. |
| Best lap | Yes | The driver's fastest lap of the session. | Highlighted purple when this driver holds the fastest lap of the whole session. |
| Number of pits Header: Pit | No | How many pit stops the driver has made, in every session. | Pit-stop counter, counted in every session type. |
| PIT | Yes | A pink “PIT” badge while the driver is in the pit lane or on an out lap. | Shown whenever the driver is in the pits or has just left them. Otherwise the cell is blank. |
| Info | No | A short status word for the driver. | First matching state wins: OUT (knocked out), CUTOFF, RETIRED, STOPPED, PIT (in pit lane), PIT OUT (out lap). |
| Position change Header: Pos | No | Places gained or lost compared with the starting grid. | Grid position minus current position. Green for a gain, yellow for a loss. Only meaningful in a race, without grid data it falls back to showing the lap count. |
| Mini sectors | Yes | The lap broken into small segments, one bar per segment, grouped into three sectors. | Each bar is coloured by that segment's status. See the mini-sector table below. |
| Last sectors | Yes | The three sector times from the most recent lap. | Purple for session best, green for a personal best. Dimmed purple or green means you are looking at the previous lap's value because the current one has not been set yet. |
| Best sectors | Yes | The driver's fastest time in each of the three sectors. | A sector is purple when this driver is fastest of all drivers in that sector. |
| Top speed Header: Top Spd | No | The driver's highest speed at any of the four measurement points. | The maximum of I1, I2, FL and ST. Converted to mph when the speed unit is imperial. Purple when it is the fastest of the session. |
| Best speeds Header: Best Spd (I1, I2, FL, ST) | No | Best speed at each of the four speed traps, side by side. | I1 and I2 are intermediate points, FL is the finish line, ST is the speed trap. Each is independently purple when fastest of the session. |
| Potential lap Header: Pot Lap | No | The lap time the driver would set by stringing together their three best sectors. | Sum of the driver's best sector times. Also called a theoretical best. |
| Potential diff Header: Pot Diff | No | How much time is left on the table versus the driver's actual best lap. | Best lap minus potential lap. A value of zero is highlighted green. The driver has already put a perfect lap together. |
| Gap Lap Premium below P3 (Ahead and Fav modes) | No | Last-lap time difference against a reference driver. A pace comparison, not a track gap. | Click the header to cycle the reference: Ahead, Leader, or Fav. Negative (green) means the driver was quicker than the reference on that lap. |
| Gap Sectors Premium below P3 (Ahead, Fav, Ahead Acc and Fav Acc modes) | No | The same comparison as Gap Lap, but split per sector so you can see where time is won or lost. | Click the header to cycle the reference and mode: Ahead, Leader, Fav, then the same three again as Ahead Acc, Leader Acc, Fav Acc. The Acc modes show the accumulated gap through each sector (sector 2 = sector 1 + sector 2, sector 3 = sector 1 + sector 2 + sector 3) instead of that sector alone. Negative (green) means quicker. |
| Position if pit Header: If pit Premium below P3 | No | The position the driver would rejoin in if they pitted right now. | An estimated position for the driver if they pit right now. Auto takes into account current track conditions. Click the header to cycle the assumption: Auto, Normal, VSC, SC. |
| Predicted finish Header: Pred Premium below P3 (the first three positions are free) | Yes | Where the race predictor expects the driver to finish if the race stays green, with the places gained or lost against the current position. | An optimization model works out the best pit-stop plan for every car, reacting to the other cars' plans, and simulates the rest of the race. It is recalculated each time a lap is completed and when a VSC or safety car is deployed, and then also says whether each car should box or stay out. It is predicted in a Race or a Sprint only; the column is on the board in every session, empty elsewhere, because a free account has one set of columns for all sessions. Hover for the win and podium chance and the next planned stop. After the chequered flag the column keeps the last forecast made before the end. |
1
LEC
17
25
17
Every column available on the leaderboard, with an example of its rendered value.
Gap, Leader, Gap Lap and Gap Sectors are not the same thing
Four columns all look like time differences but answer different questions. This is the most common source of confusion on the leaderboard.
| Column | Question it answers | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| Gap | How far behind the car directly in front am I, right now? | Judging whether an overtake is on. |
| Leader | How far behind the race leader am I, in total? | Understanding the shape of the whole field and who is a lap down. |
| Gap Lap | Was my last lap quicker or slower than the reference driver's last lap? | Comparing raw pace, independent of track position. |
| Gap Sectors | In which part of the lap am I gaining or losing against the reference? Its Acc modes answer the running total instead: how far ahead or behind am I by the end of this sector? | Finding out whether a deficit is in slow corners, fast corners or on the straights. |
| Position change | How many places have I gained or lost since the start? | Seeing who has made progress in a race. |
Last lap, best lap, personal best and session best
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Last lap | The lap the driver has just completed, whatever the time. |
| Best lap | The quickest lap that driver has managed so far in this session. |
| Personal best | A time that beats that same driver's previous best. Shown in green. |
| Session best | A time that is the quickest of anyone in the session so far. Shown in purple. In motorsport this is usually just called “purple”. |
Timing colours
Colour is used to make fast times obvious at a glance. The value itself always tells you the same story, so you never need to rely on colour alone.
| Appearance | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Purple | Fastest of all drivers so far. Also called a session best. |
| Green | The driver's own best. A personal best, but not the fastest overall. |
| Dimmed purple | A session best from the previous lap, shown because the current lap has not set that time yet. |
| Dimmed green | A personal best from the previous lap, for the same reason. |
Mini sectors
The lap is divided into three sectors, and each sector into several small segments. Each segment gets its own coloured bar as the driver passes through it, so you can watch a lap develop in real time rather than waiting for the sector time.
| Appearance | Status code | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow | 2048, 2052 | Segment completed, but no improvement on the driver's best. |
| Green | 2049 | Personal best for that segment. |
| Purple | 2051 | Fastest of anyone in that segment. |
| Pink | 2064 | The driver was in the pit lane. |
| Grey | 0 | Not set yet on this lap. |
Driver states
When something happens to a driver, the row changes and the Info column spells it out in words.
| State | Info column | Row appearance | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retired | RETIRED | Row faded | The driver's session is over, a mechanical failure, accident or withdrawal. |
| Stopped | STOPPED | Row faded | The car has come to a halt on track. Often precedes a yellow flag or safety car. |
| Knocked out | OUT | Row faded | Eliminated in a qualifying segment, they will not take part in the next one. |
| Cut off | CUTOFF | No change | The driver is outside the time cut-off set by the stewards. |
| In pit lane | PIT | Pink PIT badge | The car is in the pits, either being serviced or driving through. |
| Out lap | PIT OUT | Pink PIT badge | The driver has just left the pits and is on the lap that returns them to racing speed. Times on this lap are not representative. |
| Below the cut line | No change | Red row, or orange if it is one of your favourites | In qualifying, the driver is currently in an elimination place. |
| Favourite | No change | Green row | One of the up-to-two drivers you have selected. |
| No data yet | No change | Row not shown | Timing data for that driver has not arrived. The whole board shows a pulsing placeholder while it loads. |
Qualifying elimination
In qualifying, rows in an elimination position are highlighted red so you can see who needs to improve. If one of those drivers is a favourite of yours, the row turns orange instead so it still stands out from the green favourite highlight.
| Segment | Eliminated |
|---|---|
| Q1 | Anyone below 15th place. From the 2026 season this becomes 16th. |
| Q2 | Anyone below 10th place. |
| Q3 | Nobody. Q3 decides the top of the grid. |
Things you can click
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Click a driver's row | Sets that driver as your favourite. You can have two; whichever you clicked most recently is the primary favourite, and the other becomes the secondary. Clicking a driver who is already a favourite removes them. |
| Click a column header | Sorts the table by that column. Click again to reverse the direction. |
| Click a sector column header | Cycles which sector is used for sorting: Sector 1, then 2, then 3. |
| Click the Gap header | Switches between measuring to the car Ahead and to your Fav driver. |
| Click the Gap Lap header | Cycles the comparison driver: Ahead, Leader, Fav. |
| Click the Gap Sectors header | Cycles the comparison driver and mode: Ahead, Leader, Fav, then the same three again as accumulated gaps (Ahead Acc, Leader Acc, Fav Acc). |
| Click the If pit header | Cycles the pit-loss assumption: Auto, Normal, VSC, SC. Auto follows the current track status. |
| Drag a column header handle | Reorders the columns. Requires being logged in. |
Default order
After dragging Tyre before Gap
Personalize columns per session (Premium). Each session type keeps its own order:
Practice
Qualifying
Race
Drag any column's ⋮⋮ handle to reorder it. Requires being logged in.
Choosing which columns are shown
Open Settings (the gear icon) and choose Columns. The Shown list holds the columns on the leaderboard: drag them to reorder, or remove one with the ×. The Available list holds the rest: click one to add it. Show all and Hide all do it in one go, and Reset columns restores the defaults. On a phone, up and down buttons replace dragging, and a search box appears in the Available list when there are many columns.
Shown · drag to reorder
5Available · click to add
3Opened from Settings → Columns. Requires being logged in; Premium can keep a separate set per session type.
Compact view on phones
On a small screen the table can be replaced by one card per driver, showing position, tyre, interval, gap to leader, last and best lap, mini sectors and sector times. It ignores your column order and always shows the same fields.
Track Map
Location on screen: Right of the leaderboard
A scale drawing of the circuit with a dot for every car. Use it to see how the field is spread out, where a yellow flag is, and whether two cars are about to meet.
Driver dots
| Appearance | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Coloured dot with a three-letter code | A car on track. The colour is the team colour. |
| Faded dot | The driver is in the pit lane. |
| No dot at all | The driver has retired, stopped on track, or been knocked out of qualifying. They are removed from the map entirely. |
| Larger dot with a white ring | One of your favourite drivers. |
Track colouring
With no favourites selected, the circuit outline is split into its three timing sectors, drawn in red, blue and yellow so you can tell them apart. When marshals show a flag, the affected sectors change colour and pulse to match the track status described in the Session Info Bar section.
Following one favourite
With a single favourite selected, the parts of the lap they have just completed are drawn along the circuit in the mini-sector colours, so you can see their lap taking shape on the map itself.
| Appearance | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Green | Personal best for that part of the lap. |
| Purple | Fastest of anyone in that part of the lap. |
| Pink | The driver was in the pit lane. |
Comparing two favourites
Select two favourites and the map switches to a head-to-head view: each of the three sectors is coloured for whichever of the two is quicker there. Your primary favourite is marked in yellow and the secondary in magenta, the same colours as the rings around their names on the leaderboard. If the two drive for different teams, the sector is drawn with the winner's team colour inside that yellow or magenta border.
1 favourite selected
Bigger dot with a white ring. Their completed sector is highlighted along the track.
2 favourites, best-sector overlay
Same-team favourites: the sector is drawn directly in the accent colour, no halo.
LEC
VER
Corner numbers
Turn corner numbers on or off from the gear icon, under Display. They are off by default to keep the map uncluttered, but they help when a race control message refers to a specific corner.
Driver Timeline
Location on screen: Full width, below the leaderboard and map. Races and sprints only.
A single strip showing how the field is spread around one lap. It answers a question the leaderboard cannot: are the cars bunched together or strung out, and who is about to be lapped.
Left to right: start/finish line towards the end of the lap. LEC is the primary favourite (yellow ring), VER the secondary favourite (purple ring), ANT is in the pits, ALO is a lap down.
Dots show roughly where each car is around the lap. Dimmed dots are in the pit lane or a lap down.
How to read it
The strip represents one lap of the circuit. Each dot is a car, placed where it currently is around that lap. Dots bunched together mean cars running nose to tail; big empty stretches mean the field has spread out. A driver a long way from the leader is a long way round the lap from them. Cars that are a lap or more down appear alongside whoever they happen to be driving near on track, which is what you would see trackside.
| Appearance | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Team-coloured dot with a three-letter code | A car running normally. |
| Larger dot with a yellow ring | Your primary favourite driver, whoever you clicked most recently. |
| Larger dot with a purple ring | Your secondary favourite driver. |
| Heavily faded dot | The driver is in the pit lane. |
| Half-faded dot | The driver is at least one lap down. |
| Missing driver | Retired and stopped cars are removed from the strip. |
Driver Championship
Location on screen: Bottom section, left column
The drivers' championship as it would stand if the current race finished right now. During a race this is the panel that tells you what the result actually means for the title fight.
Before, mid-race
1
LEC
2
VER
3
RUS
4
ALO
5
NOR
After, ALO overtakes RUS
1
LEC
2
VER
3
ALO
4
RUS
5
NOR
In the live dashboard these rows animate and reorder in place as points recalculate. Shown here as start and end snapshots.
Columns
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Driver | Projected championship position, team colour and driver name. Click a row to make that driver a favourite. |
| Points | The total the driver would have once the current race is scored. |
| Points gained | Points this race would add. Shows a dash if none. |
| Positions gained | Championship places gained or lost as a result. A gain is green with a plus, a loss is red with a minus, no change is a dash. |
Points awarded
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Race | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Sprint | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | n/a | n/a |
Constructor Championship
Location on screen: Bottom section, middle column, above Team Radio
The same projection as the driver championship, but totalled per team. Both of a team's cars contribute, so a strong double finish moves this table much faster than the drivers' one.
Columns
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Team | Projected position, team colour and team name. |
| Points | The team total once the current race is scored, adding both drivers together. |
| Points gained | Combined points this race would add for the team. |
| Positions gained | Championship places gained or lost. Green for a gain, red for a loss, dash for no change. |
Team Radio
Location on screen: Bottom section, middle column, below the constructor championship
Radio messages between drivers and their engineers, newest at the top, with an automatic transcript under each clip. Radio often explains what the timing screen cannot: a problem with the car, a strategy call, or a complaint about another driver.
What each row shows
| Element | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Time | The local time the message was broadcast. |
| Driver | Team colour badge with the driver's three-letter code. |
| Play button | Plays the clip. It becomes a pause button while playing, and shows pulsing dots while the audio loads. |
| Progress bar | How far through the clip you are. |
| Transcript | The words spoken in the clip, written out under the progress bar. Long messages stop at two lines; click Show more to read the rest, and Show less to fold it back. |
Transcripts
Every clip is turned into text automatically a short while after it arrives. The panel checks for new transcripts every ten seconds, so text appears on its own without you reloading anything.
| What you see | What it means |
|---|---|
| “Transcribing…” (pulsing) | The clip has arrived and the text is not ready yet. You can already play it. |
| The message text | The transcript is ready. |
| Nothing under the progress bar | No speech could be made out, for example a keyed microphone with only engine noise, or a clip that could not be transcribed. |
| The first 10 characters, then a padlock | You are on a free account. The padlock opens the Premium page. |
Premium
NOR
Box this lap, box. We are switching to Plan B, the hard tyre should last to the end. Watch the brake temperatures through turn four.
Show moreThe full text. Long messages stop at two lines, with Show more to read the rest.
Free account
LEC
Box this l…
The first 10 characters, then a padlock that opens the Premium page.
Just arrived
ALO
Transcribing…
The clip is playable straight away. The text appears on its own when it is ready.
Example text. Real transcripts come from the radio clip itself.
Playing clips automatically
Autoplay is set from the gear icon, under Display, using the Team radio → Autoplay control. It is not part of the event notifications described later.
| Mode | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Off | Nothing plays on its own. Click a clip to hear it. |
| All | Every new clip plays automatically, in the order it arrived. |
| Custom | Only clips from the drivers you choose play automatically. Pick as many as you like in a list under the control; "My favourites" selects your favourite drivers in one click. Premium only. |
Off
LEC
NOR
ALO
New clips arrive but nothing auto-plays.
All
LEC
NOR
ALO
Every new clip plays in order, whoever is speaking.
Custom (Premium)
LEC
NOR
ALO
Only the drivers you picked auto-play.
"Now Playing" label added here for clarity. The real UI only shows the play-icon state and progress bar.
Penalties
Location on screen: Bottom section, right column, top
Penalties the stewards have handed out that have not been served yet. If a driver is running third but has a five-second penalty outstanding, this is where you find out.
VER
NOR
What each row shows
| Element | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Penalty icon | Marks the row as a penalty. |
| Driver | The car that was penalised. |
| Penalty type | For example “5 SECOND TIME PENALTY” or “DRIVE THROUGH”, in red. |
| Reason | The stewards' stated reason, such as “CAUSING A COLLISION”. |
| Lap | The lap on which the penalty was issued. |
What gets listed
Only decided penalties appear. Incidents that are merely noted or under investigation are left out, as are ones the stewards closed with no further action. Once race control confirms a penalty has been served, it disappears from this list automatically, so anything you can see here is still outstanding.
Track Limits
Location on screen: Bottom section, right column, middle
A running count of track limits violations per driver. Drivers usually get a black-and-white warning flag on the third offence and a penalty on the fourth, so this panel tells you who is close to trouble.
LEC
3
VER
2
RUS
2
NOR
1
ALO
1
Each badge is a driver with at least one violation, showing their code and their current count, sorted with the worst offender first. The count goes up when race control reports a deleted lap for exceeding track limits, and back down if the lap time is later reinstated. Drivers with no violations are not listed, and when nobody has offended the panel reads No track limit violations.
Race Control
Location on screen: Bottom section, right column, bottom
The official message feed from race control, newest first: flags, investigations, deleted lap times, weather warnings and procedural announcements. It is the authoritative record of what is happening.
Hide Blue Flags: Off (5 messages)
GREEN LIGHT, TRACK CLEAR
YELLOW FLAG IN SECTOR 2
CAR 1 BLUE FLAG, CAR AHEAD ABOUT TO BE LAPPED
DOUBLE YELLOW FLAG, INCIDENT AT TURN 7Hide Blue Flags: On (4 messages)
GREEN LIGHT, TRACK CLEARYELLOW FLAG IN SECTOR 2DOUBLE YELLOW FLAG, INCIDENT AT TURN 7Only the icon differs per flag type in the real UI. Rows aren't tinted by flag color.
What each row shows
| Element | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Lap or time | During a race or sprint, the lap number the message relates to. Blank if the message has no lap. In other sessions, the local time instead. |
| Flag icon | The flag being shown, if any. Messages that clear a flag do not carry an icon. |
| Message | The official text, exactly as race control issued it. |
Flags you will see
| Flag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Green | The track is clear and normal racing has resumed. |
| Yellow | Hazard in a sector. Slow down, no overtaking in that sector. |
| Double yellow | Serious hazard. Slow considerably and be prepared to stop or change direction. |
| Red | Session stopped. Return to the pit lane. |
| Blue | A faster car is about to lap you, let it past. |
| Black and white | A warning for unsporting behaviour, most often repeated track limits. |
| Chequered | The session has finished. |
Lap Time Series
Location on screen: Lap times page
A lap-by-lap table of times for the drivers you choose, with the tyre they were on for each lap. Use it to compare two drivers properly. The leaderboard only ever shows the latest lap.
Choosing drivers
The Drivers button in the panel header opens a picker with a checkbox per driver, plus All and None shortcuts. The number in the button tells you how many are currently selected.
Reading the table
| Element | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Lap column | The lap number. Click the header to switch between newest-first and oldest-first. |
| Driver columns | One column per selected driver. Drag a column header to reorder them. |
| Lap time | The time for that lap, as minutes:seconds.thousandths. |
| Tyre icon | The compound in use on that lap, with a used-tyre variant when the set was not new. |
| Stint laps | How many laps that set of tyres had done by that point. |
| Dash | The driver did not set a time on that lap, usually a pit lap or an incident. |
Live Charts
Location on screen: Charts page
Every chart of the session, one under the other, with a row of buttons at the top to jump to any of them. Which charts appear depends on the session type, because a race and a qualifying hour raise completely different questions. The same charts are free in the session analysis once the session is over.
Which chart appears when
| Chart | Sessions | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Race Positions | Race | Every driver's position lap by lap. The shape of the whole race. |
| Tyre Strategy | Race | Each driver's stints and compounds, so you can see who is on a different plan. |
| Gap to Leader | Race | How the gap to the leader, or to any driver you pick, evolves lap by lap. Whether a driver is pulling away or being reeled in. |
| Fastest Laps | All sessions | The quickest laps of the session, ranked, with the tyre they were set on. |
| Lap Time Evolution | All sessions | Each driver's lap times lap by lap. Free accounts show three drivers (the best by result or fastest lap); Premium shows any number, with trend lines. |
| Pace: Drivers (Premium) | Race, Practice | The spread of each driver's lap times, by compound, stint or all tyres, with their average. |
| Pace: Teams (Premium) | Race, Practice | The same comparison rolled up per team, both cars together. |
| Tyre Degradation (Premium) | Race, Practice | How much slower each driver gets per lap on each compound, with the wear curves. |
| Average Positions (Premium) | Race | Each driver's average running position against where they started and finished. |
| Traffic & Clean Air (Premium) | Race | How many laps each driver ran in clean air and how many in traffic. |
| Driver Times (Premium) | All sessions | Two drivers face to face: best lap, averages, lap chart and lap difference. |
| Top Speed | All sessions | Best speed per driver, a rough guide to downforce level. |
| Potential Lap — Drivers | Qualifying, Practice | The lap each driver could set from their best sectors. |
| Potential Lap — Teams (Premium) | Qualifying, Practice | Each team's fastest lap against its ideal lap (best S1 + S2 + S3 of its cars). |
| Best Sectors (Premium) | Qualifying, Practice | Who is quickest in each part of the lap: sectors 1, 2 and 3 side by side. |
| Speed vs Lap Time (Premium) | Qualifying, Practice | Each team's best lap against its top speed, showing the downforce trade-off. |
Pace: Drivers
Pace: Teams
Tyre Strategy
Gap to Leader (race only)
Race Positions
Speed vs Lap Time
Potential Lap — Drivers/Teams
Top Speed
Best Sectors (sector 1 shown)
Example data shown for illustration. The real charts update live with each session's actual timing data, and which charts appear is filtered by session type.
Gap to Leader controls
Two controls sit at the top of the chart’s side panel, above the driver list, so you can follow a fight anywhere in the field, not just at the front. On a phone, open the panel with the eye button. When either control is changed, a small label in the chart’s top-left corner shows the current view, for example vs RUS · Laps 42–51.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Gap to | Choose Leader (the default) or Driver. In Driver mode each row of the driver list gets a target button: click it to measure every gap from that driver. They become a flat line at 0, a driver above it is behind them and a driver below it is ahead. For example, pick Russell as the reference and show Antonelli to watch Antonelli close in, however far both are from the leader. Clicking the rest of a row still shows or hides that driver. |
| Lap range | All, Last 10, or Custom, where a slider with two handles picks the first and the last lap to show, for example laps 20 to 35. The vertical scale fits only the laps shown, so a Safety Car restart or a big early gap no longer squashes the rest of the chart. Last 10 moves along as the race goes on, and so does Custom while its end handle is on the latest lap. |
| Pit markers | The dashed vertical lines mark the pit stops of the chosen driver (the leader by default). |
Event Notifications
Location on screen: Configured from the gear icon; banners appear under the session info bar
Alerts for things you would otherwise have to watch for. Each event can play a sound, show an on-screen banner, or both. They are two separate switches on the same row of one settings panel.
The twelve events
Events marked “Fav Driver” only fire for your favourite drivers, so they stay quiet unless you have picked someone on the leaderboard.
| Event | Fires when | Default sound | Default on: Practice / Qualifying / Race |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Flag | The track status becomes Red Flag. The session has been stopped. | Beeper | On / On / On |
| Yellow Flag | The track status becomes Yellow Flag. A hazard somewhere on track. | Polite | On / On / On |
| Virtual Safety Car | A Virtual Safety Car is deployed. This one event covers both ends of the period: the same sound and banner also fire when the VSC is ending, with the banner reading “Virtual Safety Car Ending”. | Alarmed | On / On / On |
| Safety Car | A physical Safety Car is deployed. | Belligerent | On / On / On |
| Penalty | A new penalty appears in the Penalties panel for any driver. Investigations and “no further action” messages do not count. | Whistleronic | On / On / On |
| Penalty (Fav Driver) | As above, but only when the penalised car is one of your favourites. | Calm | Off / Off / Off |
| Leader Change | A different driver takes over first place. | Glisten | Off / Off / On |
| Position Change (Fav Driver) | Your primary favourite's classified position changes, either gained or lost. | Cloud | Off / Off / On |
| Best Sector (Fav Driver) | Your primary favourite completes a sector that is the fastest of all drivers in that sector. | Chord | Off / Off / Off |
| Improved Sector (Fav Driver) | Your primary favourite sets a personal best in a sector that is not the overall fastest. A personal improvement only. | Enharpment | Off / Off / Off |
| Pit Stop (Fav Driver) | Your primary favourite enters the pit lane. | Taptap | Off / Off / Off |
| Gap < 1s (Fav Driver) | Your primary favourite's gap to the car ahead drops below one second, having previously been above it. DRS range in a race. | Sharp | Off / Off / Off |
Banners
A banner is a small notification that appears just below the session info bar. It shows an icon and a short message, stays for about four seconds and then disappears on its own.
YELLOW FLAG IN SECTOR 2
LEC SETS BEST SECTOR 1
VER PIT STOP
Appears centered below the session info bar, auto-dismisses after 4 seconds, one banner queued at a time.
| Event | Banner text | Colour | Icon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Flag | Red Flag | Red | Flag |
| Yellow Flag | Yellow Flag | Yellow | Flag |
| Virtual Safety Car | Virtual Safety Car Deployed / Ending | Yellow | Flag |
| Safety Car | Safety Car Deployed | Yellow | Flag |
| Penalty | Penalty: {driver} | Dark red | Warning triangle |
| Penalty (Fav Driver) | Penalty: {driver} | Dark red | Warning triangle |
| Leader Change | New Leader: {driver} | Green | Double chevron up |
| Position Change (Fav Driver) | {driver} Position Change | Green | Double chevron up |
| Best Sector (Fav Driver) | {driver} Best Sector | Purple | Clock |
| Improved Sector (Fav Driver) | {driver} Personal Best | Purple | Clock |
| Pit Stop (Fav Driver) | {driver} Pit Stop | Pink | Tyre |
| Gap < 1s (Fav Driver) | {driver} Gap Closing | Green | Double chevron up |
Sounds
Every event can use any of the fourteen available sounds. A preview button next to the selector plays the sound immediately so you can pick one you will recognise. The full list is: Chord, Whistleronic, Taptap, Polite, Beeper, Alarmed, Glisten, Glass, Belligerent, Enharpment, Calm, Cloud, Sharp, Jinja.
Setting them up
| Control | Where | Who can use it |
|---|---|---|
| Event Notifications master switch | Settings → Notifications, at the top of the page | Everyone. Turning it off silences every sound and banner. |
| Sound switch per event | Settings → Notifications → Choose your events | Premium |
| Banner switch per event | Same table, next to the sound switch | Premium |
| Sound choice per event | Same table, dropdown on each row | Premium |
| Practice / Qualifying / Race tabs | Same page, above the event table | Premium. Lets you keep, for example, penalty alerts on for races but off in practice. |
Settings and Customization
Location on screen: Gear icon: bottom of the left menu (top bar on phones)
Everything you can change, grouped the way the settings window groups it: General, Display, Layout, Columns and Notifications. Your choices are saved in the browser you are using, so they will be there next session on the same device.
General: timing
Television and streaming feeds run behind the live timing data, which spoils incidents before you see them. The delay holds the dashboard back so it matches your broadcast.
There are two places to change it: the left menu of the live timing page itself (the top bar on phones), and Settings → General. Both offer the same two ways to set the value.
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Play and pause button | Left menu (top bar on phones) and Settings → General | Press play and the delay counts up second by second. Press it again to stop as soon as the dashboard matches your broadcast. This is the easiest way to line the two up without guessing a number. |
| Delay input | Left menu (top bar on phones) and Settings → General | Type the number of seconds directly, if you already know how far behind your broadcast runs. |
| Reset | Settings → General only | Returns the delay to zero, fully live. |
In the top bar of the live timing page
In the settings menu, under Timing
delay=0 is true live. This is a client-side buffer, not a server-side delay.
General: units and precision
| Setting | Options | Affects |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | km/h or mph | Top speed and best speed columns. |
| Temperature | ºC or ºF | Track and air temperature in the weather block. |
| Decimal precision | 1, 2 or 3 | How many digits are shown after the decimal point in lap times and gaps. |
Display
| Setting | Options | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Hide blue flags | On or off | Removes blue flag messages from Race Control so more important messages stay visible. |
| Corner numbers | On or off | Shows corner numbers on the track map. |
| Compact view on mobile | On or off | Switches the leaderboard to one card per driver on small screens. |
| Yellow flag driver icon | On or off | Marks the drivers that are in a yellow-flag sector. Premium. |
| Team radio: Autoplay | Off, All or Custom | Controls which radio clips play automatically. Custom lets you tick any number of drivers and is Premium. |
Columns
Choose which leaderboard columns are visible and in what order. The controls are covered in full in the Leaderboard section.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Apply to | All sessions uses one set of columns everywhere. Per session (Premium) keeps a separate set for practice, qualifying and race. |
| Shown list | Columns currently on the leaderboard. Drag to reorder, use the × to remove one, or use the up and down buttons on a phone. |
| Available list | Columns not currently shown. Click one to add it. |
| Show all / Hide all | Adds or removes every column at once. |
| Search | Filters the Available list. Appears when there are many columns. |
| Reset columns | Restores the default set of columns and their order. |
Settings that live on the leaderboard
Four options are changed by clicking a column header rather than from the settings menu, and are remembered the same way.
| Column | Cycles through | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Gap | Ahead, Fav | Whether the gap is measured to the car in front or to your favourite driver. |
| Gap Lap | Ahead, Leader, Fav | Which driver last-lap times are compared against. |
| Gap Sectors | Ahead, Leader, Fav, Ahead Acc, Leader Acc, Fav Acc | Which driver sector times are compared against. The Acc variants compare accumulated time through each sector (sector 2 = sector 1 + sector 2, sector 3 = sector 1 + sector 2 + sector 3) instead of each sector in isolation. |
| If pit | Auto, Normal, VSC, SC | The pit-lane time loss assumed. Auto follows the live track status. |
Layout
The Layout page arranges each live page. A Timing / Charts switch at the top chooses which one you are editing (in replay it is locked on Timing, because replay only has the board). The Lap times page is a single table, so it has nothing to arrange. With the custom layout off, the page shows the standard layout as a read-only preview.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Use a custom layout | Switches your own layout on for the Timing and Charts pages. Turn it off to go back to the standard layout; your arrangement is kept. |
| Practice / Qualifying / Race tabs | Each session type has its own layout, so your race layout can differ from your practice layout. |
| Drag and resize | Drag a section to move it. Drag its edges or corners to resize it. Other sections move out of the way. |
| Options panel | Click a section to select it. Width and Height step it up or down, the arrow buttons move it, and Hide this section removes it from the page. |
| Sections list | A checklist of every section for the session. Switch one on to add it back, or off to hide it. |
| Keyboard | With a section focused: arrow keys move it, Shift plus the arrows resize it, Delete hides it, Escape deselects. |
| Reset layout | Restores the standard layout for the selected session type, after a confirmation. |
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Practice / Qualifying / Race tabs | Each session type has its own list of charts, with its own order and its own on and off switches. |
| Chart list | One row per chart that exists for that session type. Drag a row by its handle to change the order, and use the switch to show or hide the chart. Charts always take the full width of the page, so there is nothing to resize. |
| Reset charts | Restores the standard order and visibility, after a confirmation. |
Everything you can place or switch on: Leaderboard, Track Map, Driver Timeline, Driver Championship, Constructor Championship, Race Control, Team Radios, Penalties, Track Limits, Lap Time Series, Race Positions, Tyre Strategy, Gap to Leader, Fastest Laps, Lap Time Evolution, Pace: Drivers, Pace: Teams, Tyre Degradation, Average Positions, Traffic & Clean Air, Driver Times, Potential Lap — Drivers, Potential Lap — Teams, Top Speed, Best Sectors, Speed vs Lap Time. The board sections are arranged on the Timing tab and the charts on the Charts tab. Driver Timeline only appears for races and sprints, and each chart only appears in the sessions it applies to.
What is not configurable
To save you looking for them, these do not exist: there is no light theme or theme switcher, no interface language setting, no 12- or 24-hour time option, no animation or reduced-motion setting, no font size or contrast options, no refresh-rate setting, no notification volume slider and no desktop or push notifications. The language option on your account page applies to emails only, not to the interface.
Replay Mode
Location on screen: Separate page, linked from the top bar
Watch a past session as though it were happening now, using the same leaderboard, map and panels. Useful for reviewing a race you missed or studying a specific stint at your own pace.
Controls
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Session picker | Choose the year, meeting and session to replay. |
| Play and pause | Starts and stops playback. |
| Stop | Ends the replay and returns to the beginning. |
| Fast forward | Jumps fifteen seconds ahead. |
| Speed | Plays at 1x, 2x, 4x or 10x. Useful for skipping a safety car period. |
| Seek bar | Drag to jump to any point in the session. |
Live, delayed and replay data
| Mode | What you are seeing |
|---|---|
| Live | Data as it arrives from the timing feed, typically ahead of a television broadcast. |
| Delayed | The same live data, held back by the number of seconds you set, so it lines up with your broadcast. |
| Replay | A recording of a completed session, played back under your control. |
| Estimated | Some values are worked out by this site rather than supplied by the feed: Position if pit, Predicted finish, Potential lap, and the championship projections. Treat them as informed estimates. |
Abbreviations and Terms
Motorsport shorthand used across the dashboard and in this guide.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| TLA | Three-letter abbreviation. The driver code shown on the leaderboard and map. |
| DRS | Drag Reduction System. A movable rear wing flap that can be opened to go faster in a straight line when within one second of the car ahead at a detection point. |
| SC | Safety Car. A real car leads the field at reduced speed after an incident. No overtaking. |
| VSC | Virtual Safety Car. No physical car; every driver must instead hold a delta time. No overtaking. |
| Sector | One of the three parts a lap is divided into for timing. |
| Mini sector | A smaller subdivision of a sector, used to show progress around a lap in near real time. |
| Purple | The fastest time of anyone in the session so far. |
| Green | A personal best. The driver's own fastest so far, but not the fastest overall. |
| Personal best | The driver's own quickest time for a lap or sector in this session. |
| Session best | The quickest time set by anyone in the session. |
| Gap | Time to the car directly ahead. |
| Interval | Another name for the gap to the car directly ahead. |
| Stint | A continuous run on one set of tyres, between pit stops. |
| Out lap | The lap immediately after leaving the pit lane. Always slow, so ignore it when judging pace. |
| In lap | The lap on which a driver comes into the pits. Also slower than a normal lap. |
| Box | Radio shorthand for the pit lane. “Box this lap” means come in for a stop. |
| Undercut | Pitting earlier than a rival so fresh tyres gain enough time to come out ahead. |
| Overcut | Staying out longer than a rival, relying on clear air to gain the same advantage. |
| Lapped | A driver who is at least one full lap behind the leader. |
| Knockout | Elimination from a qualifying segment. Q1 and Q2 each remove the slowest drivers. |
| I1, I2, FL, ST | Speed measurement points: two intermediate points, the finish line, and the speed trap. |
| Potential lap | The lap time a driver would set by combining their best sectors. Also called a theoretical best. |
| Delta | A time difference, usually against a reference lap or driver. |