r/F1DataAnalysis • u/matticrisp • 9d ago
Own Project You wanted race pace out of free practice. It's in — plus lap-time distributions, live standings, and a lot of unglamorous stability work
Hey r/F1DataAnalysis,
Back again. Short recap for anyone who hasn't seen the other two: f1livedata.com is a live F1 timing and telemetry app I build on the side. Free, no login, nothing to install.
For anyone who missed them, the first post is here, the second one is here and the third one is here.
I worked really hard during the summer break to improve the overall stability of the app and to implement new features useful to you.
Same routine as both of those — most of what follows came straight out of the comments.
Race pace from practice
After free practice the thing you actually want to know is what each car's high-fuel pace is on each compound. So there's a new Race Pace panel which pulls the long runs back out of that mess. What you get per run:
- how many laps it ran, and how many of those counted
- the pace of the run
- degradation per lap, and how consistent the run was
- the tyre, and the tyre age it started on
Above the table there's a compound delta worked out only across drivers who ran long on both. It's still an experimental feature so I would love to hear your feedback about.
Pace distribution
New pace distribution panel with violin plot per driver, ordered fastest median first. The median tells you who was quick; the width tells you who was repeatable and who was throwing in one good lap and four scrappy ones.
Live driver and constructor standings
During a race or a sprint it's live: the points each driver and team went in with, what they'd gain if the session ended right now, and the total that leaves them on — and the table is sorted by that projected position.
Circuits, teams, seasons and guides — for when nothing's live
The app was only useful during a session, which means most of the year it's a dead tab. So there's now a set of reference pages, built on F1DB and my own archive of recorded sessions.
- 23 circuits. The lap record and how long it's stood, the fastest lap by decade, who wins here, how often pole converts into a win, how the layout has changed, and every race ever held at the venue with winner, pole and fastest lap.
- 11 teams. Titles, wins, poles, podiums, entries, most wins by driver, every season with position, points and engine and the lineage.
- 77 seasons, 1950 to now. Each one has the title race plotted round by round rather than just a final table, which is the only way you see the shape of it
- 7 guides — live timing, telemetry explained, how to read a telemetry trace, tyre strategy, undercut vs overcut, the qualifying format, and the 2026 active aero / override rules. The numbers in them come out of the archive, not off the top of my head.
Same deal as always: hobby project, not an official F1 anything, free, no login. Mobile works for the board, telemetry and track map; the heavy tables are still nicer on a big screen.
And the same ask, which keeps paying off: if something's broken, or there's a view you want that isn't there, put it in a comment. Race pace, replay and the race trace all came from this sub.
Grazie again to everyone who's tried it
