This change to single decimal on the timing sheets is ridiculous. It adds absolutely nothing and does not provide clear information about whether a car is improving per lap.
I have created a petition to return to 3 decimal places like it has been for over 20 years.
Please share and sign to put a stop to this idiocracy.
My post on the F1 Reddit got removed so perhaps someone else can share this on Reddit.
Please leave this petulant dogshit on reddit. There’s whole universe of possibilities between “melting down about a decimal change” and “can’t understand more than a single decimal.” You present it that way because you are a bad person who makes existing on the internet miserable.
There is a third answer, which is that you calm the fuck down, take no “action,” and just accept that sometimes things change and it’s not worth making yourself angry about. As a fan of 30 years, it changes quite literally nothing about how I understand timing and gaps.
Honestly the change is probably a good thing. With the changes to the cars themselves and the energy deployment dynamics “gaining” or “losing” hundreds of a second is quite literally meaningless.
That’s a really good point. I noticed that during the sprint, the gaps ebb and flow around the track much moreso than they did in the past.