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This page explains the core features and UI elements of the dashboard.

Colors

A core element in the UI, inspired by official Formula 1 graphics, is the color-coding system used for lap times, sector times, mini sectors, and gaps. Each color has a meaning in the context of lap times, sector times, or mini sectors.

Note

Only mini sectors use the yellow color. Using yellow for all drivers not improving their lap times would make the UI look cluttered, as many text elements would be yellow simultaneously.

Leaderboard

The leaderboard shows all the drivers of the ongoing session. Each row starts with the driver's headshot, ringed in their team color. You can turn the headshots off under Settings if you prefer a denser table.

Depending on the driver's status and the session's progression, some drivers may have a colored background.

Pit & DRS Status

Each driver has an indicator showing whether they are in the pit lane or leaving it. It gives you a quick sense of who is about to drop a few places.

The same slot doubles as the DRS indicator, but DRS was abolished for the 2026 season. Cars now use active aerodynamics and a manual override on the electrical deployment instead, which the timing feed does not expose as a separate signal.

Rather than hiding it based on the calendar year, the dashboard watches the feed: the DRS states below only appear once a session has actually reported DRS being open. For 2026 sessions that never happens, so the slot stays empty unless a driver pits.

Tires

We also show the different tires a driver can use and how many laps they have done on them.
In this example, the driver has a soft tire which is 12 laps old and he pitted one time.

L 12

PIT 1

These are the different icons for the different tire compounds:

Soft

Medium

Hard

Intermediate

Wet

Unknown

Note

Sometimes the tire type is unknown. This can happen at the beginning of a session or when something goes wrong.

Delay Control

When using the dashboard while watching on TV, F1TV, or your favorite streaming platform, you may notice that it updates much earlier than your stream. This can make exciting race events less interesting, as you see them here before experiencing them on your stream. This is where the delay control comes in.

With delay control, you can set a delay in seconds to make the dashboard update later than it normally would. So setting a 30-second delay will cause it to update 30 seconds later than it normally would.
You can use this to sync your stream with the dashboard.

Note

Currently you can only set a delay that is the time you have been on the dashboard page. So 30s on a 20s page visit makes you wait 10s until playback of the updates resumes.

What to look for when syncing?

• Start of a new lap (race)
• Session clock (practice, qualifying)
• If available mini sectors

Driver Pedals

Weather

The weather strip sits above the timing table. It shows the current conditions, but it is built around the question that actually matters during a session: what is changing, and which way.

Note

The sparkline needs two samples before it can draw a line, so it stays blank for the first twenty seconds after you open the page.

Track Map

The track map is drawn from an outline published by an external mapping service. Brand new circuits are sometimes missing from it. When that happens the map says so rather than sitting there loading forever, and everything else on the dashboard carries on as normal.

Formula 1 moved the positional and car data behind a subscription, so it is no longer freely available. Rather than working around that, the map places cars using mini sectors. That is less precise than the original positional data, but it still gives a good indication of where everyone is on track.