Help Page

This page explains some core features and UI elements of f1-dash.

Colors

A core element in the UI of f1-dash and formula 1 are the different colors 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 as it would make the UI look bad if a lot of drivers are not improving their lap times, and all text in the UI would be yellow.

Leader board

The leader board shows all the drivers of the ongoing session. Depending on the driver's status and the session's progression, some drivers may have a colored background.

DRS & PIT Status

Each driver in the leaderboard has a DRS and PIT status indicator. It shows whether a driver has no DRS, is less than 1 second behind the driver ahead (and has DRS from the detection zone), has DRS active, or is in the pit lane or leaving it.

Overall it gives you a quick overview if the driver is going in the PITs and might drop a few places behind or if the driver has DRS and a chance to overtake the driver ahead.

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 f1-dash while watching on TV, F1TV, or your favorite streaming platform, you may notice that f1-dash updates much earlier than your stream. This can make exciting race events less interesting, as you see them on f1-dash 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 f1-dash update later than it normally would. So setting a 30-second delay will cause f1-dash to update 30 seconds later than it normally would.
You can use this to sync your stream with f1-dash.

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 make you wait 10s until playback of the updates resumes. (This will be changed in the future)

What to look for when syncing?

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

Driver Pedals