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F1 Timing acuracy

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mcdenife
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F1 Timing acuracy

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How accurate are the posted times or timing in F1?
Example:
5 R. Doornbos Red Bull 1:16.292 36
6 K. Räikkönen McLaren 1:16.707 18
7 G. Fisichella Renault 1:16.721 23
From the lap times above, the gap is aprox 0.4 RD to KR and 0.14 KR to GF.

However their sector times are:
Sector 1
RD KR GF
20.117 20.064 20.092

Sector 2
RD KR GF
37.723 37.774 37.891

Sector 3
RD KR GF
18.428 18.464 18.464

From the sector times, the gap should be no more than aprox 0.18 between RD and GF. That being the case and from the sector times, both KR and GF's lap times dont seem right or am I mistaken.

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zac510
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The sector times are the fastest sector times and not necessarily the sector times from their fastest lap.

So if you added together the 3 sector times you would have an 'ideal' lap.
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mcdenife
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No. I was actually monitoring the live timings. KR and GF the sector times were definately from from their fastest laps. So from those sector times I would expect a 1.16.3s and 1.16.4s from KR and GF respectively.
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zac510
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How did you get the sector time to thousandths of a second from the live timing?
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mcdenife
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check with best sector time. Besides, thousandths or not, it does not explain manitude of the difference (or error).
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Ciro Pabón
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mcdenife wrote:check with best sector time. Besides, thousandths or not, it does not explain manitude of the difference (or error).
I took the times from F1.com to Excel. Unfortunately, sector times are at the tenth of a second but, rounded off, they coincide with the figures you give. This is what I got:

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It seems clear that Zac is right: those are sector fastest times. Maybe the fastest times for each sector were being updated at the same time that lap times were, so both were changing while you watched. This make you think that sector times were for the last lap instead of fastest of the session.
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jaslfc
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Joined: 19 Nov 2004, 13:47

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dont worry bout the minor differences.. its onli practice
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