Data Channel (2016-present)

2018-2019

Data Channel holding card (2019 season)
Data Channel from the 2018 Australian Grand Prix (Practice/Qualifying layout)
Data Channel from the 2018 Mexican Grand Prix (Race Layout)
  • In keeping with the graphics updates across the whole of F1’s broadcast package for 2018, the Data Channel was given a new look.
  • From 2019, the Data Channel was made available to F1 TV subscribers for the first time

2016-2017

Data Channel holding card (2016 season)
Data Channel from the 2016 Australian Grand Prix (Practice 2)
Data Channel from the 2016 Australian Grand Prix (Practice 2)
  • For 2016, FOM introduced a new channel that broadcasters could make available to their viewers – the Data Channel.
  • During Practice & Qualifying, this showed the driver’s current lap-time from broken down into “Mini” timing sectors on the track.
  • During the Race, the centre panel shows the drivers’ tyre strategy.
  • The right-hand panel alternates between showing Driver, Circuit, Sector Time & Tyre statistics.
  • Unusually, this has never been offered to Sky Sports subscribers in the UK, only by other broadcasters around the world. Instead, Sky Sports UK customers have stuck with the existing text-only timing page.