I remember my science teacher talking*, in a class about significant figures, about how silly it was that F1 races were timed to the thousandth of a second, given the duration was typically 90 minutes or so at the time. Sadly, he’d neglected two factors – a) F1 is an industry of conspicuous consumption where that degree of precision is trivially cheap compared to the cost of the bits that make them go faster, and b) the 1971 Italian Grand Prix.
Alternate joke: I hope Sluggo brought his calender.
*Shoutout to Mr. Crispin – I haven’t forgotten, sir.
I remember my science teacher talking*, in a class about significant figures, about how silly it was that F1 races were timed to the thousandth of a second, given the duration was typically 90 minutes or so at the time. Sadly, he’d neglected two factors – a) F1 is an industry of conspicuous consumption where that degree of precision is trivially cheap compared to the cost of the bits that make them go faster, and b) the 1971 Italian Grand Prix.
Alternate joke: I hope Sluggo brought his calender.
*Shoutout to Mr. Crispin – I haven’t forgotten, sir.