F1 Replay Timing

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Background

This weekend while boiling maple syrup, I decided to set up F1 Replay Timing in a container to see how it went.

It took a couple of attempts, some of it was coming up to speed on apps that referenced other apps and eventually I ended up with the following for docker compose. It got passed the name resolution issue that plagued the first attempts.

My Setup

I am using Container Station on a QNAP NAS. My older NAS was extremely slow in all phases of the setup and usage (so much so that I am considering offloading everything and burning it down to rebuild it). Another beefier NAS with a fresh OS build handled this very well. The download and setup times for each race is 60-120 seconds in my experience.

You can trigger a race stats download by tagging the URL from the drop down selectors.

Format: /replay/YYYY/EVENT#/?type=EventCode

Event	Code
Practice 1	FP1
Practice 2	FP2
Practice 3	FP3
Qualifying	Q
Sprint	S
Sprint Qualifying	SQ
Race	R

Feature Request

Window dressing requests that really aren't that important:

Cached Marker

It would be really nice if the front end event selector highlighted Green (or something) if the race was locally cached already.

Caching Status

When I was dealing with the slow NAS, I was watching the backend terminal queue go by and it was neat to see how the info was being downloaded. At the time it was much longer than the 60 second warning on the screen, so I started thinking "wouldn't if be nice if..." and I thought that dividing one race track (or create a fictional track) with segments equal to the download stages (drivers, RC, etc) and having the section change to a highlighted color (like the Yellow Safety Car for example) as it downloads.

Results

It worked pretty well. I was able to watch the Suzuka race (Japan, 2026) in replay this morning and had the replay going on a computer screen. It was very interesting to watch what happens beyond the eye of the broadcast camera.

Docker Compose

services:
  backend:
    image: ghcr.io/adn8naiagent/f1replaytiming-backend:latest
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    environment:
      - FRONTEND_URL=http://192.168.1.80:3000
      - DATA_DIR=/data
    volumes:
      - f1data:/data
      - f1cache:/data/fastf1-cache
    # Allows terminal attachment
    stdin_open: true
    tty: true
    # DNS Settings
    dns:
      - 8.8.8.8
      - 1.1.1.1
  frontend:
    image: ghcr.io/adn8naiagent/f1replaytiming-frontend:latest
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    environment:
      - NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL=http://192.168.1.81:8000  # Change to your backend URL if not using localhost
    depends_on:
      - backend
    # Allows terminal attachment
    stdin_open: true
    tty: true
    # DNS Settings
    dns:
      - 8.8.8.8
      - 1.1.1.1
volumes:
  f1data:
  f1cache: