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I tried to read this. I gave up after the forced slow-scroll and convoluted layout.

It's a shame that all this lovely artwork and data is trapped in this horrid presentation automation.

Really cool, too bad the scroll design is so janky
I waited about 30 seconds in safari on macOS 15.6 and couldn't scroll at all
Interesting that they just skipped the entire Verstappen dominance era, but decided instead to jump to the budgeoning McLaren Piastri-Norris dominance (about a year old only).

Of course with 75 years of history you need to trim it down, but that's an interesting choice...

Other than the strange scrolling (works on my iOS Safari, but why?) this is very well done. Clearly a lot of thought went in to it, many nice details in the assets and overall presentation. The illustrations of the drivers and their cars are separate layers than move ever so slightly. That amount of care isn't strictly required but it was done and my day is better for it. Thanks.

No affiliation, no interest in F1, just basking in good work.

Finally, the v12 Ferrari engine sounds the best. Fight me.

Scroll hijacking at its worst
Normally I find complaints about scrolljacking on HN tiresome but the comments here are entirely justified. A truly awful design.
Crazy to me they had Prost instead of Senna in the 80s section
How much of this is Disney trying to retain the streaming rights for F1 when Apple is now invested and interested? I would buy an Apple Vision Pro if they could get races covered by those new 8k spatial video cameras! And skipping Verstappen for Norris is kinda ridiculous.
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Books to read:

How to build a car by Adrian Newey

Total Competition by Ross Brawn

You will know more about the world of F1 than you need to

Bonus:

The Mechanic by Marc Priestley

We’re actually working on racetrack.ai as we speak since this sport is gaining traction.
Not a follower of F1, I never knew that Red Bull built their own cars. I thought they were just sponsoring a team using other cars. I don't know if knowing that caffeinated drinks made enough profit to finance building race cars from the ground up is something to be impressed by or not. That's a lot of caustic swill that humans have ingested over the years to make that happen
Firefox reader mode gets all the text and some pictures.
This is exactly what happens when Chrome lacks native autoplay controls and most designers do not even consider that some users might block autoplay altogether. On Firefox, which I have configured to block autoplay, the article opens with a blank space. No video, no fallback, no context. Just dead air.

It is honestly bad practice that Chrome does not provide proper user-level control over autoplay anymore. This encourages lazy design patterns where autoplay is assumed as default behavior and accessibility or user preference gets ignored.

That said, Firefox could improve too. At least show a play button, a poster frame, or something to indicate there is a video element there. Right now it just looks broken. Both browser vendors and designers need to do better.

So odd they just skipped over Max in their history timeline.

4 consecutive world championships. Most wins in single season ever in history.

Though no one probably got to the end due to the horrible UI of that page.

I have fond memories of watching F1 races with my dad in the late '90s and early '00s. Legends like Lauda and Gilles Villeneuve were mythical figures from a distant past to me. Now, for my children, Schumacher, Häkkinen, and Damon Hill are in that very same position... how time flies.
Too little focus on early F1 evolution!
Unusable on an iPhone. Can’t scroll
seems the f1 cars that are already difficult to drive, will now push drivers to the limits in terms of skill under 2026 regulations.