The Hungarian Grand Prix saw our first session reports and also the creation of the Results Mailing List . Much software work over the winter produced two break throughs in motor sports Internet reporting. Both these debuted at the Brazillian Grand Prix. After much popular demand we added a Headline News service at the Canadian Grand Prix and changed the front page to more of a magazine format. First used on the timing pages of the Canadian Grand Prix.
Viewers can see on screen the relative gaps between the top six drivers.
Updated in real time. The Extended Java Information Display system was our solution. By creating a Java formatting applet for the client browser we can now show the Live Qualifying Page using just 2,000 bytes of compressed data instead of 9,000 bytes of html. Birth of the WaterFall display . This java applet uses data from our live coverage systems to show a map of the race like a water fall.