F1 Screen Time

Broadcast audit 07 Chinese Grand Prix Sprint

The China Sprint edit
belonged to Hamilton.

A shot-by-shot, frame-aligned audit found Ferrari’s #44 was the director’s featured car for 6:57.2—20.60% of the complete Sprint window—just 1.2 seconds ahead of Kimi Antonelli.

Explore all 22 cars
Editorial focusCar 44 · Ferrari
6:57.2
20.60%of the Sprint window
Identifiable presence16:28.5
Lead over Antonelli+0:01.2
Sprint window 33:45.300Camera shots 421Analysis segments 489Replays 2:18.180

01 / Car screen-time ranking

Who held the frame?

Switch between the director’s featured subject and every moment a car was physically visible and individually identifiable.

Exclusive: co-primary battle shots are split equally.

  1. 0144Lewis HamiltonHAM
    Screen timeP01Driver championshipP02169 pts · 1 place higher in screen time
    Ferrari20.60%6:57.2
  2. 0212Kimi AntonelliANT
    Screen timeP02Driver championshipP01219 pts · 1 place lower in screen time
    Mercedes20.54%6:56.0
  3. 0363George RussellRUS
    Screen timeP03Driver championshipP03160 pts · Same rank
    Mercedes12.26%4:08.3
  4. 0416Charles LeclercLEC
    Screen timeP04Driver championshipP04138 pts · Same rank
    Ferrari9.85%3:19.5
  5. 0581Oscar PiastriPIA
    Screen timeP05Driver championshipP0792 pts · 2 places higher in screen time
    McLaren5.22%1:45.8
  6. 063Max VerstappenVER
    Screen timeP06Driver championshipP06109 pts · Same rank
    Red Bull Racing5.10%1:43.3
  7. 0727Nico HülkenbergHUL
    Screen timeP07Driver championshipP182 pts · 11 places higher in screen time
    Audi4.51%1:31.3
  8. 086Isack HadjarHAD
    Screen timeP08Driver championshipP0868 pts · Same rank
    Red Bull Racing2.85%0:57.8
  9. 0930Liam LawsonLAW
    Screen timeP09Driver championshipP0943 pts · Same rank
    Racing Bulls2.52%0:51.0
  10. 1010Pierre GaslyGAS
    Screen timeP10Driver championshipP1042 pts · Same rank
    Alpine2.15%0:43.5
  11. 111Lando NorrisNOR
    Screen timeP11Driver championshipP05128 pts · 6 places lower in screen time
    McLaren2.08%0:42.2
  12. 1287Oliver BearmanBEA
    Screen timeP12Driver championshipP1318 pts · 1 place higher in screen time
    Haas F1 Team1.90%0:38.6
  13. 1331Esteban OconOCO
    Screen timeP13Driver championshipP173 pts · 4 places higher in screen time
    Haas F1 Team1.11%0:22.6
  14. 1455Carlos SainzSAI
    Screen timeP14Driver championshipP156 pts · 1 place higher in screen time
    Williams1.00%0:20.3
  15. 1541Arvid LindbladLIN
    Screen timeP15Driver championshipP1123 pts · 4 places lower in screen time
    Racing Bulls0.38%0:07.6
  16. 1623Alexander AlbonALB
    Screen timeP16Driver championshipP165 pts · Same rank
    Williams0.00%0:00.0
  17. 1714Fernando AlonsoALO
    Screen timeP17Driver championshipP191 pt · 2 places higher in screen time
    Aston Martin0.00%0:00.0
  18. 185Gabriel BortoletoBOR
    Screen timeP18Driver championshipP1410 pts · 4 places lower in screen time
    Audi0.00%0:00.0
  19. 1977Valtteri BottasBOT
    Screen timeP19Driver championshipP210 pts · 2 places higher in screen time
    Cadillac0.00%0:00.0
  20. 2043Franco ColapintoCOL
    Screen timeP20Driver championshipP1219 pts · 8 places lower in screen time
    Alpine0.00%0:00.0
  21. 2111Sergio PérezPER
    Screen timeP21Driver championshipP220 pts · 1 place higher in screen time
    Cadillac0.00%0:00.0
  22. 2218Lance StrollSTR
    Screen timeP22Driver championshipP200 pts · 2 places lower in screen time
    Aston Martin0.00%0:00.0

Zero means no exposure met the conservative identification rules—not that the driver was absent from the Sprint. Timing-tower names alone did not count.

02 / Team screen-time ranking

Mercedes narrowly led the Sprint edit.

Antonelli and Russell combined for 11:04.2 of featured coverage—47.6 seconds more than Ferrari’s two cars.

01Mercedes32.80% of Sprint · Championship P01
+0:47.6
02Ferrari30.45% of Sprint · Championship P02
  1. 01Mercedes11:04.2
    Screen timeP01Team championshipP01379 pts · Same rank
    Editorial share 32.80%Visible 21:59.4
  2. 02Ferrari10:16.7
    Screen timeP02Team championshipP02307 pts · Same rank
    Editorial share 30.45%Visible 27:13.2
  3. 03Red Bull Racing2:41.1
    Screen timeP03Team championshipP04177 pts · 1 place higher in screen time
    Editorial share 7.95%Visible 7:40.8
  4. 04McLaren2:28.0
    Screen timeP04Team championshipP03220 pts · 1 place lower in screen time
    Editorial share 7.31%Visible 7:24.6
  5. 05Audi1:31.3
    Screen timeP05Team championshipP0812 pts · 3 places higher in screen time
    Editorial share 4.51%Visible 1:54.1
  6. 06Haas F1 Team1:01.1
    Screen timeP06Team championshipP0721 pts · 1 place higher in screen time
    Editorial share 3.02%Visible 4:02.0
  7. 07Racing Bulls0:58.7
    Screen timeP07Team championshipP0566 pts · 2 places lower in screen time
    Editorial share 2.90%Visible 3:33.5
  8. 08Alpine0:43.5
    Screen timeP08Team championshipP0661 pts · 2 places lower in screen time
    Editorial share 2.15%Visible 4:55.3
  9. 09Williams0:20.3
    Screen timeP09Team championshipP0911 pts · Same rank
    Editorial share 1.00%Visible 0:48.5
  10. 10Aston Martin0:00.0
    Screen timeP10Team championshipP101 pt · Same rank
    Editorial share 0.00%Visible 0:00.0
  11. 11Cadillac0:00.0
    Screen timeP11Team championshipP110 pts · Same rank
    Editorial share 0.00%Visible 0:00.0

03 / Method

Every second accounted for.

The supplied Sky Sports F1 Sprint edit was reviewed shot by shot, then refined to exact 50 fps subsegments whenever the subject changed. These totals describe this specific feed; another broadcaster’s edit can differ.

Reconciled2,025.300 seconds

The credited editorial-focus timeline equals the complete Sprint window exactly.

Cars · 92.08%Non-carUnknown
01

Window

First fully dark lights-out frame through the winner crossing the finish line.

02

Focus

Each segment credits the director’s featured car; genuine co-primary battles split equally.

03

Presence

Every physically visible, individually identifiable car is credited; timing-tower text is excluded.

04

Uncertainty

Only 2:30.4 of editorial focus remained unresolved after dense frame review. Distant and obscured car identities were never guessed.

Identity checks

Driver mapping was checked against the official F1 starting grid and FIA final classification.

04 / Open data

Audit the audit.

Download the underlying results, including the complete 489-segment annotation log. Millisecond precision is retained in the files.

01All 22 cars

Rankings, times, shares and live/replay splits

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The complete shot-by-shot annotated Sprint audit

CSV · 144 KB03Team totals

Editorial focus and visible-presence totals

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Window, reconciliation and methodology metadata

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