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Formula 1 rival alerts

A Grand Prix is two hours of other people's work going wrong in public: the retirement, the pit stop that costs a place, the teammate who is quicker. Hate Watch follows the drivers and constructors you track through qualifying, the sprint and the race.

What you get alerts for

Racing has no plays, so the alerts come from the timing and the results. For a driver, you can get an alert when they:

• Don't finish, as it happens, with the lap;
• Lose places from the grid, or get lapped, live during the race;
• Finish outside the points or behind a teammate, in a single alert at the end that gathers everything that applies;
• Are knocked out in qualifying, or out-qualified by a teammate;
• Start from the back, pit, or drop in the drivers' championship.

For a constructor, there are two: a double DNF, when the second car is out, and scores no points. A constructor with no car in the points is F1's version of a successful hate watch. A race counts the top ten for points and a sprint the top eight.

Which ones buzz your phone

Push notifications by default cover every alert above except two: a pit stop and a drop in the championship go to the feed without a buzz. Everything from one session arrives as a single notification, so a weekend does not bury your phone. Change any of it in Settings, for all drivers or for one.

How a weekend runs

Hate Watch reads the weekend's sessions as they happen. Qualifying and the sprint get alerts, and so does the race. It reads each followed driver about every 15 seconds during a race and the full timing about every 30 seconds, so a retirement reaches you within moments, not at the finish.

Picking a target

Ferrari and McLaren, Red Bull and Mercedes, or the teammate who keeps beating yours: Formula 1 rivalries are as much about the garage next door as the other team. Tracking a driver tells you when they have a bad day, and tracking a constructor tells you when both cars have one. Search for a driver or a team and tap Track.

For how the three alert settings work and what the loss alert adds, see how rival alerts work.

Free. No account. Push alerts need the iPhone or Android app.

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