Visualising ~500k raw GPS samples per F1 race as a live-synced replay dashboard [OC]

The FIA publishes a 4 Hz location stream for every car via OpenF1's free mirror (about 500,000 raw samples per Grand Prix). The feed is noisy: duplicate timestamps from primary and backup transponders, sentinel coordinates when GPS fix drops, brief teleports after a pit stop or retirement. A Python pipeline cleans the stream (sentinel removal, [...]