# @motorsport.images on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DKHN9T-oQlQ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30969240-motorsportimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-26T10:05:46.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Motorsport Images (@motorsport.images) — https://gondola.cc/motorsport.images

## Caption

We're used to a wealth of data in modern motorsport, but in the early seventies, the Heuer Centigraph was the game-changer that a rapidly evolving F1 needed. ⏱️

Electronics engineer and former motorcycle racer Jean Campiche - seen here at the helm of the Centigraph - was hired by Heuer, at the behest of Enzo Ferrari himself, to revolutionise the timekeeping system at Fiorano; photocells placed around the test track could generate split times for the Centigraph, and a computer could then calculate acceleration, braking and corner speeds with a level of precision never seen before in motorsport. 📈

By 1974, Campiche was a travelling part of the F1 circus with the updated Centigraph Le Mans, capable of up to 1/1000 of a second accuracy, which could track the times and lap counts of multiple cars at once - including those from rival teams! 👀

[📸 Monaco Grand Prix, On This Day in 1974]

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formulaone, timekeeping, motorsportphotography, f1, photographyhistory, jeancampiche, centigraph, gettyimages, chronograph, motorsporthistory, 70sf1, heuer, grandprix, f1history, davidphipps, classicf1, gettysport, suttonimages, onthisday, tagheuer, formula1

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