Backmarker

For iPhone, iPad and Mac

Race weekends, on your time.

A free companion for Formula 1: every session in your time zone and the circuit’s, the weather for each one, the strategy behind the result and, if you like, no results until you’re ready.

Coming soon for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Free.

The App Store link will appear here the day it ships. To hear about it, follow the studio feed.

Backmarker on iPad: a circuit drawn as a single line, colored by which of two drivers was faster through each part of a qualifying lap.

The weekend, in your time zone.

Every session in your time and the circuit’s, with a countdown to each one and the forecast from Apple Weather.

The schedule: lights out in 8 days, and the weekend’s sessions in local and circuit time, with the weather.

The race, explained.

Qualifying, sprint and race classification, stewards’ decisions, race-control messages and the key radio moments, with transcripts. Then the why: tire strategy, track dominance, qualifying sectors, race pace and driver head-to-heads.

Tire stints: one bar per driver across the race distance, split into colored stints for each compound.

77 seasons, offline.

Every championship since 1950: 1,171 races, 879 drivers and 78 circuits, readable without a connection.

A driver page: career numbers and season-by-season results from the history archive.

And the rest

  • Widgets

    Six Home Screen widgets and a Lock Screen complication.

  • Ask about the weekend

    Questions about the race weekend, answered on device with Apple Intelligence.

  • Title math

    Pick where the contenders finish and see the standings after the round. Arithmetic only, no guessing.

  • Calendar and alerts

    Add sessions to your calendar, and get a reminder before each one.

  • Spoiler mode

    Watching later? Results stay hidden, widgets included, until you reveal the weekend.

  • Quietly built

    No account, no ads, no subscription, no tracking and no analytics. Privacy policy

Why “Backmarker”

A backmarker is the car at the back of the field. The icon is its painted slot on the starting grid: last on the grid, and in no hurry.

A Rocky River app, made in Colorado.

Backmarker is an unofficial app and is not associated in any way with the Formula One companies, any Formula 1 team or driver. F1 and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.