Quote Originally Posted by call_me_andrew
Surely I'm not the only person that watches the race with a stopwatch.
No, you're not. While not exactly a stopwatch, I sat at the 2004 USGP directly across from a big screen monitor where I was fascinated in watching MS put in lap-after-lap with the times varying only by a couple of tenths!

(By the way, I was in a section without airhorns, luckily!)