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Overview

Predicted Podium shows the top three of the Race Strategy Tool’s predicted finishing order: position, three-letter code and team colour, and nothing else. It is the thinnest widget in the Strategy suite on purpose. It shares one ordering with Predicted Pylon rather than deriving its own, so the two can never disagree about who wins.
This is the engine’s prediction for the end of the race, not the current order. For who is where right now, use the Timing Tower.

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What It Shows

The predicted podium as of lap 43 of 57 (Madrid 2026) A header caption reads the finish lap and the lap the prediction is as of, for example “Predicted podium (lap 57), as of lap 43”. Beneath it, three rows: a team-coloured bar, the position 1 to 3, and the driver’s code. Positions are renumbered 1 to 3 off the filtered order rather than reusing the pylon’s own position numbers. That way a retired driver above the podium cannot leave a gap in the places shown. Drivers marked out of the race are excluded before the top three are taken. A driver whose roster colour is missing or malformed gets a neutral bar rather than an invented colour. There are no interactions: it is a read-only view, like the other Strategy data widgets.

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Data Behind It

screens/strategyDerive.ts’s buildPredictedPodium takes the already-derived Predicted Pylon ordering, drops anyone flagged out, and keeps the first three. It reads the strategy_snapshot at or before the playhead lap, the same as-of rule the rest of the suite follows. Sharing the pylon’s ordering is the design, not an implementation shortcut. A podium computed separately could disagree with the pylon on the same screen, which would be worse than showing no podium at all.

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FAQ

The tower is the order right now. This is where the engine thinks the race finishes, after the stops still to come.
No. It is the first three of that same ordering, so if they ever differed it would be a defect rather than a difference of method.
They are flagged out of the race in the snapshot, so they are dropped before the top three are taken and the remaining places are renumbered.

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Next Steps

Predicted Pylon

The full predicted order this podium is the top of.

Strategy Status

Whether the snapshot behind it is healthy at this lap.

Predicted Race History

How the engine expects the gaps to develop.

Strategy Table

The stop plans behind the prediction.
Last modified on September 21, 2026