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More about Jean Campiche...
Jean Campiche applied for the job with Tag Heuer for the Ferrari's
official timekeeper position in 1972. He was 28 year-young then.
It was at the request of Enzo Ferrari that Jack Heuer hired him. Enzo
Ferrari wanted to get independent timing
measurements on his private Fiorano circuit to find out where the cars
were losing performance on the circuit so he could work and improve the
cars before the race.
Previously each racing team has its own timing technician. As there were no computers, so stopwatches were the only tools!
Later the technology improved, and it was possible to record the times of several cars at once.
The
job was not just an easy feat of pressing the buttons. It needed
someone who could press a lot of buttons extremely fast corresponding
to different cars in quick succession as the cars zoomed past.
Thus Jean Campiche was
given the nickname of 'pianist' because he could move his fingers very fast to punch in the data
As the technology continued to progress, in the late 1970s, transponders had
been fitted, which allowed for automatic
timings.
The transponders transmitted signals back and allowed us to see what lap times
different cars were doing.
In
1992, Jean and his team at Tag Heuer back to Formual 1 motor-racing,
becoming the official timekeeper for the Grand Prix races since then.
Jean Campiche (Head of Timing Department) TAG
Heuer
The technology kept improving. In 2002, three jumbo jets were required to move equipment from one race to another.
In 2003, Tag Heuer moved into the Indy Car racing in America, measured timing down to 1/10,000th of a second.
It is the most accurately
timed sport in the world!
This man, Jean Campiche, has grown with timekeeping since the beginning with stopwatches to now.
His
work with Tag Heuer team has made motor-racing extremely exciting for
the viewers and spectators to a point that live timekeeping is more
important than commentary 
Kong
Tag Heuer @ Sincere Watch Academy (SWA) with Monaco 360LS & V4
That is great news, Kong!
Those are some serious TAG....
