Your digital pit crew: a 10-minute pre-race security checklist

In Formula 1^® preparation isn’t optional, it’s everything

Whether you’re traveling to the circuit or hosting a watch party, race weekend means bouncing between devices, signing in fast, and clicking links quickly. The last thing you want is to reset a login at lights out. So if you share the streaming link, watch telemetry tabs on a second device, or keep the group chat on track, this blog is for you.

This 10-minute security checklist is built to help you secure streaming accounts, travel info, and all your race-day devices so you can rev up to speed before the race starts.

• Pre-race password inspection: 2 minutes

• Pole position accounts: 3 minutes

• Share smarter: 2 minutes

• Multi-screen test: 2 minutes

• Victory lap: 1 minute

Step 1: Your pre-race password inspection

Scammers count on the urgency you feel to rush to the starting line, because they know that mistakes happen when you’re in a hurry. In a 1Password survey of 2,000 American adults, 89% said they have encountered phishing, and 61% said they have been phished. The biggest factor among the people who got scammed? Emotional urgency, like the kind you feel when you’re desperately trying to watch the race on time. The best way to avoid it? Make sure your logins are running smoothly before race day.

One compromised login can turn into multiple account headaches right when you are trying to buy tickets, pull up a boarding pass, or get the stream running.

A reused password is digital drag. It slows everything down and increases the risk if a single account is exposed. For a quick win, use a password generator to create strong, unique passwords in seconds, then save it so you don’t have to remember it.

Most of us have more accounts than we can remember of and the riskiest accounts are the ones we lose track of. 

Check your 1Password Watchtower alerts for weak passwords, reused logins, and passwords that were involved in known breaches to help get you to a safe starting line.

On top of that, our built-in phishing feature adds an extra layer of potential by warning you before you enter your password into a suspicious page.

Step 2: Fix your pole position accounts

These accounts reset the rest. If one breaks, you are stuck in reset loops when you should be checking in or pressing play. Start with the accounts that can reset everything else.

Prioritize:

• Email, it resets everything

• Travel apps, airline, and hotel logins

• Banking and payment info

• Ticketing profiles

• Streaming accounts

To secure your essentials, update the key accounts with strong, unique passwords. 

Step 3: Share smarter, not riskier

When accounts are shared, a lockout can become a domino effect of messages, prompts, and new sign-in attempts. Who changed the password, and why are five devices trying to sign in at once?

If you have ever shared a streaming login, you know what happens:

Someone signs in on a new device → Someone else gets prompted → Someone changes the password → Now no one can watch

The fix is to share smarter. Keep credentials out of texts, screenshots, and notes where they spread quickly and are hard to control.

1Password survey research found that 76% of Americans who have fallen victim to a shopping scam still reuse passwords across multiple accounts. That means one bad click can turn into a chain reaction across shared streaming or worse, domino into email, travel, and payment info.

Secure your secrets by moving shared logins out of chats and into one secure vault. Then share access with one simple link that even people without 1Password can use securely.

Step 4: Do a multi-screen sign-in test

You need your credentials securely available everywhere you sign in. This prevents cross-device friction that leads to missed flight check-ins, hotel confirmations, and race starts.

1Password is OS-agnostic across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android devices, so your essentials stay in sync whether you’re on your phone, laptop, or both.

Most suspected phishing shows up in the places you use most at the moment: texts (59%), emails (59%), and phone calls (49%). Those are the places where your ticket needs verification, and your account needs attention.

On race weekend, you might open the message on your phone and sign in on your laptop. Context switching is where people make mistakes, and research shows that divided attention makes phishing harder to spot.

Check your kit:

• Phone signed in

• Laptop signed in

• Email works

• Tickets open

• Stream plays

• Travel app ready

If it is not smooth now, it won’t be smooth when the race starts.

Victory lap: one upgrade that pays off all season

Password resets, shared account lockouts, and second-screen issues never happen at a good time. 1Password helps you keep strong, unique passwords ready across devices, share access without spreading passwords in chats, and avoid phishing mistakes with warnings on mismatched URLs.

1Password is the Official Cybersecurity Partner of Oracle Red Bull Racing. The payoff is simple: smoother sign-ins across devices and fewer moments where security gets in the way of the weekend.