setup_mpl

fastf1.plotting.setup_mpl(mpl_timedelta_support=True, color_scheme=None, *args, **kwargs)

Setup matplotlib for use with fastf1.

This is optional but, at least partly, highly recommended.

Parameters:

• mpl_timedelta_support (bool) –

  Matplotlib itself offers very limited functionality for plotting timedelta values. (Lap times, sector times and other kinds of time spans are represented as timedelta.)

  Enabling this option will patch some internal matplotlib functions and register converters, formatters and locators for tick formatting. The heavy lifting for this is done by an external package called ‘Timple’. See theOehrly/Timple if you wish to customize the tick formatting for timedelta.

• color_scheme (str, None) – This enables the Fast-F1 color scheme that you can see in all example images. Valid color scheme names are: [‘fastf1’, None]