Release Notes¶
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What’s new in v3.6.0¶
(released 08/07/2025)
New Features¶
The number of laps that each driver completed in a race or sprint session is now available in
SessionResults
, accessible throughresults
, in a newLaps
column. (#766)fastf1.get_events_remaining()
now correctly considers the current time of day and the starting time of the last session of an event to determine the remaining events. (#750) (by @VLADOZXD)Preliminary Race and Sprint results are now calculated from timing data when no official results data is available from Jolpica-F1. (#737) (by @Casper-Guo)
Bug Fixes¶
Fixed a bug where incorrect positions were calculated for all drivers at the end of the first lap in the 2025 British GP (#765)
Added additional logic to detect and correct incorrect tyre information in the source data of the 2025 Australian GP Race and the 2025 Miami GP Sprint (#746)
The API parser will now calculate missing lap times from existing sector times if possible when the source data explicitly indicates a missing lap time by providing an empty lap time object. This fixes data errors caused by transponder issues with RUS car at the 2025 Bahrain GP. (#740)
The team name matching used with the plotting functionality now additionally considers the team short names to fix problems with the short “RB F1 Team” name. (#726) (by @Casper-Guo)
Removals¶
According to the deprecation timeline, the following functionality has been removed after it was marked as deprecated in v3.4.0.
The following module level properties of
fastf1.plotting
have been removed:COMPOUND_COLORS
DRIVER_COLORS
DRIVER_TRANSLATE
TEAM_COLORS
TEAM_TRANSLATE
COLOR_PALETTE
The following functions in
fastf1.plotting
have been removed:driver_color()
team_color()
lapnumber_axis()
The argument
misc_mpl_mods
of functionsetup_mpl()
has been removed without replacement for its functionality.The argument
color_scheme
of functionsetup_mpl()
now defaults toNone
.
Maintenance¶
Addressed upcoming changes in pandas and fixed a related deprecation warning caused by implicit type coercion. (by @Casper-Guo) (#727)
Miscellaneous¶
Updated the “Who can still win the drivers WDC” example to use the 2025 season. (#763) (by @faustocalvinio)
Added a new “Season Summary Visualization” example to the gallery. (#661) (by @eatwhatyoukill and @Casper-Guo)
Documentation improvements (by @Casper-Guo)