Release Notes

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What’s new in v3.5.3

(released 16/03/2025)

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed incorrect number of total laps (Session.total_laps) for the 2025 Grand Prix of Australia.

  • Fixed incorrectly added 58th lap for Norris in the 2025 Grand Prix of Australia.

What’s new in v3.5.2

(released 14/03/2025)

Bug Fixes

  • Use yellow instead of red as team color for Racing Bulls in the 2025 season to better distinguish the color from others. (by @pesaventofilippo) (#707)

  • Switch to a linear interpolation that considers sample timestamps correctly when merging/resampling telemetry data.

What’s new in v3.5.1

(released 13/03/2025)

New Features

  • get_driver_style() now replaces the magic 'auto' color keyword recursively. This allows for more complex plotting styles, for example when using the Plotly library. (by @Casper-Guo) (#701)

Bug Fixes

  • Missing drivers are now only added to session results based on data from Jolpica-F1 (formerly Ergast), when the session type is fully supported by the API. This fixes cases where drivers were incorrectly added in practice sessions, for example. (by @Casper-Guo) (#699)

What’s new in v3.5.0

(released 01/03/2025)

New Features

  • The backend for the Ergast API is now changed to its successor Jolpica-F1 (see https://github.com/jolpica/jolpica-f1 ) to ensure continued support for the 2025 season and later seasons.

  • Added team colors for the 2025 season. (by @Casper-Guo) (#690)

Bug Fixes

  • Incorrect and inconsistent data types in various places have been fixed. The dtypes of all DataFrames after data loading now always match the dtypes that are defined in the documentation. Some dtypes may have changed as a result of this fix.

  • Fixed lap time alignment failures in some edge cases.

Backwards Incompatible Changes

  • Laps.pick_fastest() will now return None if no fastest lap exists, as announced previously. Previously, an empty Lap object was returned.

Maintenance

  • Addressed upcoming changes in pandas and fixed a related deprecation warning caused by implicit type coercion. (by @Casper-Guo) (#676, #682)

  • Temporarily pinned websockets to version 14 or older to prevent issues with live timing recording.