Bug Fixes:

• Fixed grid position, position and points missing from Sprint sessions
  result in 2022 (#166)

New Features:

• Added :func:fastf1.plotting.driver_color to get driver colors which are
  similar to the team color but slightly different between both drivers of
  one team. This way, the drivers can be differentiated better.
  (by @dialtone in #159)

• Added support for loading race control messages, see
  :attr:fastf1.core.Session.race_control_messages
  (by @bruzie in #163)

Compatibility fixes for supporting 'Sprint' sessions for the 2022 season (see also #160)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash in fastf1.Telemetry.calculate_driver_ahead in case of missing car data (#146)

Changes:

• Implement support for reading information about a drivers personal best
  lap from the fastf1.core.Laps.pick_fastest will now by
  default return the quickest lap that is also marked as personal best lap
  of any driver. This fixes the long standing problem that the fastest lap
  returned by this function may actually be a deleted lap.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed: data for the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix can not be loaded (#135)
• Fixed: incorrect python version check in live timing client, that
  prevented running on actually supported versions of python (#132)

Changes:

• Log ergast error tracebacks on level DEBUG instead of WARNING to avoid
  confusion when a failure was to be expected.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed: no session results for Verstappen (driver number 1 vs 33)
  (by @vlesierse)
• Fixed: slicing telemetry by using multiple laps as a reference returns no
  data if some laps have NaT values for 'Time' or 'LapStartTime'
• Fixed regression: Loading of livetiming no longer possible since v2.2.0 if
  recording does not contain a driver list

This release introduces a range of new features, bug fixes and improvements. While backwards compatibility has been kept in mind, some breaking changes are required. Read the changelog for detailed information: https://theoehrly.github.io/Fast-F1/changelog.html

Main changes include the introduction of an event schedule and better support for session results.

• fixed issue #74: don't assume that a further session status change
  (e.g. ended, finalized) exists after the last lap
• improved error handling if there exists no usable lap data for any
  driver (#73, e.g. Imola 2021 FP1)
• fastf1.core.get_session should not quietly return
  fastf1.core.Weekend instead of fastf1.core.Session
  if an invalid event name is given.

• fix: crash in lap data parser if a driver did not do any proper laps in a
  session
• fix: crash in fastf1.core.Telemetry.calculate_driver_ahead if a
  driver did not participate in the session (by @bambz96)
• enable automatic cache expiration for requests-cache (#57)
• fix: requests cache not cleared if force_renew=True is used with
  fastf1.api.Cache.enable_cache

• Fix: last inlap missing from Laps
• Add schedule patch for Sprint Race Weekend at Brazil GP (#55)

• introduce a custom user agent to identify FastF1 when requesting data from the Ergast API

General maintenance/bug fixes

• switch renamed dependency 'fuzzywuzzy' to new name 'thefuzz'
• add support for getting team colors from incomplete or partial team
  names or from team names containing typos or extra words
• make fuzzy string matching for event names case-insensitive
• set missing lap start times to pit out time where possible (fixes issue #29),
• add new api function :func:fastf1.api.driver_info
• support incomplete laps (not timed) caused by drivers crashing/retiring
  during a lap: infer as much information as possible so that telemetry
  can be accessed easily (fixes issues #36 and #41)

This release adds a patch to support the changed schedule on weekends with sprint qualifying.

• fix crash when loading cached data after dependencies have been updated
• specify minimum versions for pandas and numpy
• fix incorrect Alpine team name
• fix future warnings and deprecation warnings caused by Pandas 1.3.0

• Add weather data (see changelog in documentation)

• Fix: error when calling core.Laps.get_pos_data()

• Fix: error when calling get_telemetry() on the first lap (or a set of laps containing the first lap)

• Make the live timing client exit more cleanly

Minor fixes and improved robustness for loading live timing data.

Some additional small improvements regarding logging and other stuff

• Fix a bug introduced in v2.1.3 which prevented the loading of
  any data from the api

• Make the api parser more robust and tolerant against invalid data

• various small improvements

• Fix loading of live timing data
• Improve loading of track status from live timing data

This release mainly adds support for recording live timing data and using it as a data sources.
(consider this beta functionality)

Additionally, timing data is now loaded without telemetry by default when calling Session.load_laps.
Telemetry data is usually not available anymore. Therefore, this prevents a confusing error.
You will need to record live timing data during a session if you want to have access to telemetry data.
(At least it looks like that. Whether this will change again, I don't know.)

Major changes, improvements and updates for the 2021 season.

Read the change log and the documentation for detailed information on what is new.

Have fun with this year's season!