Hello there,
With the 2026 Pre-Season Testing over, its time to checkout what changed in the f1 telemetry data as well as a small status update regarding nitrous.
pre-season testing
With the new season removing DRS also the telemetry data changes. sadly for now we do not have the data for the replacement like X/Y mode or MOM mode. more data analysys will be needed thought the season.
what has been accomplised so far?
A proper application structure has been established improving future development, as well as enabling easily enabling features like multiwindow support and more.
F1 login has been implemented successfully so subcription only data can be used when logged in for example Position and Car Data.
The main live Timing Tower with all drivers has been implemented.
Team Radios are viewable and playback works.
Race control messages can be viewd.
session replay
In the meantime we were able to implement replay of past f1 sessions from practice, to qualifying and races. This also includes playback controls where the basics work but still more work is needed for a complete experience.
Whats great here, by knocking out replay support we can build all other features are build so they are available in both live sessions as well as replay sessions.
whats next?
for a MVP release a couple of things still need to happen.
- finish replay feature
- simple homepage with the current race weekend
- simple archive search to select which session to replay
- settings page
- driver tracker -> requires a new backend which handles track metadata
when releases become a topic we also will need to look into infrastructure and a proper system to provided the software downloads and make installation / updating simple already thinking about this at MVP would be valuable but not sure if its in our scope just yet.
anyways enought writing blog and implementing a fancy solution for images on the website lets get back to developing nitrous :)
Best Regards
- slowlydev