Support for the F1 25 2026 Season Pack (Season 8), and a fix for telemetry stopping when the game sends an event the app does not recognise.

• Race control now reports the four events the 2026 Season Pack adds: partial aero mode and overtake mode being enabled and disabled. Partial aero mode also reports the reason.
• Added the eleven new F2 2026 teams, so cars in those teams are named correctly.
• Fixed telemetry stopping for the rest of a session when the game sent a race control event the app did not recognise.
• The save viewer timeline now describes red flags, safety cars, penalties being served, DRS changes, and a driver handing their car to the AI, instead of showing raw field names.
• The launcher console no longer fills up with repeated session history warnings. They are still written to the log file.

The live dashboard and the save viewer are now a single web app on one address. Alongside that, this release focuses on overlay reliability: overlays that stop responding now recover on their own, several ways they could get stuck or render blank are fixed, and table overlays redraw far more efficiently.

One Web App for Live and Saved Sessions

• The live dashboard and save viewer now run as one web app on a single address, with a new home page and a shared sidebar.
• Saved sessions open straight from that sidebar, so you no longer go back through the launcher to review a race.
• The home page now names the setting that controls which page opens automatically on startup, under Display -> Auto open dashboard.
• Fixed a crash when browsing saved sessions where the file had no session history recorded.

Overlay Reliability

• An overlay subsystem that hangs is now restarted automatically. Previously only one that crashed outright came back, so a frozen overlay stayed frozen.
• Fixed overlays becoming unresponsive, including when auto-hide hid several at once on entering a menu or garage.
• Fixed rapidly toggling an overlay leaving it stuck hidden, and toggling mid-fade leaving it half-faded or invisible.
• Fixed table overlays getting stuck on stale data until the overlay was recreated.
• Team logos and tyre icons rendered as blank boxes when Display -> Use CPU acceleration for overlays was enabled, a regression since v4.1.0. The normal graphics path was never affected.
• Unknown tyre compounds now show a default icon in the timing tower instead of a blank cell.
• Fixed the timing tower and pace comparison going blank in practice and qualifying when the reference driver had no lap time yet. The timing tower now falls back to the session leader's best lap, and pace comparison shows plain lap and sector times instead of blank deltas.

Overlay Performance

• Table overlays now update only the rows that changed rather than rebuilding the whole table each tick, cutting per-update work from about 27.7 ms to 10.2 ms.

New Overlay Options

• The timing tower tyre column can show tyre age, wear percentage, or a hybrid of both, under Overlays -> Timing tower tyre column content. Hybrid is the default and matches the previous behaviour.
• Added a minimal circuit info overlay in the style of broadcast lower-thirds, under Overlays -> Use minimal circuit info overlay (F1TV inspired).
• Added the Hungaroring's newly announced corner names.

Race Data Accuracy

• Pit lane overtakes are no longer counted as on-track overtakes.
• Fixed tyre change tracking bugs that produced wrong wear figures or a stint starting on the wrong lap, covering flashbacks, early-lap changes, retirements mid-change, and changes made before the game reported the circuit.
• Session state now resets reliably at the start of a new session instead of relying on an event the game does not always send.
• The just-in-case autosave options now apply immediately instead of needing a restart.

Engineer View

• Lock onto a driver's row with the lock icon in the Name cell and the grid auto-scrolls to keep it visible, handy for following a driver through a pit stop.
• Fixed the Minimal and Full column presets spuriously creating a "Custom" profile, which also happened just on loading the page.

Other Fixes

• Launching from a Start Menu shortcut could leave the app unable to write its log file and crash. It now shows a proper error dialog.

Save Viewer

• Pit lane passes excluded from overtake locations, lap navigation in the race control view, and a Bahrain track layout fix.

Contributors

• @linuz90 for the save viewer improvements above.
• SSRLQuincy for reporting the overlay freezes and the blank icons, and for extensive testing across the beta builds that tracked both down.

Screenshots

• Minimal circuit info overlay

- Unified web app - Engineer view lock scroll to driver

Pits n' Giggles v4.3.0

This release reworks how overlays are managed and reset, upgrades the power unit overlay with live harvest power display, and brings a major refresh to the save viewer dashboard.

Overlay Settings and Management

• Overlays now have a dedicated settings page, with each overlay grouped behind an enable/disable toggle, a preview image, and its own expandable options.
• Right-clicking the reset button on any overlay opens a menu of your enabled overlays, letting you reset just one at a time instead of all of them. Left-click still resets everything, now behind a confirmation prompt.
• Several overlays previously locked inside the multi-function display (MFD) can now also run as standalone, movable windows with their own title bar toggle.

MFD pages flexibility

• Currently available pages in the MFD can now also be used as standalone overlays

Power Unit Overlay

• Now estimates and displays instantaneous MGU-K (and legacy MGU-H) harvest power, alongside total output, ICE/MGU-K split, engine temperature, and ERS deployment mode. Toggle it in Overlays -> Power Unit -> Display harvest info in power unit overlay, and tune its responsiveness under Prediction -> Harvest power smoothing.
• Added an animated harvest limit progress bar with a "HARVESTING" indicator while active, and a distinct indicator once the per-lap limit is reached.
• Fixed a transparent-background bug that showed a black square behind the overlay's rounded corners.

Other HUD Improvements

• Track radar display range is now configurable under Overlays -> Track Radar -> Track radar display range in metres.
• Pit limiter status is now shown in the main HUD overlay.
• Fixed the HUD fuel amount getting stuck on a stale value if a practice, qualifying, or time trial session was played after a race session.

Launcher

• The launcher now blocks a second instance of the app from starting, showing an "already running" message instead, regardless of which folder it's launched from.

Save Viewer (thanks to Fabrizio for this)

• Revamped dashboard - a redesigned layout with a results hero, insights, and rivals sections, plus a demo mode so you can explore the viewer without loading your own data.
• F1 26 support - session exports from F1 26 can now be loaded and analyzed.
• Smarter strategy recommendations - the track view now suggests pit strategies once enough stints have been run to give it the data to work with.
• Better fuel calculations - recommended fuel figures are now more accurate.
• Race control event history - review the full timeline of race control events for a session, now with support for filtering on multiple message types at once and viewing incident locations on charts.
• Sharper telemetry analysis - telemetry is now scoped per game generation for more accurate comparisons.
• Track bests improvements - added a formula filter, formula badges, and representative lap times, with the latest game generation selected by default.
• Dashboard fixes - filters are properly aligned, DNF sessions stay selectable, and deep links/refreshes now resolve correctly instead of failing to load.
• Overtakes/Collisions - a pie chart showing where most overtakes/collisions happened on track.

VirusTotal Scan

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F1 2026 Support

All telemetry features now support F1 2026. Key changes driven by the new game's rules:

• Overtake system - the timing tower's DRS bar is now an OT bar; the HUD overlay shows a pulsing border glow when Overtake is available; the driver list highlights the row in blue when OT is available.
• ERS reworked - F1 2026 has no deploy limit, so the deploy arc is removed. The harvest arc now uses the full circle with a dynamic harvest limit. ERS colour logic is unified in Python across all supported seasons.

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Power Unit Info Overlay

Real-time power unit telemetry showing total output (kW), ICE/MGU-K split with an animated bar, engine temperature, and current ERS deployment mode. Use it alongside the Input Telemetry overlay to understand the new 2026 power unit regulations and dial in your inputs for maximum power delivery.

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Traffic Monitor

A new MFD overlay page shows the 5 cars directly behind you on circuit, ranked by track distance. Relative distance is normalised correctly for lapped cars, and the list adapts to the actual grid size.

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Safety Car Indicator

The lap timer overlay now shows a pulsing yellow border and an animated "SAFETY CAR" / "VIRTUAL SAFETY CAR" footer during SC and VSC periods. Both disappear as soon as racing resumes. The minimal lap timer view shows the border only.

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Delta to Leader

The timing tower now shows each driver's gap to the race leader.

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Collision Severity

Race control messages now include collision severity. For newer races, collision severity will be recorded alongside the collision event.

v4.1.1 is a patch release that fixes a regression in the timing tower and adds a new display option.

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Bug Fixes

• Fixed (regression from v4.1.0): The option to combine track limit warnings and penalties into a single penalties column (Overlays -> Show track limit warnings and penalties combined in the penalties column) was missing from v4.1.0 due to an issue in the new release process. It is now available and works as intended.

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Timing Tower

• Relative lap times -- best lap and last lap columns can now be displayed as signed deltas against the player or selected reference driver, rather than absolute times. Enable this under Overlays -> Show best/last lap times relative to the player or selected reference driver (off by default).