Fastf1

New Features

- Added support for driver Ayumu Iwasa (IWA)

Bug Fixes

- Fixed a bug that caused the track status values for each lap to be sometimes incorrect in the 'TrackStatus' column of the ``Laps`` DataFrame (fixes 557 and more).

Bug Fixes

- Fix: correctly handle empty strings when parsing them in `fastf1.utils.to_datetime` (by erdieee) (531)

- Fix: gracefully handle empty strings when parsing datetime values in Ergast responses (by mdsakalu) (546). This fixes partially missing data in the results Qualifying and Race results for the 2024 Saudi Arabia GP.

New Features

- Updated team names and team colors for the 2024 season. (**As usual, this means
that this information is no longer valid for the previous season!** see note below)

- Improved the accuracy of `fastf1.utils.delta_time` (by grahamjwhite)
(512)


Note: The update of the team names and team colors for the 2024 season means that you may no longer be able to visualize data from 2023 correctly. This is a long-standing issue that will most likely be resolved with the next minor release in a few months.

Bug Fixes

- Fixed another bug that caused `fastf1.core.Session.get_circuit_info`
to fail only in some cases if the default resampling frequency for
telemetry data is changed (455)

Bug Fixes

- Fixed a bug that caused timestamps of telemetry data to have (apparent)
microseconds precision (even though this is not the case). As a result,
merging position data and car data did not have a well matching timestamp
index resulting in additional interpolated values. This problem only occurred
in combination with recent versions of Pandas.

Other

- Various changes to address deprecations in Pandas.