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- Live Timing is here — follow every race, sprint, and qualifying session as it happens, with real-time positions, gaps, and intervals for the whole field, plus tyres, pit stops, and fastest laps. Right on your Home tab, or tap in for the full grid. - Bug fixes and improvements

- Bug fixes and improvements

- Bug fixes and improvements

- Bug fixes and improvements

Introducing Latest News — F1 headlines, right in Chequered. - Latest News in the app — a curated feed of the biggest F1 stories, each with a quick summary so you get the gist at a glance. Tap any story to read the full article without leaving Chequered. - News widgets — add small, medium, or large news widgets to your Home Screen. They match your widget theme, highlight breaking news, and can be filtered to just your favorite drivers and teams. - Know the source — every story shows which outlets are covering it, so you can jump straight to the one you trust. - Breaking News alerts — opt in to notifications for the moves that matter: driver transfers, team principal changes, calendar shake‑ups, and more.

- Heat Hazard: a label now appears on the race overview when a heat hazard is declared for a race weekend - Apple Watch: qualifying and race results now appear after each session, along with the starting grid - Bug fixes and improvements

- Bug fixes and improvements

- Bug fixes and improvements

⌚ Apple Watch is here Chequered now lives on your wrist — included with your subscription, at no extra cost. - Apple Watch app — opens on the next session, then scroll for the full weekend schedule with the forecast for every session, plus driver and constructor standings that tap through to full driver and team details. Works offline and refreshes when you raise your wrist; your followed drivers and teams sync from your iPhone. - Watch face complications — add F1 to any watch face: Next Session countdown, session weather, a driver of your choice (championship position + points), a team of your choice, driver and constructor standings, and season progress. They come in circular, corner, rectangular, and inline shapes, so there's one to fit any slot. - Smart Stack — glanceable, full-color cards that surface the right F1 info at then right moment of the race weekend.

- Car upgrades — tap any team for a breakdown of their new parts and the official illustration of the updated car, plus a home-screen heatmap of the season's development battle - Rating breakdowns — tap a race's community score to see exactly how fans split it, from five stars to one - Bug fixes and improvements

- Bug fixes and improvements

- Black-and-white flag warnings (track limits) now have their own notification toggle, separate from black flag alerts (in-session DSQ) - Delayed start and red flag resumption notifications now convert from track time to your local time - Fixed: Red flag alerts not being sent - Fixed: Driver & stewards alerts (penalties, investigations) that could fail to reach some users who follow specific drivers or teams - Fixed: Race-start alert sometimes arriving late - Fixed: Some FIA documents incorrectly triggering a "race ban" alert

Penalty Points - See where every driver stands on super-licence penalty points — and how close they are to a race ban - New leaderboard on the home screen — who's racking them up and who's near the edge, at a glance - On every driver's profile — their tally now sits right under Stats - Tap either to open the full 12-month history: what each penalty was for, who was involved, the session and Grand Prix, when it expires, and the exact regulation breached

Race Ratings - Score every race and sprint with stars and tags - See the community's average — and your own score — right in the Races list and on each race overview - Optional reminder after a session ends, nudging you if it's still unrated - Search by rating in Race Finder — try "greatest races of all time" or "best races of 2026" - Toggle reminders anytime in Settings Other changes - Long-press the app icon to jump straight to the Next Session countdown or Race Finder - Bug fixes and improvements

- Driver profiles celebrate the driver's birthday with an animated frosting-coloured gradient - Race control push notifications now include the driver's three-letter abbreviation (e.g. "VER", "LEC") alongside the car number - Race Finder now show a track-outline thumbnail next to each result - LIVE badge on widgets clears in real-time when sprint and race sessions see the chequered flag

Race Finder - Search every F1 race since 1950 in natural language - Grounded in the full race archive — every answer is pulled straight from real race data, for results you can trust - Ask anything: "Did Schumacher ever win at Spa in the wet?", "Hamilton wet podiums", "Red flags at Spa", "Races with 3 or more safety cars", "VSCs in the 2025 season" - Find races by driver or constructor — wins, podiums, poles, fastest laps, DNFs, points finishes, P4s, wins from pole, wins from outside the top 5 - Filter by circuit, country, continent, year range, dry/wet/intermittent/mixed conditions, sprint vs main race - Weather: dry, light rain, heavy rain, intermittent rain, mixed conditions — at any circuit, any era - Flag events: red flags, safety car deployments, virtual safety cars — by count, circuit, or weather - Qualifying-round queries — knocked out in Q1, knocked out in Q2, reached Q3, missed Q3 (including drivers who made the segment but crashed before setting a time) - Combine filters freely: "Ferrari wins in the 90s in wets", "Safety cars in the wet", "Hamilton outqualifying Rosberg", "Verstappen wins from P15 and beyond" - Records: closest finishes, biggest winning margins, biggest position comebacks - Career milestones: first race, first win, first podium, first pole, last win — for any driver - Head-to-head: beat your teammate, beat a specific rival, in the race or in qualifying - Title moments: races where the Drivers', Constructors', or both championships were clinched - Rarities: Grand Slams (pole + fastest lap + win + every lap led), pole-to-DNF disasters, Driver of the Day winners, youngest/oldest to win/pole/podium - DNFs by cause — engine, gearbox, hydraulics, collision, electrical, anything in the official retirement reason - A driver's strongest circuits — top venues by wins, podiums, or races entered - Every result links to the full race detail with session-by-session results, weather and classifications Race overview - "Watch on F1TV" button opens race directly in the F1TV app - Wet conditions shown for every Grand Prix back to 1950 - Red flag, safety car and virtual safety car counts on modern races

Notifications - Simplified notification settings with quick presets — pick from Disabled, Minimal, Essentials, or Everything, then fine-tune from there - Race result alerts for late changes — get notified when penalties or disqualifications shift the final order, with details on the cause (e.g. "HAM: P2 → P4, 5s penalty") - Improved alerts for stewards' decisions — disqualifications, penalties, investigations, and reprimands now respect their individual settings reliably - Separate notification toggles for session start and chequered flag - Cleaner notification wording across the app - Various reliability fixes affecting how some alerts were delivered Next Session widget - Cleaner display options and a refreshed Next + Race layout - New toggles to show the weather forecast and include or hide Free Practice sessions - New "Show Country Flag" toggle (on by default) — country flag renders inline next to the track name Other changes - Brand new onboarding experience for new installs — walks you through favorites, notifications, and widget setup in a few taps - Browse the widget gallery in any theme — pick from the selector at the top to preview every widget styled the way you'd actually use it - Improved layout for users with Bold Text accessibility setting enabled Also new: Live Race Mode arrives on Mac. If you've got a Mac, the menu bar app is included with your subscription.

- Race/Sprint toggle now appears on the results tab, making sprint results viewable sooner - Fixed an issue where some users received duplicate "session is underway" notifications - Recalled FIA documents no longer show a download button, as the original PDF document is no longer available - Bug fixes and improvements

- Bug fixes and improvements

- Bug fixes and improvements

- Bug fixes and improvements

Console widget - A new interactive retro-console widget with tappable tabs for the next race, driver standings, and constructor standings - Available in small and medium sizes - Pick a focus driver or team to keep them in view as the season progresses Widget themes - Customize the look of your home screen widgets. The previous default is now called Minimalist, and three new themes join it - Notebook Ruled and Notebook Grid — handwritten fonts, marker-blue accents, and a glossy sticker treatment on driver photos and constructor cars, all on a lined or grid paper background - Carbon — a dark, technical aesthetic inspired by the carbon-fiber weaves of a modern F1 car - Pick a theme in Settings → Widget Theme with a side-by-side live preview, or override per individual widget from its edit screen Sprint weekends - Race countdown widgets now display sprint + race lap totals as "19 + 57 laps" so you can see what the full weekend looks like at a glance Lock screen - The circular Next Session lock screen widget now shows the Grand Prix name above the track map, switching to the session name within 48 hours of the session Other changes - Notification preferences moved to a dedicated screen - Sharper countdowns — subtler day-of-week labels, consistent fonts between countdowns and start times - Small layout tweaks across all widgets - Bug fixes and improvements

macOS - Chequered now runs on your Mac as a native menu bar companion that stays out of the way and keeps Formula 1 one glance away - Countdown to the next session, right at the top of your screen - Driver and Constructor championship standings, with focus on your favorite driver or team - One subscription works across iPhone, iPad, and Mac Driver & team details - Redesigned for cleaner browsing — info in compact capsules up top, stats scroll horizontally - Tap Championships on a driver to see every title year, the runner-up, and how close the fight was (e.g. 2008 — Hamilton beat Massa by 1 point) - Two new milestones: Days Since First Race and Days Since Last Race, alongside the existing Races to First Win and Races Since Podium Driver contracts - Driver pages now show contract status: "Signed through 2027+" or "Joining Mercedes 2028" when a future team move has been announced - Annual salary when publicly reported (e.g. $70M USD/year) - New 2027 Grid on the Home tab: 11 team cards showing confirmed seats, expiring contracts, and open spots Other changes - Bug fixes and improvements

Stats - Rotating stats and data-driven insights on the home screen, refreshed throughout race weekends, tap to shuffle - New small and medium widget that cycles through stats throughout the day, tap left for previous or right for next - Prioritizes stats about your favorite drivers and teams when available Qualifying Cutoffs - Upcoming race qualifying tab now shows last season's Q1 and Q2 cutoff times and pole time at the same Grand Prix, a hint of what pace you'll need - After qualifying runs, a compact side-by-side comparison appears below the times, with Q1, Q2 and pole deltas vs last year Other changes - Points Finishes stat added to driver career details - Bug fixes and improvements

Lap by Lap chart enhancements - Tap to highlight a driver's race line - Pinch to zoom for better detail Recent Results - Completed races for the season are shown on the home screen - Races from the last week are hidden to keep you spoiler-free, tap to reveal Other Changes - Wins by Grid Position added to race overview and driver detail career stats - Overtake totals now use on-track overtakes only (more accurate, no longer counts position changes from pit stops) - Bug fixes and improvements