The break is over. 12 races to go.

F1 comes back this weekend at Zandvoort, and it's a sprint weekend, so there's a race on Saturday and another on Sunday. Half the season is still ahead of us, and it's the half where the title actually gets decided.

We didn't take the break off. Version 1.0.3 is the biggest update since launch, and most of it came from things you told us after Hungary.

1,192

moments caught across 15 races and sprints this season. Hungary alone was 116, across all 22 drivers on the grid.

NEW IN 1.0.3

Filters, so you only see what you care about

A busy race sends a lot of alerts. Tap a category and the feed shows only that: just the pit stops, just the battles, just the safety cars. Works during the race and afterwards when you scroll back through it.

A warning when you're following too much

Pick over half the teams as favourites and your phone will not stop. The app now tells you that on the race screen, and takes you straight to the setting that fixes it.

Which tyres everyone starts the race on

Before the race starts you can see which tyres each driver is on, grouped so the split across the grid is obvious. It's the first clue about who is planning to stop early and who is trying to go long.

The state of the race, always visible

Green, yellow, safety car, red flag, finished. It sits at the top of the race screen so you never have to guess whether what you're looking at is still under normal racing.

And one more, still behind the curtain TESTING

The app has always assumed you are watching on TV, so we built a second mode for the weekends when you cannot, and it is not switched on for everyone yet. Keep reading.

Category filters on the Grid Copilot alert feed
Tap a category, see only that.
The Grid Copilot banner warning you are following too many teams
A heads up when you're following too much.
Starting tyre compounds for every driver before the race
Who starts on what, before the race starts.
The race state banner at the top of the Grid Copilot race screen
Green, yellow, safety car, always in view. IN TESTING

Track mode

Right now the app assumes you're on the sofa with the race on. It tells you what just happened, because you can already see it.

Track mode is for when you're not. Races always seem to land on top of something. Lunch with the family, a birthday you can't skip, the supermarket run, a kid's football match, walking the dog. There's a switch at the top of the race screen. Flip it and the app stops explaining the race to you and starts being the race.

Here's what you get:

The full order, every few seconds. Every driver from first to last, with how far each one is behind the leader and behind the car directly ahead. That second number is the one that tells you a fight is coming.

Who is climbing and who is falling. Places gained or lost since the start, plus last lap times, so you can spot someone dropping off before they lose the place.

Every tyre and every pit stop. What each driver is running, how many stops they've made, and the whole race drawn out as one line per driver, so you can see at a glance who is on a different plan.

Fastest lap and conditions. Who set it and on which lap, plus air and track temperature, wind, humidity, and whether it's raining.

And every alert, exactly as always, because nothing is taken away here. You still get everything the app already sends you, on the grounds that without a broadcast you need the explanations more rather than less.

Track mode showing the live running order with gaps and tyres
The full order, updating as they race.
Track mode showing every pit stop of the race as one line per driver
Every pit stop, one line per driver. It's built and it works. We're still testing it ourselves, because it asks a lot more of our servers than the normal app does, and we'd rather find the limit on our own phones than on yours mid race. You'll hear from us here when it's ready.

12 races left, and the best of them are still coming. Zandvoort this weekend, then Monza on Sunday September 6.

Update to 1.0.3 before then so you have all of it for the first race back.