What is new in Driver Dojo

Driver Dojo is in active development. This is what has shipped, newest first. You can see the full feature set on the features page, and what is coming next on the roadmap.

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What all of this is building: Driver Dojo reads the telemetry from your own laps and returns the exact setup change to make, with the actual value to dial in — not "try more rear wing". It separates the corners where you are losing time because of the car from the ones where you are losing it because of how you are driving, and it measures what happened after you applied a change, so the advice gets better with use.

The reference data underneath it is measured, not authored: per-track corner references are promoted only when several different drivers' telemetry independently agrees on them, which today covers 92.9% of corners across 24 of 25 circuits.

September 2026

• Your own laps are now the yardstick. Once you have five laps at a track, every corner is measured against your own best through it, not against anyone else's. Other drivers' data only steps in as a fallback while yours is still thin. In practice every corner gets a setup recommendation, each with a confidence label so you know how much weight to put on it, and where technique looks like the bigger factor it says so, so you can tell which fixes are the car and which are you. If you are newer to this, this is the change that matters most. (5 September)
• The engineer voice has controls now. A volume slider in Settings (0 to 100%, applied to the clips and to the spoken fallback), the voice toggle and volume on the phone settings sheet, and when the voice is off a banner offers to turn it on and unlock audio in one tap, or snooze the offer for 30 days on that device. An explicit "off" is never re-offered. (13 September)
• MadRing is calibrated from real laps. The F1 26 flagship circuit had been the one track on hand-placed corners. 18 of its 22 corners are now signal-derived from recorded telemetry (12 and 9 drivers behind the two latest), which puts 24 of 25 tracks at 86% coverage or better and 97% of all corners on measured apexes. (12 and 13 September)
• Coaching starts on lap 2 at calibrated corners. Where a corner's apex is measured rather than hand-placed, the coach no longer waits for you to set a personal best before it speaks. (13 September)
• The demo ends with the door open. The last step of the tour now offers "Set up my game, no account needed" as the primary action, with Discord sign-in beside it, so a new driver can go straight to the game settings without creating anything first. (13 September)
• Sessions stay yours in a shared lobby. Two drivers recording from the same online lobby are now split into their own sessions from the first packet, and the engineer voice speaks only in the tab that is watching the live session. The post-stint questions also submit cleanly under load. (12 to 14 September)

August 2026

• The engineer tells you why, not just what. Coaching calls stopped being generic. A corner where you are traction-limited on exit no longer hears "get on the gas sooner", a long braking zone no longer hears "carry more speed", and a spin now gets a diagnosis instead of silence. Wheelspin is only called when wheelspin was actually measured, and a late apex is named as a late apex rather than blamed on the throttle. Spin and brake-release calls went live with clips for every corner, the coach stays quiet while the AI is driving your car, and voice now works properly on iPad. (1 to 23 August)
• A qualifying spotter beta. On a qualifying out-lap the engineer warns you when a rival on a flying lap is genuinely closing, so you can move before you compromise their lap or your own. It only speaks when the car behind is measurably catching you and you are not on a push lap yourself. (7 August)
• Wear advice now points at the right axle. Drivers with front-tyre wear were being told to change the rears. Wear is now read across the whole session but qualified by the stint it actually appeared in, and the card tells you which stint that was and whether your latest one was part of it — so you can tell a stale finding from a live one. When one setup change addresses more than one problem the card now says so, instead of silently dropping the tyre-wear half behind a handling headline. (15 August)
• Race strategy charts show the whole race, at the right tyre rate. Two things were wrong at once. The lap-by-lap charts stopped updating four laps into a race and silently stayed there for its entire length — a four-lap plot just looks like a four-lap plot. And the tyre wear chart drew every stint at a single degradation rate, the rate for whichever compound you happened to be on, while presenting it as your data: on a hard-medium-hard race the medium stint was drawn at your hard-tyre rate. Both are fixed, and the chart now uses the per-compound rates the strategy engine had been calculating all along. (23 August)
• Rival cars show their real colours. Every car on the live track map had been rendering as a grey dot for F1 26 drivers, because the game numbers its 2026 teams differently and nothing matched. The map now reads each car's livery straight from the game instead of a lookup table, so it cannot break again the next time the teams are renumbered. F1 26's full 24-car grid is also read properly now — the last two cars were being skipped entirely. (18 and 23 August)
• F1 26 reference setups now cover 25 tracks. Derived from real F1 26 telemetry rather than falling back to the F1 25 car — up from three tracks at the start of July. This is the reference your recommendations are measured against, so it decides how good the advice can be. (23 August)
• A page for every circuit. Twenty-four per-track pages built from real telemetry already in the app — corner-by-corner insight for each venue, plus a hub linking them. (23 August)
• Your session keeps recording through things that used to interrupt it. Changing the UDP port mid-session no longer strands the session, two drivers behind one connection no longer write into each other's data, and a signed-in session that expires mid-race now tells you to sign in again instead of silently going quiet. (1 to 18 August)

July 2026

• The engine now separates entry, mid-corner and exit. Instead of one balance verdict for a whole session — "you understeer" — the analysis is measured per phase of each corner, against your own laps from that session. A car that pushes wide on turn-in but rotates fine at the apex is a different problem from one that will not rotate at all, and the recommendations tell those apart. (18 July)
• The app knows when you are running assists. ABS flattens brake-lockup telemetry to almost nothing, which used to make an assisted lap look flawless — and could produce brake-bias advice, or a "locking the fronts" radio call, from what was really just noise. Sessions now carry an assist chip showing ABS and traction control, and every surface that reads lockups — recommendations, dashboards, the voice coach — knows to stay quiet rather than invent a finding. (18 July)
• ERS deployment map for F1 26 beta. The Energy section draws where you deploy and where you harvest straight onto the track map, from your own laps. Alongside it sits a plan derived from those laps — the full-throttle stretches worth spending on, the braking zones worth harvesting in, and how much energy you had against how much you used, so you can see what you left on the table. One click saves it as an image. Built because a user asked for it. (18 July)
• Advice built from the setup you actually drove. A month-long accuracy pass over the recommendation engine. The card could quote a setup you saved in the garage after the laps finished, so its "from" values were wrong — on dry and wet running alike; it now resolves to the setup your analysed laps really ran. Sessions that send no setup at all, normal in league and online racing, say so instead of borrowing another game's baseline. Tyre-pressure changes are stepped in real in-game clicks, so a recommended pressure is always a value you can actually select. Fast corners stopped being reported as oversteer just because the understeer detection goes blind above 170 km/h. A spin no longer dominates a whole stint's balance reading. And a session that starts dry and turns wet is no longer run through the dry-weather engine. (14 to 25 July)
• Every comparison is scoped to you, your game and your session type. Several places were measuring you against the wrong reference. The "off ideal pace" sector tip used a static file with bad data in it. Lap compare could pick another driver's session — or your own from a different F1 year — as the "before". On a shared race-engineer link the analysis was measured against the viewer's personal best rather than the driver's, and with two people connected at once your dashboard could show someone else's tyre wear. All of it now resolves to your own best in the same game and session-type family, and where there is no fair reference the tip is withheld rather than guessed. (19 to 25 July)
• Race strategy fuel numbers corrected. The fuel-burn fallback assumed 2.3 kg a lap — a generic figure well over half again too high for both F1 25 and F1 26, where measurement across thousands of real lap pairs puts it nearer 1.45 and 1.26. That systematically over-fuelled the recommended start fuel. Per-track fuel corrections were also keyed to the wrong track numbers, so Monza and Baku silently got none. The lap-time projection now also states plainly that it does not model the car getting faster as fuel burns off. (12 July)
• The corner data behind the coaching became real. The claim that Driver Dojo's per-track baselines are calibrated against real telemetry used to say "all 24 tracks". Measured honestly, the number is 92.9% of corners signal-derived across 24 of 25 tracks — and that is what the site says now. In the same stretch the corner-by-corner coaching stopped contradicting itself: it had been going dark for F1 26 drivers at tracks like Jeddah and Bahrain, and where it did work it disagreed with the other tabs, showing twelve corners on the map and fourteen on the heatmap. Coaching, the track map, the heatmap and the voice coach now resolve the identical set of corners. Seven circuits also gained genuine F1 26 reference setups instead of starting from the F1 25 car. (12 to 25 July)
• F1 26 telemetry made dependable, and a port of your own. The relay is the only path that reliably carries F1 26's oversized packets, and a deploy during a quiet moment could kill the tunnel unnoticed — the cause of a roughly two-day outage. It now spots a dropped tunnel immediately and reconnects, the in-game warning stops pointing you at a relay that is down, and it recommends the relay rather than the old Format 2025 downgrade that throws away F1 26's energy data. If you are still sending telemetry direct, a dismissible prompt tells you to switch before you lose a session to it. Separately, anyone can now claim a personal UDP port straight from Settings rather than only inside the setup wizard — which had left drivers who closed that wizard with no route to one at all. (13 to 18 July)
• The live experience: a rebuilt GRID tab, and a live tab that stays in the present. The rival board now fills the screen instead of leaving dead space around a half-empty table, with rows that grow to the size of the lobby, a last-lap column and a tyre-age column per rival, and tyre wear merged with surface temperature into one card per corner. The engineer board gained a strategy panel reading undercut and overcut against the field from real tyre ages and gaps. On the live tab, the track map now plots the other cars in the session, the Time Trial corner table holds its numbers across a lap rollover and a pause rather than emptying every lap, and starting a new session no longer inherits the last one's best lap and pit strategy — which is why the app could tell you that you were on your best lap while you were in sector two. (12 to 25 July)

June 2026

• F1 26 support beta. Driver Dojo reads the F1 26 (2026 Season Pack) telemetry, including the new energy and active-aero data — the parser was written against EA's published spec before the game shipped, so it worked on day one. An energy analyzer and a new Energy section on the race tab show ERS harvest, deployment and battery. The bigger problem took the rest of the month: F1 26's packets are too large for the normal connection and most sessions were recording nothing at all. A dedicated telemetry relay now carries them, and the app tells you in-game how to switch if your connection is dropping data. (3 June, energy section 12 June, relay live 19 June)
• The voice coach learns the race beta. Beyond per-lap corner coaching, the engineer now calls the session itself: the race start, a safety car, a fresh set of hards, a strong launch, an all-time best sector, a rain warning worked out from the forecast, a nudge for one more run in qualifying, and a sign-off when you pull into the garage. He stops offering technique when the car is damaged. Hundreds of new clips closed the gaps where he used to fall back on a synthetic voice, and the busiest calls gained a second phrasing that alternates, so a corner you keep getting coached on stops sounding like a tape loop. (15 to 16 June)
• The live tab, rebuilt. A new telemetry-centred board: a running delta against your best measured at the car's actual position on track, sector times and lap status down the left, live traces and speed-against-best through the middle, a session-adaptive right rail, a DRS indicator, and on F1 26 an energy deploy and harvest strip. It ran opt-in for a week and became the default for everyone after a full race weekend on real telemetry. Phones get a purpose-built glance view rather than a squeezed desktop board — portrait leans on tyres, sector deltas and your inputs; landscape on the delta and the track map. (15 to 29 June)
• Race strategy rebuilt on real data. Lap times drop as fuel burns off, and that was masking how much your tyres were actually degrading — on one real race stint the raw reading understated degradation by about a quarter. Strategy now strips the fuel effect out before measuring wear, and the degradation model itself was recalibrated against several hundred real race stints, where it had been roughly twice as steep: it over-valued fresh tyres and pushed you into stopping too often and too early. Three-stop plans are now offered on long, high-degradation races, and the tyre-cliff warning gives you the actual number — which stint runs the rear to what percentage — instead of a vague caution. (22 to 29 June)
• Goal-aware setup recommendations. Pace, balanced and tyre-life modes now genuinely change what you are advised to do, the reasoning behind each card goes deeper, and the recommended values land on real in-game clicks. (10 to 11 June)
• What the app can see got sharper. Front and rear brake lockups are now detected in your telemetry and feed both the coaching and the recommendations. Understeer is measured as how much rotation the car is missing against your own best lap, so the reference is you and not a generic model. And the corner map itself got more honest: a corner's apex is only promoted to "learned from telemetry" when several different drivers' data independently agrees on where it is — 98 corners across 14 tracks cleared that bar this month. (7 to 12 June)
• Racing-line lap compare. Compare two laps as racing lines drawn on the track map, coloured green where you gained time and red where you lost it, with a synced cursor and zoom. (7 June)
• An interactive demo you can try without the game. A full Silverstone session built from real captured laps, so anyone can click through the live board, the corner coaching and a genuine two-lap racing-line comparison before installing anything. New visitors land on it, with a clear way out to setting up their own game. The features and changelog pages arrived alongside it. (21 to 25 June)

May 2026

• A private UDP port for every driver. If you and someone else connected from behind the same home internet connection, the app had only your IP address to tell you apart — and it couldn't. Everyone now gets their own UDP port. The setup wizard claims one for you, shows it with a copy button and checks the game is actually reaching it before you leave; Settings shows it too. Because each driver arrives on a different port, one person's laps can no longer be recorded against someone else's account. (2 May)
• Driver Dojo. The app was renamed to Driver Dojo, with the race-engineer share view and per-player telemetry setup. Over the following week it got the look to match — a new logo and wordmark, the cyan accent in place of the old red, a new typeface pairing, and tabular figures so live telemetry numbers stop jittering as they update. By the end of the month the whole app — every tab, every recommendation, every coaching note — was also running in Spanish, Italian, French and German alongside English. (rename 2 May, languages 21 to 26 May)
• F1 24 support. Added F1 24 alongside F1 25, so older saves and players are covered. (17 May)
• The GRID tab and the pit-wall engineer view. A live rival board arrived: every car's last lap and sector times with the purple-sector holders, gap to the leader and to the car ahead, pit stops, tyre compound and age, and later opponent tyre wear and ERS — with positions animating as they change. On a wide screen it opens into a three-column pit wall: the full field on the left, a real GPS track map, lap chart and race feed through the middle, and tyre, fuel, ERS and pit-window cards down the right. There is a phone version of the same view. From mid-month it stopped being locked to shared engineer links, so solo drivers in a race or qualifying session get it too. (5 to 23 May)
• The whole track, mapped — and honest about what it knows. Pre-built GPS outlines for 21 of the 24 circuits mean the track map draws instantly for everyone, whether or not you have laps there yet. Corner detection learned to find flat-out corners such as Eau Rouge from the track's curvature rather than only from where drivers lift, and every corner now carries a confidence rating — where one has not been verified the app says it is still learning instead of coaching you off a guess. On top of that sits the mistake heatmap: a whole-track view with three layers you switch between — time lost per corner across your non-best laps, exit speed against your own best, and how consistent your braking points are — with a hot-corner list, a branded image export, and a button that copies your worst three corners as plain text. (3 to 17 May)
• Recommendations that show their working — and fewer hoops to reach them. Setup advice stopped being a list of numbers. Each recommendation now sits under the problem it addresses — oversteer on exit, tyre wear — headed by a plain-English sentence about what was detected in your data, then the specific corners the evidence came from with the apex-speed shortfall and time lost at each, then the levers underneath. Estimated gain, its uncertainty range, confidence and side-effect cost sit permanently on every card instead of in a hover tooltip a phone could never reach. Getting there got easier too: the post-stint questionnaire is optional with a button straight past it and is ten targeted questions rather than seventeen, advice unlocks from your first lap if you have driven that track before, it is scoped to the stint you are actually on rather than the whole session blended together, and laps you invalidated by running wide now feed the analysis because their slip and braking data is real. (4 to 30 May)
• Voice coaching arrives beta. Switch it on in Settings and the app starts talking to you. Setup recommendations can be spoken aloud from a library of recorded engineer lines, and per-lap coaching landed with it: after each lap the engineer names your worst corner and what it cost you, tells you when you have just set your fastest lap, and waits for his own sentence to finish rather than talking over himself. (31 May)
• History on your phone, plus five phone-only views. A full session history tab on mobile, joined by a corner heatmap, a setup-diff explainer, a tyre-cliff forecast, an AI corner replay and a strategist view — and a proper phone header with a settings sheet to reach them from. (5 to 16 May)

April 2026

• The recommendation engine, rebuilt on physics. The old engine counted events — so many oversteer moments, so many lockups — multiplied them by a weight and emitted a setup change from a hardcoded table. It could not answer the question that actually matters: how many milliseconds will this save me? The new engine measures the lap-time cost of each problem from your telemetry, attributes that cost to the setup parameters that influence it, and ranks changes by the time they are expected to gain. Your own best segments are the reference, not a generic model or somebody else's lap. It also began telling you when a corner is technique-limited rather than setup-limited — that the time is in your driving, not the car. (26 to 30 April)
• Recommendations that say what they're worth, and check whether they worked. Every setup change carries an estimated time gain with an uncertainty range, a confidence figure and the cost of its side effects, badged Major, Moderate or Minor. If your laps are too inconsistent to read cleanly, the app says so rather than pretending otherwise. And once you apply a change it compares your clean lap times before and after and records whether it actually helped — discounting your own steady improvement, so a driver who is simply getting better doesn't read as a string of successful setup changes. (26 April)
• Read-only race-engineer links. Share a live link and a friend can be your race engineer from anywhere, seeing your telemetry, recommendations, strategy and coaching without connecting the game. The first phone-only analysis tabs landed at the same time. (28 April)
• The live race dashboard. A sim-wheel-inspired race view with a live track mini-map, tyre readings in plain language — wear, tyre temperature and brake temperature per corner, with a one-line summary such as "FL overheating, RR worn" — and battle cards for the car ahead and the car behind either side of your position. (26 to 27 April)

The foundation

Underneath all of the above, Driver Dojo reads live F1 telemetry over UDP, turns your own laps into exact setup changes based on where you're actually losing time, coaches you corner by corner, models race strategy and pit windows, stores your session history, and covers all 24 circuits. It has done all of this since the start, and it keeps getting better. The features page has the full picture.