After several incredible years, I've made the difficult decision to sunset f1-dash.
A combination of increasing IP restrictions, motorsport data becoming locked behind subscriptions made it clear that continuing active development is no longer sustainable.
f1-dash will remain open source and self-hostable. I'll continue to provide basic maintenance, security updates when necessary, and updated self-hosting documentation, but active feature development has now come to an end.
Before anything else, I want to say thank you.
What started as a small side project grew into something I never expected: a platform used by thousands of motorsport fans around the world. Seeing f1-dash become part of so many race weekends, attract contributors from across the community, and reach nearly 2,000 GitHub stars has been incredibly rewarding.
While f1-dash is reaching the end of its journey, the vision behind it is not.
Over the past year, I've been building Nitrous, the spiritual and technical successor to f1-dash. Nitrous is a cross-platform desktop application for motorsport live timing, available on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Moving beyond the browser unlocks possibilities that simply weren't available to f1-dash. As a desktop application, Nitrous can provide deeper integrations, more advanced features, better performance, and a more capable foundation for the future. Features such as Formula 1 account integration, richer telemetry experiences, enhanced data analysis, and other capabilities that were difficult, or impossible, to implement reliably in a web application are now within reach.
Most importantly, Nitrous is built on everything I learned while creating and maintaining f1-dash. The goal remains unchanged: to create the best motorsport live timing experience possible.
Today marks both the sunset of f1-dash and the first public release of Nitrous. Formula 1 support is available from day one, with additional motorsport series planned for future releases.
If f1-dash has been part of your race weekends, I hope you'll join me for the next lap.
→ Discover Nitrous and download the first release at nitrous.softwareThank you for being part of this journey.
- slowlydev