CHANGELOG
From Beta Tool to Subscription Platform
How TELOS has grown from a free F1 telemetry experiment into a paid, premium-tier intelligence platform — chapter by chapter.
A full pass over the public experience: TELOS adopts an F1 broadcast-direction visual language — driver portraits, team colours, editorial typography — and becomes more responsive and consistent from one page to the next.
Broadcast Redesign
Race Intelligence on the homepage — a new “cover story” scene: portrait of the last GP winner, team colour, giant number, AI verdict (pre-race / live) and track-record with the hit/miss history at a glance.
Redesigned driver pages — every driver now has a broadcast-style hero with a high-resolution photo, season stats and the list of all tracked sessions.
Driver comparison page — face-to-face with large photos, a diagonal split in the two teams' colours and lap times side by side.
Interactive Head-to-Head
Live builder on the homepage — pick two drivers and the comparison preview updates instantly, without reloading the page.
Picker with photos and search — goodbye dropdown menus: now you pick drivers from a list with avatars and quick search.
Unified Visual Language
Brand typography and palette applied consistently across the whole home (editorial titles, mono labels, cyan accent + team colour).
Card surfaces, section headers and text contrast unified for a cleaner, more premium look.
Performance & Freshness
Instant updates — fixed a cache issue where new versions of the site could stay hidden: content now updates immediately.
Faster comparisons — the comparison page loads lap times on the fly, no reload needed.
Race results and AI track-record consolidated automatically at the end of every Grand Prix.
TELOS leaves beta. From a free utility it becomes a subscription platform, with three plans designed for different audiences and a value proposition built on professional telemetry, no longer on raw data access alone.
Subscription System
Three plans — Free, Pro, Pro+ — free access to the basic dashboard, Pro for advanced fans, Pro+ for those who want professional AI and analytics.
Account & Billing — full subscription management from the user area: upgrade, downgrade, invoices, payment method, self-service cancellation.
Secure payments — checkout with a PCI-DSS provider, card and wallet support, automatic monthly / annual billing with an annual discount.
Persistent login & cross-device sessions — one account, one subscription, valid across all devices.
Premium Features
AI Race Insights (Pro+) — automatic post-session analysis: strengths, weaknesses, optimal pit window, stint comparison generated in natural language.
Multi-Driver Compare up to 6 drivers (Pro) — simultaneous comparison of trajectories, delta gaps and setup in a single view.
PDF & CSV export (Pro) — professional reports ready to share, raw datasets ready to import into Excel / Python.
Unlimited history (Pro) — full access to seasons from 2018 onwards; the Free plan covers only the latest season.
Custom Dashboards (Pro+) — build saveable, re-shareable analysis layouts.
Priority on live data (Pro+) — accelerated refresh during ongoing sessions.
Value Proposition Upgrade
Repositioning from “a tool for enthusiasts” to “an F1 intelligence platform” — copy, pricing, onboarding and branding completely rewritten.
Dedicated Pricing page with plan comparison, FAQ, money-back guarantee and clear CTAs for every tier.
Guided post-signup onboarding: a tour of the key features of the chosen plan.
Consistent gating system: every premium feature shows a contextual upsell, not a generic block.
Experience & Content
GP picker with 3D globe — Grand Prix selection on an interactive rotating world map / globe.
Race recap pages — automatic reports for every GP with a winner hero and a visual podium.
Standings, 2026 Calendar and F1 Glossary — new public, indexable and cross-linked pages.
Driver pages & sharing — per-driver/season landings and comparison images ready for social.
AI & Dashboard
One-tap AI debrief and head-to-head with contextual stat-cards and streaming responses.
Ghost-race replay and multi-driver overlay on the speed chart and map, with a team-radio player.
Notifications, Embed & Robustness
Push notifications & Alerts with a weekly email digest for verified users.
Embeddable widgets (countdown, standings, accuracy) for external sites.
Unified design system across all pages, with centralized CSS tokens.
SEO & security — sitemap, clean URLs, data schema, HSTS/COOP and session hardening.
The last release before monetization: TELOS finishes building the features that will become premium. Every new tool is designed to justify an upgrade, not to stay free forever.
New capabilities
AI Race Insights (preview) — the first automatic session-analysis engine; it will ship in production on the Pro+ plan.
Comparison up to 6 drivers — the overlay engine was rewritten to handle more traces without losing smoothness.
PDF and CSV export — a rendering pipeline for reports with cover, header, charts and annotations.
Transactional and marketing emails — a complete user-communication system: welcome, subscription confirmation, reminders, invoices.
Improvements
Rewrote the signup flow with mandatory email verification.
Refactored public pages with a consistent header, footer and mobile-first layout across the whole site.
Performance: unified assets and aggressive caching on statics.
Platform foundations
Account & security — email verification, password reset, magic-link, CSRF protection, session regeneration and anti brute-force rate-limiting.
Freemium feature gates — a gating system that enables or blocks each feature by plan, with a contextual upsell.
Server-side OpenF1 proxy — caching, rate-limiting and error handling for faster, more reliable data.
Installable app (PWA) — manifest, service worker and offline cache: TELOS installs as an app.
Cinematic dashboard
Sci-fi-style HUD with Pit Strategy, weather, live standings widgets and a multi-driver overlay.
AI co-pilot in chat with a usage counter and a session debrief exportable to PDF.
The quality leap at the heart of the product: TELOS stops being “a site that shows charts” and becomes an analysis tool comparable to those used on the pit wall. The foundations of the Pro plan are born here.
Advanced telemetry
Distance-based gap delta — the same method used by track engineers, no longer just time-on-time comparison.
X-Mode Channel — visualization of the activation zones directly on the speed trace.
Engineer View — a dense layout designed for those who know what they're looking at.
Starred Laps & Stint Analysis — favourite laps stay within reach; stints are detected and grouped automatically.
Session Summary & Share — a cinematic session summary with native sharing.
Consistency Rating (σ) — standard deviation as a driver-consistency metric.
TELOS opens its doors to the public. Still free, still no account, but with a clear direction: to become the go-to F1 telemetry platform for fans who want to go beyond the commentator.
Key features
Multi-driver comparison — the first overlay of multiple drivers in a single view.
Ghost laps — synchronized lap-against-lap playback.
Tire degradation heatmaps — visualization of tyre wear stint by stint.
2026 Calendar — countdown to the next race, integrated into the homepage and topbar.
Mobile responsive — the first full layout overhaul for smartphones.
The backbone of the product. Season history, circuit map, first driver comparisons. Still all free and without login: TELOS is an open experiment, but product decisions already look toward a subscription future.
Core platform
Interactive circuit map with overlaid DRS zones.
2018–2025 telemetry history imported and indexed.
Comparison of up to two drivers on lap-time and sector-time.
Data export to JSON / CSV (basic, free version).
The first public prototype of TELOS. One page, one chart, a comparison between two laps. Everything else starts here: every feature, every plan, every user.
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