v0.7.0 — ML Foundation: Lap Time & Tire Degradation
Closes out the ML foundation phase. Two predictive models fully trained, validated on 2025 held-out data, and exported to data/models/.
Lap Time Predictor (N06)
XGBoost delta-lap-time model with circuit clustering features. Trained on 2023–2024, tested on 2025.
- MAE 0.392s on 2025 test data
- Features include fuel-corrected lap times, tyre life, compound, circuit cluster, race phase
Tire Degradation Predictor (N07–N10)
Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN) in PyTorch with per-compound fine-tuning and MC Dropout for uncertainty quantification.
- Architecture: TCN → per-compound heads (SOFT / MEDIUM / HARD)
- MC Dropout: N=50 forward passes at inference time
- Calibration JSON exported alongside model weights
- Exported to data/models/tire_degradation/
Notes
- src/ module integration deferred to v0.9.0 (post-notebooks phase)
- Tire compound mapping (C1–C5) identified as future enhancement — current data only provides relative names (SOFT/MEDIUM/HARD)
Next: v0.8.0 — Additional Predictors (Overtake its done, Safety Car probability in progress)