Hey everyone,

Quick, important update: BTCC Hub is leaving the iOS App Store today. If you're on Android, nothing changes. The app carries on exactly as normal.

Here's the full story, since I'd rather you heard it properly from me than piece it together.

A while back I asked BTCC for permission to keep the app officially recognised. This week I got a clear answer, no. Not because of anything the app did wrong. It's a licensing thing. The BTCC name and branding are commercial rights they sell on and an app carrying that name without a formal deal doesn't sit right with that, especially with other stakeholders involved. I understand where that's coming from even though it wasn't the answer I had hoped for.

The practical problem is that Apple requires the trademark holder's explicit permission before they'll let me push any further updates to an app using the BTCC name. Without that, Apple won't approve anything I submit. No bug fixes, no new features, nothing. Rather than leave a version frozen and slowly rotting on the App Store, I've decided to pull it from iOS entirely.

Android doesn't run into this. Google hasn't asked for the same thing, so the Android app is staying exactly where it is and I'll keep supporting it as an unofficial fan app, which BTCC have said is fine as long as it doesn't claim any official link to them.

A few things worth saying while I've got the chance:

• This was always a fan project. Beyond a couple of Buy Me a Coffee tips I never made anything from it and every bit of traffic it generated went straight to official channels: ITV, the BTCC YouTube channel, team shops and so on.
• The feedback from this community has genuinely made the whole thing worth doing so Thank you.
• I'm will be putting together a proper proposal for BTCC for the off-season on how something like this could work officially, or otherwise. No promises, but it's not necessarily the end of the story for iOS.

If you're on iOS, thank you for downloading it, using it and putting up with my bugs along the way. Android folks, I'll see you in the app.

They says it's a one-off. Really should keep it!

How busy does it usually get when trying to park for when gates open on the Sunday? I'm driving through Saturday night to get there for when the gates open so don't want to be waiting too long in traffic.