MNT: fix deprecated inplace operation after chained locator access an…

…d bump min pandas version

fastf1/_api.py

@@ -1180,7 +1180,8 @@ def position_data(path, response=None, livedata=None):
                 .merge(most_complete_ref, how='outer') \
                 .sort_values(by='Date') \
                 .reset_index(drop=True)
-            data[drv]['Status'].fillna(value='OffTrack', inplace=True)
+            data[drv]['Status'] = data[drv]['Status'] \
+                .fillna(value='OffTrack', inplace=False)
             data[drv].loc[:, ['X', 'Y', 'Z']] = \
                 data[drv].loc[:, ['X', 'Y', 'Z']]\
                 .fillna(value=0, inplace=False)

fastf1/core.py

@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ def merge_channels(
         # now use the previously excluded columns to update the missing values
         # in the merged dataframe
         for col in on_both_columns:
-            merged[col].update(data[col])
+            merged.update({col: data[col]})
 
         if 'Driver' in merged.columns and len(merged['Driver'].unique()) > 1:
             raise ValueError("Cannot merge multiple drivers")

pyproject.toml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ requires-python = ">=3.8"
 dependencies = [
   "matplotlib>=3.5.1,<4.0.0",
   "numpy>=1.21.5,<2.0.0",
-  "pandas>=1.3.5,<3.0.0",
+  "pandas>=1.4.1,<3.0.0",
   "python-dateutil",
   "requests>=2.28.1",
   "requests-cache>=1.0.0",

requirements/minver.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 matplotlib==3.5.1
 numpy==1.21.5
-pandas==1.3.5
+pandas==1.4.1
 requests==2.28.1
 requests-cache==1.0.0
 scipy==1.7.3