Bug Reports

If you identify any API bugs or errors in the data please record them here.

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852 responses to “Bug Reports”

  1. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Lenny,
    Thanks for the correction – now amended.
    Chris

  2. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Berdy,
    I’m reluctant to duplicate the timing data because the lap times are the largest element of the database. However, if more users request it I’ll consider it.
    Cheers,
    Chris

  3. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Many thanks Michal – now updated.
    Cheers,
    Chris

  4. Roman Avatar
    Roman

    Hello.
    In the last GP (France GP) results table, you forgot about Grojean. And as a result, the table has only 19 rows instead of 20. Could you pleas? fix it.

    https://ergast.com/api/f1/current/last/results

  5. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Roman,
    Thanks for the warning – now updated.
    Chris

  6. Pete Avatar
    Pete

    Hi! Is there a way to tell from the API what grid position a driver starts the race in? For example, in Monaco this year, Gasly qualified 5th but started the race in 8th due to a penalty. This is a problem for the code I am writing to apply the Fantasy F1 rules and tell how many grid places a driver gained/lost during the race

  7. Pete Avatar
    Pete

    I swear to God I looked for hours, and just saw ‘grid’ in the results. Sorry!

  8. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Pete,
    I’ve added a note on the qualifying page as the location is not obvious.
    Chris

  9. Michel Avatar

    Hello!

    First a big thanks for the providing the API.

    I found that the results for year 2011 round 3 is not containing the fastest lap data. It’s the first race results I found not containing this data. Is this a bug or isn’t this data available?

    Michel

  10. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Michel,
    Thanks for the warning – I’m not sure what happened there!
    Now corrected.
    Chris

  11. Stergios Avatar

    Hi,

    In the latest race results (Belgium GP 2019), the ‘positionText’ field for Norris is “112” instead of “11”.
    Thanks!

  12. Michel Avatar

    Thanks Chris!

  13. sankex Avatar

    Hi Admin,

    Norris’ results for the 2019 Belgian GP has a typo in their position text (112 instead of 11, see below for example)

    http://ergast.com/api/f1/2019/13/results

  14. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Thanks sankex – now corrected.
    Chris

  15. thomas Avatar
    thomas

    Hello,
    Roster changes for Albon/Gasly are not taken into account.
    Thanks for the amazing API!
    Thomas

  16. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Thomas,
    Can you be more specific – what needs to change?
    Chris

  17. Coen Avatar
    Coen

    Hi,

    For the 2015 Chinese GP it shows in your data that Max Verstappen finished in 17th position. But on the official F1 website it says he DNF’d.

    raceId = 928
    driverId = 830
    F1.com link: https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2015/races/919/china/race-result.html

    Cheers,
    Coen

  18. mkl Avatar
    mkl

    @Coen – he completed 90% of winner’s number of laps, he was classified.

  19. Thiago Avatar
    Thiago

    Hello guys,

    I was working with pit stops times and I noticed there are 112 records where the duration seems quite odd (for instance here: http://ergast.com/api/f1/2016/1/pitstops?limit=45). Checking on https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2016/races/938/australia/pit-stop-summary.html, I see the same.

    Is the data wrong or I’m missing something?

  20. mkl Avatar
    mkl

    @Thiago
    It was the red flag period when all the cars returned to pit lane.

  21. Mike Avatar

    Hi –

    Missing fastest lap result for Mexico GP..

    Keep up the great work on the api 🙂

    Thanks

    Mike

  22. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Mike,
    They were added early on Monday – I was asleep before they came out on Sunday!
    Chris

  23. Harry Avatar

    Hi,

    “Lotus” and “Lotus F1” are missing Constructor Table information.
    They are both recognised as constructors but when accessing it to find it’s nationality they both show blank for name, nationality and it’s Information Field.

    No desperation to get it fixed on my end. Just thought you would like to know xD.

    Thanks, Harry

  24. Luke Avatar
    Luke

    Hi,

    I was wondering if there was an exact time every week that the latest race results were updated? Or even if it’s just a rough estimate – would you be able to provide me with that? I want to cache the API responses, but would like to clear this cache at least once a week, and ideally when I know for certain the latest results have been updated.

    Many thanks,
    Luke

  25. Luke Avatar
    Luke

    Whoops! I’ve just read your FAQ. Apologies.

  26. Michel Avatar
    Michel

    I found an error in the qualifying results for the 2019 Russian GP. Kyvat is listed as a driver for Red Bull.

  27. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Thanks Michel – now corrected
    Chris

  28. Brad Avatar

    Hi Chris,

    I believe RIC and HUL were both disqualified in the Japanese Grand Prix; however, the Results still show them finishing +1 Lap.

    Thanks
    -Brad

  29. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Brad,
    Thanks for the heads-up – now corrected.
    Chris

  30. Wesley Noordam Avatar

    If I look at the standings of 2020 I see that Stoffel is also mentioned. Is that correct? I thought he partitions in the Formula E

    https://ergast.com/api/f1/2020/driverStandings

  31. Stergios Avatar

    Hi Chris,

    I’ve notices that Nicholas Latifi is missing from the driver’s table. Can you please add it?

    Thank you

  32. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Thanks Wesley – now corrected.
    Chris

  33. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Stergios – he is there: http://ergast.com/api/f1/drivers/latifi
    Chris

  34. Stergios Avatar

    Thanks Chris. I was actually trying to find him the ANSI compatible DB dump. Anyways, I work around that.

  35. Vinicius Carvalho Avatar
    Vinicius Carvalho

    Hi there, I noticed that the ANSI and Postgres version of the database are still not compatible with postgres SQL. It still uses things like AUTO_INCREMENT. Any chance you could provide a postgresql version of the database?

    Thank you

  36. Michel Post Avatar
    Michel Post

    Thanks for the great work!

    When will the 2020 drivers and constructors be available?

    http://ergast.com/api/f1/2020/constructors
    http://ergast.com/api/f1/2020/drivers

  37. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Vinicious,
    I’m not sure how to improve the approach for creating the PostgreSQL dump which is currently:

    mysqldump –default-character-set=utf8 –compatible=postgres f1db -r f1db_postgres.sql

    If all else fails perhaps you could try loading the CSV tables?
    Best regards,
    Chris

  38. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Michel,
    The driver and constructor queries will only return the 2020 data after the first race, due to the structure of the API. However, you can get listings using:
    http://ergast.com/api/f1/2020/driverStandings
    http://ergast.com/api/f1/2020/constructorStandings
    Cheers,
    Chris

  39. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Stergios,
    I’ve updated the database dumps, if that’s any help.
    Chris

  40. Daniel Avatar
    Daniel

    Hi Chris,
    it would be great to have the database dump in a sqlite compatible version, and the ANSI version does not really help at this point because of compatiiblity issues.

    As you are using MySQL as your primary DB, you could easily run the script offered at https://github.com/dumblob/mysql2sqlite to have a proper sqlite dump. It’s a one-liner.
    I don’t know how the others feel, but I think this one would help more than the ANSI-version for many use cases.

    Keep up the great work
    Daniel (GP Companion)

  41. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Daniel,
    I’m very happy to produce regular MySQL or CSV dumps using any options that people require – however, I don’t want to take responsibility for converting to other database formats, or the ongoing monitoring and testing that this would require. I want to focus my limited time on the data and the API.
    Chris

  42. mkl Avatar
    mkl

    @Daniel
    I’ve played around with mysql2sqlite on the dumps, but without success, as that tool requires specific MySQL dump format. So the conversion on user’s/dev’s side would require loading the dump to MySQL, exporting it in a proper format and hoping that it’s enough for mysql2sqlite.

    I did, however, finally find some time to write a script that converts this specific MySQL dump into an SQLite3-compatible version, by simply doing a bunch of grep and sed operations.
    It of course strips MySQL features like auto increment and default table charsets (and, unfortunately, non-primary and non-unique key indices, defined as “KEY n” in the original dump), but other than that, looks like loading the resulting dump into SQLite3 succeeds – and the provision that it does not aspire to be a universal conversion script (especially if the upstream dump format changes) should go without saying 🙂

    The script’s part of my personal ergast-related toolset: https://github.com/emkael/ergast-goodies

  43. Toby Masters Avatar

    Hey Chris
    Hope you’re well. Just tried grabbing the latest db image ahead of first 2020 GP this weekend. Looks like last update was 20 March. The API seems to be showing the correct updated 2020 schedule but image needs updating. Same for the CSV dump.
    Cheers
    Toby

  44. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Toby,
    Apologies – not sure what happened there. Now updated.
    Chris

  45. Rafa? Avatar
    Rafa?

    Hello, i think that i found small bug in table qualifying:
    qualifyId,raceId,driverId,constructorId,number,position,q1,q2,q3
    6601,941,829,206,28,18,”1:43.69″,\N,\N
    Probably this q1 time should be “1:43.693”

  46. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Rafa,
    Thanks for the correction – now updated
    Chris

  47. john Avatar
    john

    Hello, is this endpoint response ok? “http://ergast.com/api/f1/2015/driverStandings”
    It’s returning only the results until the third race and yesterday returned all season information.

    PD: Great API! Great job!

  48. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi John,
    Thanks for the warning – I unwittingly introduced a bug whilst fixing something unrelated. It should be ok now.
    Chris

  49. atom6 Avatar
    atom6

    Would it be possible to include an actual sqlite database dump as well ? The ansi format is not compatible with sqlite3, there is a script available on github “mysql2sqlite” that works. https://github.com/dumblob/mysql2sqlite

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