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485 responses to “Feedback”

  1. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    Hi,
    I noticed that not all F1 data is updated. For example the details about constructors are updated only until Russian GP. There are no info about USA and Mexico GP.
    http://ergast.com/api/f1/2015/constructors/ferrari/results.json
    That’s what i mean.

    Great job BTW with all the rest 😉

  2. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Alex,

    The results are available but are blocked by the default limit of 30 results per page. Try this instead:

    http://ergast.com/api/f1/2015/constructors/ferrari/results.json?limit=40

  3. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    My mistake, thanks a lot!

  4. Daryl Avatar
    Daryl

    Hi Everyone,

    Could you double-check the order of the 2007 Constructor Standings please? McLaren is appearing at the bottom.

    http://ergast.com/api/f1/2007/constructorStandings

    I’m assuming that the orderby should be based on points? I haven’t noticed this elsewhere and writing the logic to order the results isn’t a problem. I just want to check my assumption before writing any code.

    Cheers
    Daryl

  5. Daniel Avatar
    Daniel

    I guess 2007 was the year when mclaren was judged guilty because of spying ferrari Through an ex employee if i remember correctly. Besides paying million dollars they were banned from the standings afterwards

  6. Daryl Avatar
    Daryl

    @Daniel

    Ah yes of course. Just reading about it on wikipedia…

  7. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    2007 was a very annoying year because I had to modify code to allow constructor points and standings to be edited separately! (previously defined algorithmically)

  8. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    hi,
    Are ads allowed in app using these API? App will be downloadable for free of course.

    Thanks!

  9. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Alex,

    That’s fine.

  10. Douglas Avatar
    Douglas

    Do you have lap split times by any chance

  11. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Douglas,

    Sorry, unfortunately not.

  12. Daryl Avatar
    Daryl

    Happy New Year everyone!

    Do you have an idea when the F1 2016 season will be added?

    Thanks
    Daryl

  13. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Daryl,
    The provisional timetable is now available here:

    http://ergast.com/api/f1/2016

  14. Craig Avatar
    Craig

    Hi Admin,

    Just wondering if you have anywhere in the data, the number of Laps (scheduled laps) for each race? If not is this something that could be added for the 2016 season?

    Thanks

    Craig

  15. Bregnvig Avatar
    Bregnvig

    HI,

    Is it possible to get practice dates and times? If not, would it be something you would consider adding the the season timetable?

    Otherwise a great API 🙂

    Regards,
    Bregnvig

  16. Jamie Hall Avatar
    Jamie Hall

    Hi,
    First of all, this is great API, I love the data you can pull from it. I am wondering if there is any thoughts to start recording penalties, investigations and flags?

  17. Stergios Avatar
    Stergios

    Hi,

    Just wanted to say thank you for this great API! Hope you can keep it live for years!

    I’ve starting working on an ‘F1 Race Result prediction engine’. Let’s see if I can reach any accuracy on the predictions.

    I’ll keep you posted for any updates.

    Thanks,
    Stergios

  18. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Stergios,
    Let us know when you’ve got something working 🙂

  19. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    Hi,
    Thanks you again for the amazing service you provide. I was just wondering why driver standings aren’t updated while all the rest (race results, quali results) are instead. I use the following link but seems that there is no data available. http://ergast.com/api/f1/2016/driverStandings

    Thanks

  20. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Alex,
    Thanks for the heads-up. Needed a kick. Should be ok now.

  21. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    Don’t worry, i was thinking about a server problem. I’m glad to hear it’s all ok.

    Thanks again.

  22. Pjotr Wicz Avatar
    Pjotr Wicz

    Wow great site, I wonder what sources u used to create the data?
    Especially lap times, results and standings. I don’t assume you added all by hand?
    I mean how do I know everything provided by the api is correct?

  23. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Pjotr,

    Data before 2008 comes from Wikipedia and has not been exhaustively checked. Luckily, users of the site are very helpful in reporting errors. Data from 2008 onwards is checked manually where necessary and errors are rarer. Again, when there is an error people generally report it.

  24. Pjotr Wicz Avatar
    Pjotr Wicz

    Admin thanks for your reply. I think that settles it. Are errors found also updated in wikipedia?

  25. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Pjotr,
    The errors were primarily due to problems with the importation process rather than errors in Wikipedia itself. Wikipedia tables are reasonably consistent but people add footnotes, additional mark-up etc which can cause problems.

  26. Pjotr Wicz Avatar
    Pjotr Wicz

    Admin, I found an issue.
    In the Australian 2015 GP I miss Roberto Merhi and Will Stevens. Maybe they were not imported as they are separated on wikipedia?
    May I ask another question why are qualifying and results two separate tables. They could have been merged into one table, right? Now I have to execute 2 queries to get a list of merged qualifying and race results. Or am I wrong?

  27. Pjotr Wicz Avatar
    Pjotr Wicz

    Admin, I really like this data set! Is it also possible to count the number of pole positions by driver? Should I take qualifying.position or results.grid for this?

  28. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Pjotr,
    e.g. for Alonso: http://ergast.com/api/f1/drivers/alonso/grid/1/races

    The “total” attribute gives the number of matches.

    Chris

  29. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Pjotr,
    IIRC Manor Marussia didn’t participate in the Australian 2015 GP.

    There are a couple of reasons for having separate queries for qualifying and race results:
    – the qualifying results are published earlier than race results, so server and client code would be more complex
    – for performance reasons (server and client) it’s best to return the minimum data for each query
    Chris

  30. Pjotr Wicz Avatar
    Pjotr Wicz

    Chris thanks for your explanation I now understand the separation which makes sense.
    I’m a student so I still have to learn a lot.

    Is it correct the query http://ergast.com/api/f1/drivers/alonso/grid/1/races will return all races where Alonso started on the first position?
    What if he qualified as 1st and had a penalty due to gearbox change and started as 6th?
    Would that mean it will count towards a pole position?

  31. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Pjotr,
    No problem – questions are always welcome.
    “grid” is the official starting grid position rather than the qualifying position.

  32. Doug Avatar
    Doug

    Hi,

    Super cool API! Keep up the great work!

    Something I built using this over the weekend:

    https://youtu.be/XFMTn954cm0

    Cheers

  33. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Doug,
    That’s probably the coolest API client to date!

  34. koen Avatar
    koen

    Hi, great site !

    2 questions:

    Are there any plans to add

    1) Practice (FP1, FP2, Fp3) laptime data
    2) Tyre usage (initial 13 sets and per session) data
    3) sector time data (for each lap) to the dataset ?

    I have seen practice data on fia.com but not sure where to collect tyre usage data and sector time data from..

    thanks

    reg koen

  35. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Koen,
    There hasn’t been much demand for Practice data and the data entry would be onerous. I’d be very keen to add tyre data but have never found a consistent source. Sector data would be interesting too, if there was a source.

  36. koen Avatar
    koen

    hi , thanks for your reply. Maybe the Pirelle website for the tyre data although they publish it as a graph only it seems ..i have asked them if it can be downloaded .. .. i will see if i can found some sources for sector data ..

    reg koen

  37. Pjotr Wicz Avatar
    Pjotr Wicz

    Chris,
    The importation tool you used/wrote to retrieve data form wikipedia is that available? e.g. on github or bitbucket?

  38. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Pjotr,
    Sorry, it’s not available. It hasn’t been used for many years so probably wouldn’t function correctly now.

  39. Pjotr Wicz Avatar
    Pjotr Wicz

    No problem Chris.

  40. James Avatar
    James

    Hi,

    Are there any plans to update Formula E data? Can’t seem to find any data since the second race.

    Thanks

  41. Daniel Avatar
    Daniel

    Good question, I noticed the same. I would also appreciate Formula E data very much.

    Best regards
    Daniel

  42. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    James, Daniel,
    Unfortunately, there was very little demand for the Formula-E data (or visible apps?) and the data was difficult to import so it hasn’t been continued after the first season.

  43. Daniel Avatar
    Daniel

    Hi all,
    just wanted to let you know that I just published my all new version 2.0 of GP Companion, which is an android app that tries to utilize as much as possible of Chris’ mrd data in an both intuitive and appealing way. Hope you like it. And as always I have to say Kudos to Chris for givin us all this data for free.
    Just a sidenote: GP Companion is also totally free does not use any kind of ads or whatsoever. You can check it out in the google play store:
    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.indigodev.gp_companion

    PS: I was just asking for Formula E data these days because it would have only cost me an additonal button to make this app feature both worlds, which I think would be pretty cool (as at its core it is programmed in a very generic way.) I hope that one day there will be more demand so that it works out for you to add this data too.

  44. Pjotr Wicz Avatar
    Pjotr Wicz

    Hi Chris,

    I have a data question again.

    Why is Mclaren split up in e.g. McLaren Ford, McLaren BRM and just McLaren?
    And why is for example McLaren Honda not in the database?

    It is now not possible to query the number of races/wins by McLaren.

  45. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Hi Pjotr,

    The historical data identifies teams by constructor + engine manufacturer whilst the contemporary data just uses the constructor name. This reflects how the data was originally imported – and may not have been the best choice with hindsight.

    Chris

  46. Martin Rey Avatar
    Martin Rey

    will you add speed trap data?
    Car, engine, driver, circuit, session, year, speedMAX

    Car, engine, driver, circuit, session, year, speedAVERAGE

  47. koen Avatar
    koen

    car , engine ? where is that coming from ?

  48. Jonathan Avatar
    Jonathan

    Great API, just found a little error though – Esteban Ocon has no permanentNumber. He has chosen 31

  49. Admin Avatar
    Admin

    Thanks Jonathan – now added.

  50. Peter Avatar
    Peter

    Great API, but do you have any plans to support the API over https?

    I am finding that more and more web hosting companies are switching to only hosting pages over https and most browsers wont load external resources from ‘insecure’ http sources?

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