Marcel Overdijk

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It would indeed increase the size a lot. Would you be willing to find out (via their forum) what their source is? I'm a bit hesitant to depend on them...

Yes, it could be a separate dist not being released directly after every race. But for future sustainability it would be better to know what Ergast uses as source.

Thanks for the update. Although the main source is the FIA, is the data publicly available as reference?

Yes I guess they copy from each other. But question is where to retrieve new values from, like after a race has finished. What is the source then...

Hi @mholtzscher thanks for reaching out and thx for the kind words. I created this ticket to create a Protobuf serialized representation of the data, not a gRPC API. Basically...

Thanks for explaining @mholtzscher I'm working on an official F1DB REST API currently to be available later this year. After that I might also offer a GraphQL interface as well.

Hi @marc7s , That's a good point. I will try to add that, at least for the races from 2024 and onwards. I'm not sure we can find that data...

I checked the [Ergast ](https://ergast.com/mrd/) csv files and they seem to have dates for the session dates/times from 2021 onwards. - For 2021 only dates (without time) - For 2022...

Note that the race `date` is already included in F1DB.

@marc7s I have started working on this and I plan to release `2024.0.0.beta2` somewhere this weekend or otherwise early next week. This will initially only include all session dates +...