F2 data available from FastF1?

[Djeeeeee]

Proposed new feature or change:

Hello, I think the answer is that it is not possible after having a brief look on the web. But just in case I have missed something, do we get the same level of access for F2 (or even F3) that we get for F1 from which we could extract similar data? Thanks

[theOehrly]

If I remember correctly, F2 at least has some live data but no archive for downloads after the session. But I haven't checked in a long time. It's not as simple as just pointing FastF1 at a different API server, in any case. It'd be a huge amount of work, and I currently have no capacity for that. And additionally, I'd have to deal with even more maintenance. It's really not feasible even if it were possible, which I'm not sure.

[fifisaac]

The FIA does release various pieces of data as PDFs after the session, but nothing near what is taken from the F1 API by FastF1: https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/2023_01_brn_f2_r1_timing_sprintracehistorychart_v01_0.pdf https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/2023_01_brn_f2_r1_timing_sprintracesectoranalysis_v01_0.pdf https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/2023_01_brn_f2_r1_timing_sprintracepitstopsummary_v01.pdf https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/2023_01_brn_f2_r1_timing_sprintracemaximumspeeds_v01.pdf

Obviously out of scope for FastF1 as theOehrly said, but could be interesting as a separate project (which I might consider starting myself at some point)

[harningle]

The FIA does release various pieces of data as PDFs after the session, but nothing near what is taken from the F1 API by FastF1: https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/2023_01_brn_f2_r1_timing_sprintracehistorychart_v01_0.pdf https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/2023_01_brn_f2_r1_timing_sprintracesectoranalysis_v01_0.pdf https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/2023_01_brn_f2_r1_timing_sprintracepitstopsummary_v01.pdf https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/2023_01_brn_f2_r1_timing_sprintracemaximumspeeds_v01.pdf

Obviously out of scope for FastF1 as theOehrly said, but could be interesting as a separate project (which I might consider starting myself at some point)

I've done something on the PDFs, and made a very incomplete notebook on extracting the table from those PDFs, just in case you want to have a look: https://github.com/harningle/fia-doc/blob/main/notebook/demo.ipynb

[Djeeeeee]

Thanks all, that is useful! I don't think they still publish these documents as I can't find them for Bahrain sprint/feature race unfortunately

[fifisaac]

Thanks all, that is useful! I don't think they still publish these documents as I can't find them for Bahrain sprint/feature race unfortunately

There's also many missing from the past and loads of weird inconsistent things about them, I think building a project to analyse them would be very difficult

[Djeeeeee]

Just discovered this:

https://fiaresultsandstatistics.motorsportstats.com

Plenty of info and data for various series, F2 included.

Thanks

[fifisaac]

Just discovered this:

https://fiaresultsandstatistics.motorsportstats.com/

Plenty of info and data for various series, F2 included.

Thanks

And they have an API! Perhaps somebody could make something for F2 (or hell, any of the other series this site has) using this

[fifisaac]

Put together a little prototype using that site if anyone who was in here wants to mess about with it too. I noticed a few problems trying to figure out the API, the main one being finding what sessions a weekend has. And obviously lots of series lack detailed data, but thats understandable given how much there is on the site