Free Practice sessions and Sprint Qualifying

[awanderingspirit]

The README.md file claims the new database schema will allow better adaption to changing rulesets. Does this mean jolpica-f1 seeks to incorporate more and novel stages of the race weekend? If so, why not start with Free Practice sessions and Sprint Qualifying results? As of present I'm only aware of there being the following stages throughout a race weekend (season round):

1. FP1
2. FP2
3. FP3
4. SQ1
5. SQ2
6. SQ3
7. Sprint
8. Q1
9. Q2
10. Q3
11. Race

A minimum of rank (finish position) and time suffices for each stage. A status on each and every stage would provide powerful insight into peculiar mechanical problems the team could be facing during a race weekend or entire season.

[harningle]

Sprint quali. sessions will be supported and the data parsing part is finished. See https://github.com/harningle/fia-doc/blob/main/fiadoc/parser.py

Practice sessions (results only, not lap times as FIA does not publish lap time data publicly) in principle can be done as well, but we aim to first get things running.

[CyrilNb]

nice work! Is it already available through an endpoint?

[harningle]

no not yet. They should be available later this year, and we will try to make 2024 (and maybe also 23) data available as well

[CyrilNb]

all right, could you ping us here when available if you remember this topic by any chance? 😅

looking forward to it.
Just donated, keep it the good work guys!

[harningle]

Many thanks! We will come back to this discussion when these data are there

[GM-Fedelopez]

I'm getting data for a "pronostics game" between friends, so I don't need to charge every driver position in each race... nor every race date/time/circuit.
So first of all, thank you guys for this tool.
Now... If I get results from a specific Sprint race (https://api.jolpi.ca/ergast/f1/2024/5/sprint/) date is Race Date (actually in "Races" node)..
There should be a SprintDate inside "SprintResults", or something like this.

[jolpica]

Thanks for the suggestion, we definitely hope to make this available in the next few months through new endpoints. However we don't have any plans to add functionality to the existing /ergast endpoints.

[GM-Fedelopez]

Ok... I'll anyway add here any suggestion I found, except you tell me not do that or do it in some other place or some other way.
P.E.
Some CircuitId are differents, for same circuits, in Circuit data than in Race data
https://api.jolpi.ca/ergast/f1/2025/circuits/?format=json
|20
|circuitId: "vegas"
|url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Grand_Prix#Circuit"
|circuitName: "Las Vegas Strip Street Circuit"
while
https://api.jolpi.ca/ergast/f1/2025/races/?format=json
|21
|season: "2025"
|round: "22"
|raceName: "Las Vegas Grand Prix"
||Circuit 
||circuitId: "vegas"
||url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Grand_Prix#Circuit"
||circuitName: "Las Vegas Strip Street Circuit"

Well, my mistake... but I'm sure that i got "las_vegas" in any api json data... and was stored in my DB...
Ill get back If can reproduce...