Formula 1 Standings

[JScottyR]

Hi Chuck, LegoGuy, et. al.

As I mentioned previously, one of the things I'd like to see added in the future is Formula 1 racing data. Would love to start with the leaderboards. But, what I see now with the leaderboard code is a tight integration with the ESPN APIs, which is understandable. But, they don't have a lot of F1 data, currently, AFAIK. The API I do know has all this info is the jolpica-f1 API. It's pretty straightforward to get lots of data from there as it is from the ESPN APIs.

But, after looking at the leaderboard code, it's currently very tightly coupled with the ESPN APIs. So, wanted to start a discussion about how we might somehow decouple the leaderboard a bit... Maybe have per-sport, or most likely, per-API abstractions of the leaderboard code that consumes the data and creates the display images.

For the jolpica-f1 API, data gathering is super easy (see the Python code attached
f1DriverStandings.py
I used).

Again, just wanted to start the discussion and get ideas...

Thanks.

Scott

[ChuckBuilds]

Hey Scott,
Love the idea, F1 is on my long list of like to haves. I think adding rankings for the leaderboard shouldn't be too difficult, even with a different data source. I avoided F1 race day info for awhile because my small display couldn't show as much as I wanted but now that I've got a little bit more practice with it I might need to revisit.

I am trying to build a "plugins" section to add or remove additional displays and might try somethings for like upcoming race with a pixel outline of the track.

ESPN does look like they have a driver rankings for F1 so that would be the quickest to add to the leaderboard. Anything in particular you want to see?

[JScottyR]

Thanks, Chuck! Happy to hear ESPN added that info. I'll need to check that out, and if you have a link, please share... all I knew about before from ESPN was the news links.

Below is my personal order of things to add (and probably easiest to hardest) from F1. And I totally understand the last few would be the most complex:

Easy and most wanted for the leaderboards:

1. Current driver standings.
2. Current constructor standings.

Harder:
3. Most recent free practice standings (there are normally 3 FPs).
4. Most recent qualifying standings. For those that don't already know, F1 usually has a Q1, Q2, and Q3. Each drops the last 5 drivers from the next quali based on times. So, all 20 drivers (next year to be 22! - Cadi!) start, then down to 15, then down to 10. Would love to see the times and differentials to leader for each quali.
5. At certain races, there are sprints instead of some FPs + qualis, so results from that.

Thanks!

Scott

[ChuckBuilds]

I am making a big assumption that if they have the standings in a page its in an API somewhere. I didn't actually check.... https://www.espn.com/f1/standings so maybe not because https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/racing/f1/standings isn't what I thought it would be....

flipside looks like there is an open f1 api
https://openf1.org/#drivers