Race data coming up empty for all races

[mrarjunmanohar]

I have tried analysing race data from 2023 to 2025, but position, car, telemetry data is coming up empty. I have tried clearing my cache and upgrading the version also. I am currently running v3.6.1. But the data is coming up empty. What am I doing incorrectly?

This my code

`# testing

import fastf1
from fastf1 import plotting
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

plotting.setup_mpl()

Enable the cache

fastf1.Cache.enable_cache('cache')
fastf1.Cache.enable_cache('/Users/---/Downloads/---/VS/Test/Fastf1-analysis/cache')

race = fastf1.get_session(2025, 'Azerbaijan', 'R')
race.load()

checking race results

race.results
`

[f1quant]

works fine for me

import fastf1
from fastf1 import plotting
plotting.setup_mpl()
fastf1.Cache.enable_cache('~/Downloads/test_cache')
race = fastf1.get_session(2025, 'Azerbaijan', 'R')
race.load()
print(race.results[["Abbreviation","GridPosition","Position","Status"]])

outputs

 Abbreviation  GridPosition  Position    Status
1           VER           1.0       1.0  Finished
63          RUS           5.0       2.0  Finished
55          SAI           2.0       3.0  Finished
12          ANT           4.0       4.0  Finished
30          LAW           3.0       5.0  Finished
22          TSU           6.0       6.0  Finished
4           NOR           7.0       7.0  Finished
44          HAM          12.0       8.0  Finished
16          LEC          10.0       9.0  Finished
6           HAD           8.0      10.0  Finished
5           BOR          13.0      11.0  Finished
87          BEA          15.0      12.0  Finished
23          ALB          19.0      13.0  Finished
31          OCO          20.0      14.0  Finished
14          ALO          11.0      15.0  Finished
27          HUL          17.0      16.0  Finished
18          STR          14.0      17.0  Finished
10          GAS          18.0      18.0    Lapped
43          COL          16.0      19.0    Lapped
81          PIA           9.0      20.0   Retired

[theOehrly]

There have been intermittent issues with the jolpica-f1 API over the last few days. These problems are still being investigated right now and attempts to fix them have been made.

When this API is down, session results are unavailable (race.results in your code). Telemetry data and position data shouldn't be affected, though. Please try again at a later point in time. Maybe you were just unlucky with timing during an API outage.

If this does not fix your problem and in case you are on a corporate/institution PC and network, take a look at the solution in the following issue: #650

[mrarjunmanohar]

Wanted to share an update. I was able to drill down the issue and as it turns out the problem was with VS Code. I am getting back to coding after a few years and my environment was quite dated. I had to remove all the old config and refresh my environment. I am able to see some data come through now. I will check if the telemetry data is also coming through and revert.

Thanks everyone for the help.