f1verse

The story layer for Formula 1 data. Data libraries fetch and tidy — f1verse tells you what happened: lead changes, laps led, event timelines, stint strategy, race pace, and a live championship projection.

Zero dependencies. Standard library only. Seasons 2023 onward; historic records reach back to 1950.

pip install f1verse

import f1verse

race = f1verse.load(2026, 12)        # year, round — no other library needed

race.laps_led()      # {'ANT': 32, 'NOR': 31, 'HAM': 9}
race.leader_runs()   # [{'abbr': 'NOR', 'from': 1, 'to': 4}, ...]
race.results()[7]    # {'abbr': 'HUL', 'gap': '+1 LAP', ...}
race.race_pace()     # median pace — pit/SC/VSC laps excluded by default
race.story()         # one call, whole story, plain JSON

race.championship_prediction()   # per-lap "if it ended now" title projection
race.team_radio()                # timestamped clip URLs (nothing downloaded)

The whole weekend, not just the race

f1verse.sessions(2026, 12)
# Practice 1 · Sprint Qualifying · Sprint · Qualifying · Race

q = f1verse.load_session(2026, 12, "Qualifying")
q.results()[0]
# {'abbr': 'NOR', 'q1': 72.695, 'q1_gap': 0.085, 'q3': 71.163, 'q3_gap': 0.0,
#  'best': 71.163, 'eliminated_in': None, ...}

q.segments()["q1"]
# {'fastest': 'PIA', 'advanced': [...16 codes...], 'eliminated': [...],
#  'cut_margin': 0.022}

Each kind gets the classification it actually has. Qualifying gaps are to the fastest lap of that segment — the pole-sitter above was 0.085 s off in Q1 — because a single "gap to leader" column would misreport the session. A sprint loads as a Race; practice is a best-lap table.

Is this data safe to publish?

race.quality_report()
# {'state': 'final',            # provisional → settled → final, or corrected
#  'coverage': {'overall': 0.9955, 'sectors': 0.9824, 'compound': 1.0},
#  'missing': ['STR.lap_46.lap_duration', ...],
#  'source_age_seconds': 312,
#  'revisions': [],             # source rewrites this install has observed
#  'crosscheck': {...},
#  'publishable': True}

crosscheck answers do independent sources agree. quality_report adds the three things that verdict is silent about: how complete the data is, how old the copy is, and whether the classification is still provisional.

The chequered flag is not the final classification — scrutineering disqualifications and penalties land hours later and rewrite rows in place. So the rows the stewards can change are not cached forever until the session is final, and any change that is seen is recorded:

before = race.snapshot()          # hashed, comparable, JSON — you persist it
...
f1verse.diff(before, race.refresh().snapshot())
# {'changed': True,
#  'changes': [{'abbr': 'HAM', 'field': 'position', 'before': 4, 'after': None},
#              {'abbr': 'HAM', 'field': 'gap', 'before': '+8.1s', 'after': 'DSQ'}]}

f1verse.revisions()               # every source rewrite observed, with the
f1verse.vintage(rec)              # superseded body when it was small enough

There is deliberately no as_of= time travel: f1verse can tell you what it sees now and when it saw a value change, not reconstruct a value nobody here ever fetched.

Beyond a single race

f1verse.career("max_verstappen")
# {'starts': 245, 'wins': 71, 'podiums': 131, 'poles': 48, ...}  1950-present

f1verse.milestones("max_verstappen")
# [{'stat': 'poles', 'current': 48, 'target': 50, 'remaining': 2}]

f1verse.circuit_profile(2026, 13)
# corners, marshal sectors, track outline, and pit loss split by track state
# {'normal': 25.43, 'sc': 16.11, 'vsc': 18.4}  <- what an undercut costs here
# plus historic record: 75 races held, pole-to-win rate 0.30

f1verse.head_to_head(2026)
# teammate quali/race scores per constructor

f1verse.standings(2026)

Running this on a schedule

f1verse.status(2026)
# {'latest_race': {'round': 12, 'meeting': 'Dutch Grand Prix'},
#  'next': {'round': 13, 'session': 'Practice 1'}, 'next_in_hours': 125.7}

f1verse.due(2026, processed=[...session keys you already handled...])
# sessions finished, settled (45 min past the flag) and not yet processed —
# nothing published twice, nothing missed after downtime

Caching is policy-driven, not blanket: lap and telemetry data is immutable and cached forever, schedules expire every few hours — a calendar cached for a season would hide a cancelled round for the rest of the year — and rows the stewards can still rewrite expire until the session is final. f1verse.cache_info() and f1verse.clear_cache(older_than=...) are there for operators; clear_cache never drops the revision journal.

Telemetry, track position, conditions

f1verse.lap_telemetry(race, "NOR", 40)
# per-sample speed, throttle, brake, gear, RPM and DRS state for one lap

f1verse.lap_trace(race, "NOR", 40)      # x/y/z coordinates of that lap
f1verse.top_speeds(race)                # fastest reading per driver

f1verse.weather_summary(race)
# {'track_c': {'min': 25.8, 'max': 38.2}, 'rain': True, 'samples': 191}

Telemetry is high-frequency, so these take a bounded window and filter server-side rather than downloading a session and trimming it locally.

Grounded narration

facts = f1verse.race_facts(race)       # all numbers computed and formatted here
f1verse.brief(race)                    # deterministic text, no model required

result = f1verse.narrate(
    race,
    generate=lambda prompt: my_model(prompt),
    cache_dir=".cache/narration",
)
# {'text': '...', 'source': 'generated' | 'cache' | 'template', ...}

narrate accepts any text-generation callback; f1verse has no model SDK dependency. Drafts are checked against the structured fact sheet. Unknown numbers and driver codes are rejected, generation is retried at most twice, and a deterministic summary is returned if verification still fails. The optional cache is exact-match only and stores verified text.

Predictions, pit-stop verdicts, official documents

f1verse.win_probabilities({"NOR": 1, "ANT": 2, "RUS": 3},
                          year=2026, upto_round=12, circuit_id="monza")
# every probability ships with its own evidence:
#   grid base rate measured over 233 real races (pole wins 54.1%)
#   blended with that circuit's pole-to-win conversion (Monza: 0.30)
#   scaled by recent form (average finish over the last 5 rounds)

f1verse.pit_exchanges(race, pit_loss_s=22.74)
# [{'lap': 17, 'driver': 'RUS', 'rival': 'PIA', 'verdict': 'worked',
#   'gain_s': 3.54}, ...]
# neutralised laps (red flag / SC / VSC) and same-lap covering stops are
# excluded — calling those undercuts would be wrong

f1verse.fia_documents(2026)          # stewards' decisions, classified
f1verse.power_unit_documents(2026)   # "who changed which engine part"

Why this exists

Raw timing data needs a lot of domain knowledge before it means anything:

• Classified gaps are not comparable across lapped cars. A car one lap down can show a smaller number than one that finished ahead on the lead lap. → format_gap applies the broadcast convention (+1 LAP).
• "Who led the race" has to be derived. Lead changes, laps led and the moments they happened are not published as such. → leader_runs, laps_led, timeline.
• Race pace needs rules, not just a threshold: in/out laps and laps run under SC/VSC have to go, or the number is meaningless. → race_pace applies them by default.
• Web and video pipelines need plain JSON. Every f1verse output is JSON-safe Python, ready to serialise.
• Data quality should be checkable in code, not read from logs. → crosscheck and quality_report return structured verdicts.
• Results change after the flag. A cache that treats a classification as immutable makes a stewards' decision invisible. → revisable rows expire until the session is final; changes are recorded.

Additional live-timing feeds

The official live-timing archive publishes several feeds that are rarely surfaced. f1verse parses three of them, with the same caching and rate-limit etiquette as the rest of the library:

f1verse.championship_prediction(session)
# per-lap "if the race ended now" projection of both championships,
# including the moments the projected champion changed

f1verse.team_radio(session)
# timestamped team-radio clips: [{'t', 'utc', 'driver_number', 'url'}]
# URLs only — nothing is downloaded or redistributed

f1verse.timing_stats(session)
# personal bests, best sectors, speed-trap figures

Running continuously

See OPERATIONS.md for caching policy, rate limits and scheduling.

Tests

pip install -e ".[test]" && pytest -q

Sources

All are public endpoints, read at runtime. See src/f1verse/sources/ for the exact hosts and LICENSE notes where attribution applies.

Design rules

1. Zero required dependencies. The native loader reads public REST endpoints and the official live-timing archive directly, with its own on-disk cache and polite pacing.
2. Everything returned is plain JSON-safe Python.
3. F1 domain rules are defaults, not options.
4. Cross-checked where possible — lapped-car gaps, for instance, are computed by convention and confirmed against a second source.
5. Code only. No timing data, media, or images are bundled or redistributed; data is fetched by the end user.

Roadmap

• Broader cross-validation coverage
• Comparison primitives (lap vs lap, stint vs stint) with sample counts
• Deviation detection: expected range, actual, evidence
• Localisation packages

Unofficial fan project. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Formula 1, FIA, FOM, or any F1 team. F1, FORMULA 1 and related marks are trademarks of Formula One Licensing BV. This library contains code only — no timing data, media, or images are included or redistributed; data is fetched by the end user from publicly accessible endpoints, subject to the respective providers' terms.