Stats hub data and coverage
Every leaderboard at /stats is derived from a single source of truth: a canonical database that ingests two upstream feeds and cross-checks them.
- Jolpica-F1 (an Ergast-compatible mirror at api.jolpi.ca) is the primary source for 1950 through 2017. It's also the primary qualifying source. Pulled per season as parquet snapshots, content-addressed alongside a manifest recording git SHA, package versions and inputs.
- FastF1 is the primary timing source for 2018 onwards. Used directly for lap-by-lap and weather data, and as a reconciliation check against Jolpica for the seven-year overlap. Across 3,500+ race-driver rows checked, only three differ: all post-qualifying DNS classifications where one source records P20 and the other omits the entry. Neither is wrong; both interpretations are defensible.
- Wikipedia spot-check. Thirty famous facts are asserted on every build (Verstappen 19 wins in 2023, Schumacher 91 career wins, Ferrari 16 constructor titles, etc.). A regression breaks the build before it reaches the site.
How metrics are defined
- Wins, podiums, races started count grand-prix sessions only. They exclude sprint-race wins and podiums, which are tracked separately.
- Points totals include sprint-race points from 2021 onwards (when sprints were introduced), matching the figures the FIA publishes in the official championship tables.
- Poles = fastest time in main-race qualifying. A driver who set the fastest qualifying lap but started further back due to a grid penalty or post-qualifying disqualification still counts as the polesitter, matching the convention used on driver career-tally pages. Sprint-qualifying-format weekends in 2021 (when "official pole" briefly went to the Saturday sprint winner) are recorded against the Friday fastest qualifier, again matching the modern convention. Sprint-shootout poles are not folded in.
- Constructor entries count car-entries (one row per driver per race), not race-events entered, which is the convention every other F1 reference uses.
- Fastest laps are sourced from the Ergast/Jolpica "fastest lap" record on each result row. Coverage runs 2004 onwards; pre-2004 fastest-lap counts are not available from our source and will read zero for drivers whose careers ended before then.
- Qualifying coverage is partial before 1996; for those races we infer the polesitter from the front-row grid position, hand-correcting against Wikipedia where the grid data is incomplete or ambiguous.
How records are surfaced
The "records broken in 2026" section on the stats hub will only appear when an aggregate genuinely surpasses the all-time leader. It's derived from the same database, not authored by hand, so any number on the page is traceable to a query you can re-run.
Questions about the numbers
Every figure on the stats pages is traceable to the canonical database and the source feeds above. If a number looks wrong, or you want to understand how it was derived, drop us a line and we'll walk you through the query.