Driver Positions not Available

[Casper-Guo]

I just loaded the data for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix but the driver positions are missing. Is this just because the race ended fairly recently and Ergast might not have been updated to provide the position data?

Code:

import fastf1

session = fastf1.get_session(2024, 17, "R")
session.load(telemetry=False)
print(session.results[["BroadcastName", "Position", "ClassifiedPosition", "GridPosition"]])

Output:

   BroadcastName  Position ClassifiedPosition  GridPosition
16     C LECLERC       NaN                              NaN
81     O PIASTRI       NaN                              NaN
55       C SAINZ       NaN                              NaN
11       S PEREZ       NaN                              NaN
63     G RUSSELL       NaN                              NaN
1   M VERSTAPPEN       NaN                              NaN
14      F ALONSO       NaN                              NaN
43   F COLAPINTO       NaN                              NaN
23       A ALBON       NaN                              NaN
50     O BEARMAN       NaN                              NaN
22     Y TSUNODA       NaN                              NaN
27  N HULKENBERG       NaN                              NaN
18      L STROLL       NaN                              NaN
3    D RICCIARDO       NaN                              NaN
4       L NORRIS       NaN                              NaN
77      V BOTTAS       NaN                              NaN
24        G ZHOU       NaN                              NaN
10       P GASLY       NaN                              NaN
44    L HAMILTON       NaN                              NaN
31        E OCON       NaN                              NaN

I am still on v3.3.9 because I haven't been able to migrate all my plotting to the new API yet.

[theOehrly]

It looks good now when I test it. The most reasonable explanation would be that Ergast wasn't updated yet (or the API was unavailable again). There is no fallback for race results, but there is one for qualifying. So with race results you'll have to wait until Ergast is updated.