Day 1 of working on PitWall (temporary name)

As an f1 fan and motosports fan in general, I wanted
to create something that I’m going to use myself pretty often and work with data that genuinely interests me which is why I’m creating PitWall, a website that analyses data using FastF1, an open source F1 data library. The main idea is to pull real F1 data and let people analyze race pace, quali laps, driver mistakes, simulate alternate race strategies. I’m also going to be using NASA atmospheric data to correlate weather conditions with lap time performance.

I started off by setting up my project structure in VS Code and install all the necessary libraries then, I wrote fetch.py which is a file from where I pull the data itself. Although, I faced an error on the way, a NotADirectoryError because FastF1 needed a cache folder that didn’t exist yet, fixed that by creating the folder manually. In the end I got it to work

The screenshot shows Verstappen’s first 5 laps from the 2023 Monaco GP