Error loading laps data for 2022 races

[luanagbmartins]

I'm using the following code trying to get the laps data from the first race of 2022:

year = 2022
location = 1
session = "R"

race = fastf1.get_session(year, location, session)
race.load()

When I do this, I keep getting the following error:

core           INFO 	Loading data for Bahrain Grand Prix - Race [v3.3.8]
req            INFO 	No cached data found for session_info. Loading data...
_api           INFO 	Fetching session info data...
logger      WARNING 	Failed to load session info data!
req            INFO 	No cached data found for driver_info. Loading data...
_api           INFO 	Fetching driver list...
core        WARNING 	Failed to load extended driver information!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
KeyError                                  Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[13], line 6
      3 session = "R"
      5 race = fastf1.get_session(year, location, session)
----> 6 race.load()

File ~/miniconda3/envs/fastf1/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fastf1/core.py:1424, in Session.load(self, laps, telemetry, weather, messages, livedata)
   1419 _logger.info(f"Loading data for "
   1420              f"{self.event['EventName']} - {self.name}"
   1421              f" [v{fastf1.__version__}]")
   1423 self._load_session_info(livedata=livedata)
-> 1424 self._load_drivers_results(livedata=livedata)
   1426 if self.f1_api_support:
   1427     if laps:

File ~/miniconda3/envs/fastf1/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fastf1/core.py:2189, in Session._load_drivers_results(self, livedata)
   2185 # try loading from both sources if they are supported
   2186 # data is joined afterwards depending on availability
   2187 if self.f1_api_support:
   2188     # load driver info from f1 api
-> 2189     driver_info_f1 = self._drivers_from_f1_api(livedata=livedata)
   2190 if not self.event.is_testing():
   2191     # load driver info from ergast
   2192     driver_info_ergast = self._drivers_results_from_ergast(
   2193         load_drivers=True, load_results=True
   2194     )

File ~/miniconda3/envs/fastf1/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fastf1/core.py:2273, in Session._drivers_from_f1_api(self, livedata)
   2270         for first, last in zip(driver_info['FirstName'],
   2271                                driver_info['LastName']):
   2272             driver_info['FullName'].append(f"{first} {last}")
-> 2273 return pd.DataFrame(driver_info, index=driver_info['DriverNumber'])

KeyError: 'DriverNumber'

I'm updated to the latest version of fastf1 (3.3.8) and it seems that this same error happens for any race in the year 2022. Hoping someone can help me out here! Thanks in advance!

[Casper-Guo]

Running this with debug enabled threw a different error:

  File "/mnt/d/Projects/F1-Visualization/test.py", line 8, in <module>
    race.load()
  File "/mnt/d/Open Source/Fast-F1/fastf1/core.py", line 1411, in load
    self._load_session_info(livedata=livedata)
  File "/mnt/d/Open Source/Fast-F1/fastf1/logger.py", line 157, in __wrapped
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/mnt/d/Open Source/Fast-F1/fastf1/core.py", line 1450, in _load_session_info
    self._session_info = api.session_info(self.api_path,
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/mnt/d/Open Source/Fast-F1/fastf1/req.py", line 445, in _cached_api_request
    data = func(api_path, **func_kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/mnt/d/Open Source/Fast-F1/fastf1/_api.py", line 1880, in session_info
    raise SessionNotAvailableError(
fastf1._api.SessionNotAvailableError: No data for this session! If this session only finished recently, please try again in a few minutes.

This leads to driver_info being set to an empty dict in _drivers_from_f1_api which explains the KeyError.

The following request was sent:

headers = {
    "Host": "livetiming.formula1.com",
    "Connection": "close",
    "TE": "identity",
    "User-Agent": "BestHTTP",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, identity",
}

r = requests.get(
    url="https://livetiming.formula1.com/static/2022/2022-03-20_Bahrain_Grand_Prix/2022-03-20_Race/SessionInfo.jsonStream",
    headers=headers,
)

Returns:

<Error>
    <Code>AccessDenied</Code>
    <Message>Access Denied</Message>
    <RequestId>KQ71B8J90X3FZJ18</RequestId> 
    <HostId>YrypVXRs+ccDCTful5NUCc14Tfe8S58UFopV0qF6+WvaYsinh3RJgYflZvT6toPP6wnyoad/ETE=</HostId>
</Error>

Might be an upstream issue? Weird that other years are still working.

[theOehrly]

As @Casper-Guo noted, this seems to be an upstream issue with the API Server. Somehow, only the 2022 season isn't working. It looks like every single endpoint referring to 2022 is broken. And the server responds with an XML error response to a request for JSON data, which feels like something is actually broken as opposed to an intentional access denied response.
I'll try to keep an eye on it. Let's see of it gets fixed soon.

[theOehrly]

Minor update, apparently F1 migrated their servers to AWS. So a fairly huge change, switching cloud/server providers. There are some more problems apparently that don't necessarily concern FastF1. I would expect them to work on resolving problems at this stage. So for now, I'll assume everything will go back to how it was.

[lalutir]

Mmm, let's hope it'll work soon again. It is still not working unfortunately :(

[jdmantithesis]

Sadly looks like this still broken, nearly a month on. I don't suppose anyone has any personal connections within F1 they can use to either get this fixed or get an update?

[theOehrly]

Fixed now by providing a mirror server as a fallback for the problematic seasons. More info here #607 (comment)