Tier 1 — canonical timing data
Al Kamel Systems (fiawec.alkamelsystems.com) is the official WEC timing partner. Every race weekend they publish entry lists, classification CSVs, lap-by-lap analysis, pit-stop reports and standings PDFs in a deterministic folder tree going back to 2012. This is the spine of the archive: ~6,000 source documents indexed, hashed and parsed into the silver tables.
Note: Al Kamel's noticeboard carries an explicit redistribution warning. We index their PDFs locally for parsing but link out to the originals on the source site — we do not re-host their documents.
Tier 1 — current-season metadata
fiawec.com hosts the current season's round pages, marketing imagery and broadcaster info. Historical race pages on fiawec.com 404, so it's only useful for the current campaign.
Tier 2 — regulations & committee decisions
FIA portal (fia.com) publishes WEC sporting and technical regulations per season, including marked-up versions showing rule deltas. These are scraped, bronze-cached and surfaced via the Regulations page.
Tier 3 — supplemental media & context
Wikidata + Wikipedia provide driver portraits, manufacturer logos, circuit photographs and biographical context. Strict P31/P279* type filtering is used so “Le Mans” resolves to Circuit de la Sarthe rather than the city, and “Viper” to Dodge Viper rather than the snake species. Coverage: ~64% of drivers have portraits, ~80% of manufacturers have logos, 100% of circuits have imagery (track-layout SVG where available, race photo otherwise).
Open-Meteo historical archive provides hourly weather observations for every event, attributed to the nearest session within ±2 hours.
Provenance ledger
Every fact loaded into the silver layer gets a row in fact_provenancepointing to the originating source_object (an immutable, sha256-keyed bronze artifact). The archive currently holds ~1.3 million provenance rows. No fact without a source — and you can always trace any number on the site back to its origin document.
Verification
Spot-checks on each major release compare the silver state to the FIA-published championship tables. Recent example: 2024 Hypercar Manufacturers final standings — Toyota P1 (190), Porsche P2 (188), Ferrari P3 (137). Matches the published table.
What we don't do
- We do not host live timing or live broadcast streams
- We do not sell tickets or affiliate-link broadcasters
- We do not re-host third-party PDFs that carry redistribution restrictions
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