LiveTimingData

class fastf1.livetiming.data.LiveTimingData(*files, **kwargs)

Live timing data object for using saved livetiming data as data source.

This object is created from data that was recorded using SignalRClient. It can be passed to various api calling functions using the livedata keyword.

Usually you will only instantiate this function and pass it to other functions.

See Live Timing Client for more information.

If you want to load data from multiple files you can simply pass multiple filenames:

livedata = LiveTimingData('file1.txt', 'file2.txt', 'file3.txt')

The files need to be in chronological order but may overlap. I.e. if the last five minutes of file1 are the same as the first 5 minutes of file2 this will be recognized while loading the data. No duplicate data will be loaded.

Parameters:

*files (str) – One or multiple file names

Methods:

load()	Read all files, parse the data and store it by category.
get(name)	Return data for category name.
has(name)	Check if data for a category name exists.
list_categories()	List all available data categories.

load()

Read all files, parse the data and store it by category.

Should usually not be called manually. This is called automatically the first time get(), has() or list_categories() are called.

get(name)

Return data for category name.

Will load data on first call, this will take a bit.

Parameters:

name (str) – name of the category

has(name)

Check if data for a category name exists.

Will load data on first call, this will take a bit.

Parameters:

name (str) – name of the category

list_categories()

List all available data categories.

Will load data on first call, this will take a bit.

Returns:

list of category names