Pit Lane F1
Who's behind Pit Lane F1
I'm Alex Da Costa, a systems engineer with more than ten years of experience designing and maintaining data-heavy infrastructure. I've been watching Formula 1 since the 2005 season — Alonso's first championship, the year Schumacher's seven-title era finally cracked — and it's been an obsession ever since. Pit Lane F1 is what happens when that IT background meets a lifelong F1 habit. I started this site because the big outlets cover the headline result but rarely the data underneath: why a pit-stop window mattered, how a circuit's lap-record history actually compares, what every driver has done at every venue. So I built it. Race recaps for every Grand Prix since 1950, head-to-head career comparisons, telemetry replays for 2024 onward, and per-circuit deep dives — all from open data sources, fact-checked against multiple references, and written in plain language. The site is run independently. No team, driver, or commercial partner influences what gets published. If you spot a factual error or want to suggest a feature, the contact page is the fastest way to reach me.
Systems engineer by trade, F1 fan since 2005. Pit Lane F1 is what happens when an IT background meets a lifelong obsession with the sport.
Pit Lane F1 is a Formula 1 statistics, race results and historical reference site covering every World Championship season from 1950 to the current 2026 calendar. It's available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. The project started in 2026 from a simple observation: the big F1 outlets do a great job covering the headline result, but the data underneath — why a pit window mattered, how a track's lap records actually compare, what a given driver has done at a specific circuit — usually sits in spreadsheets nobody reads. Pit Lane F1 tries to close that gap by making that depth navigable, fact-checked, and written in plain language for fans.
Coverage includes:
Data on Pit Lane F1 comes from open and licensed sources — Jolpica/Ergast for race results and standings, OpenF1 for live timing and telemetry, FastF1 for processed lap data. Every editorial article is written by a real person (not auto-generated), bylined, and dated. When facts are revised, the page shows an updated-on date. Corrections are made promptly; reach out via the contact page if you spot something wrong.
Pit Lane F1 is operated independently. There is no team, driver, or sponsor relationship that influences editorial decisions. Opinions are clearly labelled as such; statistics are reported verbatim from primary sources.
The site is self-funded today. Future revenue may come from display advertising and from clearly disclosed affiliate links to retailers like Amazon. When affiliate links appear in an article, they are marked accordingly and use the rel="sponsored" attribute search engines expect. No paid post or sponsored review will ever be published without explicit disclosure at the top of the article.