Standards
What we publish, where the numbers come from, and what we do when we get something wrong.
Every classification, championship position and career statistic on GridnTrack is built from a single structured dataset covering every Formula 1 World Championship round since 1950. That dataset is maintained against the Ergast lineage, currently served by the Jolpica API, and is reconciled after every Grand Prix.
We do not hand-type results into articles. A writer working on a driver's record at a given circuit is reading the same stored rows that power that driver's profile page, which means an article and the data page behind it cannot quietly disagree.
Two different kinds of content sit side by side on this site and we think readers deserve to know which is which.
Derived content is computed from the dataset: standings tables, race classifications, career totals, head-to-head comparisons, circuit records. If the underlying result changes, these change automatically.
Authored content is written by a person: analysis, narrative, opinion, and the framing around any statistic. Where an article makes a claim that is not a direct read of the data, that claim is the writer's and is open to challenge.
Statistics quoted in an article are checked against the stored race data rather than against other websites. Where a number is genuinely contested between sources, we say so in the piece instead of picking the version that reads better.
We do not invent incident detail. Our dataset records a retirement and, where available, its recorded cause. If we do not know why a car stopped, the article says the driver retired and stops there. Colour and cause come from a named report or from a person who was there, never from inference.
Sprint races are excluded from Grand Prix record tables unless a piece explicitly says otherwise, because mixing them silently distorts every per-race average.
Formula 1 classifications are not final at the chequered flag. Stewards reclassify results days or weeks later, and those amendments propagate through championship tables and career totals.
We re-audit the full season dataset against source after every round, specifically to catch amendments to earlier races. When one is found we correct the stored data first and then re-check every published article whose central claim depended on it.
This has already changed live articles. A mid-season reclassification of the 2026 Monaco Grand Prix promoted four drivers, one of whom gained a career podium, which made a sentence in a published piece false. We corrected it.
We use software to query our own dataset, to check drafts against stored results, and to catch inconsistencies at a scale a person could not. We find that genuinely useful and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
What we do not do is publish under a byline that did not do the work. Every article carries the name of the person responsible for it, and that person is accountable for its claims.
GridnTrack is independent. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Formula 1, the FIA, Formula One World Championship Limited, or any competing team.
We do not accept payment for coverage, and we do not let a commercial relationship decide what gets written or how it is framed. If that ever changes for a given piece, it will be labelled on that piece.
We publish photographs under licence or under terms that permit editorial reuse, and we credit the source on every image. If you own a photograph we have used and the credit is wrong or missing, tell us and we will fix or remove it.
Write to editorial@gridntrack.com. Our corrections policy explains what happens next.