Race Team Our Methodology
How we collect, verify, and maintain data on 1,034,021 racing teams across 390 series in 170 countries.
The Core Principle
Every driver has a team — even if it is a team of one. Race Team Wiki exists to index every competing racing entity on Earth, from an F1 factory squad to a solo kart racer at a regional club round. If you appear on an official entry list or timing sheet, you belong in our database.
How We Collect Data
Data arrives from multiple independent pipelines that run on a weekly schedule. No single source is treated as authoritative — we cross-reference across sources before committing to the database.
Direct integrations with SpeedHive, MotorsportReg, Alpha Timing, and DriverLink — pulling live entry lists and results.
30+ public timing systems globally, including Speedhive, MyLaps, RaceMonitor, SimGrid, SimRacerHub, and regional karting systems.
Series that publish PDF entry lists (karting championships, national rally events, eWRC) are parsed and ingested via automated pipeline.
Historical teams and series metadata from Wikipedia categories and Wikidata structured data — covering decades of motorsport history.
Teams can claim or submit their own entry via submit.html. Submitted teams are reviewed before appearing in the index.
Official membership and license databases from sanctioning bodies where publicly available, including FIA, FIM, MSA, and others.
Refresh Schedule
The full database pipeline runs every Saturday at 6:30am EDT. This catches new entries from the previous week's events, team name changes, and newly published series rosters. The pipeline produces a compressed teams.json.gz (140MB+ uncompressed) which is deployed to Cloudflare Pages via GitHub Actions.
What Counts as a Team
A “team” on Race Team Wiki is any competing entity that appears in official entry lists, timing sheets, or governing body records as a distinct racing unit. This includes:
- Factory-backed manufacturer programs
- Independent professional outfits
- Semi-professional club teams
- Solo driver programs running under their own name
- Sim racing teams and esports organizations
- Historic teams that competed in past eras
Every driver has a team — even if it is a team of one. We do not require a minimum team size, budget threshold, or professional status to be included.
Data Quality
Raw data from timing systems often contains duplicates, inconsistent naming, and non-standard country codes. Before any team reaches the published database, it passes through three quality stages:
Fuzzy name matching identifies and merges variant spellings of the same team across sources (e.g. “Red Bull Racing” vs. “Oracle Red Bull Racing”). Canonical names follow the most recent official entry list.
All country codes are normalized to ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. Ambiguous entries (timing systems using full country names, regional codes, or non-standard abbreviations) are resolved to a canonical code. 170 countries are currently represented.
Series names from timing systems are mapped to canonical slugs in our taxonomy (e.g. “Nascar Cup”, “NASCAR Cup Series”, and “Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series” all map to nascar-cup-series). 390 canonical series are currently defined.
Database Scale
Summary
Race Team Wiki maintains a database of 1,034,021 racing teams across 390 series in 170 countries. Data is collected weekly from 30+ timing systems, official databases, and direct team submissions, then deduplicated, country-standardized, and series-normalized before publishing.
Corrections & Submissions
Data is accurate but not perfect. If you find an error — wrong series, misspelled name, wrong country, or a missing team — please submit a correction. Teams that have been claimed by their owners can be updated directly from the team dashboard without waiting for the weekly pipeline.
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