Template talk:Infobox Grand Prix race report

message: Should we add sponsors to the template? They are important! LB22 (talk to me!)Email me! 19:18, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sponsors are usually already included in the official name field (e.g. LXXIII ING Australian Grand Prix or LIIV Foster's British Grand Prix). AlexJ (talk) 19:48, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Besides, sponsor names just aren't important in F1. In many years of watching it I have never seen or heard anyone outside the official race programme and the FIA TV feed mention the sponsor name. It just isn't part of the culture in the same was as it is in NASCAR, for example. Pyrope 20:27, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sponsors 

message: There are three sessions in the qualifying. Do we need to add a info box for those three sessions? Raymond "Giggs" Ko 01:37, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Only the pole time is of any real importance, and that is the fastest time set in Q3. Anything else is irrelevant because in Q1&2 only the bottom 5 times are counted - the rest are just deleted. AlexJ (talk) 18:50, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formula 1 pole time? 

message: The template should be updated to not display the course length and race distance fields if these are not populated. DH85868993 (talk) 10:48, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suppress display of unpopulated fields 

message: I was considering if it is useful to add a reference parameter in the template, much like the Technical ref parameter in . This is intended for providing reference for standard race details such as course length, total distance, no. of laps etc. e.g. for 2009 Australian Grand Prix, a reference such as this one can be added to the infobox, so that it serves as source for all the basic details given. LeaveSleaves 14:26, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I was actually going to raise this idea just yesterday, but it looks like you beat me to the punch. Definitely a good idea. Apterygial 22:20, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Great idea. Cdhaptomos talk–contribs 14:09, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference parameter 

message: Could anyone please help me to make this template emit the date & year parameters using , so that I can then add an hCalendar microformat to the template? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:38, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Nudge. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 12:06, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date 

message: If the Official Name parameter is omitted, you get a big lump of whitespace between the "Date" and "Location" fields. See here for an example. I can't work out why. Does anyone have any ideas? DH85868993 (talk) 16:00, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whitespace when Official name omitted 

message: In "Race Preview" press release from FIA, they will mention Start line/finish line offset for each circuit. which will be different for each circuit.
so the Total race distance = (Total number of race laps X Length of lap) - Offset. But in Template just Toltal race distance will number of laps X length of lap, so it will add offset for race distance which is not correct. we need to add offset item in template, so that we can mention correct Total race distance for each circuit.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prasannatb (talk • contribs) 15:05, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The Total race distance is not calculated by the template; it's specified by the fields Distance_mi and Distance_km. Ideally, the editors who are populating these fields should be sourcing the race distance information from an official/reliable source and not just multiplying number of laps by the lap length (although I'd guess that's what usually happens). DH85868993 (talk) 01:31, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding Offset (Start line/finish line) 

message: It has been proposed that "previous/next event" links be added to this template. Interested editors are invited to participate in the centralised discussion. DH85868993 (talk) 21:54, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Previous/next event links 

message: An editor has proposed some changes to the formatting of the race title fields. Interested editors are welcome to contribute to the centralised discussion. DH85868993 (talk) 04:33, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formatting of race title 

message: Is it possible to add a "Race Duration" or similar field to this template? (I should add that I'm not entirely sure how to do this myself)
Quite a few GP races were held with a fixed duration, rather than a scheduled number of laps (ie not the same thing as races being timed out before reaching the scheduled distance like the current 2 hour limit). These include the 1931 European Championship races (10 hours), the 1932 French and Italian GPs (5 hours), the 1952 French Grand Prix (3 hours) , and most of the 1953-57 Argentine GPs (3 hours is given in Grand Prix! (Mike Lang) for most of the years, but the elapsed time is slightly over 3 hours each time anyway so maybe they all were, but that's not entirely relevant now...).
Anyway, I feel like these cases should be distinguished in some way in the templates, just not sure how.A7V2 (talk) 07:23, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it would be a useful addition, I think even for Grand Prix which happen over a set number of laps having the duration of the race would be good, espically in cases where the 2 hour limit is reached or in the case of red flags, ie 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix, unfortunatly I can't work out how to implemete it either. SSSB (talk) 13:29, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Race duration field 

message: I think it would be a good idea to add the Driver of the Day award to the Infobox as it currently lists all other race achievements (e.g. fastest lap and pole etc.) and I feel it would add something extra to articles that's easy to find. What's everyone's thoughts?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Commyguy (talk • contribs) 20:25, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I have advertised this discussion at the Formula One WikiProject (because I'm not sure how many people watch this template). DH85868993 (talk) 23:08, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

text: I think it would be a bad idea to add this. It’s just a meaningless gimmick. It’s a popularity contest with no even remote objectiveness. Just look how few times the actual race winner is “elected” driver of the day. I just don’t think this is encyclopedic.Tvx1 23:35, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

text: I don't think it should be added to the infobox. As Tvx1 says, it's hardly objective, and I will also add that I don't ever see it mentioned in independent sources' reports on races. It's just a gimmick run by the tv producers. A7V2 (talk) 02:47, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

text: I agree with the above, looking at the results at User:LRataplan/sandbox you can see how biased it is in favour of popular drivers. I think it the way driver of the day works can be nicly summarised by this parody. It has no basis besides being an indicator of how popular a driver is. Further, its never mentioned in indepedent sources. Based on this I don't think it would be a useful addition.SSSB (talk) 08:17, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

text: Agreed. Don't bother with this. -- Scjessey (talk) 13:39, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Driver of the Day 

message: This template forces the date format to be dmy. This is a problem when it comes to Grands Prix which are in America where the template should use mdy (per MOS:DATETIES (see 2005 United States Grand Prix for example). Is there a way to override the template unilaterally reverting to dmy? If not one needs to be added.SSSB (talk) 08:34, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: - This can be avoided by using the format suggested in the documentation page. The documentation suggests replacing the "date" parameter with "Fulldate        = {Start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}" (I deliberately left out one "{" from each side), although I don't know how common this is, or if I have used it myself when adding this infobox (!), but anyway, if you delete the "df=y" part then it displays in month first order. See my edit to 2005 United States Grand Prix . A7V2 (talk) 23:43, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  thanks, I must have missed that.SSSB (talk) 07:47, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date format issues 

message: I was just looking at :Category:Pages using infobox Grand Prix race report with unknown parameters and managed to fix an error on 2019 United States Grand Prix with the "Full_date" parameter not being recognised (even though the date was displayed in the infobox?). Anyway, I then moved onto 2021 British Grand Prix and it says "grid_from_sprint_quali" is unknown, yet  displays fine in the infobox. I then previewed changing it to "grid_from_sprint" and this displayed  instead, is this intentional? If so, then how does "grid_from_sprint_quali" produce an output yet cause an unknown parameter error? FozzieHey (talk) 15:53, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I see the issue here, when "grid_from_sprint" was renamed to "grid_from_sprint_quali" the unknown parameters module wasn't updated. I've now added the parameters. FozzieHey (talk) 16:10, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unknown parameter issue 

message: It is said in the documentation, these two parameters, namely Race_No and Season_No, should not be touched until a resolution is reached. So what has developed since the 2017 discussion? Klrfl Talk! 08:21, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Race_No and Season_No