OpenF1 vs RacingHub

OpenF1 is an open-source F1 data API spanning 18 endpoints -- car telemetry at up to 3.7Hz, lap and sector times, race-control flags, pit stops, team radio, and championship standings -- returned as JSON or, by appending a query flag, CSV. Historical data back to the 2023 season is free with no API key, credit card, or signup at all; a paid Sponsor tier (about €9.90/month) only adds access during live sessions, roughly 3 seconds after real-world events. A live request confirmed the public endpoint responds keyless and echoes permissive CORS headers, matching its "zero friction" pitch.

RacingHub is a Formula 1 statistics API spanning every season from 1950 to the present, exposing per-driver career records (wins, poles, podiums, points), race results, and analytical features like racecraft heatmaps and pit-stop strategy breakdowns, with official Python and JavaScript client libraries and an MCP server for querying the data conversationally. No API key is required -- a live keyless request to the real `racinghub.net/api/v1/drivers/...` backend returned genuine per-driver data (200) with a wildcard `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header, resolving `cors: unknown -> yes`, though anonymous requests are rate-limited to 100/minute per the response headers.