Often car_data is missing for speed

[alber70g]

https://api.openf1.org/v1/car_data?session_key=9149&date%3E=2023-08-27T12:01:01.104000+00:00&date%3C=2023-08-27T12:11:03.045000+00:00

This should be an eventful section, but there's hardly speed data available. What's happening here?

[alber70g]

I think I see that the recording for data is started an hour early. The actual race is at 1300... not sure why there's so much data in front of that

[PrestonHager]

Often times the official livetiming stats site will start publishing up to a few hours before the start of the race while the drivers are still out. Also, release of v1.0 might've fixed any issues with regards to historical data processing. When you get a change, @alber70g, can you please check the section again that it's what you expect from the data. Then close the issue if it's no longer a, uh, well, issue?

Also you might want to split the data into even smaller sections otherwise you'll end up with an HTTP Timeout error. https://api.openf1.org/v1/car_data?session_key=9149&date%3E=2023-08-27T12:00:00&date%3C=2023-08-27T12:05:00