Driver search
Most buzz
| 1 | Emma Kimiläinen |
| 2 | Lewis Hamilton |
| 3 | Fernando Rees |
| 4 | Emma Selway |
| 5 | Kimi Räikkönen |
| 6 | Kourosh Khani |
| 7 | Adam Christodoulou |
| 8 | Karline Stala |
| 9 | Valtteri Bottas |
| 10 | Gabriel Chaves |
| 11 | Menasheh Idafar |
| 12 | Sebastian Vettel |
| 13 | Cassey Watson |
| 14 | Toni Vilander |
| 15 | Nigel Moore |
Most buzz shows the fifteen drivers who got the most amount of visits to their profile page yesterday. | |
Driver blogs
 | Mark Megens |
Would you also like to blog about your racing season at Driver Database? Send an email to driverdb@gmail.com. | |
 |
| Romain Grosjean, Formula 3 Euro Series |
 |
| Kristján Einar, Icelandic Championship |
Behind the scenes
Andreas’s blog about running Driverdb.com
News, updates, bugs, tired ramblings, small breakdowns and other stuff related to maintaining, adding and expanding Driver Database.
Submit only once!
Friday, July 4 2008Please note that there is currently a queue for several hundred submissions to the database. All your submissions are saved so there is no need to re-submit anything, it only adds to the queue and adds to my confusion.
I’m trying to get everything up as fast as I can. :)
» Comment on this post
A dying computer
Wednesday, July 2 2008My main desktop computer has decided to die a slow and painful death recently. At first it was still usable, then I lost the ability to use my printers and now finally it refuses to load Windows properly. A new one was ordered last week, but there is still no sign of it.
It’s no big deal really as the hard disk is ok and it still is accessible through my network so everything important is still very much available. It has left me a bit crippled though as I haven’t been able to print out all the stuff I need the last week. This has meant that some race results have yet to be updated.
But don’t fear, they will all be updated as soon as possible.
» Comment on this post
Better member tools
Wednesday, June 25 2008As the database has grown in record pace the last couple of months the member tool "Add a driver to this championship" has become more or less unusable as it had to load every driver into a very long drop-down list. As the database now includes 22,922 drivers it could take a lifetime to load the list. Therefor I decided to make some changes to get it usable again.
When you now use these tools you are first prompted to enter the first couple of letters of the driver you wish to add. It will then display a list of just the drivers that start with these letters. So if you for example are going to add Rubens Barrichello to a championship you type "barr" in the text field and press submit. The drop-down list that appears will now only display drivers from Buck Barr to Mike Barry and somewhere in between you will find Rubens Barrichello. If you typed "barri" instead you would get a shorter list.
There are still a few limitations to this though. If a driver is listed with special characters Ĺ for example, he will not appear if you type "A". If you leave the field blank and press submit all the drivers will be displayed, like the good old days and you’ll be able to find that driver in the big list.
» Comment on this post
275 contributers equals a queue
Thursday, June 12 2008Since we added member accounts to the site we now have 275 contributing members. This number means that it may take a while before your edits and newly submitted info becomes approved and updated on the site as there now is a rather long list of changes I need to go through. I’m trying to work as fast as I can but it’s not just a matter of pressing a button as I really need to double check a whole lot of the entries so that errors aren’t approved in the database. This is also the reason why photographs may be approved quicker than new career information.
Speaking of photographs. You will really need to be 100% sure that you have the photographers approval or have the rights to the photo before submitting it to the database. If you do not have the photographer’s approval you will need to be owning the copyright of the photo or the photo needs to be copyright-free. Just adding the name of the photographer or a link to the photographer’s webpage is not the same as having the photographers approval to have his/her photo on this site.
The bottom line: If you do not own the photo yourself and haven’t contacted the copyright holder of the photo -- don’t send it in!
» Comment on this post
Timewarp
Friday, May 23 2008For some minutes today Driver Database went back to 2002. Why it happended is unkown at this point but for some reason the server’s clock showed 2002. This meant that we had "Top 2002 Race Winners" in the right column and that every driver suddenly became younger on their profile pages. The system clock went back to the present time again though shortly, and only caused minor headaches.
» Comment on this post
What’s not included in the Driver Database
Wednesday, May 21 2008I’m getting more and more data sent to me and I have to draw the line somewhere or else this turns into a 24/7 project.
Results for the following sports will not be added to the database:
- Rallying
- Motorcycle racing
- Rallycross
- Autocross
- Hillclimbing
- Dirtracing
- Crosskart
- Auto slalom
- Ice racing
» Comment on this post
Introducing bugs and putting out the fires
Tuesday, May 13 2008Weird things have been going on lately. A couple of days ago Driver Database started going extremely slow. It could take up to 15 seconds to load certain pages, and that’s at least 13 seconds too long. Being on a rather tight server budget I started freaking out a bit that the server was taking more load than it could handle. The first thing, before panicing on how to afford a faster server, was to try and figure out where in the code things were going slowly. I soon figured it out and managed to make a work-around a certain area of the code and managed to cut 10 seconds right off. I then managed to optimize some SQL queries to the database and found a couple of more seconds. It’s now back to a more acceptable speed, it’s still a bit on the slow side, but we’ll have to live with that for a while.
I did however introduce a bug when I optimized the database queries, thankfully I had a couple of mails in the mailbox today to point it out. For some reason all Racing and Karting hihglights on the driver’s profile pages claimed "Third position" in everything. It was a quick fix and it is now back to normal.
I was also made aware that there was something wrong with the "Future stars" list. Not all drivers who should be there were showing up. I had a long good look in the code and found out that in some rare cases some rows in the database related to karting were interfereing with the results. This resulted in that not all wins some drivers had were counted. That error’s now been fixed and there now is a new and improved list.
Driver Database should now look much saner in the Opera web browser as well, by the way.
Thanks to all who spotted the errors and let me know about them. :)
» Comment on this post
Advertise, and decide the price yourself!
Wednesday, May 7 2008I decided to launch a little advertisement auction yesterday. There are five 468x60 banner spots available and I’ve now decided to auction out three months of advertising to the five highest bidders.
This mean you will be able to advertise for three months on all pages of Driver Database (there will be a total of six banners in rotation, so your ad will be displayed every sixth time a page is loaded) and only pay what you think is a good price for it.
The bidding started yesterday and will be open until the 20th of May. The next day the five highest bidders will have their banners displayed on Driver Database for the price they chose until the 21st of July.
Click the following link for more info or to place a bid:
http://www.driverdb.com/advertise/
» Comment on this post
Some minor fixes
Tuesday, May 6 2008Mondays at Driver Database are more or less only related to getting all the press releases published that’s been arriving in my mailbox during the weekend. There’s really not that much time left for other stuff when the news mail queue has been taken care of.
With all the news published, it was time to take care of some small issues I discovered yesterday. For some reason the press releases was always said to be published on today’s date. So if you looked at a press release from 2006 it said it was published today! A small sloppy error from my part was found in the code, where I had unknowingly re-used the variable name for the published date with today’s date used elsewhere in the code. With 429 kB’s of code it was bound to happen at some point. ;)
» Comment on this post
A tough weekend
Saturday, May 3 2008There’s racing going on all over the world this weekend, and that means that tons of results needs to be added to the database. World Series by Renault, BTCC, STCC, DTC, Spanish F3, NASCAR, DTM etc. And then all the support series... it’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. And that somebody has only himself to blame.
Due to me lacking any proper TV channels that think racing is anything to broadcast I’ll only get to watch the Swedish Touring Car Championship this weekend. It does however mean I have to cut a birthday celebration a bit short, but I think there will be enough time for cake before it’s time to head for home.
Just found out today that there will be no WTCC race at Anderstorp this year. That’s a real bummer. I went last year and despite the rain it was nice to see some international racing here in Sweden for a change. And Rydell ignoring team orders to win in front of the home crowd was nice. :D
» Comment on this post
Members
Sign up now
Partners and sponsors
 |
 |
 |
 |
» New Car
» Used Cars
» Used BMW
» Used Ford
» Used Vauxhall
» Used VW
» Car Finance
» Car Loans
» New Jaguar Cars
» Used cars US
» Become a DriverDB sponsor
Top 2008 race winners
| 1 | Craig Baird | 26 |
| 2 | Gabriel Chaves | 23 |
| 3 | Wayne Boyd | 14 |
| 4 | Frédéric Vervisch | 13 |
| 5 | Earl Bamber | 11 |
| Kyle Busch | 11 | |
| 7 | Nigel Moore | 10 |
| 8 | Caine Lobb | 9 |
| Gary Findlay | 9 | |
| 10 | Jan Magnussen | 7 |
| Toon Rutges | 7 | |
| Dino Zamparelli | 7 | |
| John Whelan | 7 | |
| Andrew Meyrick | 7 | |
| Valtteri Bottas | 7 | |
| John McIntyre | 7 | |
| Michael Bristow | 7 | |
| 18 | Ben Winrow | 6 |
| Allan Simonsen | 6 | |
| Felix Rosenqvist | 6 | |
This list also includes series that span over the new year (i.e. 2007-08 championships). | ||
Driverdb.com blog
News, updates, bugs, tired ramblings, small breakdowns and other stuff related to maintaining, adding and expanding Driver Database.Submit only once!
July 4 2008
Please note that there is currently a queue for several hundred submissions to the database. All your submissions are saved so there is no need to re-submit anything, it only adds to the queue and adds to my confusion. I'm trying to get everything up as fast as I can. :) ...
» Read more
