Pit Lane F1
Last updated: 2026-04-24
Pit Lane F1 makes corrections quickly and visibly. When we get a fact wrong, the article is updated, and a note explaining the change is added at the bottom of the page. We don't silently edit history.
A correction is made when an editorial article contains a verifiable factual error — wrong year, wrong driver, wrong constructor, wrong race result, misattributed quote, math error in derived stats, or misrepresentation of a regulation. Minor copy edits (spelling, grammar) are made without a public note. Substantive changes always get a note.
If you spot a factual error, email contact@pitlanef1.net with the article URL and what you believe is wrong. Reported errors are reviewed within 48 hours. We're grateful for the heads-up — independent fans and other journalists are the best fact-check we have.
Minor corrections (typo, single number) appear as a one-line note in the article footer with the date: "Correction: [what changed] — [date]". Major corrections (significant factual error that materially changes the article) get an editor's note at the top of the article AND a footer note. The original sentence is replaced; the change history lives in version control if needed for transparency.
Major: anything that changes the conclusion, the named driver/team/winner, the championship standings result, or the safety/legal interpretation of a regulation. Minor: typos, spelling variants, date format normalization, broken link fixes, slight rephrasing for clarity.
Statistics that come from the live data layer (Jolpica, OpenF1) refresh automatically and are not subject to manual corrections — when the underlying data source updates, the page updates with it. If a stat is wrong on a Pit Lane F1 page but right at the source, that's a software bug in our data pipeline; report it the same way (email above) and we'll trace the bug.
We don't retract articles for being inconvenient or unflattering to subjects, including drivers, teams or sponsors. We may retract an article only if it contains a fundamental factual error that cannot be corrected without rewriting from scratch, or if it was published in error. In those cases, the URL returns a 410 Gone with a brief explanation, and the IndexNow ping removes it from search indexes.
When an AI-assisted draft is found to contain an error post-publish, the correction process is the same as for any other content. We don't get a pass for using AI. If a class of errors is traced to an AI step in the pipeline, we adjust the prompt or the human review step, and document the change here.
We accept correction reports indefinitely. A factual error from 5 years ago is still a factual error today. There's no statute of limitations on accuracy.