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China F4 info
Hi, 4C5MALL. I was just curious about your recent update of the China F4 seasonal article. The website has been down for a few days, and even before that the results links that were posted there directed to an error. Since these data were also not posted on their Weibo profile, may I ask you where you got them from? Thanks. Sjælefred Herm (talk) 11:48, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

''Hi, Sjælefred Herm. I just wanted to start off by saying that I'm a greater admirer of your contributions to F1 Feeder Series content, particularly Formula 4, on Wikipedia. You have every right question these results, especially as Josh Burdon was so dominant, setting all three fastest laps on the way to performing the perfect weekend, despite being near the back for the reverse grid race 2. Indeed, the availability of the results from Chengdu Goldenport Circuit was not obvious on the Official China Formula 4 website. As you rightly pointed out, the link they provided to the results, released around a week after the Second Round of the 2017 China Formula 4 Championship, led to an error message. However, one pdf link did work on their website, I believe it was the results from the first practice session. Partly fuelled by my low-key obsessive need to complete my Formula 4 results spreadsheet (as you do), I wondered if there was a reason why these results were showing and the others not. It was then that I noticed that the URL to the pdf was different between the working 1st Practice session results and the broken links of races 1, 2 and 3. Therefore, I manually changed the URL of the links to races 1 through 3, so that it followed the same "http://www.cfgp.cc/d/file/score/2017-05-09/..." pattern as the working 1st practice link (off the top of my head, I think the race result links lacked the /d/ and /score/ elements, although without the ability to check again, as the website is down, I cannot be 100% sure on the specifics), and, to my surprise, it actually worked and the results for all three races plus qualifying etc. were viewable. I believe, although I may be mistaken in this recollection, as it has been a month since I made the edit and I unfortunately cannot double check, a short time later, the results became available via the updated points table on the website and happily they checked out. To my eternal shame, my ability to read Chinese symbols is non-existent, but the following link my computer predictively suggested based on my internet history maybe one of the race result links http://www.cfgp.cc/d/file/score/2017-05-09/F4%20第四回合决赛%20Official.pdf and should be available to view if/when their website is back up and running. I hope this was explanation helpful, but don't hesitate to ask for further clarification (anything to talk about my/our passion more). Kind Regards. 4C5MALL (talk) 20:39, 24 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Oh, thank you for your kind words, although my contributions are not as good as I'd love to. My questioning was due to the fastest laps data, as by looking at CFGP's website (when it works) and Weibo account (if it's posted in the first page) you can have a good share of where each driver ended - provided you have some Chinese knowledge and a good translation tool. However, the data for the fastest lap was not available in these sources, hence only a good glimpse at the results would give us that information. Therefore it's great you were able to work out the actual link for the Chengdu results. Let's hope the website is up again soon so we can contrast the results for this third round in Beijing, as there were new drivers and a new team popping up this time and every source on this series is more than valuable for their scarcity. Kind regards, mate. Sjælefred Herm (talk) 07:15, 25 June 2017 (UTC)


 * ''Hi, Sjælefred Herm. Now that the site is back up and running, for the moment at least, I thought it would be useful to put the working links for all three race results on this thread. Race 1: http://www.cfgp.cc/d/file/score/2017-05-09/F4%20第四回合决赛%20Official.pdf Burdon: 1.30.358 2nd fastest: 1.30.483. Race 2: http://www.cfgp.cc/d/file/score/2017-05-09/F4%20第五回合决赛%20Official.pdf Burdon: 1.42.922 2nd fastest: 1.43.528. Race 3: http://www.cfgp.cc/d/file/score/2017-05-09/F4%20第六回合决赛%20Official.pdf Burdon: 1.30.981 2nd fastest: 1.31.583. I hope this was helpful and resolved any questions you had. Kind Regards. 4C5MALL (talk) 16:57 11 July 2017 (UTC)