Pitstop MCP server

Pitstop — F1 MCP Server

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An HTTP-first Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Formula 1 data. Aggregates real-time, historical, and news data from multiple authoritative sources into 11 tools ready for any MCP client.

v0.5.0 | Author: Praneeth Ravuri

Install

Hosted endpoint (nothing to install)

A free public instance runs on Hugging Face Spaces:

https://praneeth1025-pitstop.hf.space/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http pitstop https://praneeth1025-pitstop.hf.space/mcp

Note: the Space sleeps after long inactivity — the first request after a quiet spell takes a cold start.

Local install

stdio, via uvx (no clone needed):

PITSTOP_TRANSPORT=stdio uvx pitstop-f1

Claude Code:

claude mcp add pitstop -e PITSTOP_TRANSPORT=stdio -- uvx pitstop-f1

Codex CLI:

codex mcp add pitstop --env PITSTOP_TRANSPORT=stdio -- uvx pitstop-f1

Gemini CLI:

gemini mcp add pitstop uvx pitstop-f1 --env PITSTOP_TRANSPORT=stdio

VS Code:

code --add-mcp '{"name":"pitstop","command":"uvx","args":["pitstop-f1"],"env":{"PITSTOP_TRANSPORT":"stdio"}}'

Claude Desktop (claudedesktopconfig.json), Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json), and Windsurf (~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json) share the same JSON shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pitstop": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["pitstop-f1"],
      "env": { "PITSTOP_TRANSPORT": "stdio" }
    }
  }
}

Docker (HTTP transport, runs the full server incl. the F1 database):

docker compose up
# → http://localhost:8000/mcp

Overview

Pitstop exposes F1 data as 11 MCP tools over HTTP (default) or stdio. It pulls from FastF1, Jolpica, OpenF1, Wikidata, RSS feeds, and its own seeded F1 database, handling pagination, retries, caching, and concurrency limits transparently.

Data Sources

Database refresh: .github/workflows/db-update.yml runs weekly to pull new Jolpica results into the owned F1 database.

Tools

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.