Alright, so today I’m gonna walk you through my little adventure with motorsport brands. It all started last week when I was just chilling, browsing through some racing videos, and I thought, “Hey, I wonder how these brands actually look in a dataset?” Sounds nerdy, I know, but that’s how my brain works.
First thing I did? Google, obviously. I started searching for lists of motorsport brands, teams, sponsors – anything I could get my hands on. Scraped a bunch of websites, copy-pasted from random forums. It was messy, real messy. I ended up with a huge text file full of names, some duplicates, some probably not even relevant, but hey, gotta start somewhere, right?
Next step was cleaning up this garbage fire of data. I fired up Python – my go-to for this kinda stuff. Used Pandas to load the text file, and then the fun began. Removing duplicates, standardizing names (you know, making sure “Ferrari” and “FERRARI” are treated the same), and filtering out stuff that clearly wasn’t a brand (like driver names or specific car models). This part took freakin’ forever, honestly.
Once I had a reasonably clean list, I wanted to visualize it somehow. Just a plain list is boring, so I thought, “Let’s get some logos!” I used another Python script, this time with the `requests` library, to Google each brand name and download the first image result. Yeah, some of them were wrong, or low-res, or just plain weird, but it gave me something visual to work with.
Then came the fun part: putting it all together. I used HTML and CSS to create a simple webpage. Each brand had its name and logo displayed in a grid. It wasn’t fancy, but it got the job done. I even added a little JavaScript to make the logos zoom in when you hover over them. Just a little touch.
Finally, I threw the whole thing up on a free web hosting service. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it’s kinda cool to see all those motorsport brands laid out in one place. I learned a lot about data cleaning, web scraping, and even a bit about motorsport history along the way. Plus, it was a fun little side project to keep my coding skills sharp. Maybe next time I’ll add more info about each brand, like their history or championship wins. Who knows?
Anyway, that’s my motorsport brands journey. It was a bit of a mess at times, but hey, that’s how you learn, right? Hope you found it somewhat interesting!
