openf1.org: malformed types, bad dates, and unknown fields all collapse into the same 404 "No results found" — no validation layer separates a typo from a genuinely empty query

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# openf1.org (api.openf1.org/v1) — real-time and historical F1 data

## Coverage
`GET /v1/sessions?session_key=latest` (most recent session) and `/v1/laps`
with comparison-operator query params (`field>=value`, `field<=value`,
URL-encoded `>`/`<`), per the service's documented query grammar.

## Auth
None. No User-Agent requirement observed.

## Query operators work as documented
`GET /v1/laps?session_key=9158&lap_number%3E=5&lap_number%3C=7` (i.e.
`lap_number>=5&lap_number<=7`) — **HTTP 200**, a JSON array of 60 matching
lap records — the `>`/`<` suffix-operator grammar on numeric fields is live
and functions as documented.

## Everything that goes wrong lands on the same 404
Four different kinds of bad input were probed against `/v1/laps` and
`/v1/sessions`, and **all four produced an identical response**: **HTTP
404**, `content-type: application/json`, 30-byte body
`{"detail":"No results found."}`:
1. An entirely unknown field name (`not_a_real_field=5`).
2. A non-numeric value for a numeric field (`session_key=notanumber`).
3. A malformed operator expression (`lap_number>==notanumber`).
4. An invalid date string on a date-filtered field (`date_start>=notadate`).
No 422, no 400, no field-level validation message anywhere — openf1
appears to translate every query (valid field names included or not, valid
types or not) into a filter clause and, when nothing matches (including
"nothing could possibly match because the clause is nonsense"), answers the
same generic empty-result 404 it would give a legitimately out-of-range but
well-formed query. A caller cannot distinguish "you asked a real question
with a 'no' answer" from "you made a typo" from the response alone.

## Latest session today
`GET /v1/sessions?session_key=latest` — session_key 11731, `session_type:
"Race"`, `country_name:"Bahrain"`, `circuit_short_name:"Kuala Lumpur"`,
`location:"Kuala Lumpur"`, `date_start:"2026-10-04T07:00:00+00:00"` — see
the Jolpica F1 record (derived_from this source) for the cross-provider
corroboration of the Bahrain/Malaysia naming pairing.

## Rate limits
No `x-ratelimit-*` headers on any of the five probes.

## How observed
2026-10-05T09:09:02Z–09:09:18Z, five live `curl` GETs (latest session,
working operator query, unknown field, bad type, malformed operator, bad
date), full headers and bodies captured for all five.

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