The Basics
This is an F1 Fantasy League challenge based on the 2025 F1 season.
Essentially you pick a team of 7 drivers that are competing in the 2025 F1 championship. The points you gain will depend on how well those drivers do in the F1 races during the year. The team that gets the most accumulated points after all the races have run wins this challenge.
It's all just for fun but will give you bragging rights if you're up at the top or even languishing at the bottom. An award will be provided to the overall winner at the end of the year and will be entered into the Hall of Fame.
You need to setup your team before the first race is run; by the end of 13 March. You can change your team as many times as you want before and on that date without penalty. However, after 13 March, each driver change you make will be tallied up. You are allowed to make a maximum of 7 driver changes during the year. This allows you to swap drivers in your team if its performance isn't as good as you expect.
If all works OK, the site will be updated with live data during a race. The site will show a live snapshot of how well, or not, your team is doing in this Racing Challenge. You may find this interesting as a race unfolds.
We'll send an email to you after each race to show how you're doing in the challenge. If you don't want this, you can switch it off in the Settings section.
Obviously, the race stewards can, and do, impose penalties on drivers after a race has finished. When this happens, and it affects the Racing Challenge results, we'll update the home page of this site and send an email out (where this is switched on in your Settings) to let you know.
Setting up your team
You have 80 credits with which to choose your team of F1 drivers.
Chose exactly 7 drivers from the list below to make a team that costs 80 credits or less.
If the total cost of your team is less than 80, you will be credited with additional points in each race; it's not a lot but is the shortfall x 0.1. So if your team costs 76 credits, you will be awarded an additional 0.4 points per race.
Remember, you need to set up your team before the end of 13 March.
| Driver | Cost |
|---|---|
| Max Verstappen | 23 |
| Lando Norris | 22 |
| Charles Leclerc | 20 |
| Oscar Piastri | 17 |
| Lewis Hamilton | 17 |
| George Russell | 15 |
| Liam Lawson | 12 |
| Fernando Alonso | 10 |
| Carlos Sainz | 10 |
| Nico Hulkenberg | 8 |
| Yuki Tsunoda | 7 |
| Esteban Ocon | 6 |
| Oliver Bearman | 5 |
| Pierre Gasly | 4 |
| Alexander Albon | 3 |
| Lance Stroll | 2 |
| Andrea Kimi Antonelli | 2 |
| Colapinto/Doohan | 1 |
| Isack Hadjar | 1 |
| Gabriel Bortoleto | 1 |
Points scored
For each race, the points your team scores will be calculated as the sum of:
- Qualifying points
- Sprint points, where the race weekend is a Sprint format
- Race points
- Overtaking / falling back points
- Additional points for unused credits, if your team costs less than 80 points
Race points
Like in a real F1 race, points are awarded for each driver in your team that finishes in the top 10 in a race.
| 1st | 25 points |
| 2nd | 18 points |
| 3rd | 15 points |
| 4th | 12 points |
| 5th | 10 points |
| 6th | 8 points |
| 7th | 6 points |
| 8th | 4 points |
| 9th | 2 points |
| 10th | 1 point |
Overtaking / Falling back points
Each driver in your team will get 1 additional point for each position they advance in a race, that is, the difference between their finishing and qualifying positions.
So if one of your drivers qualifies in 15th place and they finish 5th in the race, your driver will get 10 overtaking points added to their score.
Note that this works the other way round too. If your driver qualifies on pole and finishes 16th, your driver will get 15 points taken away from their score. This means drivers can get negative points in a race.
F1 drivers may take starting penalty points on some races, perhaps because they've elected to fit more regulated parts than the regulations allow. When this happens, the driver will start at a lower grid position than where they qualified. These grid place penalties are ignored by this challenge.
Fastest race lap
In 2025, the F1 regulations were changed regarding the extra point a driver could get for setting the fastest lap in a race, as long as they finished in the top 10. This extra point is no longer awarded to drivers. Keeping this Racing Challenge in parity with the regulations, this extra point will not be awarded for 2025 and later (although I can switch it on if the regulations re-instate it later).
Team driver replacements
Occasionally F1 teams replace drivers during the year. When this happens, for the purposes of this challenge, the driver or F1 team's name will change but the cost of the driver will be the same. So if you have this driver in your team, you'll notice the name changes but there will be no difference to the overall cost of your team.
This can be beneficial to you, or it may not. In 2023, for example, Nyck de Vries started the season racing for Alpha Tauri. After a lacklustre performance, the team replaced him with Daniel Ricciardo after the British GP. So your team will show as if Daniel Ricciardo had been racing since the start of the year. If this happens, I will post an update on this site's home page so you have a chance to adjust your team if you need to.
Temporary drivers for a race
Occasionally, a driver may be unable to compete in a race. This happened in 2023 when Daniel Ricciardo broke his metacarpal and the team drafted in Liam Lawson as a temporary reserve driver. When this happens, the points scored by the reserve driver will be awarded to the driver that can't compete. In other words, it's as if the main driver had competed.
It has been known for a main driver to be replaced at very short notice, e.g. in 2022, De-Vries started the Italian GP in FP1 for Aston Martin, but ended up driving for Williams in the race when Albon had appendicitis! There won't be any warning if this occurs, and besides it may well be too late to make any changes to your team before the race. C'est la vie!
Team Groups
A Team Group is just a collection of challengers. This provides a way for you and your friends or colleagues in a company to band together and fight for positions against other Team Groups registered in the challenge. This adds another dimension to the challenge to make it more entertaining than playing on your own. You don't have to be a member of a Team Group; if you want to run with just your team of drivers, that's just fine.
Each Team Group will have a score which is the average of the challengers' scores in the group. The website will show how each Team Group is doing against the others. An award will be given to the owner of the Team Group (the person that created it) with the highest accumulated score over the year, and will be entered into the Hall of Fame.
Any challenger can create a Team Group. Once created, it is visible for other challengers to join it. If you want to join a Team Group, you make a request to join it. The website will send an email to the Team Group owner to let them know you have made the request. The Team Group owner will then decide whether to accept or reject the request.
You can create or join only 1 Team Group.
Once you've joined a Team Group, you can leave it and then request to join a different one, before the cut off date 13 March. The website will send an email to the owner of the Team Group you are leaving to let them know.
A Team Group owner can delete their Team Group before the cut off date 13 March. Each member of it will receive an email to let them know the group has been deleted so they can look for another to join, if they wish.
Team Group memberships close at the end of 13 March. If you want to create or join a Team Group, leave the one you're a member of, or delete your Team Group, you need to do it before the end of 13 March. After this date, Team Groups are fixed and you will be a member of it for the remainder of the year.
Summary of Key Dates