How to play F1 Fantasy in 2024 with new rules for record 24-race season

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Formula 1 is back for its record-breaking 24-race season and so is F1 Fantasy, so here is everything you need to know on the free-to-play team management game for 2024.

The game gives Formula 1 fans across the globe the chance to be the team principal of their own team. Players have a cost cap of $100m to build their dream driver line-up and pick the constructors they believe can score them big points at each separate round on the calendar.

F1 kicks things off for 2024 at the Bahrain GP on March 2, before jetting around the world to battle in five continents. Formula 1 also scheduled six Sprint events in 2024 with extra races at the Chinese GP, Miami GP, Austrian GP, United States GP, Sao Paulo GP and Qatar GP, too.

What is F1 Fantasy?

The 2024 season also marks the sixth edition of F1 Fantasy, which Formula 1 launched back in 2018. It is a free-to-play team management game that rewards fans who can detect how each race weekend is unfolding early. F1 has also introduced new rules for the 2024 season.

How to play F1 Fantasy

Each F1 Fantasy player gets a budget of $100m to build their team, consisting of five drivers and two constructors. Formula 1 increased the requirements from one team in 2023. While 2023 constructors’ champions, Red Bull, are the most expensive team for the start of 2024.

Picking Red Bull as one of your constructors will cost $27.9m, ahead of McLaren ($23.3m), Mercedes ($20.1m) and Ferrari ($19.3m). While Stake F1 Team (£6.6m), Williams (£6.3m) and Haas (£6.3m) are Formula 1’s budget options as the three cheapest teams on the grid.

Having won 19 of the 22 Grand Prix last year, 2023 drivers’ champion Max Verstappen is also the most expensive driver at $30m. The Dutchman pips Lando Norris ($23m), Sergio Perez ($20.8m) and Lewis Hamilton ($19.3m). Logan Sargeant is the cheapest driver at just $5.5m.

But the prices of each team and driver will fluctuate throughout the season. F1 will change the price of each driver and team after each weekend based on their respective results over qualifying, the Sprint (where applicable) and the Grand Prix. While changes are also limited.

F1 Fantasy only permits two free transfers per team ahead of each race weekend. Any extra changes beyond those two will incur a 10-point penalty. But one free transfer can be carried over into the next race weekend if left unused to improve your chances over the next round.

Additionally, F1 Fantasy has tweaked the chips in 2024 to let players maximise their score for the next Grand Prix. Each chip can only be used once in the 2024 season and only one can be used per round, too. While three chips can also only be used after a player’s second race.

Players can use the ‘Autopilot’, ‘Extra DRS Boost’ and ‘No Negative’ chips straight away from their first race. While the ‘Wildcard’, ‘Limitless’ and ‘Final Fix’ chips come into effect from a player’s second race. The ‘No Negative’ chip now applies to each scoring category for 2024.

How to earn points in F1 Fantasy 2024

F1 Fantasy awards and deducts points for each driver and team’s results during qualifying, a Sprint or the Grand Prix. The points awarded are as follows for each official session in 2024:

Qualifying (driver):

• 1st – 10 points
• 2nd – 9 points
• 3rd – 8 points
• 4th – 7 points
• 5th – 6 points
• 6th – 5 points
• 7th – 4 points
• 8th – 3 points
• 9th – 2 points
• 10th – 1 point
• 11th-20th – 0 points
• No time set – minus 5 points
• Disqualified – minus 15 points

Qualifying (constructor)

• Neither driver in Q2 – minus-1 point
• One driver in Q2 – 1 point
• Both drivers in Q2 – 3 points
• One driver in Q3 – 5 points
• Both drivers in Q3 – 10 points

Grand Prix (driver)

• 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
• 11th-20th – 0 points
• DNF/Not classified – minus-20 points
• Disqualified – minus 25 points
• Positions Gained – 1 point per position
• Positions Lost – minus 1 point per position
• Overtakes made – 1 point per overtake
• Fastest Lap – 10 points
• Driver Of The Day – 10 points

Grand Prix (constructor)

• Fastest pitstop – 10 points
• 2nd fastest pitstop – 5 points
• 3rd fastest pitstop – 3 points

Sprint (driver only)

• 1st – 8 points
• 2nd – 7 points
• 3rd – 6 points
• 4th – 5 points
• 5th – 4 points
• 6th – 3 points
• 7th – 2 points
• 8th – 1 point
• 9th-20th – 0 points
• DNF/Not classified – minus 20 points
• Disqualified – minus 25 points

Join our F1 Fantasy league!

One of the best ways to experience F1 Fantasy is to join a league and – once you have your initial team – you can join ours! Use code ‘P463YEVLK01’ to enter the F1 Oversteer league.