The Rules - 2002 Season

  • Congratulations to the 2011 FF1GP winners - View the 2011 FF1GP winners.
  • Thanks to everyone who took part in the 2011 FF1GP season.
  • We will be back around February 2012, or as soon as the 2012 F1 driver line-up is confirmed.

Welcome!

Imagine owning your own dream Formula 1 team, with the best cars, and the best drivers. Well here you can! Also you can pick the worse team possible, and enter a team that tries to score the least amount of points!

So I’ve been generous, I’ve given you 36 million pounds to buy your own team. The best drivers and teams cost a lot of money and the not so good drivers and teams, cost a lot less!

When picking your team on the entry form, you must choose two different drivers and two different teams as we don’t have two Mika Hakkinen’s available, and also make sure you stay within you 36 million pound budget!

Scoring

How do you score? Its all based on the real race results!

First of all, your drivers and teams must finish the race (As classified by the FIA) in order to score any points at all.

With your teams you have selected, it is still based on the same scoring system, except only the highest finishing car gets any points.

If your team does well enough, your team may get a place on the Fantasy Formula 1 Podium, or if you do really badly...Well you can find out!

Race points

Depending on where your car finishes, you get the following amount of points. It’s the same scoring system as used by the FIA.

1st 10 points
2nd 6 points
3rd 4 points
4th 3 points
5th 2 points
6th 1 point
Any other position ZERO points!

Improvement points.

You get one extra point for each position you team or driver moves up the grid. So if your car starts 5th and finishes 2nd, you get a extra 3 points. But if you go back down the grid, (ie if you start in 2nd and finish 5th) you don’t get any points, and nor do you lose any.

Fastest Lap.

If your driver or team has the fastest lap of the race, you score a 1 extra point.

Starting on pole position.

If your driver or team qualifies to start on pole position of the race, you score a 1 extra point.

Hatrick points

If one of your drivers or teams starts off on Pole position, has the fastest lap of the race, and wins the race, you score 3 extra points!

Disqualification

If any of your drivers just happens to get disqualified by the FIA for any reason, you lose 5 points! If one of your cars in one your teams get disqualified, you will also lose 5 points, however if both of your cars in one of your teams gets disqualified, you lose 10 points.

Example

Here's a little example...You can see your own score breakdown by clicking on thee "FF1 teams entries", and select a team to view, or going to "My FF1 Teams" and pick your own team to view a detailed scored breakdown.

Driver's scores

Name S.P F.P F.L R.Pts I.Pts P.Pts F.Pts Ht.Pts Pts
Mika Hakkinen 1 1 Yes 10 0 1 1 3 15
Jenson Button 11 7 No 0 4 0 0 0 4

Team scores

Name S.P F.P F.L R.Pts I.Pts P.Pts F.Pts Ht.Pts Pts
McLaren 1 1 Yes 10 0 1 1 3 15
McLaren 2 2 No 6 0 0 0 0 0
Jordan 5 6 No 1 0 0 0 0 1
Jordan 12 DNF No 0 0 0 0 0 0

Key

S.P Start position F.P Finish position F.L Fastest lap of Race
R.pts Race points I.pts Improvement points P.pts Pole position points
F.pts Fastest lap points Ht.pts Hatrick points Pts Total points

What are all these leagues?

You can choose a league here you battle it out with other teams with similar backgrounds. If there are a group of you who want their own league to battle it out amongst yourselves, please drop me an email to pete@ff1gp.com and I’ll see what I can do.

How is the overall winner decided?

We need only one winner! If their is a draw, the overall winner will be decided on who predicts the score of the winner in the driver's championship the closest.

Whats this win or lose?

Surely you don’t need me to explain this? Ok... I will. You can enter a team that goes out to win, or you can enter a team that just is left standing at the grid each week. Interestingly, last year quite few of the "Want to lose" teams scored more than the "Want to win" teams!

Any prizes?

Not yet!! Any idea’s for prize, just email me at pete@ff1gp.com

How do I enter?

Just click on the button mared "FF1 Entry"