The Guide

How Fantasy Works

Five ways to play, one leaderboard. Everything runs off the same Elo ratings that power the rest of the site — no made-up prices, no fantasy points table.

The Driver Market

Buy shares in drivers whose Elo you think is going up — or short the ones you think are going down.

Price moves + dividends How it works

Race Picks

Call the top 10 before the lights go out. The closer you are, the more you score.

Up to 50 pts per position Make your picks

Driver Cards

Every exactly-right pick mints a collectible card. Rarer calls mint rarer cards.

5 tiers, bronze to legendary How it works

Head-to-Head

Two drivers, one question: who do you rate higher? Your answers build a crowd ranking of the whole grid.

+50 credits per race Play a round

Team Allegiance

Pick a constructor to back for the season. Your name wears its colours everywhere on the site.

Bragging rights How it works

The Driver Market

A driver's share price is their Elo rating ÷ 10, nudged by how many other players hold them. Elo moves when a driver beats or loses to the people they actually raced against — so the market rewards reading form, not reading a points table.

1
Starting capital You get 9,450 credits, once. Everyone starts level.
2
Take positions Long a driver you expect to rise, short one you expect to fall. Up to 12 open at a time.
3
The market locks Trading closes one minute before the race starts. No trading on what you already saw happen.
4
Settlement Elos update, dividends pay out, borrow fees come off, and your portfolio is revalued.
Long

You profit when the driver's Elo rises. Longs also collect dividends for every top-10 finish, scaled by how weak the car is — a points finish in a slow car pays far more than the same result in a fast one.

Short

You profit when the driver's Elo falls. Shorts lock up collateral, pay a 0.25% borrow fee every race you hold them, and are auto-liquidated if losses reach 2× the entry price. Cheap to be right, expensive to be stubborn.

Race Picks

Before each race you order the drivers you think will finish in the top 10. Picks lock at lights out and are scored on how close each call was, so a near miss is still worth something.

Exact position
50 pts
One place out
30 pts
Two places out
20 pts
Three places out
10 pts
Perfect podium
+50 pts
All three, in the right order
Four or more out
0 pts
No points below that

No account yet? You can still build a set of picks — they're held for you and saved to your portfolio the moment you sign up.

Driver Cards

Get a position exactly right and you mint a collectible card for that driver. Nothing else earns one — close doesn't count here. How hard the call was decides the tier.

bronze P4–P10 called exactly The bread and butter
silver P2 or P3 called exactly Podium precision
gold The winner called exactly You saw it coming
platinum A winner who started outside the top 5 You saw the upset coming
legendary A 10% roll on a platinum Very few of these exist

Every card also rolls a 10% chance of bumping one tier higher. And 3 duplicates of the same driver at the same tier can be combined into a single card one tier up.

Head-to-Head

A run of one-question matchups: given two drivers, which do you rate higher? It takes a couple of minutes, needs no account, and pays +50 credits once per race weekend if you have a portfolio.

Your answers aren't just a game. They feed the crowd ranking — what the site's players collectively think of the grid, which is worth comparing against what Elo thinks. The two disagree more often than you'd expect.

Allegiance & the leaderboard

Pick one constructor to back for the season and your name carries its colour on every leaderboard and profile. It's locked until mid-season, so choose like you mean it.

The leaderboard ranks everyone by net value — what you've made or lost against the same starting capital everyone else got. Achievements are checked automatically after every race across three tiers: bronze, silver and gold.

Ready to play?

The season's already running. You start with the same 9,450 credits as everyone else.