We've made our own F1 fantasy league — join in to take part and win prizes!

Fantasy leagues are not a recent breakthrough, they’ve been around for ages for sports like football and cricket. A fantasy league involves players creating their own teams using a standardised budget and picking a set number of drivers and a team. The players get points based on the performance of their drivers and teams, the person with the highest score, wins! Thanks to the huge increase in fan base in recent times, Formula 1 came out with their very own fantasy league game recently. While the winner of the official F1 Global Fantasy league will get a chance to watch a race live next season, we here at evo India have teamed up with 100kmph to give out exciting prizes to the winner in our league after reach round as well as a special prize for the overall winner at the end of the season! If you're already well versed with the rules, click here to join our league. (Note: All participants must be following @evoindia and @100kmphofficial on Instagram to qualify for the prizes.)

If you're new to this, continue reading below for a guide on what to do, as well as some of the rules and information on the prizes we'll be giving out.

The basics

Well to put it simply, each person gets a budget of $100 million using which you choose five drivers and one constructor to make up your team. You must first create your team and then you can enter it into a league or create your own league to compete amongst your friends. You can make unlimited changes to your team before the deadline, which is at the start of qualifying in Austria. After the season starts you are allowed to make one free change in each race week. However you get two wildcards, one that can be used at certain points in the season, these allow you to change your whole team with no penalties. Are you still with us? Well hold on because it gets slightly more complex.

Nitty gritties

For starters, once the season begins, all drivers and teams will have dynamic pricing which will reflect the performance of the team and driver. Thanks to dynamic pricing if you play smart you will be able to earn a profit and build a better team over the season. One driver in your team will be a Turbo Driver that earns double points, negative too, this driver can be changed every race week without restrictions. However, only drivers that are priced under $20 million can be your Turbo Driver. A Mega Driver will get a 3x boost and can be used only twice in a season, there are no restrictions on the price of the Mega Driver, though.

Points

The points system is extremely complex but we’ll break it down for you. Drivers get points based on their performance using parameters like — whether they made it to Q2 or not, whether they gained or lost positions in the race, whether they finished ahead of their teammate or whether they finished at all, among others. You can read further about all the rules on the official website for the F1 Fantasy game and you can check out the points table here. Basically, the better a driver races, the better your chances of winning. The team’s points are calculated by totalling the points of both drivers.

So, while coronavirus might prevent you from going and attending some races, you can join in the fun with the F1 Fantasy game. Excited? Well, make your best team before the first qualifying session on July 4, and enter into the official evo India F1 Fantasy league (league code: d864076547) to see how you match up against our boys at the office and other evo India fans! We are giving out exciting prizes to the player with the highest points after each race and, you might want to sit down for this, a 100kmph bumper goodie bag with the latest t-shirt design, stickers and a subscription to evo India magazine to the overall winner at the end of the season. (Note: You must be residing in India to claim the prize) So, what are you waiting for? Make your teams and enter now!