F1-Fantasy.net

What's this site about?
F1-Fantasy.net, is an F1 Fantasy league web site where you bet on F1 results just for the fun of it!

How does it works? Once you have registered, you will receive an e-mail reminder before each Grand-Prix week-end. You then have until 1 hour before the start of the Grand-Prix to log on to F1-Fantasy.net and predict which 10 drivers will cross the finish line in which order. I recommend you check the qualifying results before doing so, as this is a good indication on who will perform well over the week-end. Like the real championship, and in line with the changes introduced by the FIA for 2010, you score 25 points for the 1st place, 18 points for the 2nd place and so on, for each correct prediction. When you predict the correct driver but in the wrong finish order, you only score a fraction of the full points. Once the Grand-Prix results are published, come back and see how much you scored compared to the other competitors. If you're not already registered, you can do so by clicking here. What are the rules? To check the rules in detail, please click here: 2010 F1-Fantasy.net rules.

	F1 championship. You will also find on this website unofficial information about the F1 championship, the results, the drivers, the manufacturers.

What are the main changes for 2010?

Refuelling
There will be no refuelling during races for the first time since 1993. This doesn't mean however that there will be no more pit stops however, since teams will still have to use the two dry-weather tyre compounds.

As a result, cars will have a much bigger fuel tank and brake and tyre preservation will be a major factor in the strategy. It is expected that cars will feature wider rear body work and a longer wheel base. Cars will be weighing around 100 kg more at the start of the race - it will be interesting to see what impact this has.

Points system
The FIA is introducing this year a new point system with the winner earning 25 points, the runner-up 18 points and the third driver 15 points. The following seven finishers will get respectively 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1 points.

This change was introduced to cater for the increased number of teams and also as an incentive for the second and third drivers to try and fight for a better place and thus encouraging more overtaking.

Weight
The minimum weight of the car is increasing from 605 kg to 620kg. This is an effort to offset the disadvantage incurred by taller and heavier drivers.

Narrower front tyres
In order to balance the grip after slick tyres made a come back last year, front tyres are narrower now, reduced reduced from 270mm to 245mm. Bridgestone will use slightly harder tyre compounds to compensate the fact that cars will be heavier this year

The number or dry tyre sets per driver is reduced from 14 to 11 per week-end. Drivers making it to Q3 will need to start the race with the same set of tyres they used for qualifying.

No wheel fairings
Wheel rim covers are now banned. This will mean one thing less to potentially go wrong during the pit stop and will also potentially make the air flow immediatly behind the car less turbulent and make overtaking easier.

Qualifying
With 13 teams and 26 cars, the qualifying will see 8 cars eliminated in Q1 and Q2. The remaining 10 cars will battle it out for pole. Since no refuelling is allowed during the race, cars will qualify on low fuel in all three phases.