There are different types of sessions across a Formula One weekend that are recognised by the predictions championship:
RACE WEEK: Refers to the period of time during a week when the F1 is on. For the purposes of this competition, we only care about the main days: Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
SPRINT EVENT: Some race weeks include a sprint event, made up of the ‘sprint shootout’ and ‘sprint race’ sessions, both of which occur on a Saturday. Most race weeks do not include a sprint event.
SPRINT SHOOTOUT: This refers to the short qualifying event which occurs on a Saturday as part of a ‘Sprint Event’. It is made up of three sessions that usually occur back-to-back: SQ1, SQ2 and SQ3. Something that refers to ‘Sprint Shootout’ means the entire session (SQ1, SQ2 or SQ3, or anything surrounding these sessions), while something that refers to e.g. ‘SQ1’ means specifically during the events of ‘SQ1’ only.
SPRINT RACE: This refers to the shorter race that occurs on a Saturday as part of a ‘Sprint Event’.
PRACTICE SESSION: Refers to any warm-up / practice session during the weekend. This means Free Practice 1 (FP1), Free Practice 2 (FP2) or Free Practice 3 (FP3). FP2 and FP3 do not occur when a race week includes a ‘Sprint Event’. Also referred to simply as ‘Practice’.
QUALIFYING: This is specifically the qualifying event that occurs on Friday (weekends which include a ‘Sprint Event’) or Saturday (weekends which do not include a ‘Sprint Event’) and which specifically determines the starting grid of the grand prix on Sunday. It is made up of three sessions that occur back-to-back: Qualifying 1 (Q1), Qualifying 2 (Q2) and Qualifying 3 (Q3). Something that refers to ‘Qualifying’ means the entire session (Q1, Q2 or Q3, or anything surrounding these sessions), while something that refers to e.g. ‘Q1’ means specifically during the events of ‘Qualifying 1’ only.
GRAND PRIX: This refers to the main race event on Sunday.
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TIRES: Refers to one of three classes of tire usage:
TIRE USAGE: To clarify the conditions of a race track over the weekend instead of using the actual weather (which is open to subjective interpretation), we instead use the tires the drivers complete laps on. If a driver leaves the pit lane with a set of wet tires installed, we consider that session to have been ‘WET’, regardless of whether there is any water present, or not, either in the sky or on the ground. While this could, in theory, create a scenario where we flag a session as having been ‘WET’, when nobody would agree that it actually was, this is incredibly unlikely: Teams do not put wet tires on a car by mistake, or on a whim, so for a car to be seen running with full wet tires, it means that someone, somewhere decided it was wet enough (or at least it’s about to be wet enough) to make that call.
TIRE TIERS: To avoid having to rigorously manually scan every F1 session throughout the year to see if either ‘INT’ or ‘WET’ tires were used, and declare that “WET tires were used but not INT tires” we instead employ the following practice:
Once a single driver leaves the pit with ‘INT’ tires installed, we declare the tires for that session (and by extension, the entire weekend) as having used ‘INT’ tires instead of only ‘DRY’.
Similarly, if a single car leaves the pit lane with ‘WET’ tires equipped, we declare the session (and weekend) as using ‘WET’ tires (even if ‘INT’ tires were never used).
When answering questions about ‘weather’ or ‘tires’, this should be taken into consideration by all players.
DNF: A driver is declared DNF (Did Not Finish) for a session when that is what it says in the official classification. The F1 rules declare a driver as DNF when they do not complete a minimum percentage (currently 90%) of a session. This leads to situations where a driver clearly breaks down during a race, but is still classified with a finishing position. The predictions championship will be following this classification system throughout.
DSQ: Similar to DNF but this is for drivers that are disqualified from a session. We will flag a driver as ‘DSQ’ only when they are classified as such.
DNS: Similar to DNF but this is for drivers that ‘Did Not Start’ a session. We will flag a driver as ‘DNS’ only when they are classified as such.
There are a number of different sections features across a predictions championship.
There are two types of section:
Standard: Contains up to 10 questions using standard scoring rules
Special: A single question using unique scoring rules
For every question in the standard sections, we rank each player relative to all other players. The rank order is determined based on the quality of their answer, based on the requirement of each individual question. We then score each player based on their rank:
Each section (both standard and specialised) has its own scoreboard. The points from all of the questions within a section are tallied up and the players are ranked based on their score for that section:
Once the scoreboards for all of the sections are finalised, the number of stars for each player are counted up and they are placed on the final scoreboard:
In the scenario that two or more players are tied for a position in the championship:
These are the twelve [12] sections featured in the F1 2025 predictions championship:
STANDARD SECTIONS:
1. Sprint Events
2. Qualifying
3. Grand Prix Proceedings
4. Grand Prix Classifications
5. Drivers’ Championship
6. Constructors’ Championship
7. Rookies
8. Plan F
9. Race Week
SPECIAL SECTIONS:
10. Fantasy League
11. Driver Tally
12. Constructor Tally
These questions are centred around the three sprint shootout sessions (SQ1; SQ2 & SQ3), the sprint race sessions, and their results.
These questions are centred around the three qualifying sessions (Q1; Q2 & Q3) and their results.
These questions are centred around the events before the start of the grand prix sessions and anything that happens during them.
These questions are centred around grand prix classification.
These questions are centred around the drivers’ championship.
These questions are centred around the constructors’ championship.
These questions are centred around the six rookie drivers (Liam Lawson, Kimi Antonelli, Jack Doohan, Oliver Bearman, Isack Hadjar, Gabriel Bortoleto).
These questions are centred around things not going to plan (DNF; DSQ; DNS; Positions lost).
These questions are centred around the state of different race weekends (int/wet tires; red flags etc).
This section is focused around the player choosing a team of drivers that can beat all of the other players’ teams.
Choose a team of four unique drivers from the 2025 driver lineup:
Your team will then be ranked against all of the other players’ teams in each of the following statistics:
This section is all about choosing a driver from the 2025 lineup for each race weekend that you think will perform well. Each driver can be chosen once, except for the worst-four performing drivers from 2024 (or the drivers who replaced them), who can be chosen twice.
Choose a driver from the allocation for each race weekend on the calendar:
Players receive whatever points their allocated driver receives that weekend and the player with the most combined points at the end of the season wins the section.
SECTION 12: CONSTRUCTOR TALLYThis section is all about choosing a constructor from the 2025 lineup for each race weekend that you think will perform well. Each constructor can be chosen twice, except for the worst-four performing constructors from 2024, who can be chosen three times.
Choose a constructor from the allocation for each race weekend on the calendar:
Players receive whatever points their allocated constructor receives that weekend and the player with the most combined points at the end of the season wins the section.
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