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2025 ASTRON/JIVE Fantasy Formula 1
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For 2025, we decided that a Fantasy Formula 1 game was the perfect way to share the fun. Based on the inspiring example of the Jodrell Bank version, it was set up by the time the 2025 season started.
How does it work? All F1 drivers have a unique value in virtual money, and are divided in three categories; top picks, mid-fielders and no-hopers. Each participant has to select six drivers in total: two drivers from each category, and has to stay within a given budget.
Then, for each race, based on the actual F1 results, all drivers that finished receive points. The participant's points for their selected drivers are added and the fantasy formula one competition emerges!
Given the cost cap, people had to be smart in their selections. It wasn't possible to choose only the best drivers per category, and sometimes there are surprises when drivers that were not expected to perform well, suddenly managed to get a podium position!
Watching Formula 1 suddenly got an extra dimension. You can support a real team, but maybe your selected driver is from the competition. Your most expensive driver may suddenly have bad luck and score less points than expected. You may be in a losing spot in FF1, but score most points in a single race. And our end-of-season was as exciting as the real Formula 1. Three people contended for the title, and it all came down to the very last race of the season.
We were kindly allowed to watch the race live together in the Oort room last Sunday. It was the perfect social ending of an amazingly entertaining F1 year.
And after we watched Lando Norris winning his first F1 championship, we crowned Aditya Parthasaraty as our first ever ASTRON-JIVE Fantasy Formula 1 champion.
A new Fantasy Formula 1 game will run next year. Are you interested? Or just up for some F1-related gossip? Join us in the slack channel: #f1fanatics.