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Tsunoda moves to Red Bull
After two races in the 2025 season Lawson has been dropped from the Red Bull team and will move to the Racing Bulls for the Japanese Grand Prix. Tsunoda will move from the Racing Bulls to Red Bull and partner Verstappen.
If you have either driver in your team you will keep those drivers. The team points for Red Bull will now come from Verstappen and Tsunoda and the points for Racing Bulls will come from Hadjar and Lawson respectively.
This situation is covered under rule 7.
Chinese Grand Prix 2025 results
The Chinese Grand Prix featured the first sprint race of the season and, having taken pole, it was a dominant win for Hamilton in only his second race weekend for Ferrari. In the Grand Prix Piastri led from the lights and Norris passed Russell to take second. The McLaren drivers, Ferrari drivers, Russell and Verstappen all stayed close to each other for the duration of the race. Norris began closing on Piastri towards the end but a brake issue meant he had to hold station and finished just ahead of Russell. Verstappen was fourth and, at the flag, Leclerc and Hamilton came home fifth and sixth. Unfortunately for both Ferraris they (along with Gasly) were disqualified after the race for technical infringements.
In RealityF1 it was StressedDave who won in the Reality F1 Chinese Grand Prix. Their team was Lawson, Ocon, McLaren and Haas. The best team for this race would've been: Piastri, Ocon and two Haas scoring 186.5 points
In the 2025 RealityF1 Championship, it's still Col in the lead.
In the league competition, The Lifers move into the top spot. United Kingdom are in first place in the country league competition.
The site will re-open for team changes tomorrow (Monday). The third race of the 2025 season is the Japanese Grand Prix on 6th April.
Australian Grand Prix 2025 results
What a start to the season? The opening race of the 2025 season was packed with drama as rain played havoc with the race. Even the front runners had moments when they slid off the track and the need to be on the right tyre at the right time kept everyone guessing. In the end it was Norris who led Verstappen home with Russell in third but it could so easily have been one of seven or eight drivers that won the race. Fingers crossed that this start suggests we're in for a great season.
In Reality F1 the season opening race in Australia was won by Col with a team of Antonelli, Stroll, McLaren and Haas. The best team for this race was Antonelli, Hülkenberg, Mercedes and Haas scoring 180.50 points.
In the league competition it's The Lifers that take an early lead and United Kingdom lead the country championship.
As the season is now underway you can see the team components of other players and also see a breakdown of your own scores. We have also generated your predicted world rank following this event. However, you now only have three free team changes for the remainder of the season. You can make as many changes you want but, after your three free changes, 20 championship points will be deducted for any further changes.
The site will re-open for team changes tomorrow (Monday). The second race of the season, the Chinese Grand Prix, takes place on 23rd March.
If you want to follow Reality F1 on Bluesky you can find us here: realityf1.bsky.social
Welcome to Reality F1 2025
Reality F1, the free Fantasy Formula 1 competition, returns for the 2025 season!
2025 is the final season using the current F1 regulations and, if the end of the 2024 season is anything to go by, it looks like it will be one of the most competitive seasons for many years. Testing is a notoriously unreliable indocator of form but early impressions suggest that McLaren, Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull are all very close.
In terms of the RealityF1 competition I've kept the budget for teams at £70M and there are over 5,000 possible team combinations. I've shamelessly priced a lot of the top teams and drivers similarly because I expect them to be very close.
The deadline for team entries (or changes to team components for the coming race) is 12 midnight GMT on the FRIDAY before a race weekend. So, in order to be eligible to score points in all rounds of the 2025 season you will need to register a team before 12 midnight GMT on Friday 14th March 2025. You can join after this date but won't score points for missed races.
If you played last season then you just need to log in and you can create your new team. If you've not played before then you'll need to sign up.
Game on!
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2024 and final results
With the Drivers' Championship already settled, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix would decide the Constructors' Championship with McLaren hoping to secure the title for the first time since 1998. Qualifying went well for the papaya team with a one-two but a first corner incident with Verstappen (for which the latter received a 10s penalty) spun Piastri and dropped him to last. With Leclerc surging through the field he was soon third behind Sainz and meaning Norris had to win the race to clinch the Constructors' title for McLaren. Norris soaked up the pressure and was able to win the race and secure the title for the team.
This season has been a bit mixed with the lack of competition at the beginning of the season allowing Verstappen to build a lead that he could defend. His consistent performances later in the season, as the other teams overhauled the dominance of Red Bull, secured the title. With several teams ending the season in competitive shape, and some exciting driver moves for 2025, let's hope for a more competitive season from the outset next year.
In RealityF1, the 2024 RealityF1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was won by Aquitaine, Crash'n'Burn, rosbif and The Tick. The team to have for this race was Norris, Leclerc, Haas and RB.
The 2024 RealityF1 Championship was a very close fight with Asko beating BigAl by just 3.5 points. Congratulations to Asko you become the 24th RealityF1 Champion! Tom R was the top ranked rookie player (someone playing RealityF1 for the first time) in 28th.
In the league competition, NESTF1 took the top spot. This is NESTF1's fifth league victory and their first since 2020.
In the country league competition it was the United States who took victory from last year's winners Finland.
As the season has now ended I have updated the player rankings (a leaderboard of all the players who've contested a RealityF1 season since the game started in 2001). The top ranking player is still Keith, ahead of mic1000 and chub.
As usual, I'm keen to hear any feedback you may have on the game so I can continue to improve it so please email me your views and suggestions for the future.
The site will re-open on Monday and, although you won't be able to create a team for the new season yet, you will still be able to update your profile and account details if you wish (should you change email addresses etc).
RealityF1 will return for the 2025 season. The provisional date for the first race is the Australian Grand Prix on 16th March 2025. A month or so before the first race I'll email you to let you know that you can create your team for the coming season.
It only remains for me to thank you for playing RealityF1, I look forward to losing to you again in 2025.
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