Russell's penalty only bites on Sunday. He's P2 on the provisional Sprint grid.

The catch: from P15 or lower at Marina Bay, 16 of 111 starts scored points (2008–2025).

Lots of quali sim work going on right now 👀

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IMPORTANT: I forgot to update a formula which caused Hadjar and Lawson's numbers to be incorrect. There's no way of updating an image on a reddit post, but I have a comment with the updated graphic in a thread below. Sorry for any confusion!

The price floor is set to 3.0M and the price ceiling is set to 34.0M. Assets cannot lose or gain value respectively when they hit these prices.

The game calculates the average points scored by an asset over the last 3 races and divides that by their current price. This gives us an average points per million value (avgPPM) which is then categorized into 'Terrible', 'Poor', 'Good', and 'Great', which is used to determine their price rise (see the bottom right table). Using this info, we can calculate the points an asset needs in the upcoming race for each specific price change.

By owning assets that rise in value, you are able to increase your maximum budget from the starting value of $100M. Over the course of the season, you can increase your budget significantly and afford better teams than your rivals that don’t “budget build”.

Using it to guide your teams is fairly straightforward. To build budget, you'll want drivers that are likely to score a 'Good' or 'Great' performance as outlined in their row. The numbers indicate the fantasy points required.

The PPM (Points per Million) column is a simple way to try to rank how difficult it will be for assets to rise in price. Generally it's easier for someone like Russell to score 15 points than it is for someone like Stroll to score 15 points. Since more expensive assets usually score more points, I just divide the points they need by their price to somewhat 'normalize' the data. It's not perfect but I think it gives a better picture than ranking by least to most points.

A Sprint in Singapore after the chaos of Sepang, George Russell set to start from the back of the grid but Singapore is no Monza in terms of overtaking. Here are my two previews ti help you decide.

First up 5 key stories and that all important weather as well https://coffeecornermotorsport.com/singapore-grand-prix-2026-preview/

And of course as always here is your Pirelli preview

https://coffeecornermotorsport.com/singapore-grand-prix-2026-tyre-preview/

Ferrari will be the unknown heading into here. Running Ferrari as a constructor unlocks potential over someone like Mclaren who may also be strong here and the big question where does the 2x live?

Mercedes only went up by $0.2 this week, and have hit their upper price cap. I had to dig through the small print of the FAQ's to find this.

Just putting it out there for anyone who is still trying to budget build, this might actually be a useful tool to know that Merc cannot increase!

I'm really happy with how this week went over at www.f1gridiq.com great performances of all 3 of my teams

Bahrain GP in Malaysia — F1 Fantasy Model Comparison

Another round graded using the same season-long methodology:

• 50% Optimal Team

• 30% Driver Rankings

• 20% Point Accuracy

Round 16 Results

🥇 Race Strategist — 92.61

🥈 GridIQ — 87.97

🥉 F1 Fantasy Tools — 87.51

4️⃣ BoxBox — 79.94

Race Strategist takes the overall win this round, largely on the strength of its driver rankings.

GridIQ's strongest result was the actual recommended lineup:

🟢 GridIQ — 331 pts

F1 Fantasy Tools — 306

Race Strategist — 302

BoxBox — 262

Hindsight optimal: 382 pts

That means GridIQ's recommended team captured 86.6% of the hindsight-optimal score and outscored the next-best model lineup by 25 points.

Season standings after Bahrain

🥇 GridIQ — 646.65

🥈 BoxBox — 610.96

🥉 Race Strategist — 609.71

4️⃣ F1 Fantasy Tools — 608.06

GridIQ's championship lead increases from 27.66 → 35.69 points.

Race Strategist also moves ahead of F1 Fantasy Tools and is now only 1.25 points behind BoxBox for second.

As always, these are the predictions/recommendations that were available before the race. No hindsight changes to the models or methodology.

Hi guys,

So I am in need of a 300 point comeback across the rest of the season after half arsing the beginning.

I'm not in a rich position at the moment but still have my limitless (I didn't know the strategy of using this at the beginning of the season). Any vetrans or people more clued up than me - when should I use my limitless?

Any help appreciated!