There are brackets for F1 Fantasy, and they can help us when lining up our team. We've discussed them several times in our articles dedicated to those not recommended, trying to sort out the myriad combinations every fantasy manager must deal with. Each driver has a market value but, at the same time, also an average score that reflects, in part, their performance on the track. The brackets combine these two values; let's take a look at them together.
The Fanta F1 Band Method
Let's make one thing clear right away: the one of the bands is a method and, like any method, it can be questioned, rethought, and opposed. It has a fantasy football origin, where the Serie A player list is much richer and more dispersed. The bands, in that case, serve primarily to guide choices and allocate the budget. Even in Fantasy F1, however, the bands can perform these functions, accompanied by the aim of making fantasy managers understand that It's not enough to guess who will win the race this weekend or who will seal the pole position. High scores are also achieved by carefully choosing the mid-table drivers to field.
The target that Norris and Piastri set for themselves each weekend is different from that of Sainz, Alonso, or Bearman, for example. Their goals and their potential performances thus giving it a certain positioning. Here, the bands divide the drivers into groups and try to question the fantasy manager on who, in each group, can do better over the weekend. For this reason, the articles on pilots not recommended Very often they have one of the top drivers in the category in their roster. And then, it would be too easy to advise against only and exclusively the lower-ranked drivers. It's normal that Russell will place better than Colapinto at the end of a race, which is why the effort is to understand how the drivers will position themselves in relation to their direct opponents.
Finally, the division into five bands was based on a simple, if not banal, reasoning mathematicalAll of this, of course, to maintain a minimum of objectivity in their composition. In fact, the value taken into consideration was the average of two values that anyone can check on the YawClub app: the cost in credits and the average points of each driverThis reasoning should therefore take into account what the drivers showed on the track and what they brought in terms of bonuses and penalties to their fantasy managers. The two values on which this overall average was calculated they are not definitive, and this makes the bands flexible and with blurred boundaries. It's a partial reflection of today's Formula 1, with performances on the track that can gradually change over the course of 24 races, thanks to the right car updates.
First and second tier: the top drivers at Fanta F1
Let's start with the top of the class, that is, those who every weekend regularly fights for victory and pole positionIn the first band we find Max Verstappen, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, or rather the most expensive driver at the moment at Fanta F1. I am the three main protagonists of this 2025, even though the Dutchman has struggled considerably in the last two races. Their victories and pole positions are always among the most quoted and, every weekend, they must necessarily be taken into account by fantasy managers.
Among the second-tier pilots, we find those who, tooth and nail, are trying to regain the space they deserve. However, countering the papaya domain it is absolutely not easy for Leclerc, Russell and HamiltonTheir placings always bring a lot of points to their fantasy managers, but despite everything, the three of them manage to put together a victory in the race and another in the sprint race. The objective, when lining up, is to try to match one of these three drivers to the top-tier ones. The Norris and Leclerc pairing is not possible for now because it is too expensive, but the number 4 McLaren driver, if he wants, could pair up with Hamilton or Russell.
Third and fourth bands: the drivers in the middle of the group.
As already mentioned, in Fanta F1 the bands are flexible and have blurred boundaries. Precisely for this reason some drivers can be considered balanced between one band and another. It is the case of Kimi Antonelli. The very young Italian driver drives a Mercedes, a car from a top team, but his results they still see him far away from the drivers in the top two categories. Before Imola, he had achieved a series of solid and consistent finishes, but in recent races his performance has declined, due to persistent technical problems and some mistakes. With the exception of the podium in Canada and the pole in the Sprint at Miami, Antonelli is not yet consistently fighting for the positions that matter, as does his teammate George Russell.
For this reason Antonelli places himself between the second and third face, especially considering its cost of 19 credits. Moving forward, the third tier group includes drivers who try to score points every weekend, giving their fantasy managers significant bonuses such as the number of positions achieved, their placement, and the competitiveness demonstrated towards their teammate. Consequently, in the third tier we find Hulkenberg, Bearman, Albon and Ocon. The peculiarity of this group is that, race after race, it's getting more and more difficult be able to predict Which of these drivers will have the better weekend? Furthermore, the gap between their teams has recently narrowed even further than at the start of the championship.
Fourth and fifth tier: rookies and disappointing players
Let's move on to the lower part of this classification. In Fanta F1 the last two bands are reserved for those drivers who, logically, they achieved the lowest point averages. But let's start from fourth, in which we find Tsunoda, Alonso, Gasly, Stroll and Hadjar. The Racing Bull driver is a rookie who, up until Monte Carlo, had performed very well, but, as he's shown in recent races, he still has a lot to improve on. He's still a good choice at a low price: 11 credits. The others, however, started off very badly. and in this first part of 2025 they have had to deal with breakdowns, accidents and errors. Tsunoda and Alonso know something about it but, more than anything, also the stables themselves did not live up to their ambitions at the start of the season. This is the case, precisely, of Aston Martin and Alpine.
La transalpine stable It is perhaps the one in the most difficulty. Last in the constructors' league and with both drivers under ever-increasing pressure. Currently, Colapinto he is the driver with the lowest performance in Fanta F1. In fact, if we separate his average points from that of Doohan (who still had a -3,03), the Argentine is positioned in last place with an average of -1,66Together with him, in the fifth band, we find Sainz, with an average points of 0,17, then Bortoleto and, penultimately, Liam Lawson.
These are the five slots you can consider when you line up your team again in a week's time for the Belgian Grand Prix. Five slots that will be best assigned strategically to gain the upper hand over your opponents.
