One free email before every race weekend with the transfer, Boost and chip call, and why. Two minutes to read.
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The free weekly call
Updated Thu 22 Oct for the United States GP
The season pass
Here's a season pass email from the Bahrain GP at Sepang (Round 16), written for a real team with $0.7M left in the cost cap.
Gridside
hello@gridside.app
Ocon out, Bearman in · Bahrain GP, Round 16
TRANSFER
Esteban Ocon out, Oliver Bearman in
Same Haas car, $3.5M cheaper, and Bearman finished P9 in Baku. Fits your budget with room to spare.
BOOST
Kimi Antonelli
Already your Boost, so keep it there. P5, P1, P1 in his last three races, and Mercedes bring upgrades to Sepang.
CHIP
Hold
Save Final Fix for Singapore (Round 17), a Sprint weekend on a street circuit where a poor qualifying is hard to recover from.
CONFIDENCE
An 86% rain forecast at a circuit F1 hasn't raced on since 2017 makes this weekend hard to call.
The process
Sign up with your email for the free weekly call. It arrives before every race weekend with the transfer, Boost and chip call.
Pay £4.99 once for the season pass, then enter your team, budget and chips. Takes two minutes.
Open the email, make the transfer, set your Boost. Done.
The method
No hedging, no data dumps, no hype. The call comes first, with two or three sentences of reasoning so you understand why, not just what. Every season pass email is written for your team, from fresh race data gathered that week:
Chip strategy accounts for scarcity. Six chips, one season, no second chances. Before any chip call we look at the races still to come, and we never point you at a race that has already happened.
Confidence levels are honest, not decoration. A medium confidence pick means there's a real variable in play, usually weather or reliability, and we name it.
Simple pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you want the call written for your team. One payment, no renewal.
£0
The same call for everyone, before every race weekend.
£4.99
Covers all 6 remaining 2026 races, through to Abu Dhabi.
Gridside is a UK email advice service for the official F1 Fantasy game. Before every race weekend it sends a free weekly email with the headline call, and a £4.99 season pass adds transfer, Boost and chip advice written for your own team, budget and chips. It is not a team optimiser: each call is a written recommendation with the reasoning behind it. More about Gridside
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