How to Use Your Remaining F1 Fantasy Chips With Six Races Left

Six races are left, none of them is a Sprint weekend, and you can play only one chip per race. Any chip still unused after Abu Dhabi is lost.

That makes the run-in a simple counting exercise with a few judgement calls on top. This guide takes each chip you might still hold in the official F1 Fantasy game, names the rounds that suit it, and says how confident we are in each call.

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The six races left

The United States Grand Prix runs from 23 to 25 October. Teams lock at the start of qualifying, at 22:00 BST on Saturday 24 October. UK clocks go back the next morning, so check later lock times in the app rather than working them out from Austin.

Las Vegas is the one to watch. The race is on Saturday, so qualifying and the lock come on Friday, a day earlier than at every other remaining round.

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Where each chip fits

3X Boost: Austin or Mexico City

The call: play it at Austin or Mexico City, on the premium driver you trust most at that circuit.

The 3X Boost does the most work on a Sprint weekend, and there are none left. No remaining round offers an extra session to multiply, so waiting gains you nothing and adds the risk of running out of races. Austin and Mexico City both reward a fast car: Austin has the overtaking to let a front-runner recover from a poor qualifying, and Mexico City has low weather risk. Qatar is a reasonable late option, because high degradation and multiple DRS zones let a dominant driver build a big score, but by then you may need that weekend for another chip.

Remember that the 3X Boost and the 2X Boost cannot sit on the same driver. If your 3X Boost pick already holds the Boost, move the Boost to another driver before the lock, and reset it the following race.

Confidence: medium. The case for playing it soon is strong. Which of the two weekends is better depends on your driver and their form, so pick the one where you are most sure of them.

No Negative: São Paulo

The call: São Paulo, Round 20.

No Negative removes negative scores, so it is worth most when rain, contact and retirements are likely. Interlagos has the highest weather risk on the remaining calendar, a history of Safety Cars and a high overtaking rating that can shuffle the order. With no Sprints left, the main value now is the protection against a Grand Prix retirement, which can be worth up to 20 points per driver.

If the São Paulo forecast is dry and Austin's is stormy, Austin is the alternative. Avoid Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi, where the weather risk is very low.

Confidence: medium. The circuit is the right one. The forecast in the week of the race decides how much the chip is worth.

Autopilot: a wet weekend, or when a top driver starts from the back

The call: hold it for the first remaining weekend where two of your elite drivers are genuinely hard to separate. São Paulo is the most likely, Austin the next.

Autopilot moves your 2X Boost to whichever of your drivers scores the most. It earns its keep when you cannot tell which of two top drivers will score more: in mixed conditions, or when one of them starts out of position with the pace to recover. It does little at a dry race with a clear favourite.

If you also hold No Negative, both chips point at São Paulo and only one can go there. Give São Paulo to No Negative and look for a stormy forecast at Austin or a grid penalty for one of your drivers at a later round for Autopilot.

Confidence: low. No remaining round is a clear Autopilot weekend. It depends on the weather and on penalties you cannot see yet.

Limitless: Mexico City

The call: Mexico City, Round 19. Abu Dhabi if your other chips are already spoken for.

Limitless removes the budget cap for one race, then your team returns to its previous lineup. It is strongest at a normal weekend where the result follows car pace, so the premium drivers you could not otherwise afford actually finish at the front. Every remaining round is a normal weekend, so the choice comes down to the most predictable race. Mexico City and Abu Dhabi both have low weather risk and medium overtaking. Mexico City comes earlier, so it does not crowd the final round.

The advantage is smaller than it would have been early in the season, because price changes have narrowed the gap between a Limitless lineup and a well-built normal one. Avoid São Paulo, where weather and Safety Cars can undo a perfect lineup.

Confidence: medium. The altitude in Mexico City can change the usual order of the teams, so check how the leading cars ran there before you commit.

Final Fix: hold it as insurance, then Abu Dhabi

The call: keep it from Austin onwards and play it at the first weekend one of the triggers below happens. If none does, play it at Abu Dhabi.

Final Fix lets you swap one driver after qualifying. Hold it unless:

1. A driver in your team is withdrawn or ruled out before the Grand Prix.
2. A top driver starts from the back with the pace to recover, and you want them in.
3. Your Boost driver qualifies badly at a circuit where they cannot recover.

The third trigger mattered most at low-overtake street circuits, and none is left. Las Vegas is a street circuit, but its long straights make passing possible. That leaves Final Fix mainly as cover for withdrawals and penalties, which can come at any round.

Confidence: high on holding it, low on the round. You cannot predict when a withdrawal happens, which is the point of keeping it.

Wildcard: only when you need more changes than your free transfers cover

The call: play it at the first race where you need three or more changes at once, or four or more with a transfer banked. If you never do, play it at Qatar or Abu Dhabi.

The Wildcard makes unlimited changes within the cost cap, and the new team stays. That only adds value beyond your free transfers. If two or three moves fix your team, use transfers and keep the Wildcard.

Playing it earlier gives a rebuild more races to pay off. Austin is the most likely trigger: it is the first race after a two-week break, and a change in form there could leave several of your drivers on the wrong side of it. If the need never comes, a Wildcard at Qatar or Abu Dhabi still lets you build a team for that one circuit without spending transfers.

Confidence: medium. It depends entirely on how far your team is from the one you want.

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If you still hold every chip

Six chips and six races means one chip every weekend, with no room to hold any of them back. A plan that fits the reasoning above:

Final Fix stays until last because it is the one chip that can rescue a weekend at short notice. If a withdrawal happens earlier, play Final Fix that week and move whichever chip it displaces to Abu Dhabi.

Autopilot is the chip that loses out here, because Qatar is usually dry. If any earlier weekend turns wet, or one of your top drivers takes a grid penalty, swap Autopilot into that round and move the displaced chip to Qatar.

With fewer chips the same rules apply:

1. Count your chips and count the races left. One chip per race.
2. Give each chip its best remaining round from the sections above.
3. If two chips want the same round, give it to the one with fewer alternatives and move the other.
4. Do not leave two chips for Abu Dhabi. Only one can be played there, so the other is lost.

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Transfers alongside your chips

You get two free transfers every race, and one unused transfer carries over, up to a maximum of three. Each transfer beyond your allowance costs 10 points.

• Holding one transfer back is worth it when no move this week clearly improves your team, because it gives you three next week. Holding more than one gains nothing.
• Paying the 10-point cost only makes sense when the move is expected to gain more than 10 points over the races that remain. With six races left, that bar gets harder to clear each week.
• Price changes matter less now. A price rise builds budget for races that are running out. Judge each transfer on the points it should score from here, not on where the price is heading.
• Plan transfers around your chips. Limitless returns your team to its previous lineup afterwards, so do not spend transfers that week on drivers you only want for one race. A Wildcard makes free transfers unnecessary that week, so it is a good time to let one carry over.

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Next up: Austin

Our United States Grand Prix preview covers the transfers at current prices, the Boost pick and whether Austin is the weekend for your 3X Boost.

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Frequently asked questions

How many chips can I use in one race in F1 Fantasy? One. With six races left, a player still holding all six chips needs to play one every weekend from Austin to Abu Dhabi.

What happens to chips I have not used by Abu Dhabi? They are lost. Abu Dhabi is Round 23, the final round, and nothing carries over to next season.

When should I use the 3X Boost now that the Sprints are over? At Austin or Mexico City, on the premium driver you trust most at that circuit. No remaining round has an extra Sprint session to multiply, so holding the chip only adds the risk of running out of races.

Which remaining race is best for No Negative? São Paulo at Round 20. It has the highest weather and Safety Car risk of the six races left. Austin is the alternative if its forecast is wetter.

When do teams lock for the United States Grand Prix? At the start of qualifying, 22:00 BST on Saturday 24 October.

Why is the Las Vegas lock earlier? The Las Vegas race is on Saturday 21 November, so qualifying, and the lock, come on Friday instead of Saturday.

Do unused free transfers carry over? One does. You get two free transfers every race, one unused transfer carries over, and the most you can hold is three. Each extra transfer costs 10 points.