By participating in any of GridRival's games, you agree to be bound by the following rules and terms in addition to our general Terms of Service. For INDYCAR players participating in the INDYCAR Fantasy Challenge played on the GridRival app, you agree to be bound by the terms of service of that particular contest provided by INDYCAR.

In a "Contracts" league, your goal is to build the most effective team of drivers with the allocated budget. Each team will start the season with $100,000,000 in fantasy cash. With this cash, you will “sign” six drivers (or, in F1, five drivers and one constructor - both referred to as “elements” throughout the game) on contracts.

For each event, your team will accumulate fantasy points based on the real-world performance of your team’s elements. Throughout the season, you’ll be ranked against the other members of your league based on the number of points you accumulate. The goal is to win your league by accumulating the most points by the end of the season.

Here's a quick video that explains the basics:

As you add elements to your fantasy lineup, you'll be asked to select how many races you'd like to sign them for. The default minimum is one race, and the default maximum is five races.

Once the contracts are complete, the elements will be released from your team, and you will need to replace them with additional new contracts.

It's possible to release an element from your team early if you pay an early release penalty of 3% of the driver's current salary.

The following videos explain how to build your fantasy team, think about strategy, and, contract lengths.

Building Your Fantasy Team:

Game Strategy Overview:

Understanding Contract Lengths:

Once an element is released from your team either due to their contract completion or being released early, you may not sign it again for one race.

Driver salaries will fluctuate from race to race in accordance with their rank after each event based on fantasy points. If an element on your team goes up or down in value during the course of their contract, you will pocket this gain, and it will be added to your fantasy bank balance, allowing you to build a better team over the course of the season. Learn more about element salaries.

Each player in a league will have a minimum team value of $100,000,000 to keep the game fun and to keep players from losing so much value that they are not able to recover. Learn more about the team value floor here.

See a breakdown of scoring for INDYCAR Leagues.

See a breakdown of scoring for Formula 1 Leagues.

See a breakdown of Scoring for NASCAR Leagues.

Each team is allowed to use one "Talent Driver" each week. The Talent Driver will earn DOUBLE points. Only drivers with salaries below a certain threshold are eligible as talent drivers. This threshold may be different based on each racing series.

Drivers who are eligible to be selected as talent drivers are denoted with a star icon next to their name during the lineup selection process. You may change your talent driver anytime the game is not in lockdown.

If your selected talent driver moves above the threshold while on your team, you must select another driver who is currently under the threshold as your talent driver.

Before every event, the game will go into "lockdown," at which point you will no longer be able to modify your lineup, and the element contracts you’ve saved to your lineup will be considered “signed” according to the number of races you’ve selected.

In the rare event that the session start time associated with lockdown is modified, GridRival may attempt to update the new lockdown time to the best of our ability. GRIDRIVAL IS NOT LIABLE FOR CHANGES TO OFFICIAL EVENT SCHEDULES THAT OCCUR WITHIN 7 DAYS OF THE ORIGINAL VERIFIED LOCKDOWN TIME.

Lockdown Lift

Lockdown is typically lifted at least 24 hours after the completion of the race but may remain active due to pending investigations. See the “Rescores” section for further details. Races that take place on Saturday will typically remain in lockdown for at least 48 hours.

In the event that a driver does not start a qualifying event, they will not receive qualifying points, regardless of any official rank. A driver will be deemed to have started qualifying once they complete at least one qualifying lap.

In the event that a driver does not start a race, they will not receive associated race points. A driver is deemed to have not started a race based on the official race classification from the governing motorsport body.

In the rare event that a driver does not record a qualifying time, they will be ranked in accordance with official sanctioning body results. If there are no official results that rank the driver, GridRival will rank the driver at our sole discretion and likely based on distance traveled, laps completed in qualifying, or starting grid position.

In the event that a driver starts but does not finish a race, their finish position will be ordered by the number of laps completed. For example, in a series with 30 drivers, if two drivers DNF, the first driver to DNF would rank 30th, and the second driver to DNF would rank 29th. If the two drivers that DNF are on the same lap, GridRival will rank them in accordance with the official results published by the sanctioning body's website. Typically, the driver who was further ahead will rank higher; however, this may not always be the case. In all cases not covered in this description, the rank will match official scoring by the relevant sport or sport-sanctioning body as is displayed on their website.

In the event that a driver is DQ’d for any reason, that driver will be awarded 0 points for qualifying or for the race, depending on which they were DQ’d from.

If a race is delayed, GridRival will use the results from the rescheduled race once completed. Lockdown time will remain at the originally scheduled race time. If the rescheduled race is delayed in such a manner that another race will occur prior, the event will be considered canceled.

In the event that qualifying is canceled, but a race still takes place, no qualifying points will be assigned to any drivers in leagues in which qualifying points are used. Qualifying position in the app will be replaced with the official starting grid position decided by the sport’s sanctioning body.

Points for Net Positions Gained / Overtake will be based on starting grid position

When a race is canceled for any reason, the event will be skipped and have no impact on contracts and scoring. For example, if a user has a 5-race contract and the 5th event is canceled, that contract will end at the next (6th) event, and the contract will accumulate scores and salary changes based on that event.

If an event ends without the scheduled number of laps being completed (most often due to weather), GridRival will score the event based on the order of drivers classified in the official results. Contracts and scoring will be applied normally if official results are posted. If there are no classified results, the event will count as "canceled” and have no impact on contracts and scoring.

In the event that a driver is temporarily replaced due to illness, injury, or other reasons, their contract will be filled by a replacement driver and the contract will be otherwise unchanged. A "sub" icon under the driver's picture will appear in this circumstance. The substitute will earn points and accumulate statistics on the absent driver's behalf.

Replacements

In the event that a driver makes a permanent change during the season, their contract will be automatically released without penalty, and their current salary will be added back to your fantasy team's bank balance. You will then be allowed to fill the open position with any other driver of your choosing.

IT IS THE USER’S RESPONSIBILITY TO BE AWARE AND INFORMED OF EVENTS THAT MAY AFFECT THEIR FANTASY LINEUP’S PERFORMANCE AND MAKE CHANGES ACCORDINGLY.

In rare cases, substitutions may not be reflected in the user interface if they occur close to or after the event has gone into lockdown. In these circumstances, the rules above still apply.

FOLLOWING THE COMPLETION OF A RACE, IF PENDING INVESTIGATIONS ARE PRESENT THAT MAY IMPACT OFFICIAL SCORING, WE WILL LEAVE THE GAME IN LOCKDOWN UNTIL AN OFFICIAL DECISION HAS BEEN MADE. IF INVESTIGATIONS ARE UNRESOLVED 24 HOURS AFTER THE COMPLETION OF AN EVENT, WE WILL REMOVE LOCKDOWN AND ATTEMPT TO RESCORE THE EVENT TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY AS SOON AS A FINAL RULING HAS BEEN MADE.

Should we elect to rescore an event after lockdown has lifted, some users may incur negative bank balances. This happens if the rescore results in the user's team value dropping below the combined value of the current contracts in their lineup.

League administrators may add points manually to members of their league. Any adjustments made by the admin will show up in the change log seen in the leagues's settings. Changes made to points by the admin will also appear in the league chat.

LEAGUE ADMINISTRATORS MUST CONFIRM MANUAL CHANGES WITH THEIR LEAGUE USING THE LEAGUE'S CHAT PRIOR TO MAKING A CHANGE.

If it is discovered that a league admin is abusing these features, GridRival reserves the right to change the league admin and, in certain circumstances, ban them from GridRival.

Teams which receive a manual points adjustment will not longer appear in the global leaderboard.

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