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Motorsport pools

Six championships, one set of mechanics, because nobody races head to head.

NASCAR, IndyCar, Formula 1, MotoGP, Formula E and Supercars have nothing in common except the thing that matters: a grid, a finishing order and no opponent to pick against. Predict the podium instead, and the same pool runs all six.

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Six series, and the shape of each one.

What they share
There is no home team and no second side. Every result is an order of finish, so every pool here is a prediction rather than a pick. Once that is true, one scoring engine covers all six.
NASCAR Cup Series
Thirty-six points races: twenty-six in the regular season, then a ten-race playoff that cuts sixteen drivers to four by the finale. The Clash and the All-Star Race sit outside the points, so decide whether your pool counts them.
IndyCar
Seventeen races across ovals, street circuits and road courses in a single championship, including a Milwaukee doubleheader that puts two races on one weekend.
Formula 1
Twenty-four rounds expected in 2027, each built as practice, qualifying and race. Six sprint weekends in recent seasons, with Formula 1 signaling more of them from 2027. Points run 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 to the top ten.
MotoGP
Twenty-two grands prix in 2026 across five continents. Every round carries a Saturday sprint over half distance paying 12-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, plus a Sunday grand prix paying 25 down to fifteenth. From 2027 the bikes drop to 850cc and ride-height devices go.
Formula E
Built around doubleheaders. From 2026-27 the two races at one venue are deliberately different: a thirty-minute E-Prix Unleashed on high downforce and a forty-five-minute E-Prix on low downforce, both paying full points on the 25 to 1 scale.
Supercars
Australia's multi-race championship, and the outlier on this page. The 2025 season ran 34 races across 13 rounds: Sprint Cup rounds carrying two or three races each, the endurance races at The Bend and Bathurst carrying one long race, and a three-round Finals series cutting ten drivers to four.
Attrition
A retirement is a normal outcome in all six, not an exception. Contact on the opening lap can remove three podium contenders before anyone's prediction has had a chance to be right.

What a race weekend looks like as a pool.

  1. The race weekend arrives with every session attached.

    Practice, qualifying, sprints and races come through from the live data feed with their own times and their own lock countdowns. An IndyCar doubleheader shows two races, a MotoGP round shows both the sprint and the grand prix, and a Supercars round shows its real race count.

  2. Players predict positions instead of picking a side.

    Top three in order is the spine of it. Around that go pole, fastest qualifier from a nominated team, first retirement, or a head to head between two named drivers. Each one is a configurable prediction category rather than a win or lose pick.

  3. The classification posts and the leaderboard moves.

    Results score against whatever categories you configured, per race rather than per weekend. Overall standings, group standings and the race recap all follow without anyone entering a finishing order by hand.

One difference between these series actually matters.

Most of these series are structurally identical: one race, one classification, one set of predictions. The exception is the weekend that contains more than one race, and it is where most motorsport pools get their scoring wrong.

Take predictions per race, never per weekend.

IndyCar puts a doubleheader at Milwaukee. Formula E is built on doubleheaders, and from 2026-27 the two races at one venue run different formats and different lengths while paying identical points. A Supercars round carries two or three races, which is how thirteen rounds produced thirty-four races in 2025. Treat the race as the unit of scoring and every one of these handles itself. Treat the weekend as the unit and one set of predictions covers two or three races, so most of the racing scores nothing.

Decide whether the non-points races count.

The Clash and the All-Star Race sit outside the NASCAR championship. They are good nights for a one-off pool and a distraction in a season-long one. Say before the Daytona 500 whether your pool scores them.

Sprints are a second result, not a second race.

A Formula 1 sprint and a MotoGP sprint both produce their own classification and their own reduced championship points. Score them as a separate round at reduced value, mirroring the way the championship itself pays them. Score a sprint identically to the main race and MotoGP weekends quietly become worth double, every single round, for no sporting reason.

Podium in order, with partial credit, is what makes it playable.

Full points for the right driver in the right position, partial points for the right driver in the wrong one. That one rule is why somebody who watches two races a year stays in the pool: getting two of three roughly right still scores, so nobody is out of it after the second race.

Qualifying gives you a second deadline, and a second decision.

A pole or front-row category locks on Saturday while the race locks on Sunday, which is a second moment of engagement in the same weekend and a second reminder to send. On a long calendar that is worth real participation. It is also twice the messaging, so decide deliberately rather than enabling it because you can.

Retirements decide your leaderboard more often than pace does.

One wreck on the opening lap removes every player who had that driver on the podium, simultaneously, before the race has meaningfully started. Partial credit softens it. A bonus category such as first retirement or whether a caution or safety car comes out gives the race somewhere to go after the front of the field is scrambled. Most commissioners configure both.

Two championships run off the same results.

Drivers and teams are scored in parallel in every series here. That is two season-long predictions from one calendar, and a second leaderboard that stays live even for people who have lost touch with the first.

Formats that suit a sport with no head to head.

Podium prediction

Top three in order, every race, with partial credit for the right driver in the wrong place. The default shape of a motorsport pool and the one most people already understand.

Single-race pools

One race, one set of predictions, one winner. The Daytona 500, the Indianapolis 500, the Bathurst 1000 or a Grand Prix each work as a complete pool for a crowd that turns up for that one weekend and nothing else.

Driver head to head

Nominate two drivers and predict which one finishes ahead. It reintroduces the binary the sport does not naturally have, which makes it the easiest motorsport format to explain to an NFL crowd.

Championship predictions

Lock in the drivers' and teams' championship order before the first race and score it at the end of the year. One decision in February that stays live until the finale.

Playoff and finals brackets

NASCAR cuts sixteen drivers to four across ten races. Supercars cuts ten to four across three rounds. Both are elimination trees, and both run as a bracket rather than as pick'em.

Why run your motorsport pool on Fanzava.

All six series are on the live data feed.

NASCAR, IndyCar, Formula 1, MotoGP, Formula E and Supercars. Sessions, grids and classifications arrive automatically, with the real race count for every weekend, so an IndyCar doubleheader is two races and a three-race Supercars round is three.

Prediction categories, not a forced head to head.

Scoring is configured per pool, so a motorsport pool is built as a set of prediction categories rather than bent into a two-team format that does not fit the sport.

Run one series or run the calendar.

The same hub holds a NASCAR season, a Formula 1 season and a one-off Indy 500 pool side by side, each with its own scoring and its own leaderboard. Between these six series there is a race almost every weekend of the year.

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Questions motorsport commissioners ask.

Can one pool cover more than one series?
Yes. They share their mechanics, so the same prediction categories work across all six. You can run each series as its own pool inside one hub with its own leaderboard, or build a combined motorsport pool that scores every race of every series into a single set of standings.
How do you score a weekend with two or three races in it?
Per race. Take a set of predictions for each race rather than one for the weekend. An IndyCar doubleheader is two scoring moments, and a Supercars season is thirty-four rather than thirteen. Score the weekend as a single unit and most of the racing counts for nothing.
How should sprint races be scored?
As a separate result at reduced points, mirroring the championship itself. A Formula 1 sprint and a MotoGP sprint each produce their own classification. If you pay them the same as the main race, MotoGP weekends become worth double every round, and the people who work that out first will win your season.
What happens when a driver wrecks on lap one?
It costs everyone who had them on the podium at once. Two settings soften it, and most commissioners use both: partial credit for correct drivers in the wrong positions, and a bonus category such as first retirement or a caution or safety car prediction so the race still has somewhere to go.
What does it cost?
Free for up to 25 players with no credit card. Paid plans are billed in US dollars, and the pricing page lists each plan's price and player cap. A single-race pool around the Daytona 500 or the Indy 500 can run entirely on the free plan if your field is small.

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