Just when we thought the dust had settled on Logan Sargeant’s mid-season exit from Williams, it seems the American’s unceremonious dumping is still impacting one unexpected pocket of the F1 fanbase. For the 1.7 million people playing the F1 Fantasy game, a bizarre loophole emerged in the wake of the announcement that Sargeant would be replaced by Argentina’s Franco Colapinto for the remainder of the 2024 season.
For those uninitiated, fantasy players draft five drivers and two constructors to their teams on a $100m budget each race weekend, with prices set based on driver performance. For example, during the Dutch Grand Prix — Sargeant’s final race with Williams — he crashed during practice and wasn’t able to take part in qualifying, resulting in a fantasy score of -5 points for that session.
