Note: this post was originally written in January 2022 in anticipation of F1 Season 4 and F2 Season 1 and is no longer the current selection system in place. Visit Season 5 Driver/Team Allocation to view Season 5’s selection system.
I’ve gotten quite a few questions on how teams will be assigned moving forward, so keep reading to have your questions answered. First I’ll outline the high-level steps of the process, then I’ll go into detail on the steps.
Teammate and Team Selection Process Steps
- Build Active Driver List
- F1 Teammate Negotiation/Recruitment
- F1 Team Selection
- F2 Teammate Negotiation/Recruitment
- F2 Team Selection
1. Build Active Driver List
The first step will be to build an active driver list and a reserve driver list. Jeff will solicit responses in the Discord server, asking everyone to confirm whether he wants to be an active driver, reserve, or no driver at all. The exact method will be determined later, but a driver will likely need to simply respond to a message with a specific reaction to let Jeff know whether the driver would prefer to be an active or reserve driver.
All drivers who have responded affirmatively that they would like to be active and reserve drivers for the upcoming season will be collated into separate lists. Note that divisions are not yet assigned at this point in the process.
2. F1 Teammate Negotiation/Recruitment
Starting with the driver with the highest TrueSkill (visible in the Discord server on the #driver-tier-eligibility channel, read this if you don’t know what TrueSkill is) and continuing in descending order of TrueSkill, each F1-eligible driver will have the opportunity to agree to be teammates with any other F1-eligible driver. Note that a driver has the freedom of choice here and is allowed to refuse to be someone’s teammate when approached, if he prefers. Teammate selection will continue in descending order of TrueSkill until all 20 F1 spots are filled.
3. F1 Team Selection
Each teammate pairing will select a team/car, with priority given to the team with the highest individual TrueSkill rating of either driver (note that this is either driver and not both, so the pairing containing the #1 TrueSkill driver will select a team/car first no matter who the second teammate is).
| Teammate 1 | Teammate 2 | Priority | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TrueSkill #1 | TrueSkill #6 | 1st | ||
| TrueSkill #2 | TrueSkill #8 | 2nd | ||
| TrueSkill #3 | TrueSkill #4 | 3rd | ||
| TrueSkill #5 | TrueSkill #7 | 4th |
4. F2 Teammate Negotiation/Recruitment
F2 teammate pairing will be assigned/chosen among unassigned/F2-eligible drivers after in the same fashion as F1 teammate pairings in process step #2 after F1 teammate selection has concluded.
5. F2 Team Selection
F2 cars/teams will be assigned/chosen by F2 teammate pairings in the same fashion as F1 car/team selection in process step #3 after F2 teammate selection has concluded.