F1 Prize Money Estimator: Build a Team Payment Scenario
Formula 1 distributes central payments to teams, but the complete team-by-team calculation is not publicly disclosed.
Championship performance plays an important role, alongside other commercial principles such as heritage and longer-term success.
This estimator lets you build a transparent hypothetical distribution using your own assumptions. It does not claim to reproduce the confidential Concorde Agreement formula.
Build an F1 prize-fund scenario
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F1 Prize Fund Scenario Estimator
| Position | Performance payment | Heritage add-on | Modelled total | Share |
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The 2026 Concorde Agreement provides for Constructors’ Championship performance and other principles, including longer-term success and heritage. Exact team-by-team mechanics are confidential; every percentage in this model is an editable assumption.
How to use the estimator
Enter the aggregate team-payment pool and the number of teams sharing it.
You can then adjust:
- The illustrative heritage percentage
- The unallocated longer-term-success percentage
- The strength of the championship-performance curve
- The finishing position receiving the heritage add-on
A stronger performance curve directs a larger share toward the highest championship positions. A flatter curve creates a more even distribution.
Why exact F1 prize-money tables differ
Many online tables present estimates as though they were confirmed payments. In reality, publicly available information normally provides the aggregate amount and broad distribution principles rather than the complete confidential formula.
For that reason, every variable in this tool is presented as an assumption that the reader can change.
What this estimator can show
The model can demonstrate why a single Constructors’ Championship position may have a meaningful financial effect and how non-performance payments could influence the total received by a team.
It should not be used as evidence of the amount paid to a specific Formula 1 team.
Continue learning: Read our guide to how Formula 1 prize money and central team payments work.