{"id":34604,"date":"2025-09-10T22:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/formula-1-what-is-a-super-license-and-how-do-drivers-accumulate-points\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:47:16","slug":"formula-1-what-is-a-super-license-and-how-do-drivers-accumulate-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/formula-1-what-is-a-super-license-and-how-do-drivers-accumulate-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: What is a Super License and how do drivers accumulate points?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A driver must collect a minimum of 40 points over a two or three-year period to be applicable for an F1 super licence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They can be gained from a list of FIA-recognised championships. The higher the drivers finish a season, the more points they will receive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These championships include the Formula series (F2, F3, Formula E and F1 Academy), IndyCar, World Endurance Championship and Nascar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top three in Formula 2 will receive 40 points, whereas in IndyCar, the champion will be awarded 40 points, second place gets 30 and third gets 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In F3 and FE, the champion will receive 30 points, second 25 points, and third 20 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drivers that hold a &#8216;free practice only&#8217; super licence can gain points when they complete 100km during F1 practice sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To obtain this specific licence a driver must be at least 18 years old, hold a Grade A licence, pass the FIA theory test, and complete either six races in F2 or accumulate 25 super licence points in three seasons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/c1l8v4perrjo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver must collect a minimum of 40 points over a two or three-year period to be applicable for an F1 super licence. They can be gained from a list of FIA-recognised championships. The higher the drivers finish a season, the more points they will receive. These championships include the Formula series (F2, F3, Formula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34606,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34604\/revisions\/34606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}