Frequently Asked Questions

Cocktail Constructors is a fictional racing championship where every driver's car is a cocktail. The recipes are real and the community voting is real; the racing universe is fictional. For the full story, see the Learn page.

No. Cocktail Constructors is an original parody universe with fictional drivers and teams, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Formula 1.

Yes — Cocktail Constructors is completely free. Browsing recipes, voting, and following the championship all cost nothing.

Not to browse, read recipes, build a tasting grid, or draft a podium on a race's vote page. You need a free account only when you lock in a vote. An account also saves your votes, lets you change them before voting closes, and enables race-weekend reminders.

No. Every driver fields both a cocktail and a mocktail, and mocktails compete in their own voting category with their own results.

As a race approaches, voting opens the week before. You pick your podium for cocktails, mocktails, or both. Voting closes shortly before race start, the community's votes decide the finishing order, and the results and race report land afterwards.

By default, voting opens 7 days before a race and closes 1 hour before race start. Exact times can vary per race — each race page shows whether voting is currently open, and the homepage counts down to the next race.

Nothing breaks. Every race weekend is self-contained, so the standings roll on and you can jump back in at any time.

The schedule follows the real-world race calendar, so there's a race most weekends during the season. There are occasional breaks between rounds, just like the real calendar.

No. You never have to make or drink anything to participate — you can vote from the recipes alone. If you do want to taste, the intended way to play is to pick a small starting grid of a few drinks that fit your taste and your bar.

Your tasting grid is your personal shortlist of drinks you actually want to make and taste. Build one with the Find Your Starting Grid flow, which suggests a small set of drinks based on your taste and what you can make.

Every recipe is an original creation, crafted for its driver. They aren't sourced from anywhere else — each one was written for this championship.

No. Recipes list everything you need, and the starting-grid flow takes what you can actually make into account.

On a race's vote page you pick your podium: first, second, and third place from that race's field. Cocktails and mocktails have separate ballots, and you get one ballot per category per race.

Once voting closes, the community's ballots are tallied, with podium picks weighted, and that determines the finishing order for the race.

Some races carry "Seeded Results" — pre-filled outcomes used before community voting took over. Races decided by ballots are labeled "Community Voted Results", and the badge on each result tells you which one you are looking at.

Yes. You can update your ballot any time until voting closes for that race, and your latest submission replaces the previous one.

Points follow classic F1-style scoring: the top ten finishers in each race score points, from 25 for first place down to 1 for tenth. Points accumulate across the season to decide the championships.

The Drivers' championship ranks individual drivers by their drinks' results. The Constructors' championship aggregates results across each team.

The drivers' and constructors' champions are crowned from the final standings. Then a new season begins with the next calendar.