Team

Driver	Team	Price	Delta	Boost
Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	$25.4M	↑$0.1M	⚡ 2× Boost
Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	$24.5M	↑$0.3M	—
Isack Hadjar	Red Bull Racing	$12.7M	↑$0.6M	—
Franco Colapinto	Alpine	$9.8M	↓$0.2M	—
Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	$8.9M	↑$0.2M	—

Constructor	Price	Delta
Ferrari	$25.7M	↑$0.3M
Racing Bulls	$11.1M	↑$0.6M

Squad value $118.1M · $1.6M in bank (platform-confirmed) · Chip: None (Limitless banked) · Penalty: None — 0 of 2 free transfers used (1 rolls to R10)

R09 British GP (Silverstone) is a sprint — two scoring sessions. Boost applies to the Grand Prix race score only (no effect on sprint or qualifying points). Full hold: no transfers this week.

Changes from R08

#	Out	In	Net
—	(none — full hold)	—	—

0 of 2 free transfers used. 1 free transfer rolls to R10; 1 is the standard weekly allocation lost by not being used. No penalty.

Justifications

Full hold — no transfers. The team scored 223 pts at Austria — the season’s second-best round — with no negative scores anywhere, and its structure is exactly what a sprint rewards: two front-running premiums that bank points in both sessions (Antonelli, Hamilton), a reliable Red Bull midfield floor (Hadjar, P6 on debut for us), and the Racing Bulls double-score (Lawson + Racing Bulls constructor) that keeps returning the best pts-per-dollar in the portfolio. Hamilton also double-counts through the Ferrari constructor.

The only genuinely weak slot is Colapinto ($9.8M): Alpine’s upgraded front wing “yielded precious little” at Austria (research), he qualified P16 and finished P15, and on a sprint his poor one-lap pace is a drag across sprint qualifying, the sprint race and GP qualifying. But there is no affordable upgrade that improves the slot:

• Sainz ($11.4M — the only pricier option the $1.6M bank affords) just retired with an electrical failure, drives a Williams that lacked pace all weekend, and carries elevated DNF risk — negative-EV on a sprint where a DNF costs −10 (sprint) on top of the GP exposure.
• Every cheaper option (Ocon, Albon, Bearman, Bortoleto) is weaker or a trap pick; Lindblad ($6.2M) would triple our Racing Bulls correlation.
• Silverstone is a real overtaking circuit — Colapinto’s one demonstrated strength (P13→P10 Barcelona, P16→P15 Austria). His recovery profile fits the track, and at $9.8M he remains a serviceable floor.

Spending a free transfer on a lateral-or-negative move is negative-EV. We hold the full squad and roll 1 free transfer to R10, keeping both Wildcard-flex and cap flexibility for a cleaner opportunity.

Hold: Antonelli, Hamilton, Hadjar, Colapinto, Lawson, Ferrari C, Racing Bulls C — every slot justified above.

Boost Pick

Kimi Antonelli — Mercedes, $25.4M

Antonelli is restored as the default 2× after Austria settled the Barcelona reliability scare: Mercedes’ flagged battery fix held, he recovered to P3 with the fastest lap, and Autopilot’s auto-boost turned that into 70. He is the championship leader (171) in the fastest car — Mercedes has won the last two Grands Prix (Hamilton Barcelona, Russell Austria) — and the boost multiplies the Grand Prix score only, so his front-running ceiling is the target.

The one close alternative is Hamilton at his home race: a record 9 Silverstone wins, Ferrari-reliable, and the cooler British track eases the hot-weather tyre degradation that cost Ferrari at Spielberg. If Friday and sprint qualifying show Ferrari ahead of Mercedes at Silverstone, the boost should flip to Hamilton — but on current car pace (Mercedes the class of the field, Ferrari only 4th-quickest at Austria behind an upgraded Red Bull and Piastri’s McLaren), Antonelli is the pick. Verstappen is the wildcard if Red Bull’s new upgrade package travels, but at $27.9M he is not on our team.

Chip: none. Limitless — the standout remaining sprint chip — needs a dominant car to justify uncapping the budget. Austria showed the opposite: Russell won by 1.611s over a charging, upgraded Verstappen, with Piastri’s McLaren also in the fight — a close four-team picture and exactly the chaotic scenario where fielding a “best-possible” lineup adds little. Limitless stays banked for R12 Dutch or R16 Singapore with a clearer favourite; Wildcard and No Negative remain in reserve.