24-0 Glossary: Every Term in the Game and in F1

Every term you’ll meet in 24-0 and the Formula 1 ideas behind it, in plain English.

Game terms

24-0 — A perfect season: winning all 24 races with zero losses. The game’s ultimate goal, and something no real F1 team has ever done.

Chassis — The car you draft, representing a real constructor in a given era. Rated for pace, reliability and development. Usually your most important pick.

Lead driver — Your number-one driver. Rated for racecraft, qualifying pace and consistency.

Second driver — Your number-two driver. Because a race is won if either car finishes first, this is a genuine strategic pick, not a backup.

Team principal — A light strategy modifier who sharpens race strategy and car development. In 24-0, principals are original, fictional archetypes, not real people.

Spin — The start of each draft round, which lands on an era and flavours your candidate pool.

Reroll — A chance to see a fresh set of candidates for a slot before committing. You get three across a full draft.

Chemistry — A transparent score for how well your specific picks fit together, shown as named bonuses and penalties (see below).

Era fit — How well your car and drivers match the era you’re simulating. Keeping everything in one era earns the Era-Perfect Package bonus.

Grade — Your final result, S (a perfect 24-0) down to F.

Seed — A short code (like 240-K3M9QZ) that reproduces the exact draft options of a run, for head-to-head play.

Blind Draft — A mode that hides ratings, so you pick on F1 knowledge alone.

Chemistry bonuses and penalties

Two-Car Threat — Two elite drivers, so either car can win any race. The biggest bonus in the game.

Dream Package — A dominant car plus a top-tier driver.

Fast & Flawless — Front-running pace with bulletproof reliability.

Pit-Wall Edge — A fast car plus a master-strategist principal.

Era-Perfect Package — Car and both drivers built for the same era.

Fragile Machine — A penalty for a car that doesn’t finish enough races.

Weak Second Car — A penalty for leaving a slow driver in the second seat, halving your shots at a win.

Era Mismatch — A penalty for a team spread across incompatible decades.

Formula 1 terms

Constructor — The team that builds the car (Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull, Williams and so on). A constructor’s championship is the team title.

Grand Prix — A single race of the World Championship, usually named for its host country.

DNF — “Did Not Finish”: a retirement, from a mechanical failure or crash. In 24-0, a car that DNFs can’t win, and a double-DNF is an automatic lost race.

Reliability — How consistently a car finishes races. Low in the 1950s–70s, near-perfect in the modern era.

Pole position / qualifying — Qualifying sets the starting grid; pole is the fastest, at the front. Reflected in a driver’s pace rating.

Podium — A top-three finish. Shown in the race log, but only a win (P1) counts toward 24-0.

Constructors’ and Drivers’ Championships — F1’s two season-long titles, for the best team and the best driver. Real career title counts feed the ratings in 24-0.

For the rules that tie these together, start with how to play 24-0.