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Both Hilton HHonors and redspottedhanky.com are running Fantasy Formula 1 competitions for the second time this year.  You still have two weeks to sign up before the first race.

The redspottedhanky.com one is especially valuable as all players can earn up to £20 in redspottedhanky train tickets credit.

First up, let’s look at Hilton.

The home page and registration site for the competition is here.

The prize, for the overall winner, is pretty good.  You get five nights in ANY Hilton Group property worldwide (Maldives sounds good to me ….) which is the equivalent of 380,000 Hilton HHonors points if used at a peak resort at peak time.

They also give you $580 in cash towards your tax liability for the prize – which, as a UK resident, will be nothing!  (The competition is open to various countries, including the UK and US.)

There will also be four quarterly prizes of a 3-night stay at any Hilton Group property, plus $365.

Perhaps more interestingly (ie realistically) there are 30 weekly prizes to be won.  The highest scorer each week gets 50,000 Hilton HHonors points, with a decreasing scale down to 5,000 for 30th place.

I have entered teams for myself and my wife.  I have no intention at all of tweaking my team during the competition – I will just let it sit there and hope I get lucky one week!

The redspottedhanky.com option

redspottedhanky.com has also brought back its Fantasy Formula 1 competition, based on identical software to the Hilton one.  The overall prizes are less exciting, with an iPad being the best on offer.  It’s not quite 5 nights in The Maldives …..

However, ALL PLAYERS will receive redspottedhanky.com loyalty points.  This is effectively free money.

They have changed the format this year, for the better.

Instead of only paying you at the end of the year, you will be paid out in June, August, October and January 2015.

Your Fantasy Formula 1 points will be divided by five, and your payout will be capped at £5 per period, so a maximum of £20 over the year.

There are three ways to approach this:

For the super-lazy – sign up and let RSH randomly pick a team for you, then sit back and wait for the points to arrive

For the fairly lazy (me) – sign up, think strategically about your team, but then sit back and wait for the points to arrive and never change it

For the active – sign up, think strategically about your team and then transfer drivers in and out throughout the season in an attempt to maximise your money

Whatever you do, though, do something!  It would be a waste to let a few pounds of RSH credit go astray.

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How to earn Hilton Honors points and status from UK credit cards

How to earn Hilton Honors points and status from UK credit cards (June 2025)

There are various ways of earning Hilton Honors points from UK credit and debit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses.

There are two dedicated Hilton Honors debit cards. These are especially attractive when spending abroad due to the 0% or 0.5% FX fee, depending on card.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 14th August 2025, the sign-up bonus on the Hilton Honors Plus debit card is TRIPLED to 30,000 Hilton Honors points. You will also receive Gold Elite status in Hilton Honors for as long as you hold the card. Click here for our full card review and click here to apply.

You also receive FREE Hilton Honors status for as long as you hold the debit cards – Gold status with the Plus card and Silver status with the basic card. This is a great reason to apply even if you rarely use it.

We reviewed the Hilton Honors Plus Debit Card here and the Hilton Honors Debit Card here.

You can apply for either card here.

NEW: Hilton Honors Plus Debit

30,000 bonus points (to 14th August), Hilton Gold status and NO FX fees Read our full review

NEW: Hilton Honors Debit

2,500 bonus points, 50% fee discount, Hilton Silver status and 0.5% FX fees Read our full review

There is another way of getting Hilton Honors status, and earning Hilton Honors points, from a payment card.

Holders of The Platinum Card from American Express receive FREE Hilton Honors Gold status for as long as they hold the card.  It also comes with Marriott Bonvoy Gold, Radisson Rewards Premium and MeliaRewards Gold status.

We reviewed The Platinum Card from American Express in detail here and you can apply here.

The Platinum Card from American Express

50,000 bonus points and great travel benefits – for a large fee Read our full review

You can also earn Hilton Honors points indirectly with:

and for small business owners:

The conversion rate from American Express to Hilton Honors points is 1:2.

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which can be used to earn Hilton Honors points.

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Comments (48)

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  • pazza2000 says:
    2 Mar2 March 16:50

    The RSH points awarded in Oct will expire after a few months (if that is still the rule?), keep up the friendly reminders please Raffles 🙂

    • squills says:
      2 Mar2 March 17:57

      Expiry dates are listed by RSH under ‘Evouchers’

      • pazza2000 says:
        2 Mar2 March 17:59

        Yes once converted to RSH e-vouchers they should be valid for upto some time (2020?), although as unconverted loyalty points I believe they expire at the end of the year.

        • squills says:
          2 Mar2 March 18:26

          I’ve got some expiring in 2020 as you say, but all these recent ones will expire much sooner, eg April 2014.

  • Boi says:
    3 Mar3 March 13:03

    I watch every single f1 race but don’t understand this game. Can anyone explain it to me please coz I would like to participate

    • Rob says:
      3 Mar3 March 13:22

      Go with Sebastian Vettle as your main driver and Red Bull as your main team. Pick any old nonsense for the rest so that you use up almost all of the €100. That’s all you need to know!

      Don’t forget to pick a ‘double points’ circuit as well.

      • Boi says:
        3 Mar3 March 13:33

        I support him…..if he looses it will be double misery for me 🙂 I will change to him as season goes on. I think they will struggle in melbourne. presume changing mid way won’t affect my winnings?

        • Boi says:
          3 Mar3 March 13:35

          whats a “double point circuit” and how do i pick that?

          • squills says:
            3 Mar3 March 14:16

            It’s the bonus circuit, top right-ish part of the comp screen (free to pick one)

          • Volker says:
            8 Mar8 March 14:34

            Am I so blind? I can’t see a ‘bonus circuit’ option on the ‘my team’ page, thought they had scrapped it this year? The rules do not seem to mention a bonus circuit either (unlike last year). Neither a page search (CTRL + F) nor google gave me any results. So where is this bonus option hiding? Thanks.

          • TimS says:
            8 Mar8 March 15:00

            I think the bonus circuit is only on the RSH game not the HHonors one

          • Volker says:
            8 Mar8 March 15:03

            Thank you so much, Tim. Thought I had gone crazy…

      • Zander says:
        8 Mar8 March 12:29

        Am I right in thinking that you need to fill all the spaces up? Also how do I make sure that my main driver is as I say he is, I can’t tell the order that it’s supposed to be in whereas for the constructors it’s clear, drivers not so much :S

        • Rob says:
          8 Mar8 March 12:31

          All spaces must be filled

          Does it matter which driver is main? Never read the scoring rules!

          • squills says:
            12 Mar12 March 15:59

            Re every space must be filled: Is that in the rules, Raffles (or anyone)?

            On my footy fantasy entry I left one blank and it works fine, all I get is ‘No-one in this position has played for you!’ but the points get posted fine.

            On one of our F1 entries I did indeed leave an empty space or 2 😉

          • Volker says:
            12 Mar12 March 16:13

            Are you talking about the Hilton game or the RSH one? Sorry, at times I have been struggling to determine which of the games / providers people are talking about 🙁

          • Rob says:
            12 Mar12 March 16:24

            Hmmm … that would be interesting if you got it to work. Logically, you would score more by picking only a couple of top drivers and not one good one and two middling ones (who will score zero all season).

          • squills says:
            12 Mar12 March 17:06

            OK I think I got it. In our team with a gap (ie incomplete) it was just ‘saved’ (so it said). I swapped down to free up some cash – these were not counted as transfers, so it was still in the setting up phase and not ‘submitted’. Once I saved my choices with all boxes filled, it looks like I submitted my entry.

          • Rob says:
            12 Mar12 March 20:15

            In that case, it must be ok. But odd!

          • squills says:
            12 Mar12 March 20:33

            Bet I’m not the only one thinking: you should maybe change your moniker.

            Looks a bit strange & I’m sure you are just a regular guy 😉

          • Rob says:
            12 Mar12 March 20:58

            There is a dull tech reason why that has happened, it will revert to Raffles soon

          • squills says:
            12 Mar12 March 21:41

            Ah. Thought it might be a nutter 😉

        • David says:
          10 Mar10 March 17:20

          @Zander – It doesn’t matter which slot the driver is positioned in on your team sheet. All 4 drivers race each week, their position doesn’t affect the points they earn.

          (Anyone with a F1 background might wrongly assume they are picking reserve drivers or something like that. Despite the new graphics this year, it is a pity they didn’t make this clearer.)

        • squills says:
          12 Mar12 March 16:38

          RSH. Yep I was thinking exactly the same thing.

  • squills says:
    12 Mar12 March 08:21

    Reminder to sign up ahead of this Sunday’s GP in Australia if you want max points opportunity.

  • squills says:
    12 Mar12 March 16:26

    Volker – I was talking about the RSH one

  • squills says:
    18 Mar18 March 16:10

    You should receive an email today showing your team’s points after the first F1 GP.

    If this does not arrive, more than likely you have not yet ‘submitted’ your team (probably because you left one or more boxes empty).

    Your team would still be sitting there in your a/c, saved but not submitted.

    There is still plenty of time to earn loadsa points in the remaining races, so worth a double check.

    • squills says:
      18 Mar18 March 16:22

      Free Transfer Window:
      Up until 17:00 on 14th March 2014 GMT there is a transfer amnesty – you can shuffle your team around to your heart’s content without using your transfers. Transfers made after this time will be taken from the transfer allocation for that transfer period (for details see Transfer Section below)

      All teams that are completed by the transfer amnesty deadline of 17:00 on 14th March 2014 GMT will be submitted automatically. Any teams that are incomplete, or entered after the transfer amnesty, will need to be manually submitted to start scoring points. To do this, press the ‘SAVE’ button which will appear on the ‘Team’ page once your team is FULLY built. In this case you may not score at the qualifying. Whether or not you will qualify to score in any subsequent qualifying or race depends on whether you meet the respective deadlines set out in the below Transfer Section. The manual submission of your initial will not be deducted from your transfer allocation.

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