soft launching my ds f1 au because ive been shared f1 lore by multiple people which inevitably led to this stupid idea. neil is a succesfull mclaren driver in late 90s early 2000s whos stragedies seemed shady as hell to most but hey he was great at his job so! however during one of the races he gets in a tragic deadly accident: perhaps he saw he was about to crash into somebody else so he decided he cant afford to harm another driver in the process and stirred away into a wall or something simmilar to that? either way next season his place is now filled by sam a newly promising driver, and the vibe around this whole ordeal is very off, neil haunts the narrative basically. i have more but i kind of want to doodle my ideas first before posting loll. im so normal guys trust me

a little bit more of f1 au: sam becomes friends with fragile whos been driving in f1 for a biit longer than him(shes going in her fathers footsteps), at some point they end up on the same team (mclaren again... also id like to think their duo is what warms sam up after being a little akward around everybody since the start of his f1 career lol) and that year another accident happens oh no.... she experiences injuries that make her lose her driver position but that wont stop her as later she becomes sams race engineer. also her crash was a result of long lasting beef she had with higgs who is a pretty good driver but literally noone on the grid likes him for his insane driving style and evil strategies (how did they still not kick him out? god knows) and his crash with fragile was probably intentional but its kind of impossible to prove that or sum so hes fine

somehow still thinking about the old guard... i love my slop found family...