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An intro to Formula One, with mid season updates for 2025. Get to know the teams, drivers, basic specs, and lore!
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This has been my little pet project and is basically me just infodumping about F1. This is my attempt at giving an unbiasedly positive intro to F1 and covering as many subjects as I could whether it be fandom happenings, team drama, car specs, etc.
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Link to original slideshow here!
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Vaguely inspired by @shuntedmate and @icaruspendragon and their F1 slideshows which are great and you should check them out if you liked this!
Where you, a fresh rookie in your debut race, try to make reasonable impressions.
Part 1 of The New Kid on the Grid | Part 2
Pairing: Rookie!Fem!Reader x F1 Grid (Platonic)
Wordcount: ~977
Featuring: Kimi Antonelli, Ollie Bearman, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz, Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and a few others
Being one of the Grid’s youngest drivers with a frontal lobe that had yet to finish development, you were the leading cause of the FIA’s constant headaches.
It started in Australia, where the weekend was hot and the driving exhausting. The sweat was staining the shirts of both engineers and drivers alike. Pretty quickly, during FP1, you’d made up your mind, and after FP2, you’d begun plotting. You were a rookie after all, and wanted to make a good impression.
Well, maybe ‘good impression’ wasn’t the right phrase. An accurate impression.
Saturday
You’d snuck through the paddock gates hiding a little water gun beneath your shirt. On the way to your team garage, you passed by your first victim: Kimi Antonelli. Just as he passed, you turned and opened fire with your little yellow pistol. Kimi made a startled noise, his hand flying up to a damp spot in his hair, searching the crowd for whoever had just committed a water crime against him, but you were already on the move again.
Throughout the day you’d shot at as many people as inconspicuousness allowed, some of which being:
Carlos Sainz, right between his shoulder blades when he was analysing data with his race engineer.
Oscar Piastri, in between FP3 and Quali, who you’d nearly been caught by.
Lando Norris, who didn’t even realize that he was getting shot at until you redirected the water so that it hit him in the back of the neck. Even then, he only wiped it away with his hand without even looking up for the culprit.
Charles Leclerc, whom you’d sprayed on multiple occasions, and each time he’d react dramatically. By the fifth time, he’d thrown up his hands, looking around wildly for the source. “Who is doing this!?”
After Qualifications, your phone buzzed.
[Groupchat]: Mission: find the sharpshooter
Lando: Who’s the one with the water gun?
Max: Someone has a water gun?
Ollie: Yeah, they’ve been shooting at people all day
Charles: I will do anything to help find the perpetrator
Carlos: Desperate much?
Charles: Five times. I’ve been shot at five times. I’m being targeted here.
Max: Maybe you should just dodge faster
At the end of the day, just as you were about to head out and call it a day, Kimi and Ollie corner you by the motorhomes.
“We know it’s you,” Ollie starts.
“Besides Max, you’re the only driver who hasn’t been shot,” Kimi accused.
“Either you’re extremely lucky-”
“-or you’re the culprit.”
For a moment, you hesitate. You’d been caught, the game was done. “And what if I am?”
“Then you better bring more guns tomorrow.”
Delighted, you grinned.
Sunday
You entered the paddock with your bag suspiciously fuller than normal. No one batted an eye at you, except Charles, who gave you a polite nod. If only he knew. You spritzed him as soon as he wasn’t looking. He was audibly frustrated for at least five seconds.
You’d barely reached your team’s garage when you heard a sharp whistle. Hiding in a dark, shadowed corner were Ollie and Kimi, who beckoned for you. Grinning, you pulled a sprint.
“Do you have the goods?” Ollie asked, sunglasses on and looking like a dealer pulled from a thrift store.
You hand them each two water pistols: one for themselves and one for whoever else they could manage to recruit.
Between then and lunch, the three of you had three missions:
Single out Charles (because his reactions were like dopamine bombs)
Somehow soak Max (who had been impossible to catch)
Not get caught
[Groupchat]: Soak ‘em
Ollie: Verstappen spotted
Ollie: By the RedBull hospitality
You: WAIT. DO NOT ENGAGE.
You: I’M BRINGING A BUCKET.
Ollie: I will not let him disappear again 🫡
Kimi: I want to see this
Sure enough, with a slopping bucket in tow soaking your shoes, you spotted Max right where Ollie said he’d be, with Kimi and Ollie hidden behind a corner inconspicuously.
Somehow, Max had dodged your attack. The entire bucket of water. He had somehow heard your sneaking up and jumped out of the way just in time. He stared at you with a disappointed Dad look. The boys behind you hold their breath.
“So you’re the one soaking everybody.”
“Uh… No?”
He raised a bemused eyebrow at you.
“Maybe.”
He didn’t yell at you, or walk away, or demand you apologize. “Do you have another one?”
Grinning, you give him a pink pistol, leaking with water, and he walks away spinning it around his finger. Ollie shoots you a thumbs up.
Pre-Race
It started with Kimi, hiding behind the Mercedes garage wall, beckoning to you as you passed. Quickly, you scurried over, lowering your cap and adjusting your sunglasses as you hid with him. Silently, he pointed at Charles, Carlos and Ollie, where they stood talking about the superiority of pasta.
“Watch,” he whispers, before opening fire on Charles and retreating quickly.
“Who- Where are you? Come face me and we can fight it out, you Water Ghost!”
Ollie was holding back laughter. A few Mercedes engineers snickered, then they shooed you out for possible rival espionage.
Post-Race
The race was hot, exhausting, and for you, pretty successful. You’d started from P11 and finished in P8 with a lap time that broke what you’d set in F2 last season. Lando had won, with Max in P2 and George in P3.
@ f1
[Lando Norris spraying champagne from the podium grinning and giddy]
[Max Verstappen shooting at Lando with his pink water gun]
[Lewis and Charles vibing to the British anthem together]
What a fantastic opening race in Melbourne! There was a mysterious Water Ghost this weekend spraying water at the drivers, and it seems we’ve found the culprit.
Max didn’t deny the allegations.
All in all, you considered your debut race a grand success.
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AN: I can add a second part where you try to convince the FIA to let your new pet lizard to be allowed to stay on the paddock, what do you guys think?
summary: in which your taken under the wings of the other wags during your first half season as the youngest wag in the paddock 💓
a/n: loveeee this request omg had to write it straight away!! kind of short but think it fits :)
request!!!: smau fic set in 2025 in which ollie bearmans gf is quite young like 18/19 and people just react to how young the two of them are compared to the other drivers and wags?? like her hanging out with kika and alex and people just thinking it’s very cute they’re taking her under their wing ❤️
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olliebearman in the points for the first race of the season! 😎
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user1 omgggg i alr love the 2025 season
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user3 so cute is that his gf on the last slide
estebanocon a great first race!
olliebearman a true pleasure :)
charles_leclerc congratulations ollie ❤️
olliebearman thanks father🥹
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oscarpiastri what a first race of the season!
olliebearman means too much 🤍
landonorris congrats!! keep pushing 👊
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user11 ppl who r new to ollie & y/n, welcome 😎
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f1wagupdates every time ollie bearman's girlfriend y/n y/l/n has been seen out in public with other f1 wags!
1. y/n out shopping with pierre gasly's girlfriend & model, kika gomes!
2. y/n seen for lunch with carlos sainz's wag & model, rebecca donaldson
3. y/n seen out in nyc with alex albon's girlfriend and golfer, lily muni he
4. y/n seen out again with kika gomes and alexandra saint mleux, charles leclerc's model & art enthusiast girlfriend ❤️
based on articles, interviews and posts on public accounts of drivers’ parents and siblings.
mclaren
lando norris - middle child, one older brother oliver (1996), two younger sisters flo (05.02.2002) and cisca (12.07.2005)
oscar piastri - eldest child, three younger sisters hattie (21.12.2002), edie (2005) and mae (2007)
ferrari
charles leclerc - middle child, one older half brother lorenzo (07.11.1988), one younger brother arthur (14.10.2000)
lewis hamilton - middle child, two older half sisters samantha and nicola, one younger half brother nicolas (28.02.1992)
red bull racing
max verstappen - eldest child, one younger sister victoria (22.10.1999), two younger half sisters blue jaye (04.09.2014) and mila faye (18.12.2020), one younger half brother jason jaxx (30.04.2019)
liam lawson - middle child, two older sisters jessica (1993/1994) and holly (2000/2001), one younger brother marcos (2004/2005), one younger sister leah (2005/2006)
mercedes
george russell - youngest child, one older sister cara (01.06.1985), one older brother benjy (18.07.1986)
kimi antonelli - eldest child, one younger sister maggie (15.05.2014)
aston martin
fernando alonso - youngest child, one older sister lorena (1976)
lance stroll - youngest child, one older sister chloe (11.04.1995)
alpine
pierre gasly - youngest child, four older half brothers nicolas, cyril, philippe and paul
jack doohan - youngest child, one older sister allexis (01.07.1999)
haas
esteban ocon - only child
ollie bearman - eldest child, one younger brother thomas (07.08.2009), one younger sister amalie (19.12.2011)
vcarb
yuki tsunoda - eldest child, one younger sister riko (2002)
isack hadjar - unclear, one sister anaïs
williams
alex albon - eldest child, three younger sisters zoe (03.06.1997), alicia (02.07.1999), and chloe (26.07.2000), one younger brother luca (10.04.2002)
carlos sainz - middle child, one older sister blanca (1993), one younger sister ana (1998)
sauber
nico hülkenberg - unclear, one sister stephanie
gabriel bortoleto - youngest child, one older brother enzo (05.09.1998)
Corporate AU! where all of the grid works for the Formula 1–adjacent megacorp Renault Mitsubishi Racing.
Luisa is CEO Toto Wolff’s brand-new personal assistant — bubbly, chatty, and a die-hard fan of mysterious NLS driver Franz Hermann. Since her first day at Renault’s, she hasn’t stopped talking about him.
So, of course nobody wants to tell her that her beloved masked driver is actually Max Verstappen — the team’s grumpy Head of R&D.
And yes, there’s a bet involved.
Inspired by Max’s debut in Nurburgring this Saturday! You go, baby, we believe in you💕💕
