Williams RPF Holiday Fest

A low-stress fest to celebrate another season of Williams Racing!

[williamsrpfholidayfest]

🎉 OPEN THE COLLECTION ON AO3 🎉

✧ confidential incident report by fiftyfivechillis (@reids-gf) Carlos Sainz Jr/James Vowles, 900, not rated, complete prompt/trope: HR violations report

✧ two souls at the same time by fiftyfivechillis (@reids-gf) Rebecca Donaldson/Carlos Sainz Jr, 2.4k, rated E, complete prompt/trope: strapped up Rebecca 

✧ Let This Start by hamlettee (@hamlettee) Rebecca Donaldson/Roberto Merhi, 3k, rated M, complete prompt/trope: 3rd person POV

✧ pledge allegiance to your hands, your team by magnificentbirb (@magnificentbirb) Alexander Albon/Carlos Sainz Jr, Alexander Albon/Lily Muni He, 4.8k, rated T, complete prompt/trope: hypothetical curses, consensual infidelity

✧ Feelings, Fealty, and Fetch Quests by zitronenfalter99 (@sourcitrusph2) Pierluigi Della Bona/Carlos Sainz Jr, 4k, rated E, complete prompt/trope: prince and his loyal knight

✧ you know it to be true (you don't know how this will end) by ali_is_tired Carlos Sainz Jr/James Vowles, Carlos Oñoro/James Vowles, 1.2k, rated T, complete prompt/trope: 3rd person POV, misunderstandings

✧ connect (I want you to learn) by usual_shenanigans (@usual-shenanigans) Alexander Albon/James Vowles, 2.6k, rated M, complete prompt/trope: boss/employee relationship, dom/sub undertones

✧ they don't know what you've done to my heart by sapphicracer (@lesbiandanhowell) Carlos Oñoro/James Vowles, 1.3k, rated T, complete prompt/trope: anyone but the drivers, secret relationship

✧ lost items by brawngp2009 (@brawngp2009) Carlos Sainz Jr/James Vowles, Rebecca Donaldson/Lily Muni He, Carlos Oñoro/Roberto Mehri/Pierluigi Della Bona, 3.6k, rated G, complete prompt/trope: choose your own adventure

✧ Grove’s Days by sevensandcastles Carlos Sainz Jr/Gaëtan Jego, 2k, rated E, complete prompt/trope: driver/engineer

☞ OPEN THE COLLECTION ON AO3 ☜

[lesbiandanhowell]

more Cames for the people!

This one was such a speed-write and I enjoyed going back to my usual style of just writing what's in my head. I am happy to have contributed some rare pair content to the @williamsrpfholidayfest and hope you enjoy!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/76196911 (the link WILL NOT EMBED)

[reids-gf]

confidential incident report

carlos sainz jr/james vowles ; documentation ; inappropriate workplace relationship

The following individuals have been identified by the complainant as being involved in the incident further described below. Name: James Patrick Vowles Job Title: Team Principal Name: Carlos Sainz Vázquez de Castro Job Title: Racing Driver

for @williamsrpfholidayfest

[reids-gf]

two souls at the same time

rebecca donaldson/carlos sainz jr ; dom/sub undertones ; pegging

She reads him like her favorite novel. The one she carries in her purse everywhere with exceptional care, but whose pages she can fold to her liking, with no the fear of tearing.

for @williamsrpfholidayfest

[classifying]

In A Pickle 

✨ CARBONO PICKLEBALL AU ✨ Alex/Carlos, T, SMAU, for @williamsrpfholidayfest

✨ PARTS ✨ (One) / 10+

Alex moves to a new city for a job and finds himself struggling to become part of the community. Once he accepts that it’s not good for him to spend all his free time lying on his floor racking up twelve hours of screentime while being visibly pitied by his thirteen cats, he turns to the internet in an attempt to figure out how the people of New Placetown City interact with other humans and metaphorically touch grass.  The answer, it turns out, is pickleball. Alex has never played pickleball in his life, and he knows practically nothing about it. But since New Placetowners’ social life seems to be almost entirely pickleball-based, he reluctantly decides to give it a shot. He cluelessly stumbles into joining the city’s most competitive and serious team, THE BALLCRUSHERS, which is captained by the least chill person he’s ever met: Carlos.  Alex turns out to be terrible at pickleball, but Carlos is dedicated enough to the sport (and their terrifyingly intense team) to not give up on him. 

[usual-shenanigans]

connect (I want you to learn)

Alexander Albon/James Vowles

2.2k words, rated M

Written for @williamsrpfholidayfest 🎁

He had a long-term vision for Alex as someone the team could entrust their hopes to and rally around to win championships, and wanted to help shape him into that figure. Whereas the car was the physical embodiment of the team’s toil and hopes, Alex would be a metaphysical equivalent.

[hamlettee]

The Williams Tile Design (lino print, November 2025) made for the @williamsrpfholidayfest

Sketch on transfer paper | Carved plate

[hamlettee]

The HR Report or what goes on in Williams Racing: A presentation made for the @williamsrpfholidayfest

The Report is obviously fictitious (it is made in Canva, after all), but the evidence is entirely factual. And incredibly compelling.

[hamlettee]

Let This Start

💛 Roberto Merhi/Rebecca Donaldson

🖋️3k words

✨ Written for the @williamsrpfholidayfest

❗️Outsider POV

🔗Read here: ao3

Preview:

That's weird, Alex thinks, something like discomfort growing inside of him the longer he watches his teammate's girlfriend look around and sip on her drink, trying and failing not to look unhappy. Rebecca is dressed nicely, her make-up is done perfectly - he can tell that even from afar. Her red lipstick looks purple under the dim lighting and her eyes look even more striking than usual as they flicker around the dancefloor. Alex starts to look around as well, trying to spot Carlos. That's when, finally, a familiar figure appears at Rebecca's table. Oh, thank God, Alex thinks and relaxes in his seat. Crisis averted. He watches them keenly, mentally urging them to speed it up. But Carlos keeps just standing around and talking, gesturing broadly with his hands and- Wait a fucking minute, Alex narrows his eyes. That's not Carlos. Even though the clothes match, he's just a little bit too short and his hair is too long. Who-? Oh.

[sietecastillos]

Grove’s Days 🔗

Pairing: Carlos Sainz Jr/Gaëtan Jego

Word count: 2k

Content Warning: Dom/sub Undertones

Summary: Carlos is exhausted and can’t sleep. Gaëtan plans to take that matter into his own hands, that until…

This work is from my participation in Williams RPF Holiday Fest! @williamsrpfholidayfest

[brawngp2009]

lost items (on ao3)

Carlos Sainz Jr/James Vowles, Rebecca Donaldson/Lily Muni He, Carlos Oñoro/Roberto Mehri/Pierluigi Della Bona; GEN, 3.6k words. Choose Your Own Adventure, Outsider POV.

What's going on in Williams Formula 1 team? Pick a lost item and find out a little secret.

for @williamsrpfholidayfest 💙

[williamsrpfholidayfest]

heyy, I saw some people have their tumblr tagged for the big fic post you shared, if it's still possible to add this I wrote "they don't know what you've done to my heart" and my tumblr is lesbiandanhowell! I wasn't sure how else to submit this so thanks if it's still possible!

For sure, updated the post! Sorry I missed you, I tried to find people's Tumblrs through the blog's following list / AO3 notes.

[williamsrpfholidayfest]

Admin has queued up the collection masterpost; you guys are in for a treat :)

Friendly reminder for AO3 participants to update the posting date of your works tomorrow after they're revealed!

[williamsrpfholidayfest]

hiii, I was wondering if I can do minor editing (structure/minor typos) after submission now that it’s closed?

Hi, yes feel free to update your work!

[williamsrpfholidayfest]

hi admins!! if i plan to post my graphics on tumblr and not AO3, do i schedule them to be posted on the reveals date or just post them whenever? and do i still claim the wildcard prompt on AO3? (just decided to participate last minute after digging up and polishing some SMAU pieces from my drafts folder.) thank you!!

Hi! Yes, feel free to schedule them for the fest reveal time (Dec 25, 2pm PST) and tag us so we can reblog your post. No need to also claim the prompt on AO3.

[williamsrpfholidayfest]

Final day before the fest submission deadline! Sending moral support to all creators working up to the deadline (including admin 😅)

[williamsrpfholidayfest]

This challenge is currently closed to new posts.

i got this message when trying to post my fic to the collection :(

Ah sorry about that! I opened the collection so hopefully that fixes the issue. But let me know if you run into any other problems!