#f1 fic writers be like yes the whole grid are gay vampires but i WILL be accurately representing aerodynamics and tire strat

[pookietsunoda]

I got bored on Goodreads today and looked into F1 romance books, and according to reviews the vast majority of them uhh. Suck ass. It seems like a lot of the books put like zero research into making the F1 aspect believable. Like in a book where the main character is an F1 driver, she gets her seat through a one off "test race" instead of going through the feeder series, or two characters getting wasted the night before a race. Or that the racing is merely set dressing for an otherwise copy pasted romance plot.

IDK it feels weird that people are writing/ publishing sports romance books that will presumably be read by fans of said sport, but they're putting zero effort into representing the sport accurately or making it important to the plot? Anyway if you write sports RPF please please PLEASE write an original F1 romance novel because the bar is in hell rn. You could make a million dollars or at least however much money it would cost for me to buy your book.