#thank you!!! any time I get to yell about LITFL adds years to my life

[racingliners]

life in the fast lane?? 👁️👁️

My baaaaaaaaby!!!!! 💖 (I am fully aware I haven't posted an update since June, but believe me when I say that LITFL lives in its own little corner of my brain at all times).

To (try) and summarise, when I got back into F1 in 2013 I was highkey upset there hadn't been a full-time female driver at that point - so I decide to write about one. And when I finished the original fic (which I kept up on ao3 for prosperity) I pretty much never really stopped thinking about it (mainly, how I wanted to change a lot of it) so at the end of 2022 I went all in with planning, switched it from RPF to Original Fiction so I was free from feeling like I had to stick to all the real life F1 results (which, it takes a lot of work to put together a fictional F1 championship but it's so much fun).

So that's basically how it came about, I have moodboards for each of the main characters, a spotify playlist, I churn out mock-up edits of what the race results would look like whenever I get bored, but I love LITFL so much and I hate that it takes me so long to get the chapters out (I am still on the 2023 season after almost two years 😭) but I really do just adore it so, so, soooooo much. (Everything I've mentioned can be found in the pinned post on my blog!!)

So, with that in mind, a snippet from the Brazil 2023 chapter!

A brief, heavy downpour had dampened the all paddock photographers’ hopes of getting any good pictures of the drivers arriving at the circuit, as everyone was hidden under raincoat hoods and umbrellas while they skipped around puddles on their way to the team’s assigned hospitality buildings. The McLaren hospitality area was standing room early as Martin had told the mechanics to keep out of the garages until the rain shower had passed, meaning Sophie had to take extra care not to stand on anyone’s toes as she squeezed her way through to drop off her things in her driver room before returning to get her pre-engineer’s briefing coffee. “The track will be pretty much green again,” Chris tutted as everyone slowly shuffled into the engineer’s office. “I think it might be worth us doing some extra runs right at the start of the session.” “Sounds fine to me.” Sophie sat down and slid on her headset before opening her notebook. Both practice sessions yesterday had gone well, like in Mexico McLaren had both cars running lap times in the top ten and Leena opened the briefing by saying that their overnight race simulations had looked promising.

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