#it was weird to go to the race that started our f1 connection 🥺 | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

skitskatdacat63 · 4 months

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hiii! here's a question for you: what's the story of how you got into F1?

Helloooo, so it's honestly pretty silly. So in my prev fandom, this author I really like(hello if you see this, you know who you are djfkkf) wrote an f1 au oneshog. And I read it once and was like huh interesting, cause I never had really heard of f1 before, and had to look up some terms bcs I was so ???? at everything(my Google search history: what does p1 in f1 mean? What is drs? What is a team principal? etc etc)

But I couldn't stop thinking about it, and I read it again, and again. And then I looked on the author's tumblr blog and saw he had answered some asks abt f1, like explaining the dynamic involved in the oneshot he wrote, and recommending how to get into it. So next step: watch a bit of DTS. And I definitely thought it was interesting, but I think I only watched 3 or so episodes. But hey! There was a race that very weekend, and I wanted to watch the actual sport and boom there we go, total landslide into my life being taken over.

F1 is such an interesting fandom to get into bcs the amount of info you have to learn. And it's really difficult at the beginning with all these things, concepts and people you've never heard of. So it was very fun to experience that over the course of a few races, like every weekend I came into it with more passion and knowledge! There's some word I'm thinking of that I can't remember aahhhh, but yeah basically its crazy the amnt of info you need to learn before you feel comfortable and at least somewhat knowledgeable.

Also one other funny thing, I think I may have talked abt this before. My brother is such a car guy, so back when I first got in, I really wanted to ask him if he liked f1. And so we're talking on the phone, and completely unprompted he's like "Ugh it sucks that I was abroad when the US GP happened"(he lives in Austin.) And I'm like OH SO YOU LIKE F1!? And now we're a lot closer than we were before that, bcs of f1 :)

#i really learned a lot in btwn races it was so fun #it was kimda fun honestly those first races #bcs you rly dont have as much anxiety and emotions yet 😭#cause now when i watch races im just yknow completely enthralled w nando and always so tense abt his results #but back then it was just. i only knew Max and he was doing quite well so it was easy to root for him #hahaha tho bcs of the fic i read i could only think abt Max as the character he was compared to #<- it was Anakin btw sjkfkg #so for the first two or so races i kept accidentally calling him Anakin 😭#but like by the third race i knew way more and had more opinions #but ill still always feel fond for Max as my introduction to the sport and first fav <3 #ah man so crazy that i actually ended up going to cota 😭 just bcs of that whole thing w my brother #it was weird to go to the race that started our f1 connection 🥺#catie.asks.

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