Characters / Formula Earth

Because Formula Earth has a huge list of characters, both existing in real life as well as fictional, only the most important ones will be listed here, sorted within three categories: real-life drivers, fictional drivers, and non-racing staff (both existing and fictional).

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Real-Life Drivers

• Lewis Hamilton - The real-life 7-time World Driver's Champion, in this timeline he achieves this feat as well by winning the 2020 WDC in a fierce battle with Valtteri Bottas. 2020 would end up being his swansong regarding title battles as he would struggle in 2021, finishing down in sixth as Bottas won the title. He subsequently retired after this and stayed away from the spotlight, until the 2028 Dutch GP scandal. His former boss Toto Wolff had rigged this round in order to win in the name of the late Ivan Marincic and would later on try to erase the legacy of Hamilton and Bottas from Mercedes. This did not go well with Hamilton, who anonymously leaked the details about the race-fixing scandal and only revealed himself after Wolff was banned for life from the paddock.
• Valtteri Bottas* - While a butt-monkey in real life, Bottas would find it better in this timeline as he gave Hamilton a run for his money in 2020 and the following year he would finally win the F1 title after fending off stiff competition from Carlos Sainz Jr. However, following his title win, he would never win another race in the sport again as Mc Laren started their domination from 2022 onwards. He retired from the sport after 2023, with his seat being filled by the prodigiously talented Ivan Marincic.
• Charles Leclerc* - While in real life he has yet to win a title, Leclerc's career in this timeline has been nothing short of succesful, as in 2023 he ended Ferrari's title drought and would win his first of eventual six WD Cs. After failing to defend his title in 2024, he made a shock move to arch-rivals Mc Laren and despite two trophyless campaigns he would win his second title in 2027, followed by his third and fourth ones in 2028 and 2029 after fierce battles with Max Verstappen and Ness Muller. His fifth title would come in 2031, and after that he decided to move to Renault for the 2032 campaign, without much success however. In 2034 he decided to make another shock move and return to Ferrari before returning to Mc Laren for the 2035 campaign, followed by a move to Shadow in 2036 and then back to Mc Laren in 2037 where against all odds he would win his sixth and final WDC. However, said success had got to his head at some point and by that time he had changed from the Nice Guy he is in real life to a greedy megalomaniac, which ended up disgracing him in 2038 when he tried to financially strangle Shadow in exchange for a seat in 2038. He ended up without a seat for that season, although he raced for 2 rounds for the Williams team as a replacement for the injured Vedad Hadziefendic. He failed to score points in either of them, thus ending his career for good.
• Max Verstappen - Unlike his real-life counterpart, Verstappen was the opposite of Leclerc, as he always came close to the title but never won it once, with his closest attempt at Red Bull being in 2024, conceding defeat to Carlos Sainz Jr. In 2026 he would actually have another involvement in the title battle but not as a contender due to Red Bull's decline, instead defending his position against Ivan Marincic and denying him what would have been his first ever title. In 2027 he would move to Renault as a last-ditch attempt to win a title but he was defeated by Leclerc and his career would later regress as Renault began to decline. He raced for Williams in 2032, moving there as a marquee signing following the tameover of the team by Amazon and raced for Aston Martin in 2033 and 2034, retiring after that.
• Alexander Albon - In this timeline, Albon stayed in Red Bull untl 2023 but was always second fiddle to Verstappen and was mostly stuck in the midfield, thus being relegated to Alpha Tauri in 2024, before moving to cash-strapped Prema in 2025. Following the team's collapse after that campaign, he joined newcomers Shadow where despite a rocky start including a crash that seriously injured him, he stayed loyal to the team until the end of his career in 2029, helping Shadow move up the grid.
• Daniel Ricciardo - Ricciardo stayed with Renault until 2023, without much success other than the occasional podium, but headlines were made when he joined Ferrari for the 2024 and 2025 campaigns, where he struggled badly and was a whipping boy for both of his teammates there, Charles Leclerc and Tanjiro Kamado, thus ending his career after that nightmare spell at Maranello.
• Carlos Sainz Jr. - Sainz's career in this timeline saw a massive rise following Mc Laren's return to the top, culminating in his first ever title in 2022 where he scored 10 wins and 17 podiums in 18 races, alongside scoring a total of 372 points, a record for this alternate timeline. After being defeated by Leclerc in 2023, he scored his second WDC in 2024, followed by a third one in 2025, despite having Leclerc as his teammate in the latter campaign. In 2027, with his best years past him, Sainz joined the declining Red Bull and then to Audi in 2028 before moving down to Formula International for a swansong campaign in 2029.
• Esteban Ocon - Much Like Sainz's career, Ocon also flourished in this timeline as he overperformed at Renault, bringing the manufacturer back to scoring wins and by 2025 he had become a title contender, finishing second behind Sainz. In 2026, following a fierce battle with Ivan Marincic, he would score his first and only WDC in a dramatic finale where his rival failed to overtake Max Verstappen in the final lap, thus winning the title by just 2 points thanks to his win in the last race. He moved to Mc Laren in 2027 following this, but he failed to reach the level he was at Renault and in 2029 he moved to Audi where he stayed until 2030, retiring in the proccess after that.
• Lando Norris - Norris's career saw an upwards trajectory alongside Mc Laren, contributing significantly to the team winning everything in 2022 by scoring 6 wins and finishing second behind Sainz. However, he would not win a WDC himself there, being mostly second fiddle to Sainz up until 2024. In 2025 he moved to Aston Martin, being the team's first-choice driver and scoring wins for the Silverstone-based manufacturer, staying with the team until 2030. He raced for Audi in 2031 and newcomers Aramco in 2032, retiring after that campaign and becoming a pundit for Sky Sports.
• Antonio Giovinazzi - Giovinazzi had a very succesful 2020 campaign with Alfa Romeo and thanks to this he moved to Ferrari's first team in 2021. However, he was hopelessly outclassed by Leclerc in both seasons he raced for the prancing horse, thus being relegated to Prema from 2023 onwards. There he was stuck in the back of the grid and things took a turn for the worse with Prema starting to collapse and failing to pay the driver wages. Giovinazzi took them to tje court during the 2025 campaign, thus putting the final nail in the coffin for Prema before their dissolution at the end of the season. He went down to FI for the last two seasons of his career, finishing third in the 2026 campaign before retiring after 2057.
• Nico Hulkenberg - While he was not a full-time driver in 2020, he joined Racing Point as a replacement driver after Sergio Perez suffered a season-ending injury and after many years of bad luck he succeeded in scoring a podium finish at last, with a second-place finish at Suzuka. Following this, he raced for Sauber in 2021 for what was his last ever season in the sport.
• Daniil Kvyat - While the 2020 campaign was average for Kvyat, 2021 turned out to be a huge success as he scored multiple podiums for Alpha Tauri and by 2022 rumours began about a potential return to Red Bull. Unfortunately, in the Belgian GP of said season, he had a horrifying crash that resulted in him becoming paralyzed from the waist and down, thus ending his racing career with a massive question mark regarding what was his full potential. Ever since, he became the agent of Vasiliy Tkachenko from 2036 onwards, until he left the paddock following the 2044 campaign, although Tkachenko's career would later on be impacted big time by the change in agents.
• Kevin Magnussen - Magnussen stayed loyal to Haas up until the 2027 campaign, consistently overperforming his car and in 2024 he shocked the world by winning the Chinese GP, thus scoring both his and the team's maiden win in the sport, as well as becoming the first Danish driver to win a grand prix. Despite his advancing age, he moved to the rising Shadow team in 2028 and in 2029, on his final season as an active driver he scored his second and final career win at Imola, thus ending his solid career on a high.
• Lance Stroll - The most well-known pay driver of the sport in real life, Stroll failed to beat either Perez or Hulkenberg at Racing Point/Aston Martin and went down to FI in 2023 as his father Lawrence created a new Racing Point team there (with said team serving as a feeder to Aston Martin). There he won multiple team titles as a driver but he ironically always fell short of the title by being beaten at the end of every season by his teammate Nicholas Latifi and later on Alexandre Gagnon. After retiring, he took the helm of the entire Aston Martin conglomerate and despite a few rough seasons and a money laundering scandal, he ended up making both Aston Martin and Racing point complete powerhouses. In 2054 however, he shocked the paddock when he decided to purchase the Ferrari team, thus selling Aston Martin to Hertz and bringing star driver Buzz Hahn and team principal Patrick Nielsen alongside him on his quest to resurrect the historic brand (where he was once a member of their academy) after they fell in financial disarray from their previous ownership's mismanagement.
• Pierre Gasly - Gasly had a rather average career, staying with Alpha Tauri until 2021 before moving to Williams in 2022, staying with the team until 2026 where he overachieved in generally uncompetitive cars for the declining squad. He raced for Audi in 2027 before making a return to Williams in 2028 but by the time he returned there the team had become the absolute worst one on the grid, fielding old and decrepit cars due to their financial difficulties and he left the team and retired from the sport after 2029, although he made two appearances as a replacement for Williams in the 2030 season.
• Sergio Perez - Perez had an unfortunate 2020 campaign as he had a season-ending injury at Zandvoort but bounced back in 2021 with Racing Point becoming Aston Martin. He had some solid runs for the team but unlike his real-life counterpart he failed to ever win a grand prix and was let go after the 2024 campaign. He stepped down to FI for the 2025 campaign, finishing fourth in the standings and scoring several wins before officially retiring from the sport.
• George Russell - Much like his real-life self, Russell flourished at Williams and overperformed in weak cars, and with Hamilton retiring after 2021, he stepped in to Mercedes with the expectations being massie for the Englishman. However, he joined in at the wrong time, with Mercedes no longer being the force they once were. Still his first three seasons were solid with a couple of wins scored round and there but the later emergence of Ivan Marincic, his new teammate, would eventually see him becoming second fiddle, culminating in a poor 2026 campaign where he was struggling to even score podiums while Marincic came close to a title win. His last win for Mercedes came in 2027 and after a meager 2028 campaign he was let go by the team, racing for Sauber in 2029 before returning to Williams in 2030. His first two seasons back at Williams were a disaster with the team being on the brink of bankruptcy, but in 2032 Amazon bought the team, with Russell staying for one last season there, scoring his final career podium. He raced for Aston Martin in 2033 and 2034 before officially retiring from the sport after that, having never fulfilled his potential.
• Nicholas Latifi - Much like real life, Latifi struggled in F1 scoring only one point in two seasons, racing for Williams and Audi. Despite this, he would find much more success down in FI, scoring a title in dominant fashion for the Mercedes team in 2022. In 2023 he moved to Racing Point and after a learning year for the Canadian outfit he began what was the greatest era of domination in the feeder series's history, scoring four titles for the team, thus becoming the greatest ever driver in FI's history with a seemingly unbreakable record of five titles, with the four ones he won with Racing Point coming in 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2028, fending off stiff competition from his teammate Lance Stroll as well as several solid names like Mart Soosaar and Andrei Aimansha. He left the team after 2028 as a legend and raced for a final season in Alpine in 2029, retiring after this season. As of now, his record still stands unbeaten as a combination of tighter grids and a maximum age limit have made it much harder for drivers to monopolize the series.

Fictional Drivers

• Ivan Marincic - Croatian. The original Child Prodigy to emerge from the chance in the F1/FE pyramid, he won the inaugural FI title at the age of just 16 (the youngest ever driver to do so) and next year he joined Audi in F1 as the #1 pick in the newly-introduced draft, becoming the youngest ever driver to race in the pinnacle of motorsport at just the age of 17 - a record that will stand on forever in this timeline due to a minimum age limit being introduced later on. He spent his three years as a draftee scoring plenty of points for the underpowered Audi team and after his contract expired, he joined Mercedes as the replacement for Valtteri Bottas, scoring his maiden win in Monza. While 2025 would be a tricky season due to an injury, 2026 would be his true breakout campaign with him fighting for the title in a rather average Mercedes car and he would have won it if it was not for his failure to overtake Max Verstappen in the season finale, thus losing the title to Esteban Ocon. Still, the fact that he was 22 back in 2026 and showed mercurial talent, with many people believing that his title win would come in the later years. However, the paddock would never learn his true potential as in the 2028 Chinese GP, Marincic was killed in a freak accident involving him and Billy Mathman, at the age of 24, with the aftermath of his death still being felt for years to come. His legacy would live on forever though, with a racetrack in Croatia being created in Rijeka and named after him and fellow ex-Yugoslav driver Vedad Hadziefendic dedicating his WDC win to him, as well as Edvin Beqiri (another ex-Yugoslav driver) making an all-Balkan driver academy to maintain his legacy.
• Ness Muller - German. The second wonderkid to emerge in 2020, with his rookie season being an enormous success as he finished third at the tender age of 17. He was selected early on in the draft and loaned to Nissan for 2021, with another third place finish and the following year he moved to Alpha Tauri at the young age of 19, where he became the first choice driver after Daniil Kvyat's career-ending injuries. Just this season was enough to convince Red Bull to promote him to the first team in a swap deal with Alexander Albon, where he raced for three years but he left after 2025 citing Verstappen's negative influence as his reasoning. He moved to Ferrari in 2026 and immediately became a star there, scoring multiple wins and becoming a genuine title contender in his own right, with 2029 and 2030 being his best seasons at Maranello. In 2031, he was on the brink of signing a new long-term contract at Ferrari but due to the new regulations dropping them to the back of the grid, he decided to return to Red Bull where he won his sole WDC. After being defeated in 2033 by his new teammate Temirzhan Ershin, followed by a meager 2034, Muller shocked the paddock in 2035 when he decided to create his new team from scratch, G2 Racing after being revealed as the mystery buyer of the collapsed Mercedes squad. He raced for two final seasons as a driver-owner, bringing Ershin with him in 2036 with the intentions of making G2 a superpower, but after retiring as a driver, things went really bad thanks to his Incompetence, Inc. tendencies, from giving poor teammates to Ershin to having weak lineups in strong cars. When Ershin left the team, G2 started to decline but the final straw was the unfair sacking of Miguel Larrazabal despite a great season from the Venezuelean, where Muller called his performances a "fluke" and let him go. This incident eternally disgraced the once-beloved German, and with G2 eventually entering administration and going out of business, his reputation fell into rock bottom.
• Marco Aurelio - Italian. - Despite a poor start to the 2020 campaign with an injury on the second round, Aurelio returned in the second half with multiple wins for Audi, and thanks to this he joined Prema in F1 for 2021, being seen as a potential Ferrari star. He scored the team's first points in the top level at the same year and then impressed further in 2022 as a replacement for the injured Giovinazzi in Ferrari, thus resulting in him taking the Ferrari seat from his compatriot in 2023. He would score his first ever career win there but then unexpectedly left the team to join Renault in 2024, where he trully showed that he can be a title contender, finishing third in 2025 and 2026 and helping Renault win to WCC titles in a row. He would remain a consistent podium finisher with Renault and become a team legend in his own right, staying with the French factory until 2031, when after that he announced his retirement from the sport despite having a few years left in his career.
• John Cida - Finish. The son of a rich businessman, he joined Porsche in 2020, with many believeing that he would become yet another pay driver, but he actually proved to be a lot faster than that, finishing 6th and joining Sauber in F1 in 2021 thanks to both his speed and his sponsorship money. As for his spell at Sauber, he became a team legend during the team's struggles to survive in F1 after Ferrari pulled the plug from them, scoring plenty of points and helping younger drivers like Giovanni de Ziel flourish in the sport, staying loyal with the team and scoring plenty of points until their demise in 2029. The team that bought Sauber's remnants, Campos Repsol Honda, signed Cida as their first-choice driver and he repaid the favour by scoring a shock win in Canada during the 2031 campaign. He stayed with the team until 2034 when he retired from the sport, having become one of the most beloved drivers in the paddock at his peak.
• Felix Neurether - German. The second German wonderkid to emerge alongside Muller, Neurether debuted in FI at just the age of 16 and the following year he finished second, having already being drafted by Mercedes the year prior. He would be loaned to Audi in 2022, making his F1/FE debut at just the age of 18, but his rookie campaign would be marred by an injury on his debut, alongside being outclassed by Ivan Marincic. 2023 would be a much better year, but it would also end up his last one at the top level, as Mercedes let him go after that. He spent the rest of his career in FI, racing for various teams and scoring plenty of wins, although he never truly reached the speed he once showed as a teenager, but he did always remain a top-5 finisher and performing decently with various machinery, retiring with a high after finishing third in 2036.
• Billy Mathman - British. The UK's big hope at the time, Mathman spent three seasons in FI showing immense potential and in 2023 he moved to Aston Martin in FE, scoring two podiums on his rookie campaign. He remained with the team until 2027 with his best season being his last one at the British squad where he finished sixth and then he joined Ferrari for the 2028 campain. Sadly, on his third race with the team he would be involved in the freak accident that resulted in the tragic death of Ivan Marincic, but he would bounce back to score his first career win at Monaco. 2029 and 2030 would be a move upwards as he scored multiple wins and finished fourth in both seasons, before moving to Red Bull in 2031 for one last season before retiring from the sport.

Non-Racing Staff