Formula Earth is a Discord-based project created by iohelx and having races simulated in Microsoft Excel by Apple Monoxide and Jasha. Set in 2020, it is an alternate timeline of Formula 1, with Formula E founder Alejandro Agag becoming the president of FIA and reforming the F1 pyramid, with Formula E becoming the new feeder series, replacing F2. Over the years, a series of rebrands take place, with F1 becoming Formula Earth and Formula E becoming Formula Internationals. Two F3-styled series were also formed, with the third tier, dubbed Formula Champions, being made in 2029 and a sub-division that uses promotion and relegation systems alongside FC was made in 2038, dubbed Formula Rookie, which was later split into four region-based series, with FR North covering Northern Europe, FR South doing the same for Southern European countries, Formula Orient covering Asia, Africa and Oceania and Formula Americas covering North and South America.
Outside of that, the timeline not only has single seaters, but also has Indy Car, Moto GP, WEC and WSC (a revival of the original World Sportscar Championship) being simulated, and users can also make their own timelines in specific channels. Now as for the driver and team playthrough, for the former it is as simple as registering a driver (with the age and ability being randomly generated) and for the latter you can create your own team or become a team principal of one of the existing teams.
Last but not least, the lore of this timeline is quite complicated, with a multitude of characters, both existing in real life as well as fictional characters being part of a wide and massive cast, all with different lore sections and adventures as the timeline progresses.
Formula Earth contains examples of:
- The Alleged Car: Backmarker teams tend to fit this trope, but a few specific instances have been more notable:
- While Shadow would later on become one of the best teams in the grid, their 2026 car, which was their first ever one, was terribly slow, unreliable, and at occasions proved to be dangerous to drive as Alexander Albon and Edvin Beqiri had some nasty experiences with it, the former suffering a suspension failure that injured him for a few races and the latter having the car burst randomly into flames.
- Williams during the 2020s were running out of money and by the time the late 2020s passed and the early 2030s kicked in they were forced to use their 2025 car because of their financial situation. Needless to say the team failed to score any points and a fallout between the staff and Claire Williams took place.
- Elfin in Formula International entered with their in-house engine, to the hype of the paddock, but the car was so horribly slow that they finished last in every single race without even beating any team. Unfortunately, this would be the team's only season as they would go out of business in a very dark way.
- An invoked example by NPRT who purposely made a poor car to conserve money for the 2053 campaign.
- Always Second Best:
- Levi Lea'ai, Tomas Aguilar and Joao Paulo Kitayama were some of the best drivers in the timeline, but overall failed to score a single WDC.
- Unlike in real life, Max Verstappen failed to score a single title.
- Averted in the end by Ness Muller, who finally brought the trophy home in 2032.
- Badass Driver: Virtually every single driver who won the championship is this.
- Bad Boss:
- Toto Wolff became this in 2028 as he rigged the Dutch GP as a means of scoring a win in the name of the late Ivan Marincic and then erased all records of the Hamilton-Bottas era. This would eventually bite him back.
- Ness Muller as the owner of G2 Racing. From giving poor teammates to Temirzhan Ershin, to having poor lineups with a strong car and most notably sacking Miguel Larazzabal despite being the team's best driver as he deemed his results a fluke.
- Benevolent Boss: Alana Watson is the closest example of this.
- Big Bad: Alejandro Agag and the Red Bull team principal would turn out to be this in 2042 as they purposely tried to tamper with Ferrari's season.
- Big Good: Temirzhan Ershin and Ferrari, the latter winning the title despite having a tampered car and the former for refusing to play dirty and exposing Red Bull's and Agag's antics, thus resulting in their expulsion from the grid.
- Brutal Honesty: Zdenek Suchanek is this, especially when it comes to talking about G2's Incompetence, Inc.. antics.
- Butt-Monkey: Camila Ruiz, originally one of the brightest talents in the sport suffers this after 2037, from struggling to perform at Toyota to losing her place to Eleni Tsiobanou (who outclassed her in every single way) to racing at a then-struggling PSG and breaking the record for most last places by a single driver.
- Cassandra Truth: Rupesh Simpson was right all along for saying that Alejandro Agag was malevolent the whole time.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Leonardo diCaprio, the owner of Venturi, claimed that his team was the richest in the paddock, even above the FE teams and tried to move up there after 2039. However, it proved that he lied about the team's funding, resulted in Venturi's disqualification in the bidding war, HSBC Nero buying Alpha Tauri's remnants, the loss of their drivers and team principal and eventual demise as the years came by.
- Child Prodigy: Young drivers who flourish and prove themselves to be stars are this. Most notable examples are Buzz Hahn, Robert Nyakojjo and the late Ivan Marincic.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Buzz Hahn is definately this. Don't underestimate his driving skill, however.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Jeff Bezos, who bought Williams in 2032, became this in 2036. After Williams signed 17yo Giuseppe Rizzo, a driver ineligible for FE, he tried to erase all data of the transfer and refused to cooperate with FIA. Williams ended up being disqualified for 2036.
- Deadpan Snarker: Fabian de Stuurman is this.
- Defector from Decadence: Temirzhan Ershin exposes Red Bull and Alejandro Agag for trying to sabotage Ferrari, after discovering the shocking truth about the team that gave him his big break in FE.
- Determinator: Miguel Larrazabal and Alberto Matadores saved Campos Repsol Honda from going out of business in 2041 thanks to some valliant performances. Sadly, 2042 averted this due to Kevin Voavy wiping out Miguel, thus resulting in Campos going out of business.
- The Dog Bites Back: After Lewis Hamilton found out that Toto Wolff erased all records of his success at Mercedes, he exposed him for rigging the 2028 Dutch GP.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Sebastian Lindgren was this for Camila Ruiz.
- Drives Like Crazy: Buzz Hahn was this in his early days. It stopped after he won his first ever race in 2038.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Originally, the races were posted via text messages instead of images, until Excel was more properly utilized.
- Engrish: Stanislav Rezac is this. Justified, as he is based on the skier of the same name who also struggled with English.
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Executive Meddling: A common trope when it comes to driver transfers:- Certain teams prefere to sign drivers based on their nationality, with DS Techeetah being a prominent example as they only signed Asian drivers.
- Sometimes, teams can get angry if a team principal makes signings far below their level. This is the case for Ferrari, where Rupesh Simpson was fired for trying to sign two bad drivers, including failed wonderkid Abelone Ulf.
- Downplayed in 2040 with HSBC Nero as team CEO Alana Watson wanted Jasmine Estrella in the team on the basis of having a female driver for the team's debut season. Said signing was approved in general by the staff, however.
- Evil All Along: Alejandro Agag, the FIA president, turned out to be the mastermind behind the sabotage against Ferrari.
- Face–Heel Turn: Charles Leclerc became one of the best drivers of all time with 6 WD Cs on his resume. However, said success got to his head and he became a massive jerk, to the point where he tried to financially strangle Shadow and even try and become the team owner. Quite the change for a driver known in real life as a Nice Guy.
- Fish out of Water: HSBC Nero were this in their earlier days. It got better later on.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Fabian de Stuurman, a youngster who unrreachieved massively in his earlier days, would eventually develop at such a rapid manner he would eventually become a champion in FE.
- Humiliation Conga: Former wonderkid Abelone Ulf joins Shadow at the age of 18 and fails at her three year stint to make an impression despite enormous media hype. Then she returns to FI with Saudia, where she is part of a team that finished dead last in the standings. After continuing to struggle, to the point where an HSBC Nero squad that froze development due to their upcoming promotion to FE easily curbstomped her. After that, she fell from the face of the earth.
- Incompetence, Inc.:
- Williams under Claire's reign, as the team were forced to run 5-year old cars due to a lack of funds.
- G2 Racing under Ness Muller. To say they did many questionable at best moves is a massive understatement.
- Jerkass: Soren Larsson is the most notable example. Arrogant, overcompetitive and rule-hating.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ex-Venturi and later on Ferrari's team principal Aubrey Haller-Kurnaev is a little abrasive, but at the same time managed to completely render Red Bull's sabotage useless at the 2042 season finale, plus his morality is what made him move to Ferrari after his former team was caught cheating in the 2039 bidding war.
- Killed Off for Real: Unfortunately, we had a few deaths in the sport:
- Ivan Marincic was killed in a crash in the 2028 Chinese GP
- Mart Soosaar passed away from stage 3 cancer.
- Callum Whitley was killed in the Macau GP in 2031.
- Oliver Robinson was killed by a disgruntled fan after the 2036 World Cup.
- Guilherme Nogueira was killed in a fatal pile-up in the 2043 Belgian GP
- After the absolutely awful first season they endured, Elfin went bust in a plane crash that saw promising up and comer Elli Richter dead.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Temirzhan Ershin exposes the sabotage Red Bull and Alejandro Agag pulled on Ferrari, resulting in Agag ending his presidential tenure in disgrace and Red Bull being expelled from the sport
- Lethal Joke Character:
- While Nicholas Latifi struggled in FE, he won 5 FI titles with Racing Point.
- John Cida started off as a stereotypical pay driver but proved to be so fast that he moved to FE after just one season and won races there.
- Simone Cimorelli was intentionally designed with the worst ability possible, but managed to develop well enough to rise up to FE and win at his home race in Monza.
- Erich von Ribermarch, once deemed a "hazard" by the paddock, moved up the order after a move to BP Silverstone and succesfully rose up to FE, even having a title shot there.
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Marty Stu: Jacob King is a notorious example as he can seemingly both race cars AND play in the NBA, among other things. - Obfuscating Stupidity: It is unclear if Ness Muller during his ownership of G2 is really not the brightest bulb or outright malicious, although his treatment of Miguel Larrazabal suggests the latter.
- Official Couple: Soren Larsson with Camila Ruiz and Sebastian Lindgren with Cyrille Lavigne.
- Offstage Villainy: Up until their reveal, Alejandro Agag and the Red Bull TP tampered with the electrical systems of the Ferrari cars during the final two races of 2042.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Ziggy Zaggy is this, as no one ever figured out what his real name is.
- The Power Of Potential: Many drivers are subject to this, depending if they have ability to become top drivers.
- Plot Twist: The mere fact that, of all people, Lewis Hamilton exposed Toto Wolff rigging the 2028 Dutch GP.
- Scandal Gate: Averted with all controvesial incidents.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Jeff Bezos tried to do this with the Giuseppe Rizzo case, and it backfired spectacularly.
- Second Love: Cyrille is this for Sebastian Lindgren.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis:
- Andrei Aimansha and Alexandre Gagnon were sworn rivals in FI.
- Mykola Holubets and Toni da Graca became this later on.
- Later on, the Holubets family would become a rival of the Winters family, which owns NPRT.
- The Smurfette Principle:
- Emilia Le Blanc, Camila Ruiz and Erica Libanig Hanebusa were the sole female parcticipants in FE when they raced. Averted when Jasmine Estrella and Eleni Tsiobanou were the main female drivers.
- When it comes to team owners, Claire Williams was this in the 2020s and early 2030s until her expulsion and Alana Watson joined the paddock in the mid-2030s and remains active as of now.
- FI only had one female owner with Koenigsegg's Petra Svensson.
- Spoiled Brat: Toni da Graca, big time. Having been spoiled by his parents, he thinks that he is entitled to winning every single race and rage quits when stuff don't go as he wanted. He also happens to be one of the most talented drivers of his generation, however.
- Sore Loser: The same applies to the aforementioned Toni, as he lashes out and swears when he loses.
- The Sociopath: Alejandro Agag is this, as his sabotage plot could very well have killed Zouzou or Farid yet he doesn't care about such a scenario taking place.
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The Scrappy: Kevin Voavy, once a highly regarded prospect in his youth, became this in 2042 when in a rash move he took out Miguel Larrazabal's car, thus not only ending his race but also resulting in the demise of the Campos-Honda team. Ever since that, he has been given the Un-person treatment from the paddock, with the memetic claims that he never even existed in the first place. - Smart People Play Chess: Mykola Holubets is this.
- The Stoic: Razvan Handler is this.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: Pundits Zdenek Suchanek and Chaim Goldstein are this, with the former the Straight Man to the latter's wise guy.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Zdenek Suchanek has given many of them to teams and drivers making poor decisions.
- The Tease: Cyrille Lavigne is this, to the point where she became a meme because of her personality.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: Due to being given a massive long-term contract, Santino Andreoli-Richard became this for Aston Martin, and later on for Penske when Patrick Nielsen, the former's new team principal, loaned him to the American squad.
- Took a Level in Dumbass: After retiring and becoming the owner and team principal of G2, which he founded, Ness Muller went from lovable star driver to the absolute worst team principal the sport had ever seen.
- Took A Level In Jerk Ass: The massive success Charles Leclerc earned went to his head, and he would later change from the Nice Guy of the bunch to a megalomaniac jerk who even tried to buy out one of his former teams by force.
- Ungrateful Bastard: How does Ness Muller react to Miguel Larrazabal's results that saved his team from going out of business? By calling his results a "fluke" and giving him the boot.
- Unskilled, but Strong: While G2 made some powerful cars, the team's Incompetence, Inc. tendencies made them unable to find good drivers and as a result floundered for years.
- Wham Episode:
- 2021 saw Valtteri Bottas defeating Lewis Hamilton for the title.
- 2023 saw Charles Leclerc bringing Ferrari back to the top of the world
- 2028 had the tragic death of Ivan Marincic and later on Toto Wolff rigging the 2028 Dutch GP
- 2030 saw Alexandre Gagnon winning the FI title with an 100% podium finish rate.
- 2032 had the new regulations being set up and a change in the dynamics of the sport.
- 2034 saw the end of the Mercedes team following their exposal of the 2028 Dutch GP, which included the expulsion of Toto Wolff.
- 2036 saw the first ever FIA World Cup being run.
- 2038 had the Superdraft, where FE teams had two draft picks each, thus resulting in a massive change in the grid as a whole.
- 2039 had Venturi claiming to be the richest team in the paddock and then being revealed to have cheated in the bidding war, thus resulting in a steady decline and their eventual demise.
- 2042 is however the biggest of them by far, as it included the demise of Campos-Honda and Alejandro Agag and Red Bull sabotaging Ferrari, which would eventually go south as Ferrari would win the title anyways.
- 2043 had the reveal of Ness Muller's true colours as a team principal and the tragic death of Guilherme Nogueira.
- 2044 had Temirzhan Ershin exposing Agag and RB for their actions and the expulsion of the latter from the sport altogether.
