Found out some time ago that one of my favourite f1 artist @cak3art had a DTIYS, so I had to do it! :D
Had alot of fun with this one, I had never really drawn Max before other than a few doodles, and I kinda speedran this hahaha (for some reason I only know how to draw fast lol). Nonetheless I'm happy with how this turned out!
First meetings from Tango's pov... (I'm not much of a writer but I wanted to try it :3, sorry if its not good...)
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Tango wouldnt say he was oblivious, sure he sometimes missed some important gossip and some PR announcements but to be fair his work is the car. He couldn't care less for some random gossip or stuff from the PR people, his work is making the car better and he is a simple mechanic, no one to be in front of cameras.
Thats why when conversations about a driver move to Williams came up on the racing community, he payed no mind to them. Tango knew some name was circulating around, but again he really didnt care about it, gossip was common and nothing he is interesting in, can some people call him ignorant? That he didnt even noticed news outlets posting about it or watched his team principal's interviews? Yes, some people can call him that, however he still thinks he isnt oblivious, obviously he will know when a driver moves to his team, he isnt dumb.
Even his good friend Impulse, asks him what his opinion about Solidarity's move to Williams, which takes him by surprise bc if he's not mistaken no one at the team knows who will be the new driver and wasnt Solidarity a Redbull driver? That's what he says to Impulse and that honestly even if he knew, his friend is still on a different team. (Impulse looks at him like he doesnt believe it)
Later, much for Impulse amusement, Tango only discovers that Solidarity would race for Williams after a PR colleague says it straight on his face, apparently it was neither speculation nor a secret on the factory.
And the fact he somehow missed multiple times the presence of the driver in the factory, thats stays only between him and his colleague.
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Tango wouldnt say he was that oblivious, of course he now knew Jimmy Solidarity was going to race for William's this season, but it still takes him by surprise when the driver approaches him with two cups of coffee.
"Here, you look like you need some" he says extending one cup to him
The mechanic feels a little taken away by the gesture, and doesnt know what to say. He never thought a driver would do this, he must be mistaken and that's not for him. So he just stares in shock to the said driver.
After some time of silence Solidarity slightly gestures to his extended hand and Tango finally gets the memo that yes, it's for him.
Tango takes the cup and takes a sip, unsurprisingly the coffee isnt exactly like he likes but even so it astonish him that it's close enough. "Thanks", he says softly with a small smile to Solidarity, the driver just smiles in return and leaves, probably to analyse some data.
Even as time continues Tango continues stunned with the small random interaction, till Hunter, one of his colleagues who was watching the exchange, tells him that it was very known that Solidarity was really friendly to every team member and since joining the team he had been randomly interacting with everyone.
Tango then concludes that maybe he is a bit oblivious because there's no way he never noticed the driver interacting with is colleagues.
But surely this was gonna be a one time thing, he was a simple mechanic and there was no way the driver truly cared of him.
Little did he know that Jimmy asked around how the pretty blonde mechanic that worked the whole morning liked his coffee.
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This was not beta read and I probably can write more in the future. Since I often do alot of mistakes I'm always shy to post something.... if anyone is interested in beta reading my little drabbles please message me! I would appreciate alot but please dont feel pressured to do it! :D
Feeling like dropping a random piece of information rn from my au
Tango and Jimmy have a grave case of "it's so painfully obvious they like each other but neither can see the other likes them " so bad that it is not only gossip inside Williams garage but in the WHOLE paddock
When Gem moved to Mercedes she got assigned Impulse as her race engineer, let's just say they bonded alot over the pain of seeing those two being so oblivious lol
inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.
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Hi! Just stumbled across your mcyt F1 au and did a little happy dance. Love your character art!
So, in this au, what is the biggest story/gossip/shock that has happened? (think Lewis going to ferrari kind of shocking) (I live for the drama)
Hello! First thank you so much! I'm very happy you like my silly au :D
Imo I dont have any story at the level of Lewis going to Ferrari shock, yet. However, one of the stories I have more fledged out, it has alot of drama :3
As I showed before Jimmy wasnt always at Williams, before he was on Toro Rosso and then he was moved to Red Bull, I know this sounds pretty familiar (coughs... Alex Albon), but the biggest shock of this move was that the person on Red Bull's second seat wasnt performing that badly and Jimmy's teammate at Toro Rosso had more experience at the sport (wasnt a rookie like him).
Yes Jimmy was a literal rocket on that era, putting that tractor on places it shouldn't be! But it still caused alot of discussion on the community and from what we know now, we can conclude that it didnt went really well...
His returning to the sport and going to Williams also caused a lot of shock and Cleo has a story that, I'll explain later, definitely shocked everyone.
I do have some more stories, but I still havent expanded them much, and there's one I'm saving for later (hopefully very soon!)
This man is always wearing a cap no further explanation required and fun fact! He is described in my notes as "If Fernando Alonso's incapacity of staying in one team, Lewis Hamilton's championships and Kimi Raikkonen's view on the sport and ability to not give a f--- were combined also freaking ancient at the sport just like Alonso /lh" lmao
He is at least for now at Mercedes
Btw I did a sideblog exclusively for f1 content, its rather new but if you're interested please check it out! It's called @purrple-sectors
Had a lot of fun with the race suits and I couldn't pass the opportunity to include swaggon as one of the sponsors (I forgot it was written with two gg so please bear with me)
I hope you like it @aviangrian! And I'll definitely in the future draw the ranchers and doodle more about your au! :D
He is a McLaren driver and he has a interesting backstory that I'll explore later! He also absolutely still is a joker on this and fear not, unlike Lando Norris he has some wins under his belt and was contender to win at least an championship!
Btw I just wanted to say that the helmet designs are always possible subject to change and the same goes with the suits/team gear since I'm not sure if I'll draw in the future using the 2024 race suits or from other years (i have a sauber/Stake dilemma) :D
My face when I find out I鈥檓 not the only one on this planet that likes funny block game and racecars: :O
:O Indeed !!!
I'm always so happy to find more people who like the two silly things I'm into!! For example I initially started bonding over fast cars with one of my irl friends, then he turned out to be also a mcyt fan ! my face was definitely like the suprised pikachu meme lol. Its always surprising me but it seems we are more than I originally thought /pos!
I hope you dont mind this but now you are ONE OF US, ONE OF US /lh