the book

Well, for the F1 drivers:

1. Xander Bishop - the love interest and a blue eyed Brit with a razor sharp jawline. His family are rural farmers. He says things like “bloody git” and “bollocks” frequently. Could not more obviously be George Russell. Races for Mega Racing, which is a hell of a team name. I feel the need to mention that Georxander calls his car Charles, so we get several references to how he’s “one with Charles” and how “Charles felt fantastic” which is. something.

2. Dirk Van Dijk - loosely the villain. A Dutchman with icy blue eyes who loves torturing Georxander. You might think that this is obviously just Max, but Max does canonically exist in this universe (??) and also Dirk was Georxander’s childhood hero so idk… maybe this character is slightly original.

3. Emilio Alvarez Baquero - a Spanish driver who is introduced as “ultra-smooth”. You might think this is just Carlos, but Emilio actually wins the championship in this book, which is never going to happen for Carlos so

4. Florian Laurent - do i even need to say, or can you guess who he might be from the name? his entire presence in this book is just is how viral his relationship with his beautiful girlfriend went. So.

5. Kenji Matsumoto. The only Japanese driver. He races for Cyclone Green Dragon which is. also a hell of a team name.

6. Brett Lockford - a young British driver with potential racing for a dogshit team. I assume this is Bollie Learman but honestly i’m more focused on the fact that the author thought Brett was a good name for a British character. as if Xander wasn’t bad enough.

7. Preston Hubbard - an Australian driver who like. Appears once and doesn’t speak. I assumed it was an Oscar cameo but to be fair to the author this really could just be a random Aussie OC.

may do a Part 2 with the more original characters!