TLDR:2020-2030: F1 experiences a golden era, with a growing fanbase and competitive racing.
2030-2040: The sport faces challenges, including commercial rights issues, safety concerns, and a recession, leading to a decline in popularity.
2040-2050: The introduction of "Formula Future" regulations and the emergence of Helena Starcross, a dominant driver who wins multiple championships and becomes a legend in the sport.
2050-2060: F1 faces a "dark decade" with external factors like wars, climate change, and pandemics affecting the sport.
2060-2069: The last decade of true F1, the series plateaus but yields the last, most incredible combustion based racing cars ever made. The first anti-gravity racing championship, AGRC, is established in 2071.
2070s: AGRC gains popularity, and F1 teams begin to transition to anti-gravity racing. The sport experiences growing pains, including safety concerns and debates over pilot modifications.
2080s: AGRC becomes the dominant form of racing, with the introduction of new technologies like MAG strips, neural links, and repulsor systems.
2090s: The sport continues to evolve, with the introduction of new teams, technologies, and innovations like ELS (ELS Battles).
Soundtrack: London Grammar- HigherThe camera takes a moment to follow through the exhibit.
From Fangio to Hill, Lauda to Villeneuve, Senna to Schumacher, Hamilton to Verstappen, much of this is the story you've seen of greats, top level drivers that won many championships and awed by. By 2094, this is like looking through textbooks of the Victorian era by 2024's standards, given how old the pictures seem to be, and how primitive the cars seem to be, displayed holographically.
So the carbon composite may remain, but what has changed, is literally everything else.
You get to 2024-->, and 2020-2030 is up on the wall. The text explains an AI-driven summary, of course, with a fun twist, narrated by Aurora.
2020-2030:
This era represents a sport that was in the ascendancy- with a growing fanbase due to social media, streaming and on-the-wall documentaries, F1 became global and started to truly grow out of an old boys club and into an international phenomenon. Three more titles for Verstappen, three for Piastri, one for Norris, and one for Russell, outlining a dominant period shared by a variety of top-running teams including Red Bull, McLaren and Mercedes. The cars under a new electrical power and active aero regulation become more competitive and more competitive, and the trend continues throughout the decade for fan engagement and racing. Cars don't really get faster, but competition is very good, and that is all people want.
2030-2040:
A decade introducing more electrical power into F1, racing begins to plateau from historic highs in the late 2020s, as strains over commercial rights and tension related to safety and new circuits, particularly in rich oil states who are now getting tangled into proxy wars and beginning to lose their influence, begins to bubble. And in late 2037, due to a recession, the bubble of popularity bursts- overegged commercial contracts with broadcasters, rights holders and tracks just doesn't work anymore because nobody has the political will to reform FOM (F1 Management) and the teams that expect virtually untapped money. The market for F1 basically crashes.
Three mid-table teams leave in late 2038, prompting a management crisis from discovered corruption, top level mis-management and bribery which began to shake the foundations of what F1's fair, respectful racing looked like. The FIA and FOM Management nearly split into two over this with many other series of racing gaining traction such as Formula E, Formula X (a niche Asian-spin off including V10s and relatively low levels of aerodynamics) and the WRC in this period, a lasting, sustainable growth that provided a healthy alternative to the dominance of F1.
Drivers such as Norris, Russell, Piastri, Verstappen, Antonelli, as well as newcomers such as Arvid Lindblad, Gabriel Bortoleto, Alex Dunne, Louis Sharp and Leonardo Fornaroli started to emerge and fight over championships of their own, as well as new drivers not on the grid in 2024 that emerged from in Ross Vale, Pavel Hradecky and Juha Virtunen, who followed suit.
Yet little did anyone in the sport know, that due to a significant technical change to F1 in 2040 in the making for over ten years, mocked up as "Formula Future", a new driver would set her own legacy. One that made almost everyone else redundant.
2040-2050:
The world in this period went through significant change- minor recessions, wars and conflict over resources beginning in the end of the decade. There is nostalgia over the "Fast Forties" still felt to this day given how positive the start of the 2040s were, and then how they ended poorly, from everything in music, fashion, cars, to clothes and accessories, like the Roaring 20s but far weirder. But in F1, they were probably as good as the 2020s, and late 80s/early 90s, yet one champion came out of it that settled the question of who the GOAT was.
A golden era. A golden girl. And cars that at this time, proved to be the best technical directive ever produced by Formula One, producing incredible sounding, incredibly fast, competitive and relatively safe racing that still produced one dominating racer.
The ships went from open-top to closed canopy, wide-tyred, adaptive aero, grip monsters capable of accelerating as fast as modern-day rallycross cars, with four-wheel drive fusing Formula E technology to Formula 1 grip, power and performance as the two series coalesce and technology-share. Cars are covered in invisible, paintwork level solar panelling that naturally regens the battery, visual gesture controls, as well as virtual datastreams. Five cylinder, twin-turbocharged, small-batteried hybrid engines make this era one that sounds utterly incredible, and by 2094's standards, the cars go ludicrously fast with very little technology for what they are on the last generation of conventional pneumatic rubber tyres. A V4 was considered, but the five-cylinder was lobbied for successfully as part of partly a fan-service gesture as well as that of a technical directive to improve flat engine performance, which shrank the engine down to just 1.3L and 1400bhp (without the hybrid, which is rumoured to increase it by another 600bhp!).
Jamie Bird, Eduardo Piquet, and Martin Liepeja always provided a stiff competition to Helena Starcross, but history remembers her and Casper Lundstrom keenly.
Helena (Helen) "Stargirl" Starcross was the first woman to ever win an F1 Championship, driving a McLaren-Porsche to victory at Brazil for her first title in 2043. And in her career, going from BMW-Sauber, McLaren, Red Bull and Porsche, she showed that no matter what team she was in, she was a force of nature. Helena was quiet growing up, and kept that reflective nature throughout her career. They described her as having a certain timeless class, a charm that always was seen outside of the car....yet in it, became a monster capable of the extraordinary. She did what was unthinkable, because it was like she was from twenty years ahead in terms of her thinking.
Women in F1 had always been seen as impossible, but Helena was born in the right time, right place, and was lucky enough to fall into the system when cars became easier to drive than ever before with better power steering and G-Force support for drivers. Once that was in, her pure talent shone through. Her wet weather skills, and a car that seemed almost born for her conservative and gentle technique, blended with her absolute ability to find time where others couldn't when pushing, then setting up the car with AI and her genius-like engineering background, meant that she combined a Senna-esque talent with a Prost-level intelligence to win races in bad cars, and dominate in good ones. Oh, and did this all with an artificial heart and actuated joints, the very first neurological enhancement technologies available on the market. The image of her driving the Gulf-liveried 2048 McLaren, or the incredibly ornate Red Bull in 2049 around Silverstone at full pelt are canvases that any self-respecting racing lover puts up in their collection next to Senna at Monaco, or James Hunt at Fuji.
Within five years, she wins four titles, matching Vettel. Within ten, she's won seven, matching Hamilton. By retirement in 2055, Helena has won nine world titles, and at this point, it seems like a total revolution has taken place, even in spite of world tension and corruption bubbling over, Helena using her platform to speak up for women's rights, fairness and transparency in racing, and cultivating a culture of young, aspiring dreamers to change the world, going against the system and proving many, many, many people wrong. In a time of crisis, Helena's soft spoken voice is one that almost ironically, screams into history. Helena even whispers a bit of discontent, the FIA were too terrified to let her go, and did anything to keep her on side. Perhaps it was single-handedly her doing that revived the sport from falling apart, but Helena's commitment to perfectionism ignored other driver complaints about the growing difficulty of racing, and the need to take on augments that were still risky and untested.
After Helena left the sport in 2055, the ratio starts to divide up for men and women joining the sport spurred on by initiatives in the 2020s, to roughly a 60/40 rate into F1. Beforehand, there were less than two women within the 2030s, and none were ever even remotely successful. Ironically, as she left some said the best days were over- and with the world going badly, you might have believed them.
In a world on the brink, Helena grew to become a humble girl from Manchester that became the Rain Queen, pulling out drives and pushing increasingly unstable racing cars to new heights as the initially safe regulations were pushed to their absolute limit, ironically, due to her tolerance. The racing despite Helen's dominance is competitive, and her every championship win was never a guarantee given she sometimes ended up in sub-par machinery- her rivalry with Casper Lindstrom made into movies and TV shows, given how relentlessly the two pushed each other in everything from analytics to even the early dawn of pilot modifications, though ultimately showing respect. She retired in 2055, but made occasional appearances, always tempting the sport with her presence before ruling it out after having twins in 2058.
Helena's sometimes consulted by Silver Apex and in her 70s, is still as polite, lovely and utterly talented in an old racing car as she was thirty years ago. Many would see her as not just a pioneer, but a woman born in 2020 that utterly broke any idea of what dominant, talented racing looked like.
2051-2060: 
F1's "Dark" decade happened as races are interrupted by missile and drone attacks, and thankfully, no driver is killed from external factors, but support crews, engineers and CEOs are targeted, and many great designers and principals are killed in the process. While races continued to be competitive generally, this is not considered a good decade for the sport, and humanity in general. Climate change disrupts seasons, with a particularly dark set of years between 2053-2055 when a major pandemic broke out and nearly ended a season entirely, as did the destruction of half the paddock in 2058 in Saudi Arabia due to a drone strike- a reason why even in 2094, VIP cluster areas are protected by active defence systems, often invisible to most. The world was on fire, and whilst researchers were working to advance humanity, ecological collapse and some irreversible damage already starts to show face.
In 2054, 2055 and 2058, the death of three drivers- Franco Fola, Joshua Marnier and Marie Forestier from high-speed accidents caused by a poor technical regulation begins to mar a decade that due to factors beyond F1, takes off the sheen from the glory years of the 2040s because nobody wanted to stop their speed and despite the advances in safety, the show was too important- ironically, driven by Starcross's utter brilliance and control. The cars are simply too fast and the circuits are just not capable of hosting them, and nobody wants to stop them going faster- the human factor is a limit because drivers, even with very basic mods, cannot even think that fast.
Trials to introduce AI to help drivers underperform, creating more serious injuries and demonstrating that without a total fusion of the pilot and the car, nothing can really happen that will stop them. Some fixes later and people complain when it works too well that overtakes and AI virtually saps all the fun out, creating "Drones" rather than drivers that race, with drivers annoyed by how much they are restricted. Nobody can really win, because AI-driven racing series are doing utterly poorly for ratings. Nobody cares about a machine going around a circuit without a person inside, putting their life at risk. Nobody cares for code. Everyone cares for the human behind the wheel.
So development seems to halt, fuelled by global recessions that has like a wave, dried up interest in such a sport. The sport shrinks in response, and fan engagement reduces. This is a slump until the investment until the sport itself is bought by a Japanese hedge fund, saving it from bankruptcy. As a result, ships are designed back to safer limits but aren't to the same glorious spec of the 2040s, so little meaningful development happens- electrical systems are improved and new advancements in tyres, gearboxes and adaptive suspension improves some aspects, but four-cylinder engines are not considered an improvement on the screaming five-cylinder versions prior.
Champions include Dietrich Faust, Xavier De La Fuera, Alejandro Neves (uncle to Cassie Neves), Brad Collins and Samir Rajapaksha, all taking titles at various teams and keeping seasons relatively competitive, even if the format was drying up. Other drivers, like Leon Alonso started in this era, and raced through into the 2050s and 2060s- his three time championship and dominating drives as a young driver in this era living up to the family name.
2060-2069: 
The introduction of a new generation of Formula One cars in 2061 creates a revival in the sport, now considered the last vestige of old carbon-emitting sports, even though F1 has been using carbon-neutral racing fuel for decades now. The world still sits in turmoil, but is the last decade of major conflict, war and resource stress, as desalination, the very early geoengineering and carbon reduction schemes, as well as asteroid mining begins towards the end of the decade and starts to slowly turn the tide.
This is one of the most impactful decades in human history- and arguably, the one where humanity tames what could have been catastrophic climate change and survives at the end. Fundamental shifts in economy and society begin- as the very beginnings of Universal Basics schemes roll out from 2068 onwards, the formal agreements for the Arabic Union's member states are signed into law as are the Federal American States, and society licks its wounds from a terrible time. Converse to the 2040s, we entered this decade in the worst we've ever been, and left it with an untold optimism and a Solarpunk future that beckoned, and one we actually in the end, got.
For F1, this is considered the last technical era that ever was- the regulations are known as the Nova Regulations given the introduction of cutting edge driven impeller ground-effect, three cylinder twin-turbocharged 1.0L machines that scream their way to 15,000RPM containing advanced magnetic and electrical anti-lag and energy recovery, AI-supported aerodynamics and drivetrain. Most interestingly, this also includes the precursor to the pilot's neural link- a mindreading device bedded in within drivers' helmets that can support decision making and provide a virtual race engineer. This isn't too restrictive, actually allowing drivers to react faster and work better- though hard-wiring through modifications is still a decade away.
Drivers such as Aurelie Loeb (grand-daughter of Sebastien), Sam Stirling (father to Amy), Audrick Mulder, Yuki Soo-Han, Liam Freeman and Silvie Norgaard dominate this period, and whilst the world is in a very dark place, the signs of recovery change in the sponsorship that the teams carry, from early geoengineering firms to new tech companies committed to a new way of doing business.
Audrick is among the last great dominant drivers- winning in 2068 and coming close in the three years after, piloting a red and yellow Porsche-TAG ship, a free-spirited, party-loving driver in spite of his absolutely analytical, focussed driving style.
By now, F1 cars look more like the ships you would recognise in 2094, incredibly complex aerodynamics masterpieces, but limited by tyres, imagination, and the surface they go over. F1 is struggling, going through another boom and bust, as interest wains as people are more interested in other, more sustainable forms of motorsport, the WRC in particular leading in this field as spectators want to see the outdoors and wider world. Running out of ideas, F1 was successful, but at a plateau- the escape many needed after a difficult few decades, but not enough.
Yet decades compress to years, as things start to get a bit more specific.
Because in 2069, the world changed forever as Anti-Gravity technology matured in a perfect storm and accelerated what we now know as modern racing.
Soundtrack: Hyper- Accelerate2069:Born from developments at multiple universities, anti-gravity technology finally breaks free of theory and becomes a commercial reality in 2069. This is an incredible revolution- previous anti-matter experiments had yielded nothing, but in the 2060s, getting closer and closer to the technology had yielded results that were stable enough to share.
In a moment for physics probably as impactful as discovering the Higgs Boson in the 2010s, the development of nuclear fusion in the 2040s, the massive AtlanticFast geoengineering scheme in the early 2060s, the condensing of barely a sand-grain sized grouping of antimatter inside an Anti-Matter Drive meant that craft could be held aloft with however much, or however little you wanted. Doctor Petter Karlson won a Nobel Prize for his work on this- safe, self-containing and most of all, ridiculously expensive anti-gravity technology was now on the horizon. This was them amplified by NASA, the ESA, Honda, Toyota and Ji Motors, of all people, who collaborated on a unique platform that continued to make it cheaper, and more easy to access.
Of course, funding is very generous, with every space agency and every transport company throwing more money than sense at this avenue of technology, but one man sees a very interesting opportunity to develop something out of this. With wars dying out, and contractors interested in putting their money into the next big thing, a competition is born. Doctor Karlson builds a ship under Royston's funding, one the likes of which the world has never seen.
2071:Anti-Gravity Racing is born on Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, led by a research team funded by Royston Pearce, testing speed and handling. The ships are slower than F1 cars, incredibly hard to pilot, and can't turn easily. But some modifications high-speed run leads to a ship accelerating to twice the speed of sound, shattering the record of any land-based vehicle. This is of course, an easy thing to do when you haven't got friction to worry about and a pulse jet, but still raises eyebrows. The ships at this phase are incredibly primitive- like the beginning of the Wright Brothers, progress is on the horizon and most geopolitical blocks take note.
The Arabic Union, European Union, and oddly, the Oceanic Whanau, a small geopolitical bloc, throw money at this trial too, captivated by what this may look like in spite of the fact that many would rather see that money go to fixing wider ecological and environmental concerns.
2072:
The first season of the Anti-Gravity Racing Championship, AGRC, takes place at ten venues across the globe under FIAR, the Federation for International Anti-gravity Racing which is also run by Royston. The first race takes place at Brands Hatch, Kent- a small beginning for what would soon become an enormous discipline.
The sport catches viral attention, but most F1 drivers choose not to shift to the sport yet. Until a thrilling race takes place at Silverstone alongside the existing F1 racing as a support series, displaying the slightly smaller ships exhibiting classic F1-style characteristics, the handling dialled in by pioneers such as Dorian Hornfleur, Alexander Knight, Audrick Mulder, Pierre Faust, Kasumi Takakura, James Norris and Laura Muller, and showing that against F1 craft, in only a year they've come leaps and bounds. The first series is a testbed, and many ships look strange, feel odd, but most of all, are distinctive and a refresh from the F1 format. Social Media in particular is very inclusive, and the tech is paraded around, and made for investors to throw money at. Most of all, very limited bounds on biomodification (unlike F1, following Starcross's mods) exist- so, people throw themselves at it.
The first exhibition races of AG ships versus F1 initially lean towards the tyre-based counterparts, before mods and changes mean that the future is inevitable. AG ships truly are unbeatable when reliable and able to steer. And from that, the drops become a pour as many within the media sphere realise that AG racing, with higher cornering speeds, and sheer grip works for them.
The first champion is James Norris- and yes, we will come back to him later.
2073: The shift starts to happen, as more and more F1 drivers come into the Anti-Gravity Racing Championship, with Royston working with the Arabic Union and Oceanic Whanau who want to see AG tech popularised, and the sheer amount of money brings drivers over- as well as most media broadcasters who see this as the future.
New locations, such as Cape Town, Tokyo, Istanbul Park and short-lived races in London and Paris display what the ships can do, aweing spectators due to their ability to climb and accelerate.
FIAR73, the first technical regulation is published and this is the blueprint that F1 teams, and new geopolitical blocks run after it because the future is seen to be Anti-Gravity in delivery, transport and space sectors, and everything beyond.
FIAR 73 is seen as a turbulent era- incredibly novel and awesome to watch, given the ships were diverse, weird and wonderful, yet is like the 1970s of the F1 era. Serious injuries, massive crashes, and ships that were insanely difficult to fly, yet satisfying as hell to pull off made this seem like a bit of an iconic era for AG racing, even if that's the nostalgia talking- as many ships had significant reliability problems and races relied on you actually finishing.
2074-2075: The Years of Mergers.
So called as conveniently, many teams started to refocus their efforts out of F1 and into AG Racing- but due to the astronomical costs of anti-matter at this point, as well as the concerns, many started to group together.
Ji Motors, a rival conglomerate to Hyundai, Samsung and Kia developed Zygon out of old Honda and Hyundai F1 teams, with the Korean-super team a dominant constructor that still races today, Williams and Mercedes and fragments of Red Bull F1 teams merge creating the super-team that is Silver Apex.
Red Bull, Ferrari, Renault and Sauber all contribute engineers to the pan-European Valkyrie AGR team, supported by the ESA. McLaren stays independent, and remains fiercely so for the next couple of years.
Nordic Call takes on Red Bull's junior assets, but is rebranded by a Swedish billionaire, while Dragon Racing forms in Indonesia, as well as Carrera Condor's predecessor, Cordillera AG, in Chile. A few other teams come and go, including the Russian Gagarin-59, Chinese NOVA, as well as the Indian-based Garuda Racing teams. This explosion of teams dies out a little faster than some hoped, due to a bit of a bubble and rushing into the first generation of rules.
Why? Many were representing national or regional pride, and "pilots", as they became, grew into heroes locally- something that they could invest themselves into after war, conflict and as many know, the more you throw at competition, the faster development happens. FIAR offered an outlet that F1 had stagnated in for decades- and the investment was too willing for something completely groundbreaking and remarkable.
Cole Marnier, nephew of the deceased Joshua Marnier from 20 years prior goes onto win his second title, alongside Natasha Bearman and Esteban Velar who fight with him in the next few seasons.
2076: A veritable legend in Formula AG, Audrick Mulder is killed in a crash at Spa-Francochamps alongside fifteen bystanders, marshals and fans, and the pending investigation creates a very black mark on AG- being the worst accident since 2056. Tributes pour in, and the rest of the 2076 series is modulated to account for this, with an outpouring of grief from the community. Ships are slowed down, and debates rage over if F1 is still the best series due at least having well-understood safety implications, and worries over the 2050s dark period come back.
Engineers and Designers work rapidly to to make the sport safer, and work to innovate, but racing is a bit more mused as spectators are banned and circuits are redesigned to reduce potential collisions. Pilots are asked to take on more and more mods, and many rebel against this. But where those who won't walk away, those who will become able to push ships beyond anything any normal human could do. Norris is one of those who did. The sport suffers badly, but agreements with the FIA mean that AG Racing is already on track to all but replace F1 next year- so the regulations have to be good.
2077: Formula One's final season, as the official title of the top motorsport related to Formula One switches to Formula AG, which adopts it as a successor series- won by James Norris, ah yes, grandson of Lando Norris, multiple-time F1 winner in the 2020s, who went back to F1 for the last time. Historic Formula One continues as a parallel series, at most European and Asian tracks as a support to Formula AG, now rebranded from its old name of the AGRC.
Al-Saqr Racing, a very small team entering AG in the midst of this absorbs the failing NOVA and Garuda teams into its own structure in Abu Dhabi, and suddenly becomes a much bigger player, backed by significant oil-fund money.
2078:The introduction of the
FIAR-78-1 regulations brings in a brand new regulation, sparked by Mulder's death and FIA insistence- but is a little rushed. 2nd Gen AG ships are directed and to be designed with the first semi-integrated, and extremely basic neural link comprised of an AR-enabled AI that helps buffer pilot information (imagine a Nokia 3310 compared to an iPhone), a significantly improved safety cell, as well as track-side repulsons for the spectator areas (but not the ships) coming into force.
Ships are significantly faster to turn and track design now gets a lot more freeform given spectators are watching virtually. The heyday of AG begins, as investment, money and fan support pours in.
However, these ships were difficult to fly, buffered by AI significantly, and concerns over pilot modification has grown, creating unequal paths for pilots and lots of poorly implemented rules in the next decade.
2079: The very basic introduction of MAG strips means that races at older racing circuits are made slightly safer to carry ships without sending them airborne off track. This doesn't work out perfectly given it stalls ships at times, and many refinements are made before the system is perfected for good racing.
2081: Sami Lipponen wins three titles on the bounce, and abruptly retires, wanting a sabbatical as he leaves McLaren in their last season before being the team is divided up between Silver Apex and a small team in New Zealand that bought their car factory and rights, called Southern Cross.
2083: Silver Apex begin their rampage of constructor wins- dominating the second half of the FIAR-78 regulation field. Fitzroy Orbital AG Racing joins the fray, replacing Gagarin-53, and initially takes on a lot of its staff, albeit ramps up spending significantly to a Top 3, before funding gradually drains away as Maxwell Fitzroy turns his attention elsewhere.
2085: MAG technology is fully introduced at almost all venues where it can make a difference, revolutionising the way that racing is seen- making it possible to invert ships, take tight corners flat out, and literally loop ships. This is demonstrated at Auckland, Tokyo and Sao Paolo to positive reception. Dorian comes 2nd for the 5th consecutive time in Formula AG racing- and this is the highest his career goes, as French two-time championship winner Maxine Lacroix puts Silver Apex back on top.
2087: The third generation of AG Technology emerges- known as
FIAR 87. A ground-breaking revolution, the many already neural-linked pilots are harmonised with a system that works on all ships, that has fixed neural dampers to stop pilots being overloaded, as well as ships coming with personal repulsor systems baked into the anti-gravity unit- making the ships go from having extremely complicated fighter-pilot style cockpits to incredibly minimal areas that mean ships can be flown with a fighter-styled stick, and mostly neuron-fired thought, making them bounce off each other and off the track for lower-degree impacts. Design such as enhanced active aero, airbrakes, as well as a more coherent set of regulations that standardises the rule set is brought forward and fixes the wrongs of 2078.
This means that while the ships are easier to fly, and some detest the lack of "challenge" (the same people who likely believe that the 1980s was the best period of F1), they can be reliably pushed to the limit in overtakes, "dogfighting" can happen more frequently, and they now require a significant amount of mods to even try and keep on the MAG tracking. In every way, these are the ultimate ships, and offer something that can be pushed reliably to the limit- albeit wobbles still exist when on the very ragged edge.
The other design changes mostly pertain to pilot suits, optics, aero changes, and changes to the underlying anti-gravity unit that overall, are received very positively and make for more competitive racing that reins in Silver Apex. The repulsor system inside the ship is contributed to be the main reason Dorian Hornfleur walked away from a big crash in Monza, ending any debate about safety very quickly.
Fairness and balancing systems are put in for augments and implants via FIAR regulators, but this is merely creates rules that teams try to bend and via pre-existing augments and implants, as well as medical contingencies. This makes it nearly as bad as the Tour de France once was, but some teams are allocated this for research purposes given how novel much of it is and thus, are left alone. Ships also come with a new engine system- replacing wasteful jets with an efficient pulse engine fuelled by biofuels. This is the current master for all ships right now, and Zygon initially dominated this period, followed by Silver Apex reclaiming their spot.
2088: SuperCat, as well as MMR join the sport as candidates, with the former officially entering in 2092, and the latter maintaining a small programme, as the recovery process in the Federated American States takes place.
2089: The introduction of AG racing on Luna sparks mass viewership- with the first race won by a young Amy Stirling in her Zygon ship in her first year.
2090: Florence Mason wins her second title at Silver Apex, but retires after- becoming a mother but seeking to stay in racing, so she switches to Endurance Racing with a less strenuous calendar. She's the second woman to win the Triple Crown in history with a win at Le Mans and the Indy 500, but now remains as a technical advisor to Silver Apex.
2091: The introduction of Strada Alpina through innovative drone-delivered MAG tracking and virtual spectating happens, and it is the same year Amy goes and wins her first title, her first of three.
Soundtrack: Go- The Chemical Brothers2092-2093The introduction of ELS as part of
FIAR-514 (named as such because it's a smaller technical change), comes with controversy, as the initial system creates far too many "ELS Battles"- something many contest as it allows Amy to sweep the first half of the series with ease. FIAR-514 is seen as a step between big regulation changes, with ELS brought in to create more competitive races being then perfected in 2093. It more than achieves this, growing the viewerbase even more- and this makes Formula AG the world's biggest sport going into 2094.
The collapse of Dragon Racing, a Malaysian-Thai-Indonesian team shrinks the grid to 10 teams total- with the majority of their staff joining Southern Cross. This contributes to Southern Cross's best season yet, the backmarker now becoming a staple at the top with many mouths and almost not enough factory space. The first series of Delta Hyper begins, focussing on Dorian, Kofi, Jenny and Harrison, becoming a smash hit with viewership almost topping a billion.
2094.
We are here, today. It is the fastest, the safest, the most exciting the sport has been before.
Four new rookies are on the grid. And the F1 trophy, now part of Formula AG's cabinet, has one last space left on it, since being made by a silversmith in London in 1995. Schumacher, Hakkinen, Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel, Verstappen, Piastri, Lindblad, Starcross, Lindstrom, Lipponen, Mason, Stirling all dot this trophy.
Who's on it next?
