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So per the advice from @dumbf1sketches, I started searching for F1-related site maps and planning applications. Googling stuff like "f1 paddock planning applications" and so forth then led me to this forum which led me to this list of planning documents for Silverstone from which I was actually able to download the plans and they were a MOTHERLODE.

I went through the entire 100+ page planning document and extracted out the images and info that I thought were relevant, based on what my non-construction/architect-trained brain was able to parse.

I'm going to split what I found into two parts:

This part, part 1, which is about the pit buildings (garages + what lives above and beside the garages). This is the long skinny compound of buildings that stretches along the pit lane (and usually sits in front of the hospitality buildings - so you'll have hospitality || pit buildings || pit lane || race track)

Part 2, about the media and hospitality floorplans

Note: the pit building plans are all split into "1-22" and "22-44" (the two different halves of the pit buildings corresponding to different garages/compounds). In some cases, if the plans are the same or there's nothing interesting in one of the halves, I've only included one of them; in some cases I've included both.

Predictably, tumblr killed the resolution of these images a lot, so they're all in an imgur album here and linked individually underneath the tumblr embeds. Note that if it opens to an imgur page where the image is still kind of small even when expanded, you can right click + open image in new tab (make sure the URL ends with .png to be sure you've got the actual full res version, basically).

All images exist in high res on imgur.

It's a safe bet to assume that the F1 paddock is laid out with team hospitality buildings set behind the pit buildings.

So: hospitality -> road/path (maybe some green space) -> pit buildings -> pit lane -> race track

Monaco may be an exception here since in a Ferrari vid, Charles mentions that it's kind of a unique track and he calls the area above the Ferrari garage "hospitality". More research needed. But in general:

Pit buildings include the garages, as well as a complex at the end with race control and a lot of offices

The complex with race control + offices, at least in Silverstone, also has the podium and driver's briefing room and various press conference rooms and photographer seats on the first floor (second floor for North Americans)

As you can see in that image, above the team garages, this same floor has what I assume are team-specific areas with a lounge, kitchen, washrooms, and storage area

Upper floors of the pit buildings just have some terraces (presumably for VIP guests and/or team members to watch the pit lane?) and VIP lounges

Hospitality will include lounge areas, refreshment, catering, etc. and I believe is generally open to paid VIP guests and guests of the team

The hospitality building may be attached to the media building (as in Silverstone)

Unclear if "FOM hospitality" in Australia = media building or not. In Silverstone, the media building seems to just have a "media centre" (maybe for journalists/press people to work, watch the race, conduct interviews...? not 100% sure yet on this)

In Australia, there's a "media pen" in between the main row of hospitalities, and Sauber+FIA hospitality off across the road. This appears to be an impermanent structure/maybe a covered area, rather than a formal building. Presumably where post-race/post-quali interviews and such occur.

Silverstone also has a race administration building attached to hospitality/media, which is mostly just offices and such

The Australia site map also includes a gas & fuel compound, an international broadcast compound, FOM dining, and a building just marked with the F1 logo

The Silverstone plans have diagrams for a shower building, a scrutineering building, and the starter's platform, although I can't find a map that places these buildings in relation to others. But if you're looking for locations for a fic, they exist!

Parking (or pick-up/drop-off) is probably a wildcard. In Silverstone there's VIP parking right behind the hospitality/media compound, in Australia it's way further back from everything behind the international broadcast compound. Unclear which roads cutting through the paddock allow vehicle traffic.

afraid of a mountain | 28k | rated e | galex

“You can’t be into George,” Lando says, “he’s George.” She snorts two perfect bubbles of snot and executes a half roll to grab a kleenex even as the tears start coming again. “That’s basically what he said after, yeah. Except the other way.” -- Alex and George hook up after their disastrous Sakhir 2020 race.

tis the season of het galex i guess.

Reid's absolute refusal to critically examine her worldview stops being funny by the second time she writes something racist towards Asians and starts getting grating every time she attempts to bring up Russia and immigration. Her vision of the world - of geopolitics, of hockey, of immigrants and race - is so narrowly focused on her perspective of a White cis woman in Canada as some neutral default that I genuinely started to believe that I was playing a joke on myself and somehow found a fake copy.

Her attempts to write anything outside of her purview only demonstrate how little she understands of the world and her own place in it. Whether it's an immigrant from a geopolitical threat, a racialised minority, or queerness in a space of violent homophobia, the way these complex topics are written only belies how mainstream her perspective really is - how easily and unquestionably she's accepted the system of power that exists around her.

For someone who thinks she's a radical or offering any critique, she sure as hell doesn't seem to know what the system she's trying to criticise.

just gotta throw my all-time favourite Giles scene into the mix