#switchwastaken

(ik this initial post is missing 2 its bc of the image limit dw ill reblog with them added)

day 5: magic (with switch)

day 6: lava (with boosterruns)

day 8: bridge (with charlottekity)

day 9: snack (with zurtletif)

day 10: crossbow (with hanabiyaki)

i'm just going to go by team. the majority of these pairings were quite random. I've got a lot of common pairings happening in past/future seasons, so this is just where everyone ended up :3

Reset - Couriway & Feinberg:

this team was originally mercedes before i changed names

this name comes from well. resetting. i also thought it was funny to put couriway on the team called reset when all he plays is no reset.

the colours i have for this team's "branding" are dark blue and silver. can't for the life of me remember why I chose those but they look pretty cool. probably smth to do with the loading screen being silver/white?

etho's the team principal because he's my favourite hermit so I wanted to write him lmao - all of the team principals are hermits because I just needed a large group to fill roles, since I wanted to keep other speedrunners for possible past or future grids (surely those happen)

fruit won his six championships with Reset and Reset has won eight constructors (even if I ignored it in itfl because I wasn't bothered to do maths). the timeline is some insanity because purpled and fruit exchange championships for 12 years straight (the world must have been so tired of them) until silver wins the year before in the fast lane is set. honestly. not completely inaccurate to real life f1 considering that the same person has won the last four then before that the same person won six, the streak only broken up by his teammate, then before that another person won four in a row. i reckon it's plausible.

fruit left reset to move to eye spy in the year itfl is set.

feinberg was a part of the reset junior team from f4 onwards

couri's race engineer is nerdi and feinberg's is oliver

their name colours on these types of tv graphics would be a dark blue. also its kinda funny that they'd just say: BigBigMongey or 7rowl but I also love it

Beacon - Purpled and Fulham:

beacon was originally ferrari. i had a bit about monza that was written ages ago and got reworked into a different race I think? i believeee there's a brief mention how beacon needs to perform well there or smth like that (monza is the ferrari race. its their home race and everyone who goes is a ferrari fan, which doesn't happen anywhere else on the scale it does for ferrari)

purpled moved here from eye spy - FBM was dropped for him

his teammate is fulham - he was a rookie same year as couri, so itfl is his fourth season

the tp is grian because red and ferrari

colours are teal, white and black - like a beacon. main one for graphics/branding is teal. logo would probably be a diamond beacon?

Ranked - Silverr & Reign:

mclaren before name change

name based off of mcsr ranked

silverr won wdc year before itfl, ending the purpled/fruit dominance (everyone was very happy)

did not have a great year in itfl year tho :( came fourth in constructor's

their team principal is tangotek and colours are green, white and black - like the ranked logo.

there are concepts of a silverrreign fic set year before itfl but no promises on that one

Eye Spy Racing - Fruit & Doogile:

eye spy was originally red bull (red bull racing, eye spy racing)

fruit moved to eye spy after reset wasn't competitive for three years in a row, in hopes that eye spy would be. it was. but doogile beat him (sorry fruit maybe next year)

fruit's race engineer (the guy that talks to him throughout the race - like oliver is for fein in itfl) is hbomb!! i gotta get my blue bats rep in there.

doogile was moved up from into fire, replacing wallibear who moved to sodium

eye spy's colours are basically just ender eye colours, so like turquoise, green, blue etc

their logo is an ender eye :D

their team principal is falsesymmetry (more blue bats!!)

Into Fire - Mongey & Hax:

into fire was originally vcarb or visa cash app rb or racing bulls or alpha tauri or toro rosso or

they're the eye spy junior team, which allows eye spy to easily switch out drivers between eye spy and into fire, so like if doogile suddenly started performing terribly over the first half of the season, they could switch him out for hax. they would be unlikely to do that considering doogile wins a championship but hey. anything could happen.

hax joined it this year after spending a year as a reverse driver and winning f2. he replaced doogile who was moved up to the senior team, eye spy.

this is mongey's second year

i chose into fire because it's like a starting point sorta, so you're going into the fire? idk if that makes sense? and then eye spy is after the into fire advancement, so its the senior team. and I thought it sounded cool

into fire colours are orange and red - like blaze rods/fire/nether vibe

Stronghold - Antfrost & Poundy:

their team principal is cubfan aka the goat and their colours are black, silver and green - like mossy stone brick in a stronghold

poundy is being kept on solely because the whole team thinks he's fucking hilarious and he brings sponsors or something like that. i haven't put too much thought into it. poundy just has a seat indefinitely

ant is one of the few non mcsr members, I ended up putting a few event players in because at the time I couldn't come up with more people I knew how to write I think. also gives me more options :D

stronghold colours are black, silver and dark green - like mossy stone bricks

MC - Switch & FBM:

mc or just minecraft. idk maybe I ran out of creativity when making this name. i think it's based off of RB (red bull junior team) and it brings some variety to names I think :D

fbm was in. i thought beacon but I just came to the discovery that THREE different people had the beacon seat last year in my doc. how did that happen. how have switch, fbm and wolfeei all got the same seat.

okay fbm in beacon is what was written in itfl so fbm has the beacon seat sorry switch and wolfeei.

switch has been in f1 for two seasons, and itfl is his third. he's been performing well in the mc car so top teams have been paying attention.

colours for mc are dark green and white. like grass block green.

joel smallishbeans is the team principal

Blaze and Cave's - Rekrap & TalkingMime:

name inspired by the blaze and cave's mod. chose this name for this team because mime's on it and he's done a lot of bac related stuff.

kinda want rek to go to another series (not 100 on what that would be) and have lifestealers in that series.

geminitay is the team principal

the colours are red/orange and grey

Pace - Lowkey & 7rowl:

this team was called atum for the majority of writing. like the reset mod. but then I was like it doesn't really fit the other names, and I feel like most casual mcsr viewers wouldn't have heard about it? i know I hadn't so. it was changed.

unfortunately they did not cook this year sajj

rowl and lowkey are both rookies

team principal is pearlescentmoon and colours are purple and black

Sodium - Dylqn & Wallibear:

walli moved here from eye spy when purpled left - he was purpled's second driver

their team principal is doc

their colours are lime green and white, since that's the colours the mod sodium logo use

it's dylqn's seventh season

this team was originally sauber because of the sickening neon green colour, though sodium's is more toned down because I refuse to have anything resembling the kick sauber in my au