u/Justatrufflecake

A world where 1914 borders and states exist to this day, in 2026, and has Formula 1.

Some interesting notes:

> As I learned and was fascinated by, the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium was apparently split by a border with Germany until 1918. The modern starting line location was in Belgium, so I put the race as taking place there. For any F1 geeks here, the border ran along the Eau Rouge river, which means that the border was where the entry to Eau Rouge corner is today. It is honestly mad to think about. The second crossing was in the Malmedy corner after Les Combes, which means that the Kemmel straight was part of the German Empire.
> The race in Singapore could've been the Strait Settlements Grand Prix but I decided to stick with Singapore since it was constituent and had its own flag at the time.
> I had an idea to name both races in the Ottoman Empire as the Ottoman Grand Prix, but decided against it since both places are rather removed from the Empire's core as well as the Ottoman heartland having a circuit of its own in Istanbul, which is coming back to the calendar next year.
> Even though Abu Dhabi was in the Trucial States in 1914, I decided to go with the Abu Dhabi flag since I was very unsure if the Trucial States had a flag prior to 1968.

This is purely of off a random idea I had, but if there is some interest and ideas tossed around I might just make more posts with various combined F1 and AltHis related stuff.

u/Justatrufflecake — 14 days ago