𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐄: The Man
𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝚰𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓: Oscar Piastri
𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝚰𝐌: Deva Cassel

𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐑𝐇𝐎𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐊𝐘
𝖘𝖍𝖊/𝖍𝖊𝖗. 𝖝𝖝𝖎𝖎𝖎. 𝖒𝖔𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖘𝖕𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖘
(ᴅᴇᴠᴀ ᴄᴀꜱꜱᴇʟ) — 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁

“Can you just stay still for a second? I am trying to think.”

𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐑𝐇𝐎𝐙𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐊𝐘 had once had it all. She had a successful career, loving teammates. She was where she always wanted to be.

She had made a name for herself. She was once just girl who took part in rallies. Now she was the talk of all people interested in motorsports. She was supposed to love it but she hated. Next to a photo of hers was always something along the lines of “Maybe Rhozdestvensky was just the problem?”.

Some portrayed her as a hero others as a villain. When some saw her as “the woman who survived” others saw her as “the one who was at fault for the accident”. So, she left and never looked back.

She became a shadow in the world of Formula 1. Only a name spoken when needed. Nothing else. Just another driver who left because they weren't able to do what they dreamt. Another woman who suffered in that world only because she was simply a woman.

Almost a year passed and Irina was just living her life. She moved back to Crete, the place she was born and raised, and she wrote songs. It was her sanctuary. The only thing that they didn't take from her but somehow the past has always a funny way of coming back.

• Irina was born on the 14th of February in 2001.
• She is half Russian (or you can write her being from another Slavic country) and half Greek.
• She started participating in rallies when she was 18 until 2022 when Susie Wolff saw her in one of the rallies that was in Austria and decided to give her a seat in Formula 1 Academy. (I know that the cars that they drive in rallies are different from the ones they drive in Formula 1 and its lower levels.)
• She was given a seat as a driver for Ferrari in 2023 but in one of last Grand Prixs for the year after she went to the pit stop she crashed terribly in one of the walls with the front of the car catching fire.
• The breaks weren't working because when she was in the pit stop an engineer caused damage to them.
• In 2024 she was given a seat as a driver for McLaren.

• The fic is inspired by Taylor Swift's song “The Man”.