Deaths Related to Formula Lego

This is a list and description of every Formula Lego driver to pass away as a direct result of Formula Lego.

Natasha Hughes

Natasha Hughes entered FL in Season 3, with Octan, and took pole, and won the first race of the season. Hughes became the second driver ever to win on debut, after Salem Hoods' victory in the League's debut race. A strategy error during Race 2 saw her finish only P3 overall, but gave another insight into her speed and talent. However, on the 14th lap of Race 3, tragedy struck, and Hughes suffered a blowout, and her car was violently thrown around, and she suffered huge amounts of trauma to her whole body. She fell into a coma for an extended period of time, finally emerging from it a day before the Season 3 Finale - Race 6. However, that evening, despite the best efforts of the EotLP's best doctors, Hughes succumbed to her injuries, and passed away.

She was widely believed to have unmatched skill after her impressive debut, but that potential was never realised, and her life was cut tragically short, before she ever got to show all that she was capable of.

Denise Perez

Main article: Denise Perez

Denise Perez debuted with Osborne in Season 2, where she greatly disappointed, and failed to score a single point across the season. However, she impressed National's talent scouts at the Unified Season 3 Driver Test Races, coming in second overall, behind only Natasha Hughes, and was hired by National. She placed P10 overall in Season 3, P9 overall in Season 4, despite her car failing to start two of the six races, even taking a Victory at Race 2, and a Podium at Race 1, and P10 overall in Season 5. She become regarded as a very capable Race Driver, who seemed to be able to consistently score in the top 5 National Drivers, and keep her seat.

During Season 6, Perez struggled quite a bit, but was still in the top half of drivers by the time that Race 5 rolled around. Engaged in a tight battle with teammate Vance Lewison and Osborne's Avayah Osborne for P11 towards the end of the race, she tried to pass Osborne on the outside of Turn 20, but her left wheels left the ground, and her car drifted towards Osborne's. She compensated for that drift, but as her left wheels touched back down, she wasn't prepared for the sudden increase in turning power and traction, which resulted in her car turning far more to the left than she anticipated, at much higher speeds than she anticipated. Her car shot perpendicularly through the course barriers, and into the shallow waters below. By the time that emergency personnel reached the wreck, she had drowned, pinned into the cockpit of her car by her malfunctioning seatbelt, and the position of the wreck.

Several changes were introduced to avoid another situation like Perez' ever happening again: first, every car became required to carry 30 minutes of oxygen, and an easy way for a submerged driver to engage the breathing mask with their helmet. This requirement was later lifted in the 253 Safety Regulations, as barrier & water proximity rules were changed.

Kira Sanchez

Main article: Kira Sanchez

Kira Sanchez proved her excellence by bursting onto the scene with a Driver's Title in her rookie year, Season 4, followed by the most dominant year the sport had ever seen, as she won all six races of Season 5. Season 6 saw her equally as dominant, but with a single DNF (out of six races), she missed out on the title to Eva Sayll by a mere 5 points. She once again failed to win the title in Season 7, as she spent most of the year with a huge amount of extra weight in the car, in the form of a very complex device to neutralize the G-forces on the child she was carrying. However, she bounced back to win her third title in Season 8, a huge milestone, as up to that point, no driver had won more than a single title.

Season 9 saw her restart her title challenge on the back foot, as her Osborne was significantly worse technically than both the Octan and Nationals under the new technical regulations. However, she overcame the challenge, and after five of the season's seven races, she had a 20-point lead in the title battle - a gap that had never before been overcome. However, in Race 6, she pushed her tires too hard, and too far, and suffered a crash very similar, both visually and technically, to Natasha Hughes' in Season 3, where her tires gave out, and she was struck by a barrage of closely-following cars. She suffered major head trauma, and was evacuated to Rennia for further treatment, but just 53 hours later, succumbed to the major head and neck trauma she received, and passed away.

The trauma received by Sanchez was similar enough to Hughes' that it caused significant backlash, both from within the FL Grid, and elsewhere, over the lack of appropriate response to prevent such injuries from happening again. At the specific request of Emperor James Krennic, new safety regulations were implemented for Season 10, most notably including a HALO System, to prevent drivers from suffering such head and neck trauma again. However, it also extended to deal with other problems, such as tire-discontinuities between teams, as well as Barrier structure and placement - a problem that had led to Denise Perez' death. After a major reworking of Circuit, Medical, Technical, and Vehicular requirements for Season 10, several older safety regulations were scrapped, most notably the oxygen tank requirement that had been introduced after Denise Perez' death in Season 6. These were all consolidated into the 253 Safety Regulations.