Blaze Pine

Blaze Pine would start his racing career from his home town's racetrack at Croft, participating in junior tier rallycross events throughout the early 2010s. He would participate in his first full season of racing in the 2014 Britcar Cup series, aged 16. He would be racing in class 7 behind the wheel of a lightly tuned Suwuki Swift Sport ZC31S and would finish 4th out of 8 drivers in his class by the end of his first season of motorsport.

He would participate again in 2015 in the same class of Britcar, this time achieving his first race win and taking home a 3rd place by the end of the season. This race win would come at his home track of Croft circuit, where a dominant performance would net him the top spot within the junior class. This performance would catch the eye of Cuzata Racing Team owner Kolink Helsera who would offer the young fox a spot in the Cuzata Driver Academy, with the aim of refining the young driver's potential.

With Cuzata's backing, he would find himself able to move into faster cars for 2016, Joining fellow Cuzata Academy driver Mozilla Redwood as teammates in Britcar's Class 3 in Cuzata's own Genetta G55 GT4 car #37 for the season, while also getting a chance to race in the British National Furmula 4 championship. His more experienced teammate would prove to be noticably quicker than him in the Genetta at the start of the season, but by season's end, Blaze's pace would be much closer to that of his senior teammate, the duo netting the #37 Genetta 3rd in class by season's end with another race win to their names. Meanwhile, in Furmula 4, Blaze's pace would begin to show. He was capable of competing at the front of the pack on occasion, but his consistency would also reveal itself as his greatest weakness. He would claim two podiums, but would also find himself languishing at the back of the pack a lot too. His inconsistency would lead him to finishing 7th in the championship.

2017 would see the now 19 year old Fox continuing in the same two championships he raced in 2016, but this time as the #37 car's sole driver in Britcar as Mozilla would move up to class 1 to race in Cuzata's #38 Aston Marten V12 Vantage GT3. With the support of the team, Blaze would see his average pace improve steadily. He was still able to manage the same peak performances, but his weaker races would prove to be less catastrophic performances. He would finish the year having lost out on the Britcar Class 3 title by only 3 points, while his Furmula 4 season would get him a 3rd in the championship.

2018 would be the year Blaze would try out some more varied events with CRA. He would race alongside his teammate Mozilla in the top class of Britcar in CRT's Aston Marten car, he would enter into the National Radicat SR8 one-make championship in the #37 Cuzata Racing car and would continue his Furmula 4 racing too, and even participating in his first 24 hour race the VLN Nurburgring 24H alongside other Cuzata Academy drivers. He would not see the podium this year in any race, however this step into faster, more challenging cars and longer races would see the fox developing to cover his consistency weakness, allowing him to net himself 3rd in all three championships he would race in, as well as taking 4th overall alongside his other Cuzata Academy drivers at the Nurburgring enduro.

In 2019, Helsera would offer Blaze and Mozilla seats in their first major international series, entering as teammates in the Blancpaw GT championship as the team's GT3-AM class entry. While Mozilla would move to Furmula E instead, Blaze would accept the offer and begin to make a name for himself on the international scene. Blaze would continue participating in the national Radicat series this year when the Blancpaw schedule allowed it, resulting in him losing the title to full time driver Auraz Volpes after the two came to a 1-2 finish at the Croft round, Auraz winning by only 0.2 seconds at the finish line. It would be revealed later that year that the two drivers had been friends at school and would rekindle their relationship after the exciting race at their home track. In the Blancpaw championship, Blaze would take the #37 Vantage to races across the european leg of the championship, claiming AM class wins at Spa Francorchamps and Monza, and eventually claiming his first ever championship win.

After his championship win in Blancpaw's AM class, Helsera would announce to his two drivers that Cuzata had began developing a Furmula One team to run from the 2021 season. The fox would from this point onwards, be focusing on developing his openwheeler techniques, entering in the 2019 Furmula 3 championship for Lancaster and immediately growing to like the car. He would engage in a closely contested championship long duel with rivals Riverbanks and Nygaard, wherein he would finish 5th just behind Riverbanks by the end of his first season in International Openwheelers.

He would be given the option to move up to Furmula 2 or stay in Furmula 3 with Lancaster for 2021. He would opt to move up to Furmula 2. His performances would be reliable, if a little uninspiring compared to previous seasons. He would net himself race wins on occasion, but for the most part, Pine would end up wing-manning for Lancaster's lead driver prince Avogadro Lo'Raven. Controversy would arise towards the tail end of the season when Blaze would have an accident with Avogadro's championship rival, Mahri. This accident wouldn't end up making any difference in the title fight at season's end, but the incident itself was viewed with suspicion by Mahri fans.

Avogadro would end up developing ties with the Cuzata Racing Team due to his junior teammate through the 2021 season, and would be given the Cuzata Racing F1 junior driver's seat to partner Cassandra Oullet. Blaze would stay in F2 to try and gain more experience. His 2022 season would see him partnered with Jessica Grant in Lancaster, with Grant claiming 3rd by the season's end. Blaze's performances in the early season would be fairly solid, though through the middle of the season he would go through a points drought. He would recover in the final few weekends to reclaim three of the positions he had lost in this drought, but his poor consistency would deny him the chance at a 2023 Furmula One seat.

Going into 2023, Blaze plans to run one final season in Furmula 2. He's training to either take the title, or go back to GT racing. Having turned 25 at the beginning of the year, he knows he can't continue playing second fiddle to his teammates with his age anymore if he plans to make his way into the CRT F1 team at any point.

It has been noted that Blaze is one of the shortest drivers in recent memory, standing at only 132 centimeters (4 ft 4 inch) to the tips of his ears. It's also known that Blaze follows a tradition of graining weight in the winter to stay warm, as opposed to wearing more layers of clothing. This has been used to his advantage in his racing, by allowing the team to us his own variable weight as ballast, allowing them to keep the car's center of mass as low and central as possible, but without also adding too much weight into the car, due to how light the small fox remains even when bulked up. Additionally, this has allowed the fox to feel confident in drinking more before a race to keep hydrated without risking slowing the car down. In the end, this unusual trait has given Blaze competitive advantages he has no problem utilising. Additionally, the fox's winter coat differs significantly from his summer coat. He goes from a deep burnt bronze in summer, to white as snow for winter. When combined with the variance in his weight, Blaze looks totally different depending on the time of year.