Timeline of the ESPLAR Universe

This is the official timeline of Lean278's Evanshire Super Pro League of Auto Racing. This page is a work in progress and **may contain spoilers** for all Lean278 ESPLAR videos.

Some events in this universe alter real-world events. As a disclaimer ESPLAR shares no relation to any real-life events unless they pertain to the lore of ESPLAR itself. The events related to the geology of Altruras are not scientifically accurate.

## Prehistory ( -1602 CE)

20 mya: Around the southwest portion of the shrinking **Juan de Fuca** plate, a subduction zone appears that will eventually merge with the former. This boundary will form the Estlenhar Subduction zone in the northwest of present-day Estlenhar Island as the Altruras Islands begin forming around this time.

2 mya: Altruras Island begins surfacing after its highest point erupts. This location has not erupted since then.

1mya: The Altruras Archipelago begins shifting as the Juan de Fuca plate continues to subduct under the Pacific Plate. The Estlenhar Subduction zone pulls the 7 islands to the east away from Leiko-Ulist.

## Inauguration as a State (1959 - 1972 CE)

1959

* September 30: Altruras is officially inaugurated as the 51st state of the United States.

### 2020

Around this year, the entire Altruras Archipelago will undergo a massive cultural shift with many cultures being integrated and intermingling with each other. The first signs of this shift began occurring back in 2015. If this continues, then Altruras could see a cultural revolution by the middle of the 2020s. Already the shift is being represented with many people born in Altruras taking names that are unusual back in Europe.

**January**

* 01/01: ESPLAR CEO Lewis Hoffman retires from the series, with 2008 EES champion Caius Ghirleni replacing him.
* 01/08: After Cedric Keiderman gets stranded, close to the edge of extremely sensitive electricity lines, Ethan Keiderman comes to his rescue near Tnuman Magnetic Junction, almost losing his own life himself but the two Keidermans make it out of the terminal before it is powered off. (Tnuman Junction Incident)
* 01/14: Ferrari establish Upsilon-Omega Racing and take in most of the RtR teammates, including Ethan Keiderman, who becomes their driver in the ESPLAR Lites Series.
* 01/26: ESPLAR holds its annual test race at Evanshire's Kyndalap Raceway. Laura Kerrivan wins the EES test race.
* Date Unknown
	+ In Arcadia, Tyrgard Metro M5 between Misar (NW Tyrgard-Sortland) experiences a mysterious power outage. M5 is closed for the day while Tyrgard Public Transport investigates the issue. The following day, M5 mysteriously experiences no outage. The TPT investigation is still ongoing.

**February**

* 02/01: Altruras begins implementation of "AConnect" in which many major cities would be connected by commuter rail and metro. Phase 1 (ASuburb), which connects cities to outlying suburban areas, begins.
	+ Construction begins for Morban Metro M7, M8, and M9 which focus on suburban connections to existing M4, M5, and M2 lines.
	+ Construction begins for Rockport M5 which connects Visegrad Springs to Rockport Harbor (also served by RPM3). Extensions for M1 and M2 are underway.
* 02/16: Naoto Kazami infiltrates the Saihara Motorsports team headquarters, for the purpose of finding out what happened to Hayato Kitanami's FGPXCF livery and why it is taking too long to conceive.

**March**

* 03/01: Caius Ghirleni unexpectedly steps down as ESPLAR CEO; Travis Miyama is elected to succeed him.

**April**

* 04/27 - Lean Campana publishes "The Fall of Formula A" through KATR-09 Altruras, revealing 24 years of corruption that led to the collapse of Formula A at the end of 2018 and declassifying files that he previously kept secret in his personal computer at his home in Evanshire. It finally puts into light the constant rivalry between Altruras' Anaheim Industries and New York's Motor Racing Conglomerate (RMC) in which the latter manipulated public opinion against Anaheim Industries for alleged safety shortcomings in Formula A during the early 2010s.

**May**

* TBD

**June**

* TBD

**July**

* 26 July - Naoto Kazami wins the 2020 Formula NX world championship. He has a close call on the final lap as he blacks out and collides with Niclas Herbst. Afterwards he spends almost a month in Bonn Hospital.

**August**

* 29 August - A health worker at Bonn Hospital where Naoto Kazami had been treated is mysteriously infected with a new viral disease. The worker proceeds to infect two other people. It takes 3 days before local authorities notice and begin sounding the alarm after one individual begins to develop symptoms similar to the flu.

**September**

* 13 September - Naoto Kazami has another blackout during Formula NX practice at Shanghai and he crashes into the turn 14 wall, suffering serious injuries. He is unable to race the rest of the season leaving Ferrari to substitute Aoto Miyazami in his place.
* 15 September - At least 450 people in Bonn are now infected with the new viral disease. This number might be higher due to similarities to the flu. At least 20 are hospitalized with suspected "neurological abnormalities"
* 18 September - The new mysterious disease in Bonn receives the codename "BNV20"
* 25 September - Formula NX competition director Antonio Luccini resigns from his post.

**October**

* TBD

**November**

* 13 November - With only 2,000 cases of BNV20 in North Rhine-Westphalia, regional health authorities believe the disease is contained.
* 27 November - BNV20 spreads throughout North Rhine-Westphalia. The Ruhr-Rhine region sees an exponential growth in cases as unsuspecting residents across the area mysteriously spread the disease to other people, not knowing its dangerous effects, or if they do, it comes too little too late despite recommendations from health authorities in the region.

## The Dark Ages (2020 CE - 2022 CE)

### 2020

**December**

* 1 December - Cases of BNV20 rise to over 15,000, and North Rhine-Westphalia is locked down with cities such as Cologne, Dusseldorf, Leverkusen, Wuppertal, Duisburg and Essen virtually empty. The first death from BNV20 is also confirmed as well in Bonn. All borders between Westphalia and the rest of Europe are closed and flights diverted to cities such as Frankfurt, Munich, Bremen, Hanover, Hamburg, and Stuttgart.
* 2 December
	+ Münster reports its first cases of BNV20 in a returning resident from Essen who checked into hospital as well as a Münster-Geistviertel resident returning from Dusseldorf.
	+ Padeborn confirms its first case of BNV20 from a traveler who came to the city from Dortmund. It is confirmed the traveler caught BNV20 from an infected train station worker who was asymptomatic.
	+ Germany declares a state of emergency and urges the populace in Niedersachsen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, and Thuringen to prepare for possible cases.
	+ Sapmi issues measures to prevent possible spread of BNV20 into their country. Temperature checks are made mandatory to all travelers from Germany.
	+ United States issues a travel alert for Germany due to BNV20.

* 3 December
	+ Germany begins suspending all international travel beginning with Frankfurt Airport. TGV and international ICE services are shut down.
	+ Berlin announces it is locking down the entire city effective at midnight on December 4.
	+ Bielefeld confirms its first BNV20 case in a returning traveler from Wuppertal. NRW health authorities fear BNV20 is more infectious than initially thought.
	+ Hamburg announces it is also locking down the city effective at midnight on December 4.
	+ On one of the last flights out of Germany, a passenger on a Airbus A320 bound for Romania (Frankfurt-Bucharest) infects the entire flight without knowing he is infected with BNV20. Within a month, this flight would trigger the spread of BNV20 to the rest of Europe and Asia.
* 4 December
	+ Because BNV20 has an incubation period of about 3-4 weeks, it is too late for many countries to begin shutting down their borders; once the first cases begin to appear in many countries across Europe around Christmas, it becomes absolutely unstoppable.
	+ The United States expands its travel alert to most of the rest of Europe as President Eldar Grisham addresses the nation with the CDC on the "potential life-threatening risks" of BNV20. Using data from the Robert Koch Institute, the CDC issues a dire warning that the BNV20 spreads far more easily than expected, and considers it "airborne". Over the next few weeks, the CDC issues guidance for all 51 states to issue their own measures to prevent and slow the spread of BNV20. The CDC, along with the WHO, classify BNV20 (Bonn Neurological Virus) as a distant relative of bornaviridae - a virus family of -RNA viruses that are primarily mammalia in nature, unlike other common viruses which are either filoviridae or orthomyxoviridae in nature. Speculation quickly arises across Altruras and the rest of the world, as BNV20 could have mutated in mammals and then spread to humans, but no one has any data on how this mystery virus was able to infect humans.
	+ As President Grisham delivers his remarks on BNV20 and forms an emergency task force with the CDC's guidance, Germany's 20 largest cities go on lockdown as residents scramble to gather essential supplies to last the duration. The lockdown announcement the previous day was so sudden on German television, that ESPLAR teams representing Audi, Mercedes and BMW are now stranded in Altruras, and are forced to make do in the Altruras headquarters of these car manufacturers.
	+ ESPLAR CEO Caius Ghirleni makes an announcement that BNV20 currently poses no threat to existing ESPLAR operations for the 2021 season, and urges teams to accommodate teams from Europe that may not be able to travel to their headquarters.

### 2022

Mid-August - Naoto Kazami is expected to make the dangerous journey to K2 Mountain in Pakistan. He will be joined by 4 other expert mountaineers, one Russian (Komi), one from Pakistan, one from India and another from Nepal. Naoto will solo attempt the Magic Line route of K2 while two teams will attempt through the typical Abruzzi Spur. This will come two years after suffering a serious accident in Formula NX at Shanghai which led him to leave Ferrari and return to his mountaineering roots.

## The ESPLAR Golden Anniversary (2023 CE)

**2023**

January

* 28 January
	+ The 2023 Evanshire Test Race is held. Nate Crawford passes Mittyia Hala to win the test race.
	+ Kazumi Furukawa suffers an electrical issue and is unable to finish the test race. She goes on to win a cardfight duel against Kainan Izherov, surprising the veteran cardfighter marking his sophomore year in ESPLAR Elite Series.

## 3rd ESPLAR Golden Age (2024-2040 CE)

**2024**

* January
	+ Kailu Wieczorek graduates to Formula Sigma, racing for the revitalized Williams Racing Team. He later becomes part of the new Zandow Formula Sigma team when Gdansk-based Zandow buys out Williams.
	+ Construction begins on a new racing megafacility at Tyrgard Lake, replacing the old Arcadia Raceway facility at that location. Construction is funded by both TLU and Anaheim Industries.
	+ Pacific Racing Oceania folds before preseason testing begins, as a result they are replaced by Tier 2 team Kligennacht Motorsports (rennamed as Starlight Racing).
* February
	+ TBD
* March
	+ TBD
* April
	+ TBD
* May

**2025**

* Kailu Wieczorek wins the 2025 Formula Sigma season, then immediately announces a return to ESPLAR Elite Series racing.

**2026**

* Kailu takes over the collapsing Podkarpackie Racing team, renames it to Pomorskie-Vorpommern International Motorsports with Mercedes support, then dominates the 2026 season. No other team, even the Japanese giants Saihara and Greater Kanto could keep up, and he wins the Morson-Austin Trophy before that year's Evanshire 700. He weds rising German superstar Yushura Kleidner over the 26-27 offseason, and she joins as among the leading engineers of the West Baltic-based operation.
* Thanks to rising Altruras talent competing in teams such as Leicester City, Leeds United, Brentford, LOSC Lille, SC Freiburg, Koln, and AK Alkmaar, the United States wins its first world cup, but Germany gives it a tough fight in the final.

**2027**

* Kailu wins the ESPLAR Elite Series season again, but only after a tough fight at that year's Evanshire 700 against Team Nitra and Saihara Motorsports.

## The Future (2050 - )

NOTE: All events under this column are speculative and are non-canon to the lore of the Evanshire Super Pro League of Auto Racing.

2050 - If Formula NX survives to this year, it will reformat from a league directly inspired from Future GPX Cyber Formula to one inspired by the WipEout racing franchise.

2 my - The 7 islands of Altruras to the east of the Estlenhar Subduction zone are expected to shift northeast and then northwest as Leiko-Ulist begins shifting further away from the rest of Altruras.

20 my - If this trajectory continues then Leiko-Ulist could be around 400 km further apart from Tyleiden than in present day.