#why did they pit seb again

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Find Your Way Home

Daniel Ricciardo x Engineer!Fem!Reader

Warnings: the curse that is mclaren racing, < mclaren/zak slander, the highs and lows of Danny's career, monaco 2016, horner warning lmao, a few bitter words, angst, unspoken feelings, sadness, 2022 silly season and a few swear words.

Word Count: 4.6k

Author's Note: after plotting this, i realized that The Red String Of Me And You follows a similar timeline but this one is more detailed and sooo much sexier of me so enjoy it :)

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RedBull Racing - 2014; Montreal, Canada.

Under-qualified crossed your mind every time you got into your chair on the pit wall.

You had recently graduated and you were lucky enough to snag a job with Red Bull Racing. You were told it would be a job at the factory, that you would be handling the reviews from the races from an engineering point of view.

Now you were sitting on the pit wall in Montreal, your driver in your ear. "Are we set?" His voice came through.

Your eyes scanned over the screens, pressing the button. "We're all set, Daniel."

Daniel was gunning for his first race win and you've been hoping and praying every weekend that he'd win. It was your first time as a race engineer and you were starting to think you two hadn't fully clicked yet, hence why you've yet to get a win.

He starts in P6 and his teammate Sebastian, was in P3 this weekend. There's a lot of pressure when your teammate is a 4 time world champion and you're sure Daniel felt it, especially on weekends like this.

You sat patiently, buzzing into him once more before they started the countdown. "Be safe."

"Safe is my middle name, y/n."

"Whatever you say, Joseph." The use of his actual middle name earned you a laugh. The radio falls silent; three, two, one, lights out.

It's a gruesome 70 laps, there's overtaking left and right, Daniel fights his way up to P3 and you're praying he can do what he does best. You watch as the laps count down towards the final one.

67, 68, 69, and into the final corner. The navy car crossed the line and it takes you a second to catch yourself. Christian squeezes your arm from next to you, a massive grin on his face when you register what just happened.

"YOU DID IT!!" You shouted into the radio, Daniel's laughter and hollering filled your ears and your heart with love and happiness, "we did it!" he shouts, correcting you.

Everyone's running, you're following the mechanics to under the podium, all of you squished up against the fence like sardines as the navy team awaited their two drivers.

Daniel had won, followed by Nico in P2 for Mercedes and Sebastian in P3 for RedBull.

Seb runs over to his half of the garage, there's a sea of navy and everyone is mixed up together but when Daniel gets out of his car, he's looking for one person and one person only. He spots you, a big smile on your face and even though he knows you'd never admit it, there are tears in your eyes.

The driver jumps straight into your arms, putting all of his weight on you and the fence. A few of the mechanics squeeze into the hug, holding Daniel so he doesn't crush you.

Your hands cup his face, well what would be his face under the helmet. His visor is lifted, brown eyes meet yours; the crinkles by his eyes signalling to the massive smile under the helmet.

"We fucking did it!" His shout comes out muffled.

You smile, nodding. Daniel is standing again, still holding onto you. He leans into you, arms wrapped around you with his face buried in your shoulder. You kiss the side of his helmet, hand reaching down to rub the top of his back. You internally gag at the dampness that meets your hand but that was the least of your concerns.

Daniel just won his first race.

Proud was an understatement.

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RedBull Racing - 2016; Monte Carlo, Monaco.

He could taste the victory.

The win was reaching out to him, the finish line on the tips of his fingers and he could feel it slipping away from him.

"Pit now," you called to him, Daniel was confused by your sudden decision. "Tyres are good, y/n."

"Team decision, please pull into the pit lane."

Daniel groans letting you know he'll be there in a few seconds.

You saw when he pulled into the pits, watching as the mechanics scrabbled to get the tyres ready in time. They had Daniel sitting there, his position falling with each wasted second.

"What the fuck!" His radio was still on, you weren't even sure what you could tell him in that moment to make him feel better. He pulls out with a sense of speed you'd never seen before. He finds himself racing to beat Lewis coming out of the pit lane but the Mercedes turns into the corner before he gets the chance too, overtaking him.

"Why did we pit?" He asks you, you pretend not to hear him as you look over at Christian. The older man gives you a look, urging you to answer the driver.

Daniel calls your name once again, his voice making you want to cry; all of the horrible emotions mixed in with the guilt of the horrible pit stop made you sick.

You finally answer; "team decision."

He scoffs, it's like you can feel the tension over the radio, see the way his hands tighten around the steering wheel as he goes into the tunnel. "Bullshit, y/n."

"I'm sorry Dan-" "Stop, nothing you could say will make this better."

And with that, the radio fell silent. The nauseous feeling builds with each passing second, your leg shaking and your eyes staying fixed to the screen until Daniel crosses the finish line in P2.

It was better than nothing but you knew he could have won the race, you knew he would blame the team, blame the crew, blame you for this loss.

Christian squeezes your shoulder as he gets up, a smile on his face - his quiet way of telling you good job. He knows how difficult drivers can be, especially when things like this happen. The race engineers are the first to take the blame, you called him into the pit so you'd take the brunt of the anger.

You nod, hearing Daniel's voice over the radio, "place?"

"P2. Well done, Daniel."

"Okay."

Daniel stood next to Lewis, Checo on the other side of the Mercedes driver. It was quiet as you watched Daniel shake the champagne bottle, spraying over his fellow drivers. He had a smile on his face but you knew he wasn't happy. You knew him like the back of your hand and once again, the nauseous feeling creeped up the back of your throat, the feeling strangling the life out of you with each passing second. You had to go, you couldn't stand there and watch him like that, knowing you were the one he was blaming.

And that he did; not in so many words but the bitterness in his voice and way he spoke was enough to tell you he did not want to be there.

The interview replayed in the debrief that afternoon, the press officers wanting to go over something he had said.

"It hurts, this one hurts a lot. More than any other."

His words hurt you.

You couldn't even bring yourself to look at him, let alone be in the same room as him. There was a sense of despair, you couldn't shake it.

It wasn't until you were about to leave that you found yourself turning back, walking in the direction of his driver's room. You stopped outside the door; D. Ricciardo, 3 - with an Australian flag beside it. As you were about to knock, Michael opens the door, a bit shocked to see you.

"Is he in there?" You asked quietly and he nodded, stepping aside to let you in. Michael shuts the door on his way out, leaving the two of you alone.

Daniel's yet to turn around or yet to realize you were there. "I'm sorry," you speak, your quiet voice startling him. "I'm not sure what went wrong."

"Everything did."

"It wasn't my decision."

"You're my engineer; when I'm out there, it's me and you. It was your decision, y/n. Only yours."

"I'm sorry, Daniel. I really am."

"Nothing you can say will fix it, and I know you're sorry but right now, I don't want your sorry."

You nod, taking a step back. "Then what can I say? Or do?"

"You can leave," his arms fold over his chest. "Because if you stay, I might say some things I can't take back. I know we aren't cool right now but I don't want to hurt you, y/n."

"You already have," you give him a tight lipped smile, the sadness clear across your face. "Goodnight Daniel."

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RedBull Racing - 2018; Monte Carlo, Monaco.

It was off to a good start, Daniel had managed to give it his all and snag pole position on Saturday. He was in a good mood, there's a smile on his face and the sun was shining down on Monaco which was a nice change from the rain that was setting up in the morning.

The cars on the grid, the drivers counting down the seconds to lights out. You buzz into him, waiting to hear the little click. Daniel's breathing comes through from his side.

“50% done, remember?” You tell him. 

“50% done.” He says, the radio goes quiet as he waits for lights out.

Daniel drove amazingly, despite the issues the car was giving him. He finds himself aggravated half way through the race, the car giving out on him and losing power; thus losing hope in himself. The win was slipping through his fingers all over again with each passing corner and turn.

The weight was lifted off his shoulders when you watched him cross the finish line as the winner.

"P1 baby!!!!" You shout into the radio, Daniel's hollering fills the line and a big smile on both of your faces. "We fucking did it!!" He laughed, driving his cool down lap.

You were by the fence, watching as he climbed onto the halo of his car. Daniel's hand in a fist, placed on his chest as the team cheered. You're sure you've got the goofiest grin on your face, squished between Christian and Adrian.

Much like he did after his first race win, he makes a beeline straight for you, his arms open as he jumps into yours. Once again, you find yourself struggling to hold the man up but you try your best, arms wrapped around him.

Daniel's squished against you, your hands on his helmet, holding where his jaw would be. "Got that other 50%."

"Redemption day baby!" He shouts, giving you one last squeeze.

The rest of the afternoon was like heaven on earth; the smell of champagne, RedBull and chlorine covered everyone, you all watched as Daniel dived into the pool of the energy station.

"Come on!" He shouts to you but you shake your head, "I'm not getting in there."

Daniel pulls himself out of the pool, running over to you. "Dan, no." Your finger stuck out to warn him, the man comes closer. "Stop it," you get up, about to run away. He grabs you before you get the chance to run away, his arms wrapped tightly around you before he jumps into the pool.

"Daniel!" You scream when you get back up to the surface, "oh my god!" You laughed, your hand passed over your face to wipe away the water. He laughs, swimming - more like blobbing his way over to you, his race suit was weighing him down.

He grabs your arm, pulling you to him. The team photographer takes a photo of the two of you; arms wrapped around each other, covered in disgusting pool water with the world's biggest million watt smiles on your face.

You smile at the man next to you, "I'm so proud of you."

"I'm proud of you," he smiles, hugging you once more. "I couldn't have done it without you."

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RedBull Racing - 2018; Abu Dhabi.

The announcement over the summer break threw everyone for a loop.

Breaking News: Daniel Ricciardo set to join Renault Racing for the 2019 season.

You weren't sure how to handle it or what prompted it.

Well that's not entirely true; after Monaco, things went downhill fast. There was bad result after bad result and it was weighing heavily on him.

When he returned from the summer break, you didn't say anything to him about the departure from the team. You knew he must have thought about it, you don't just up and leave a team just like that. It was a hard decision for him to make.

The last thing you wanted to do was make him feel worse.

It was his last day, the race was over and Daniel had made his rounds to say goodbye to everyone. You had been busy when he made his way around the garage and hospitality but you felt like a general goodbye wasn't enough for the man who you have spent almost every day with for the last 4 years of your life.

You knocked on the door of his driver's room, Michael smiles when he opens the door. "Come in, y/n."

Daniel turns when he hears your name. "I uh, I forgot something in the garage, I'll be back." Micheal says, announcing that he's leaving so you'd get a moment of privacy.

The two of you were quiet, looking at each other for a moment before you spoke.

You break the silence. “So this is it?” 

“Yeah.” He nods, shifting from one foot to the other. You hum, lips pressed together as you look around. You'd never seen the room so empty. “Do you really have to go ?” 

Daniel smiles, “afraid so, bags are packed.” 

“You could always unpack.” 

He smiled, his heart aching at the sight of you. You reached out, your hand placed on his warm cheek. “But you’ll come back, right?” 

A sad smile on his face, bringing his own hand up to rest on yours. “In another life, maybe.” 

“You promise?” You stuck your pinky out towards him. 

He nods, interlocking his pinky with yours like you were children. “I promise.” 

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Renault Racing - 2020; Imola, Italy.

The rain poured down, the night sky as dark as it could possibly get as you pulled your hood over your head; the race hadn't gone as well as you'd like but you were no longer needed for the night, on your way back to your hotel for some sleep and then home before you head off to Turkey.

You could barely see where you were going let alone hear anything over the rain. The sudden shelter over you caused you to look up; an umbrella, a black and yellow one to be precise.

The man next to you smiles when you turn to see who was next to you. "Hello stranger," he grinned, the big smile on his face.

"Hello Daniel," you smiled.

The two of you hadn't spoken much since he left RedBull, it was a hi and a hello here and there in passing but you've yet to have a proper conversation. Frankly, you aren't sure what to say without it being awkward.

"Need a ride?" He asks, his arm over your shoulder to pull you away from the rain. "If it's not too much trouble." You pull the hood off of your head, flattening a few fly aways.

Daniel leads you towards the parking lot, holding the umbrella over your head until you get into the car. The man backed out of the parking spot, the sound of the rain on the windshield filled the silence, you translated the road signs in your head as he passed them by.

"You looked good up there today," you say quietly, Daniel glanced at you when he came to a stop. "You were always suited for the podium."

"Top step though," he smiles and you nod in agreement. "I'm sorry.. about the race. Sucks for Max and Alex."

You shrugged; A DNF for Max and P15 for Alex, so all in all, a shit weekend. "That's racing, what can you do?"

"The good and the bad." He pulls off when the light turns green. "You know how it is," you smiled, picking at the chipped nail polish on your index finger.

"Daniel, can I ask you something?"

"Oh full name, you've got me shakin' in my boots, y/n; but yes you can."

You shift in the leather seat, smooth and expensive and suddenly you're aware of how wet your hoodie is. The question you wanted to ask slips away momentarily as you think of how much this must be damaging the seat.

"Y/n," he calls out to you, glancing over to make sure you were alright after you had gone quiet. "What did you want to ask me?"

"Why are you running, Daniel ?"

The question catches him off guard, the car comes to a stop as he pulls into the parking lot of your hotel. His jaw hung open a bit as if he was unsure how to answer you; which he was. You watched as he blinked, trying to gather the thoughts in his head into a cohesive sentence.

"I'm not."

You can't help but chuckle; those who are running never seem to realize that they are, in fact, running.

"You are. You have a habit of doing that, Daniel."

You reach over, your hand rests atop of his; Daniel's skin is warm in comparison to yours that's still ice cold from the rain. His free hand moves, his index finger tracing up and down your hands, from your knuckles down to your wrist; another habit of his. He would distract himself during boring debriefs, his fingers pinching at yours under the table.

He's quiet, still unsure how to answer the statement that he knows in his heart was true. His fingers wandering over your hand, the raised skin by your thumb felt out a pattern identical to his; a rose in the same spot only slightly smaller in size.

Daniel had talked you into it. Another habit of his, getting you to do things you'd never do otherwise.

You were scared, you thought it would hurt but somehow he managed to talk you into it. There you were in his hotel room, Daniel's hand in your free one as you two got matching tattoos.

It felt like a million years ago - so much has changed since then.

You speak again, breaking the silence. "I hope you find what you're looking for at McLaren. You deserve some peace, Dan. You and I both know it."

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McLaren Racing - 2021; Monza, Italy.

Back where he belongs.

A hell of a drive, something only Daniel could have pulled off after the horrendous start that was McLaren. You knew it was the car, not him; if anyone asked you, the car was always at fault. Daniel was one of the most talented drivers you had ever come across and had the pleasure of working with. You'd tell anyone who asked, anyone who'd listen to you.

It was a lacklustre weekend for the team; Checo was in P5 and Max had a DNF after an accident with Lewis, which caused both drivers to lose out on points that were needed for the championship.

Despite RedBull not having a driver on the podium, you and a few of the mechanics that used to work on Daniel's side of the garage went to watch the podium to cheer him on.

You watched as he and Lando did a shoey, your face twisting into disgust much like the younger McLaren driver. Valtteri watched in a bit of confusion and disgust, shaking his head as he took a swing of champagne from the bottle like a normal person.

The champagne bottle in one hand and the other on the railing as he climbed up. Daniel shouts, a big grin on his face as he lifts the bottle above his head. Everyone cheers for him, clapping and shouting for the winner. You were needed back in the garage for a meeting so you couldn't stick around long but you made sure to text Daniel.

To Daniel Ricciardo: Congrats winner! Back on the top step.

You got caught up in the meetings, back to back that felt never ending. Eventually you have a chance to check your phone but when you feel your pocket, it's not there.

You must have put it down somewhere. You find yourself retracing your steps, asking each person you saw as you passed by.

"Y/n!" GP calls for you, getting your attention. "Looking for this?" He holds up a phone with a navy blue case, your initials inscribed in gold on the bottom.

You let out a breath, "how'd you know?"

He hands the phone over to you, shrugging. "You know I always know." You roll your eyes at your co-worker's theatrics and thank him for your phone before walking off. You see you've missed a few messages so you scroll through. One in particular catches your eye.

From Daniel Ricciardo: Thanks boss lady! Congrats to you too, you helped make me the man I am today.

The message pulled on your heart strings; it was true. You and Daniel were so young when you got paired up together. You learnt a lot about life and yourselves, how to be a good person and what you wanted from life, and most importantly, how to get it.

You grew up together and Daniel would always hold a special place in your heart.

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McLaren Racing - 2022; Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium.

You couldn't believe it.

After everything he's done for the team, he'd hurt him like that. What could you expect from a team when their CEO was a walking snake?

It was a chain reaction.

Sebastian had thrown everyone for a loop in Hungary, announcing that he would be retiring at the end of the 2022 season. That left Aston looking for a replacement that came from Fernando. There was an opening at Alpine now which they just assumed they'd fill with their reserve driver, Oscar.

Safe to say Oscar wasn't a fan of that plan, actually he wasn't even aware of that plan.

While all of this was going on, Daniel had publicly committed to McLaren for the next season and McLaren was giving away his seat to different drivers behind his back, including none other than Alpine's reserve driver, Oscar.

Eventually it did come out that Daniel would be leaving McLaren at the end of the 2022 season to no fault of his own.

Returning from the summer break, everyone is left to face the music; particularly Daniel.

His music shuts off when he pulls the key from the ignition. You had forgotten your pass in the car, walking all the way back to the parking lot to get it.

"Morning, y/n!" Daniel grins, stepping out of the car.

You smiled at him, knowing you can't show the anger you were feeling to that wretched team he has to work with for the rest of the season. "Morning, Danny. How are you?"

He laughs.

The question feels so stupid, he feels so stupid. Obviously there's the obvious, he's angry, upset, sad, mad; at who was the question. There's so many thoughts in his head, he isn't sure how to answer your question.

"Daniel, c'mon. Seriously. "

"I'll be okay, y/n. Life works in weird ways."

A huff slips past your lips, arms folded across your chest much like a disapproving mother. "Life working in weird ways is finding something you thought you lost years ago, not you getting sold out of your seat without your knowledge."

He gives you a sad smile, nodding in agreement. "I know."

You can't help but reach out, a hand on his shoulder. "You'll be okay."

"I always am, aren't I?"

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Red Bull Racing - 2022; Abu Dhabi.

Headphones covered your ears, legs folded under you as you went over the last set of race footage.

You hadn't heard the door open, your eyes glued to the screen only looking away to scribbling something down on the page next to your laptop.

You barely get a second to look back before someone's hands over your eyes, startling you. Instinctively, you brought your own hands up, grabbing the person. The raised skin along the wrist and the arms was enough to signal who it was but the smell of his cologne filled the room. You let go of his arms, pulling the headphones off your ears.

Daniel smiles, his hands on your shoulders before you stand up and turn to face him. “Miss me, miss me, now you gotta-“ 

“Gotta what, Dan?” 

“Kiss me,” he says, his signature cheeky grin on his face. You can’t help but smile, pressing a kiss to his cheek. You smooth the wrinkles on his navy blue shirt, admiring him in the colours that meant home to him, to you.

Your hands held his face, “you came back.” 

“Pinky promises are sacred.” 

“That they are.” 

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Scuderia AlphaTauri - 2023; Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium.

He's back on the grid, his focus was on racing.

Daniel's excited to be back, it felt good to be back. Racing wasn't a burden anymore. Yuki was happy to have him, his new teammate welcoming him with a smile and a hug as did the rest of the Alpha Tauri team before he made his way to his driver's room.

The door was unlocked, left ajar slightly. Daniel just assumed the team was doing a last check, making sure things were in order.

He wasn't expecting a person to be in there. He found a woman, her back turned to him as she scribbled down something on the board.

He knows that handwriting from anywhere. The words let's fucking go written in all caps in bright blue.

"Hello," he calls, you turn with the marker still in hand. "Hello," you smiled.

Daniel can't help but laugh, "what are you doing here? Come to welcome me back ?"

"Something like that."

At that moment, Daniel noticed you weren't wearing your usual navy blue uniform. Today was different; a different logo, a different cut.

"What are you wearing? Why are you wearing that?" He points to the Alpha Tauri logo on your shirt.

Your brows furrow, a bit confused by his reaction. You thought he'd be happy to see you. "Do you not need a race engineer or.. you're just gonna wing it? Maybe you could borrow Michael to do it?"

"Don't be a smart ass," he rolled his eyes, dropping his bags as he walked over to you. "Thank you," he whispers, pulling you into a bone crushing hug.

You pat his back, trying to wiggle away from him. "No need to thank me, we have a lot of work to do."

"I've barely been here for 5 minutes and you're already hassling me."

"Someone's gotta do it," you smiled, leaving him there to settle in.

It wasn't until it was time for practice that you saw the man again, you're across from him on the pit wall, looking over the stats before you hear the radio buzz.

“We all set?” He asks. 

You look over the screens. “All set. Be safe.”

“Safe is my middle name, Y/n.” The words remind you of the path you walked along many many years ago. 

You smiled, waving to him as he pulled out of the garage. “Whatever you say, Joseph.”

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paint the town red - part seven

THE PEOPLE'S PRINCE IS VICTORIOUS

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MONACO 2024

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mr. lechair hard at work before media day for the monaco grand prix

pouty chili in his chilli hat

I'M GIVING THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT! YOU ASK FOR SEB CONTENT I GIVE YOU SEB CONTENT!

working hard or hardly working mr. mcqueen?

everyone could sense the pressure ferrari held today. everyone seemed to expect them to lead to charles to victory for the first time at his home race. it's not that it was impossible for them, they could do it, they knew that better than anyone, but they had an entire country counting on them. the pressure had been there for imola, but it was completely different for monaco. time and time again charles had been failed by his team and people hoped this would be the time things would change for the monegasque. everytime victory or a podium had been within his grasps ferrari had found a way to rip that away from him. not this time though, this time things were different, no matter what happened charles leclerc would be on the podium in 1st place at his home grand prix.

the camera's caught the moment sam wilson waved enthusiastically at will buxton. he laughed before approaching sam, who was wearing a ferrari shirt. he had both driver numbers on his shirt, all the avengers and co present did, as a way to support both drivers.

"captain america, a pleasure seeing you at the monaco grand prix," will said. sam smiled, "please, i'm off duty, it's just sam."

"well, sam, how excited are you for the race today?"

"super excited," sam answered. he gestured towards charles garage, "i know those guys are more excited than me, the hometown hero is on pole."

"do you think he'll win today?"

"hell yeah. there is no doubt in my mind about it."

"very well, it was nice talking to you," will said, excusing himself.

"bye!" sam shouted as he walked towards charles garage, most likely to find bucky.

the cameras focused on charles, as he pointed to something, bianca at his side. she gestured towards the wheels and charles nodded.

"it seems charles and his race engineer have great communication this year," will pointed out before he and the cameraman left towards a different garage.

inside the ferrari garage charles turned to bianca, "do you think it'll rain today?"

"yes," the brunette replied, biting her lip, "which is why we're putting you on mediums, that way we can extend our first stint. once it starts to drizzle, eventually leading to harsher rain, we'll pit you for inters. everyone will go for hards, starting on softs, meaning they'll have to pit again for inters."

"you really thought this through didn't you?"

bianca sighed, "i'm running on 3 hours of sleep because harley and i stayed up all night creating a backup plan for every little thing that could go wrong. we have an entire nation's eyes on us, waiting for their prince to be crowned. i needed to have back up plans."

"i'm not a prince," charles laughed.

"you are to them. you're the people's prince, they've been waiting for this victory since 2018. you've been waiting for this moment for so long, i'll be damned if you don't win today."

charles placed a hand on her shoulder, "i trust you, which is saying a lot considering my last engineer. we've got this."

bianca shook her head, "you've got this. you'll win today, i know it."

charles gave her a cheeky smile, "if i win today will you go on that second date with me?"

she laughed, ignoring the fact that there were two super-soldiers with super hearing in the ferrari garage. she was lucky there was too much noise for them to focus on her conversation with charles, "yes."

"great," charles said, "now i know i'll win."

"go get in the car," she ordered, laughing a bit. charles also laughed, "okay."

the moment he sat in the car, he tuned everything and everyone out. it was the same thing he did for every race, but this time it was amplified by 10, nothing and no one would stop him from emerging victorious at his home grand prix for the first time ever. this win wasn't even for him, it was for his papa, who had wished to see charles win their home grand prix. there was a certain determination in him for this race, a determination he hadn't felt in a long time.

"radio check," charles heard bianca's voice.

"do you think you could convince peter to play that one lady gaga song when i win? he knows the one," charles replied. bianca's laughter rang in his ears, "copy."

the five lights went out charles was gone, carlos behind him defending from max. red bull's upgrades seemed to help them out but it wasn't long before carlos was able to get away from him, leaving the red bull in the dust. a safety car during lap 27 allowed ferrari to double stack it's cars, a move that had previously failed them in the past. not this time, the team was ready with both sets of interns, the rain beginning a lap earlier. the other teams having to pit for inters again after already having pitted for hards, just like bianca had predicted.

charles was going to prove to those that had called him a waste of seat last season that he was a great fucking driver. he was going to win his home grand prix. the when didn't matter anymore, after today charles leclerc would be a winner of the monaco grand prix, the first in nearly 100 years to do so. he was going to go down in monaco's history. charles was so focused on his race that he failed to notice the checkered flag, or even hear the crowd roaring in glee and pride.

the ferrari garage had erupted into chaos, bucky was seen lifting arthur onto his shoulders and running out towards the pitwall, sam and steve grabbing lorenzo. pepper stark-potts stands with pascale, comforting the woman who is crying tears of joy. some team members are seen running out, waving the monaco flag high.

"no doubt this has been a dream for charles leclerc, to join the list of monaco grand prix winners! today he does it! charles leclerc adds his name to the list of monaco grand prix winners! the first monegasque in nearly 100 years! charles leclerc is the winner of the monaco grand prix! carlos sainz comes home to make it another 1-2 for the scuderia!"

"CHARLES, YOU ARE THE WINNER OF THE MONACO GRAND PRIX! TU L'AS FAIT!" lorenzo's voice was heard telling charles. charles voice was a mess of italian, french, and english, but one phrase was clear, "we did it papa. we did it."

the car comes to a stop at the parc ferme, where charles jumps out of his car, standing on top of it his finger goes up, a classic nod to sebastian who laughs in the crowd. the camera pans to his family, who stand surrounded by avengers, in the middle of it all, watching him as he basks in his win. carlos and max, who complete the podium, rush to him before he has a chance to jump into the arms of his team. the moment the helmet and balaclava come off, the tears are evident, he jumps into the arms of his team, who slap him congratulating him, they're just as ecstatic as him, they know how long he's waited for this. he ends up in front of his family, all four of them crying together, before he parts ways with them, his mother whispers something to him and he nods. he hugs bianca, the brunette returns it, and charles moves on to hug sebastian. he's whisked away to do his interviews and to the cool down room.

“you did it,” carlos tells him in the cool down room, “you finally did it.”

"you're next," charles whispers and carlos laughs, it's a tender moment between the two teammates before emotions get the best of charles.

charles cries again and carlos hugs him. max enters the room to spot charles crying, he frowns at carlos before joining the hug. despite whatever angle the media will try to spin later, they know it’s simply a friend comforting another. later, charles will sob in the arms of his best friend as he realizes his childhood dream has come true. he is a winner of the monaco grand prix.

on the podium he shines, a prince finally crowned, twitter will say minutes later. the people’s prince of monaco had finally earned the win he fought so hard for. the tears still glisten in his eyes. his finger goes up again, and crowd's cheers are deafening. as he receives his 1st place trophy, he gives it a kiss holding it up and pointing it towards the sky, a clear reminder of who this win was for. the crowd scream with joy as their prince finally gets the win they all longed for.

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scuderiaferrari charles leclerc, winner of the monaco grand prix, future world champion.

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username i sobbed. i literally sobbed when i realized what had just happened.

username THE CRYSTALS WORKED BITCHES! CHARLES LECLERC IS THE WINNER OF THE MONACO GRAND PRIX!

↳ username HELL YEAH THEY DID! WE CAN FINALLY SAY CHARLES IS THE WINNER OF THE MONACO GRAND PRIX

username this is the most normal ferrari caption i've seen. now carlos to win his home grand prix next

↳ scuderiaferrari that's the plan bestie! both our boys will win their home grand prix this year.

username ferrari being cocky about charles winning the championship is so hot of them. they've got such a lead over everyone else that they know they're going home with the championship one way or another.

pierregasly tu l'as fait charles!

landonorris congrats charles! you deserved this one!

↳ scuderiaferrari are you implying he didn't deserve his other wins 🤔?

↳ landonorris DO NOT PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH PARKER!

olliebearman arthur's still crying...

↳ arthur_leclerc MY BROTHER JUST WON THE MONACO GRAND PRIX BEARMAN! LET ME BE!

↳ user28 supportive brother arthur crying over charles's win is so cute.

samwilson YEAH! THAT'S IL PREDESTINATO RIGHT THERE!

america_chavez who knew an f1 race would make tony emotional?

↳ c_barton TONY CRIED? AND I MISSED IT? THAT'S SO NOT FAIR!

joaquintorres well that was an experience. congratulations charles!

↳ scott_lang C'MON THE NEW GUY WENT BUT I DIDN'T EVEN GET AN INVITE?

↳ tonystark you said you were busy, that's why you didn't get an invite. joaquin was available, hence the invite.

harleykeener HELL YEAH! NOW IT'S TIME TOPARTY! DRINKS ON TONY!

↳ alex_albon i'm in!

↳ tonystark i never agreed to that?

↳ biancastark-potts you're a billionaire, you can afford it. don't be stingy.

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biancastark_potts monaco, i think i like you

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samwilson PAUSE! WHO IS THAT!

america_chavez monaco? is that what we're calling him now?

↳ biancastark_potts don't make me tell stephen what happened the other day

↳ america_chavez understood, i know nothing.

harleykeener so that's why you left the party early

↳ carlossainz55 you know who else left early, right?

↳ harleykeener no?

↳ carlossainz55 i will text you

tonystark STOP HIDING MY PHONE! I'LL FIND OUT WHO HE IS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER BIANCA!

↳ biancastark_potts no, you won't, because not even nat and buck have figured out who it is. if the two spies can't figure it out, you won't either.

↳ natasharomanoff she's good tony. i haven't got a clue who it is.

↳ buckybarnes i desperately want to know who it is so i can warn the poor guy to run for the hills.

↳ biancastark-potts fuck you bucky.

alex_albon you're telling me i know something the avengers don't? oh my god this is great.

↳ samwilson spill albon. what do you know?

↳ alex_albon no can do wilson. i'm being blackmailed, my own girlfriend has turned against me.

↳ lilymhe i want to know how far they're willing to take this thing. both bianca and the avengers.

↳ georgerussell63 the avengers wish they were us right now

↳ biancastark_potts WHO ELSE KNOWS?

↳ landonorris me and charles know too!

↳ biancastark_potts oh for fucks sake.

wandamaximoff second date?

↳ biancastark_potts went well, a third one is up in the air.

↳ michellejones she says this so no one will follow her on her date.

↳ biancastark_potts zip it jones.

↳ michellejones tell me everything

↳ biancastark_potts deal.

you just had to tell someone didn't you?

AMERICA KNOWS! AND WANDA! AND MJ! I'M ALLOWED TO TELL PEOPLE!

can those losers be trusted to keeping a secret?

the twitch quartet has been vowed to secrecy! except for alex, he accidentally told lily. she scolded him for telling her, so the secret is safe with her.

they are more so happy they can hold something over the avengers.

oh god. we're doomed.

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¡leclerc-s speaks! monaco is so special it deserves it's own chapter. i hope i did the racing scene justice, they are not my forte. if the race strategy seems familiar, no it doesn't (i'm unoriginal and i know nothing about race strategies. lol.)

¡disclaimer! this is in no way making assumptions about the people involved in this story, this is all fake. it is a fanfiction please don't take any of what is said seriously. this is all for entertainment purposes and as a creative outlet for me. enjoy!

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dinner dreams - daniel ricciardo

daniel ricciardo x f1 driver!reader [3k]

summary: after receiving a delayed invitation to sebastians retirement dinner, strange feelings arise after a run in with the infamous honey badger.

warnings:none, just bad writing lmao

a/n: first time posting on here, please me kind but also would appreciate some feedback. anyways thank you and enjoy

italics---> thoughts or exaggerated words

It wasn't often you got lost. The cool November breeze that wizzed by didn't seem to help with your lack of directions either. You couldn't remember why you decided to leave the warm hotel, thinking foolishly that you would just find your way to the restaurant eventually right? Wrong. On top of that you decided to wear the most uncomfortable thing you could, a green mini cocktail dress and the skinniest heals you've brought. 

Why you'd ever except Mick's delayed  invitation to Seb's retirement dinner , you had no clue why. After just winning your second drivers championship in a row you wouldn't expect to see you getting all dressed up again even after just spending the entire week on a bender with everyone and anyone you even semi liked. The original plans before you received the delayed  invitation was to take a nice long hot bath maybe go and order some sushi on Door dash. But a final dinner with your idol and good friend was something  you knew you just couldn't miss. 

Ah fuck this, 

 as the breeze began to pick up again. About a block away from the hotel you had been staying at for the past couple days a fancy black SUV pulls up next to you with the windows rolled down.

"You don't happen to be Y/N are you?" the driver asked. Your eyebrows furrowed as you debated answering as that question doesn't often lead to good places,"depends on who's asking?"you responded, narrowing your eyes at the mysterious driver he chuckled lightly at your expression. 

"Well I was sent to come pick you up at hotel intercontiential miss, to bring you to the dinner if I've been told correctly?" he responded, you smiled awkwardly and let out a small Oh as you opened the side door and sat down in the back.

"Um I guess you would be correct, but if you don't mind me asking sir, which one of the guys hired you tonight?" you asked curiously as the car began to move down the road.

"Sorry Miss, I was told not to disclose that information to you tonight, he said that you would probably figure it out on your own anyways"

The rest of the drive went by fairly quickly for you, as you  arrived at a hotel after only a couple minutes. The SUV drove up the road a little further as you noticed from the inside of the tinted windows a unique hotel at the top of the hill. It was mostly wooden and stone built it was odd looking compared to the rest of Monaco's modern style but has a welcoming feeling towards it, it definitely was picked by Sebastian. Going underground you assumed you were going into a parking garage as the car came to a stop in front of the underground entry.

"So this is where I leave you" the driver said unlocking the doors as you then climbed out,"I guess it is, thanks again for coming to save me..."you paused wait for him to give you his name, "Clint, and it was my pleasure Y/n, I hope you enjoy your evening"he said as you smiled and gave a quick you too as you closed the doors. 

As the SUV pulled away back up to the street, you turned and made your way inside. The inside was luminated by warm lights and dark accent walls, you made your way to the elevator at the end of the hall. As you got in a small pit of anxiety made its way into your stomach as the elevator moved upwards. You wasn't quite sure why you were suddenly so nervous, you were around these guys more than your own family for christ sake. 

It still confused you on why someone hired a driver to come get pick you up tonight, and why choose for you not to know who did it. Despite it being a kind gesture it bugged you, but you set herself a special mission for the evening, find out who hired the driver.

The elevator let out a ding as the doors opened revealing the main entrance to the hotel and the restaurant that you had finally managed to get to. You stepped out into the hallway first noticing the extremely large Christmas tree an other various Christmas decoration in the restaurant that you had finally found. 

Why the hell are there decorations up already its only the middle of November?

Before you could see him, you could definitely hear him. The boisterous laugh that anyone on the grid could recognize from a mile away. His gaze then lands on you just as he rounds the corner, his already shining smile getting brighter by the second, he picks up his pace and walks straight for you. Her heart beat picks up as she finds herself smiling just as wildly back at the Honey Badger, the one and only.

"About time you got here sweet heart" he said with that iconic Aussie accent, pulling you into a close to bone crushing hug, as you laughed loudly."Danny I think we both know I'm early" it was now him time to laugh as he continued to hold you like his life depended on it.

"I missed you" 

The innocent comment made your cheeks tinge red at the sudden unexpected seriousness from the usually goofy driver. Giving him a quick peck on the cheek as you pulled away from the tight embrace."Missed you too" you said with a warm smile now seeing the slightly surprised and happy look on the drivers face as he clears his throat as he tries to brush the blush off his face

"I gotta go help Max, I'm pretty sure he got lost down in the parking area or something,  I'll be back in a minute love" he says still staring at you but making his way towards the elevator. Just as you starts to turn around he grabs your hand and pulls you back locking his gaze with yours.

"You look beautiful tonight love, incase you didn't already know" he says holding your hand and his eyes rake you body and face carefully.

"Thank you Danny, I can always count on you to bring the fun to the party" you said fixing the collar on his brightly patterned shirt, giving him a cheeky wink. He smiled planting a light kiss on the corner of your mouth, before making his way towards the elevator as you then slowly continued down the hall with a sharp blush on your face. That pit of anxiousness from earlier had been filled with a strange other feeling that rose up to your throat, a weird a feeling you hadn't felt for someone in a long time. And you couldn't help but wonder if that made you excited or terrified, either way it was rather unexpected. 

"Hey Champ, over here!" Lewis called with his arms open wide as you made your way around the corner, picking up the pace you practically jumped into your teammates arm as his silly laugh ringed over in your ear.

"Have any trouble getting here, love?" Lewis snickered

"We're you the one who sent that driver? God Lewis I should've known" you said rolling your eyes with a slight sense of disappointment."No sadly, but I know who did" he said with a snicker as you got pulled into a hug by the main man of the evening.

"Y/n, I'm so glad you could make it tonight. I'm sorry for the late invited, I just guessed you'd have other festivities going on this evening that you'd rather attend." Seb said with his classic gentle smile."Oh Seb, that's non sense there's no other place I'd rather be than here tonight. Thank you for including me, it means a lot". He just gave you a reassuring squeeze on your arm as he was pulled away by Mick to greet more of the incoming drivers. The rest of the grid slowly started to pour into the lobby, as for you, you migrated to George and Alex who were now pestering you on your new two time champion status, aka your lack of arm candy.

"Oh come on Y/N/N, just spill the beans! It's your second world championship and you're telling me you still haven't got a date to the Gala, mate I'm sorry but I don't believe a word." Alex said shaking his head in disbelief. "Mate see the writing on the wall! She's definitely got a date she just to scared to share it because it's probably some unworthy chap! Look she's even blushing Alex!"You just shook her head in response to the two Williams drivers as you hoped they would drop the un-entertaining conversation on your love life. 

Just as you began to zone out again as the two continued to bicker on if you did or didn't have a date yet, a knowing arm slide its way across your shoulder as you instantly knew who had joined the group."Ah sorry to interrupt the harassment but I just wanted to say hi to MY best friend and give HER a hug" Lando says glaring his eyes at Alex and George as the Mclaren driver pulled you into a tight embrace. 

"Hi Little Landi, how are you doing tonight." you said stepping back from the brunette."Not bad, I hope these two muppets haven't been bugging you for too long. They ever get too much just remind them they drive for Williams." he says with a smirk, you burst out laughing just seeing Alex and Georges face drop at the slightest mention of their current teams standing. 

"Ah excuse me Muppet, I'd like a moment to say hi the our two time champion here, you've had your time" Carlos said pulling Lando away and then pulling you into another hug."Wow I guess it's a hugging kinda night,  isn't it Chili" you said hugging the Smooth Operator back letting out a chuckle."Well, it's not every day you see all of us together outside of a race weekend right?" the local Monegasque quipped, pulling you into a side hug. 

"I just wanted to say congrats Y/n, you were amazing this season, really" he said smiling brightly at you. "But I will say, with the new Ferrari upgrades for next season, it won't be so easy" he said with a wink as the rest of the listening drivers groan, you let out a breathy laugh."Yeah yeah Charlie, you keep saying that from my rear view mirror, eh?" 

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"So, when are you gonna tell me what is going on between you and Daniel?" Lando whispered into your ear, snapping you out of your thoughts. "Lando, what are you on about mate? Nothings going on with us ok. Maybe we had a small run in earlier that's it" you said trying to cover your blush as the moment earlier with the Aussie earlier replayed your head.

"Well the muppet has been making hearts eyes at you the entire time I've seen him over there with Alonso, so clearly it wasn't nothing to him." He said to her with a raised brow. You glanced up looking towards the Daniel and the Spaniard as you instantly caught his eye. Surprising to you, he didn't look away he just continued to gaze into your eyes with that infamous glowing smile.

Caught you looking, didn't I?

It was a bit of a struggle to get all 20 drivers into the private room on the second floor, as Seb has requested for the evening, but you all managed to figure it out. It was a busy moment to get everyone seated as no one could hear a thing amongst all the chatter going on. You being one of the first sat down choose a seat towards the end of the table, having already been in the middle of enough chaos for the evening you were hoping  for quieter place at the table. But also secretly pray you'd manage to be at least able to see the Aussie from your position. Turns out, you have to be careful what you wish for. 

"Enchante, mademoiselle. Uh is this seat taken?" The Australian said with a terrible mock French  accent. But non the less it making you laugh which was the entire point.

"You know I was just hoping that I would get a calm spot at the table tonight, but I guess not anymore." you said sarcastically with a smirk."Oh shoot sorry, I'll move, you probably don't wanna be hearing anymore of my blabbing, I'll-" you grabbed his hand cutting him off.

"Dan, I was just kidding, I'd love for you to sit with me." You said still holding his hand in your small grasp. He didn't reply he just looked at you in awe?  Sorta gasping like a fish out of water, cute. Snapping out of his trance he clears his throat and sits down next to you as Lando squeezes onto your other side as the rest of the grid begin to settle into their places.

The dinner went by surprisingly smoothly, despite the extraneous time it took for all the drivers to make a decision on what to order. Many different conversations poured out all across the table as there was never a dull moment. Shockingly none being racing related, as an unspoken rule of the night was to talk about anything other than work to each other since they did that enough. But rather talk about each others families, friends, Christmas plans or an other plans during their next couple of months off, it felt strange but oddly very nice. 

As Lando and Charles talked about dates that they could to some possible streaming over the winter break. Yuki, Pierre and Daniel talked about some funny memories from the past couple of season, you sat there quietly just observing the many different conversations across the table, just sorta taking in the moment.

It was strange. That these are the people that you are the most competitive within the world and here they all were sitting talking, having a meal together. The crashes, the battling, the rivalries, all left out on the track. It made you smile, the thought that all these amazing people were able to share this one in a life time dinner and that this would be the last time you'd ever be with the same 20 people, ever again.

"Hey, you doing ok? You kinda just zoned out there." Daniel asked with a worried gaze."Yeah I'm good, just taking a break from the small talk." you replied almost nervously, taking a look back around the table seeing only smiles all around.

"Do you wanna come get some air with me, it's gotten pretty hot in here." Daniel said sitting up extending his hand out to you. You nodded in response getting up from your seat, yet no one noticing the departure of you two as you walked away from the table quietly.

Walking out onto the balcony, it felt warmer than it did previously in the night. The couple flutes of champagne must have been acting as you jacket for the evening as you could being to feel a small blush on her cheeks arise from the alcohol, or maybe for other reasons. Noticing that you and Daniel were still holding hands, you pretended not to notice as you looked out at the Harbour as the moon reflected off the water. Strange nervousness washing over you. It was weird you had never felt the slightest bit nervous around Danny despite all the years you had known each other. A small shiver running down your body.

"Here love, take my jacket."He had it off his back and onto yours before you could ever protest, you let out a small thank you as you both lean on the railing, admiring the view.

"Hey I totally forgot to ask, did you get here ok? Hopefully had no problems?" Danny said with a smirk as he leaned closer to you. Pulling away slightly looking at the satisfied look on his face, you try your hardest not to start smiling at him as hard as you wanted to.

"You're such an asshole" you say halt heartedly as you punch his arm, he starts to double over laughing, his contagious laugh making you laugh as well. The two of you giggle for quite some time before finally calming down as you wiped the stray tears from your eyes.

"Why?" you asked still trying to suppress your giggles from earlier, a few slipping out."Why what?" he asked with the proud smile still on his face."Why did you hire the driver Danny?", facing your body towards him.

"Well I first kinda guess that Mick would forget to  send you the address. Second I knew if I came to pick you up, which was my initial plan, I would've torn that dress right off you in the lobby." 

You weren't quite sure how long you remained silent for, trying to process what he just said, or even trying to tell if you were dreaming or not. The feeling in your stomach that you had been feeling all night, just grew right into your heart and felt more like a bursting flame overcoming your entire body. Yet you were frozen, the man you had found attractive for years now that you had assumed was totally out of your league just said that to your face. You had no idea how to respond.

"Ah fuck I totally fucked this up didn't I? Ah God, nice going Riccardo you bloody-" your lips were on his in milliseconds cutting him right off. You didn't even think, your body just moving on instinct. 

Finally regaining his senses he began to kiss you back with just as much intensity. Pulling you snug against his chest by your waist, tilting your head to the side by your chin trying to deepen the kiss even further if possible. Grasping at the curls on the back of his head trying to keep your balance on your unsteady heals, he let out a small groan. You both pull away as your body finally had run out of oxygen. Resting both your heads on each others as you stare into each others eyes with wild smiles, panting as you both shake with excitement and passion.

"Well, its about time you kissed me" he said with that cheeky grin.

"Had to find some way to shut you up" His boisterous laugh filling the otherwise quiet November night. The regret of excepting the delayed  invitation from earlier, no where found in your mind.

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I will probably be doing some other fics for other drivers on here as well soon, so stay tuned for that. thank you for reading, please lmk if you have any feedback or suggestions!

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in an effort to remember why i like writing, i gave myself an evening to spew out as much as i can of an idea that has been rattling around my head that i know won't be an entire finished fic.

anyway here's lewis/seb/bono and uh... lets call it double-ended cuckolding? nsfw, obviously.

He’s on a beach. He’s on a beach and there’s warm sand between his toes. The waves come in, they go out, they come in again. A seagull—

“Think he’s wandered off again,” Bono says.

Lewis’s eyes snap down from a spot just two inches above the curve of Bono’s flushed shoulder to the two familiar bodies and the criss-cross of limbs stacked up in his bed.

“I did try to convince him that this was a terrible idea,” Sebastian says, stretching cat-like, the line of his body going taut as his arms settle above his head. He lolls his head to the side, cheek cushioned on his bicep, the curls nestled in the curve of his pit glistening with sweat already. He catches Lewis’s eye. “How can it be a birthday gift when he’s all the way over there? Who goes to their own party and just stares at the cake?”

“I forgot about the absolute bollocks that comes out of your mouth,” Bono huffs, voice still steady and flat even if he’s wearing his own birthday suit to this party, and currently knelt between Sebastian’s equally naked thighs.

Sebastian laughs, breathless and halfway to bliss “You must admit, it has to be quite nice for you to be a pain in my arse for once.”

Bono’s pursed lips twitch. Sebastian gasps. Lewis grip flexes on the wooly arms of the chair. Another of Bono’s finger slipped into Sebastian, Lewis would guess. He could say for sure if this stupid fucking chair offered an angle of the bed that wasn’t just Seb and Bono’s thighs overlapping, the squelch of something delicious happening between them. 

“I’m sure we caused you and your own engineers enough headaches over the, you know, seven years of glory,” Bono mumbles. 

“Oh, Lewis really taught you how to get me going,” Sebastian says, doing something with a twitch of his bicep that gets Bono biting back a gasp. “Yeah baby, remind me of my failures.”

“Fucking hell,” Bono all but growls, shifting to press his fingers deeper, “your mute button must be somewhere up here.”

Sebastian’s bright laugh is quickly cut off by a whimper, sheets rustling as he squirms. He can’t go far, Bono’s hand spans his stomach, holding him down. They’re really both a handful, in their own ways.

“Is this everything you imagined?” Bono asks, craning his neck to get a glimpse of Lewis who’s still fully clothed, still fully hard, sweating through his finest Senna merch.

Lewis swallows down a hysterical laugh. He's not sure how to say, uh, yes. His cock is throbbing. At the ripe age of thirty-eight he has two long-term partners when he, in some darker, quieter moments, considered the fact that he wouldn’t manage to keep one. And for reasons that might be love or the side-effects of breathing in too many petrol fumes over the years, they agreed that this—Bono buried knuckle deep in Sebastian on a bed that they’ve both fallen apart in separately—was a reasonable birthday request. That the line between their two relationships would blue for one night. And despite their incessant bickering, signs (Bono’s fattened up cock, Sebastian’s top of head to tips of toe flush) point to them both having a decent time.

“The view could be better,” Lewis says instead, proud of the nonchalance, the lack of throb-induced tremble. He manages heavy lids and a swipe of enough spit across his lip that Bono lingers on it for more than a moment.

“You should’ve said,” Bono says, before he sit ups. Sebastian sighs at the loss of the stretch, and then close-to-squeaks as Bono hauls him down the bed by his ankles before swiftly folding him in half, knees kissing his ears. 

“Jesus,” Sebastian curses, garbled by his chin pushing into his chest. 

“Fuck.” Lewis breathes in, breathes out. That’s definitely a view— Seb spread and stretched, hole glistening, the hair framing his crease slicked down and swirled with lube.

Bono doesn’t waste his time pressing his fingers back in, two enough to stretch Sebastian wide. He makes Lewis feel small but it's ridiculous compared to Sebastian, in width and depth he dwarfs him in every way. He only needs to use one arm to press both of Sebastian's thighs back, keeping his arse pointing up in the air.

And God, Lewis knows how that feels. The blunt tips of Bono’s fingers prying him open, the burn of being cored apart, the maddeningly steady rhythm he’ll set. And he knows how torturously hot Seb is around his fingers, how his body will just be pulling Bono in, big blown out pupils staring up at him. Lewis can barely feel his legs, thighs fuzzy with pins and needles. The ache is so intense he’s sure he can hear it, that pleasure has morphed into sound, a swelling hum in his groin, the buzz filling his ears.

This is the best idea he’s ever had.

“I’m going fucking crazy,” Lewis admits, tongue unsticking from the roof his mouth. He rolls his neck, flexes each finger one by one, tries to imagine how fucking good it will feel if he holds out a little longer.

“Time to tap in?” Bono asks, even though he knows the answer. 

“Not until—not yet,” Lewis manages, squeezing his thighs together, no relief in it at all. “Want to see you fuck him bare first,” Lewis says, knowing that they’ve only been with him in the past few months, and his recent endeavours stacked up on his bed in this room. Bono nods, eyes dark. “Fill him up for me.” Sebastian’s foot twitches, Bono’s grip goes loose enough that Seb can lower his leg a touch, enough for Lewis to see his flushed cheeks and sweaty forehead. Lewis gives Seb a pointed look. “Then I can have my cake.”

“---and eat it. That’s the saying, isn’t it? I used to think there was a ‘too’---”

“For God’s sake,” Bono bites out and tugs Sebastian in for a kiss—which is how Lewis would’ve suggested to shut him up, if Bono had cared to ask. 

Somehow they’d got this far without even a peck, although the blooming bruise on Bono’s chest might count for something. And it’s—fuck, it's—Bono’s hand is so big on Seb’s jaw, thick fingers denting the plump apples of Seb’s cheek. Sebastian moans, such a sucker for good, deep kiss. But it’s more of a fight than anything, all tongue and no sweet relief. 

It's so wet, so sloppy. Lewis’s cock jumps, dark blooming over the front of his joggers. He can feel that kiss ghosting over his mouth, the plush press of a tongue against his.

Bono presses down, blankets Seb completely, thick cock pressed between Seb’s spread crack. Seb almost disappears under the sheer breadth of Bono, buried in the cloud of fluffy covers.

“Gonna get you on my cock after,” Bono says, voice hoarse and lips glistening, eyes fluttering shut as Sebastian’s homes back in on his chest, tongue working over his dark nipple. “Is that what you want? Do you reckon Seb could fit in you too?”

Lewis is gonna die before it hits midnight. He’s not even gonna make it to thirty-nine. “Alright, shit. Can we speed things up?” Lewis gets out through gritted teeth, voice strained.

“Yes, sir,” Sebastian pants, before Bono steals the last of his breath as he flips him over. 

Sebastian melts into the sheets, golden hair lining all of his edges—it’s almost hard to focus on him. Bono seems to wait a beat to take him all in too, smooth his palm down the back of Sebastian’s slick thighs, tuck Seb's knees up further under him. He can’t see Bono’s face now, but there’s enough to keep him going—the muscles flexing across his back, the delicious swell of his arse. Lewis’s fingers twitch against his thighs. Not long now. It’ll be worth it. He’s got this. 

Bono lines himself up, rubs the fat head of his cock against Seb’s hole. Lewis squeezes his eyes shut, counts down from ten. He’s on a beach.

#fic bits #this /was/ fun! imagine that #soz for any typos but i just noticed a massive spider and now i need to get miso to save me #lewis/seb/bono #changing the tag bc im weird

[leclerced]

ok as a grown ass adult whose childhood stuffed animal is currently on my nightstand in my apartment in a completely different city than where I grew up, Lando making fun of his girlfriend for what he thinks is hers gave me such a pit, especially when I started trying to think about who wouldn’t make fun of you for having that and realizing that the only one I’m 100% confident would think it’s cute and not make fun is Seb

Max is kind of a 50/50 - might think it’s sweet, might be merciless, no in between

Alex would think it’s cute but would still tease you about it every now and again (not in a mean way though?)

idk man Lily Bunny is my ride or die, the man goes, not her

- 〽️

seb wouldn’t care at all and he’d be very careful if he takes it off the bed, setting if up on your nightstand rather than tossing it to the floor with the throw pillows.

i dont think max would make any fun, and if he would it would be really light hearted like he catches you cuddling it when he comes home and is like “aw my little baby needs to cuddle her stuffed animal when i’m not here? you could just go everywhere with me, i wouldn’t complain.”

i think oscar wouldn’t bc he has three sisters and he’d just see it and either say nothing or say “aw you have a stuffy?? my sister takes hers everywhere with hers.”

daniel would tease lightheartedly like “you’re not gonna stop cuddling me right? i’m number one in your heart not this twenty year old toy??” and you tease back that no one will ever replace the toy, and daniel pretends to be upset about it until you cuddle up to him and tells him he’s a close number two.

alex would tease about it like if you walk into the room and want to cuddle he’s like “oh did you lose your teddy?” but definitely has his own that he’s never told anyone about but tells you about one night when you find it and ask why he also has a ratty old stuffed animal.

i think lando would actually see it and make a joke, “oh did you pull that from the dumpster?” then feel really bad when she gets sad. he’r apologize and probably pay to have it professionally refurbished so it’s not floppy and the fur isn’t all clumped but when she can’t find it she’s heartbroken and then finds out what he did and is like “the thought is sweet but the smell won’t be the same ):”

#ask #〽️ anon

[barkspawn]

My friend and I were talking about a scenario in which Seb decided to adopt the farmer's baby and we had a massive laugh on how Sam would be that "cool uncle" who just did stupid ahit to give Seb a heart attack.

Bruh what are kids. Also, I had COVID I'm sorry but brains, man.

Amelia was taking a few moments to catch up on some cleaning around the house. It took a long time to get used to being parents and it felt like it happened so fast. They applied and thought it would take years longer than it did, but they got remarkably lucky. 

Now, they had Autumn and were happier than they ever thought imaginable. Sebastian and Amelia were natural parents. Sebastian did turn out to be a little overprotective when it came to Autumn’s safety, but Amelia understood. 

She was wiping down the counter when she felt Sebastian’s arms slide around her waist, pulling her back into a hug as he kissed her cheek.

“Well, good morning to you, too,” she laughed, turning in his arms to steal a proper kiss. He hummed, definitely not completely awake yet. 

“Couldn't help it,” he teased, turning and looking over the house, “where's autumn…?”

She leaned back against the counter, bracing for the response, “she had a playdate with ‘Unc Sam’,” she frowned as he tensed, already walking toward his jacket, “Seb, he would not let her get hurt.”

“I've seen Sam and Vince play together,” he deadpanned, hand on the knob to head outside, “no broken bones or stitches. That's the goal here.”

Amelia laughed to herself, shaking her head before turning back to the counters. 

Sam and Autumn were down on the path to the bus stop. Sebastian nearly had a heart attack when he saw the girl on Sam’s hip while skateboarding. Sebastian didn't realize how dangerous those things were until he imagined… Well, he tried not to think about it. 

“Sam, what are you thinking?” Sebastian snapped, trying to keep his tone soft enough to not freak out his daughter. 

“Dude, it's fine. She loves it,” Sam pushed the last few feet, the girl's laugh echoing through the small area. 

“Why can't you take her to the playground like a normal kid?”

Sam laughed, shaking his head, “she's no normal kid! If she's gonna hang out with Uncle Sam, she's gonna be rad as–”

“Sam.”

“Right, sorry. Repeating words phase,” he nodded before looking toward the girl, his voice taking on a dramatic tone as he gave a nod, “right?”

“Right!” she giggled, Sam tickling her with his free hand. 

“Sam please,” Sebastian ran a hand back through his hair, “no skateboard.”

Sam rolled his eyes, stepping off the board before turning to the girl again with a silly voice, “daddy's being no fun.”

Autumn crossed her arms, though the smile remained as she tried to use a similar tone, “no fun!”

Sam laughed and looked over at Sebastian. When he saw how exasperated Sebastian looked, he laughed harder, shifting the girl so he held her under her arms, holding her up in the air as she squealed with joy. 

“Oh, you're trying to kill me,” Sebastian started as Sam pretended to let her go, play gasping as he caught her again. It was definitely an attempt to make Sebastian stressed and it was working. 

“Relax, Seb,” he relaxed and set her down, watching her run and skip around the skateboard, “you know I wouldn't let anything happen to her.”

“Until she wiggles or something and you don't catch her,” he groaned, the familiar pit of worry aching in his stomach. 

“Dude, I don't even actually let her go.” 

“Still.”

Sam sighed and bent to pick her up, throwing her over his shoulder, his grip firm on her legs as she burst out into another fit of giggles. Sebastian watched in horror as Sam walked her back onto the farm, bouncing along happily.

This is why his mom always warned him he would make her hair gray by 40. He’d have to apologize for that later. 

Sebastian followed along, watching as Sam and his daughter plopped down into a patch of grass and started playing with some toys. 

He needed coffee. 

He sighed and headed inside, Amelia already sliding a cup across the counter. He groaned as he leaned over the counter, propped up on his elbows, “we should look into life insurance.”

She looked taken aback, if not a little worried. Seb looked up and met her eyes, “Sam is going to stress me out into an early grave.”

She relaxed and shook her head, attempting to hide her smirk, “good thing I'm here to help you relax, hmm?”

He couldn't help but break a smile as he took a swig of his coffee. She made her way around the counter and stood on her toes to steal a kiss as he murmured against her lips, “you're going to be very busy helping me then.”

She smiled before stealing another kiss. Just as Sebastian moved to set his mug down and consider taking advantage of Sam watching Autumn, he heard a cry from outside, his heart dropping. 

“I'll kill him, I swear,” he was already out the door before Amelia could respond. She followed him out to the porch where she watched her husband freaking out. 

“What happened?”

Autumn was sitting in Sam’s lap, crying in small, heartbreaking sobs. 

“She fell and got a widdle boo-boo,” he pouted, Sebastian already kneeling beside them. She had a small red mark on her knee, the skin scraped just a bit though it wasn't bleeding. She reached out for him, crying now for her daddy. 

“Oh, sweetheart, let me see,” he took her and sat on the ground, sitting her in his lap, “oh, no! Do you want me to kiss it all better?” 

She sniffled, giving a quiet ‘mhmm’ before Sebastian bent and kissed the scrape very gently. He smiled at her then, autumn unable to hold back a smile in response. 

“All better?”

“All better!”

“Good,” he hummed and wiped tears from her eyes before he allowed her to run off, Sam watching alongside him as she played with Loaf. 

“She tripped, dude. I swear I didn't do anything,” Sebastian had stood up, brushing himself off before Amelia tucked herself under his arm. 

“You see why it's scary though, right? That scream is pretty universal. I'm worried one day it'll be more than a scrape and I won't be able to kiss it away.”

He watched his daughter as Amelia stood on her toes to press a kiss to his cheek, “I know, love,” she turned to Sam, who took a deep breath. 

“Yeah, can't lie, that was a bit scary,” he stood, stretching his legs, “but you handled it like a boss, dude. Who knew kisses made scrapes better? You never kissed mine!”

Sebastian laughed, shaking his head, “guess I just like her more.”

Sam started to protest, but looked over at the girl, “yeah, that's fair.”

“Would you kiss my scrapes?” Amelia teased, Sam's face shifting a bit to fake disgust as Sebastian answered without a second thought. 

“And then some. No scrape necessary,” he pressed a kiss to her forehead and laughed as Sam made a gagging noise.

“You don't have to torture him, Seb. He's watching her for free.”

Sam looked between them for a moment before his lip curled in disgust. 

“Ugh, I don't need to know. I have to go in an hour, go do whatever it is I wish I didn't know about,” he commented, his grin returning as the child bound towards him, tackling him in a hug with Loaf close behind with kisses. 

Amelia looked up at Sebastian before nudging his side to grab his attention back. She kept her voice low, “c’mon. We have an hour to chip away at that stress.”

He chuckled, his shoulders relaxing slightly at the idea of what was to come. 

“I can't decide if I want to shower or take you to bed,” he teased, smacking her ass playfully as they walked inside. 

“You could combine the two,” she hummed, walking into the bathroom, “shower with me.” 

The smirk she gave him made him thankful for Sam for the first time that day.

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[justaredheadf1fan]

I wish Seb's prediction became true in 2023 and this track disappeared under water right now 🤣

Hola muchachos y muchachas 🤪

It's time to see if I can keep it together and watch this properly. I might die tomorrow morning at work, but who cares.

Quali - Saturday

First few minutes of Q1 not giving much, except for Nico drifting away almost against the wall. We might've had a laugh with this so early...

WHOA KEVIN!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?????? Oh my goodness I almost shouted, that was scary, what was he thinking? 😭 Lewis ended up touching the wall, luckily he was super close to the pit lane, thank the stars... AND CARLOS NOW, WHAT IS GOING ON??? And it was just shown how Kevin scratched that wall as well.....

I hate this track. Can someone please stomp some sense into the damned FIA to stop building and using shitty tracks? Seriously, it's not funny anymore. Not justifying them, just trying to see reasons behind such actions. There were not enough images to really see properly what happened and why, so I'm just thinking about my first impressions. Mercedes really needing to rush into the track, what are they doing? They're out right now!!!! Oh my Lance, no.... 🥲

Starting Q2 while yawning so far, right now I'm not quite sure if it's because I'm beat or because this is the worst. Seriously, I think I might be on the verge of dislocating my jaw at this point 🤣

What are Mercedes doing today? Twice now. Are you kidding me?? There's like 2 minutes left, for fuck's sake. Mmmmmm WHAT? Mercedes what the fuck. I'm truly speechless. What was that?

This is far from the team I fell in love with back at the end of 2021, honestly. Not because they're not winning, obviously. But because they're just a shadow of what they used to be and I don't get it, personally. I get that you can mess it up developing such a complicated car with less money involved and new shitty regulations, but as a team doing these kids of things... Unbelievable.

I've checked out. I'm gonna watch Q3, but I'm terribly disconnected and just thinking about having a quick shower and dinner so that I can quickly go to bed. I'm actually falling asleep.

NO NO NO CHARLES NO!!!!!!!! RED FLAG, RED FLAG!!!! WHAT THE FUCK DID JUST HAPPEN!!!!!!! Oh my god, same place as yesterday, right at the end of Q3... Nope, too tired for this, more tomorrow, and I hope it's a doozy because otherwise I might as well lose my motivation altogether 🥹

Race - Sunday

Well, barely made it after taking a very cold shower, but here I am. I missed all the bullshit going around before the race, thankfully. The shitshow is about to begin. Am I excited? Nope. Do I want it to be short and over right now? Yep.

Very clean start in general, maybe there was something tricky at the back of the grid but for now no clue. Oh, apparently Piastri had a very good start and ate up a few people. Moving on. Sargeant pits because of a broken front wing. No idea what happened. Moving on as well.

Sharl takes Kevin amidst Sid the Sloth's tries and then they both lose position. Tell me again how that car's not illegal 🤣 Apparently, someone made a sandwich outta Lewis at the start. No idea who. Estie Bestie going flying over those turns.

This is just... Meh. Even Alonso and Sainz said to the Spanish media that Fraudstappen would be 1st by lap 25 at most. AT MOST. I mean, if that doesn't tell you anything, I don't know what will. Even they know it's a lost cause already. Pretty sad. And seeing how it's going, he'll be 1st by the time they're on lap 15, 20 at most and I don't think it'll take that long since Carlos is useless.

Meanwhile, Lewis is still P13 and Sharl is P8. Can this be any sadder? Don't think so. Are you really saying that the most interesting thing of this race might be Kevin, Sharl and Estie Bestie fighting? Unbelievable. It's somewhat exciting to watch, not gonna lie to you.

Oh dear God is Carlos really gonna be penalized? I'M FUCKING LIVING RIGHT NOW HAHAHAHA. OH YES, 5-SECOND PENALTY, LET'S GO!!!! If no one can beat the undesirables, at least we have this.

Now Lance and George are being investigating too. Of course I can't have anything nice.

I kinda blacked out for a minute. Not really, it's just... I'm not paying that much attention. This race is complete and utter bullshit. Just like this sport. The FIA wanted Mercedes (Lewis, but saying Mercedes is because that's the team he drives for, basically) out of the way, that's why they pushed these new regulations and instead of making it exciting as they promised they would, they just made RBR untouchable. That's it. No competition, no racing, no nothing. Absolutely heartbreaking, if you ask me. At least for what I gather, Lewis had competition all the way regardless of how crushingly powerful his cars were back then. He competed, not just drove to the sunset and forget about everyone else.

I just need someone to explain to me how the only 2 teams that breached the cost cap and were barely given a slap on the wrist for it, are the teams leading the championship and every single race, and why the fuck no other team is boicotting the sport or doing anything at all because of it.

I'm done with the race. I just hope both RBRs just crash against each other. It's the only chance of anything remotely interesting happening. So Fernando is watching the race ON THE SCREENS. I think that tells you everything that you need to know about this race.

The only interesting thing was seeing Lewis passing Sharl. That's it. Seriously, this needs to end.

I have nothing today after this. Seriously. No words on my end besides what I already said so far.

Good thing there's no race next week, I don't think I would've been able to take it.

Peace out until May 19th or so, no clue when the next one is 🤣

#f1 #formula 1 #mercedes amg f1 #scuderia ferrari #aston martin racing #haas f1 team #mclaren f1 racing #alfa romeo racing #alpine f1 team #scuderia alpha tauri #williams racing #sir lewis hamilton #george russell #charles leclerc #carlos saint jr #lance stroll #fernando alonso #kevin magnussen #nico hülkenberg #oscar piastri #lando norris #zhou guanyu #valtteri bottas #esteban ocon #pierre gasly #yuki tsunoda #nyck de vries #alex albon #logan sargeant #miami gp 2023

[adrena-dine]

Monaco GP 2022 : a summary

Not the drivers doing a field day at the festival of Cannes

Charles said « race orders ? We don’t do that here »

Pierre is a suit made me weak 👉🏼👈🏼

Max and Checo catching ducks in a pool ? Monaco’s atmosphere isn’t the same as it was

Ferrari’s TikTok account has turned into a Charles’ thirst trap one 😳 we must stay focus brothers we must stay focus

valtteri and Lewis are another level of relationships with your former teammate. Exchanging helmets ? Boring 🙄 offering nudes ? Innovating and appreciated

The fact that Lewis is going to have a pic of Bottass in his living room is sending me

Seb explaining how did run after robbers. This man is a legend fr

Mercedes having some beef with the fia and hiding their stickers on the car. I’m living for this sassy behaviour 💅🏼💅🏼💅🏼

Lando joking about his own poor health 🥴

Charles still doing his lil pee pee break whenever he can during FP (he stopped peeing in bushes tho)

Mattia holding on his bike for his dear life bc he was scared for him, protective dad mode was on

Yukierre is still in its honeymoon phase and it making me go hihihihihi

Nah Yuki trying to break into Pierre’s room several room ??? They’re not even hiding anymore

Brocedes sharing an elevator, funny innit ?

Amazing helmets 😍

Charles’ awful pants, even him didn’t like it 🤠

Alex sharing where the drivers live in Monaco, that’s dangerous sir 😭

Mess in quali, as expected

Daniel crashing and his engineer asking about the car first 🤪 everything is going well between and his team I’m so happy 🥰🥰🥰

Max checking on him tho 🥲 if your engineer doesn’t do it, your bestie will ❤️

But my boi Andreas said the crash wasn’t his fault bc the engineers messed up his setup. Do they think he can be like an experiment for them ?

Lewis casually saying that if he was a random fan, he would be a Charles’ stan. He’s one of us, one of us 🫡

Red flag for nothing in quali ???? Anyway Pierre got ROBBED

Charles leclerc is the king of Monaco, is the cursed over ? He even slept better than previous years

Boy was doing the quali lap of his time

Stroll’s scream ✋🏼😭

Max being mad af about not finishing his car then going to congratulate Charles like 🥰🥰🥰 and then being mad af again

Checo decided to say « hello 😘 » to the wall and Carlos decided to say « hello 😘 » to Checo. We love besties

Hamilton car sliding as he was driving on Ice

Josh Capito casually taking pictures of the underbody of a Ferrari 🤨 that’s weird, that’s suspicious

Mick looking out for Seb during drivers parade 🥺

Delayed start for a little bit of rain

And then it was pouring 😬😬😬

haas’ twitter admin was on fire again 🤪

One hour of delay at the end 💀

Latifi doing a latifi

Max and Checo crossing the pit lane line but didn’t get anything

Mick’s horrendous crash, I’m so glad he is fine

Esteban putting all his estesussy in his defence and then he got unfairly penalised. I guess FIA was enjoying the monégasque champagne like the guests

Btw most of them were rude towards f1 ppl ☺️☺️☺️☺️ aaaah rich ppl doing rich ppl things 🥰🥰

Kevin and Alex retired but we don’t even know why ?? I know a lot was happening at the moment but pls share the info

Red flags, VSC, safety cars, we got them all 🤪

NAH MA BOI PIERRE WAS GOING THE RACE OF HIS LIFE

Overtakes??? In Monaco ????

Choo Choo Alonso the train was leading his lil wagons

FIA YOU BETTER NOT CANCEL THIS RACE I KNOW IT’S BORING BUT IT’S LIKE FAMILY DINNER, IF YOU MISS IT YOU MAY MISS SOMETHING AMAZING

I know you miss it…SCUDERIA CLOWNERY AND THEIR MESSY STRATEGIES ARE BACK HIHIHI, I knew it was weird that they didn’t pull out one already this year

Carlos’ driving Tokyo drift mode like and Guanyu did the exact same 😳

Charles getting robbed and his best opponent being his own team

The last laps were basically the worst ones I’ve ever experienced. Just pure pain.

He finished a Monaco GP for the first time… better than nothing I guess?

I’ll never forget his raging screams

Congrats to Checo for his victory 🥳 (not him falling on his car tho)

And Carlos saved Ferrari’s day lol

FIA said « no❤️ » to Ferrari’s complains

See y’all later besties

#lando norris #charles leclerc #daniel ricciardo #sebastian vettel #f1 #lewis hamilton #monaco gp 2022 #Sergio Perez #max verstappen #yuki tsunoda #yukierre #mick schumacher #nicholas latifi #Monaco #Monaco gp #george russell #zhou guanyu #sebastian Vettel #Lance stroll #valtteri bottas #alex albon #formula one

[vro0m]

vro0m's rewatch - 182/332

2016 Singapore GP

Hello. We're in Singapore. Nico is on pole. Brundle says Lewis looked "flustered all day". And indeed, it must be true, because he's not the one sharing the front row with Nico, Daniel is. Lewis will start third on the grid. Toto has taken the blame saying the team hasn't been able to provide him a good enough car at this point of the weekend. 

Lewis on his way to the driver parade does his usual show for the crowd. Then he says it's impossible to overtake here, "almost" he adds. "So how do you win it then?" the woman asks. He shakes his head with a cynical smile. "I don't know." He chuckles. "I'm just gonna drive, try and drive the socks off the car like I always have since I was a kid." He qualified 0.7 behind Nico. 

Not a lot of interesting things in the build up. Of course after some people vehemently denied it happening last time, F1 has been sold to liberty media. So of course there's a Bernie interview which we don't really care about except for the fact that Brundle says Bernie has said before he finds it difficult to work with others but he's gonna have to work with Chase Carey, the chairman. "The only thing I have to do is die and pay my tax," he replies, which is hilarious because in 2023 he's just pleaded guilty of tax fraud. 

It's already time for the race because nothing interesting happened. So there's been a huge downpour during the night and the track has been washed clean. It might have an impact on the tyres. 

Almost forgot the top 10 of the grid : Nico, Daniel, Lewis, Max, Raikkonen, Sainz, Kvyat, Hulkenberg, Alonso and Perez. Seb took a penalty for a gearbox change and they decided to take a lot of different PU components while they were at it, like Lewis in Belgium. He starts last. 

Formation lap. 

Grosjean is already out idk why. 

And they are racing. 

Good start for Nico, Lewis has to defend against Raikkonen behind him OH THERE'S A CRASH. Hulkenberg touched with someone, spun around and hit the wall facing the wrong way. Thankfully no one collected him but someone hit some debris as well. It's a safety car already. They have to go through the pitlane given that Hulkenberg is on the pit straight. Wow Alonso got a really good start and Max a terrible one. Here's how they line up behind the safety car : Nico =, Daniel =, Lewis =, Raikkonen +1, Alonso +4, Kvyat +1, Sainz -1, Max -4, Massa +?, Magnussen +?. Who collided with Hulkenberg then? Was it Perez? No it was Sainz, who's lucky he ended up where he is with this collision. On the replay we see him move out of his starting line to overtake Max from the left and as he joins the middle line, his right rear gets right in between Hulkenberg's front and rear left and of course the rear left hits Sainz' front right and that's what sends him spinning right in front of Max who's lucky he didn't ran into him because he was right on his front wing. I wonder if he got damage out of that. It'd be a miracle if they really didn't touch because it was a matter of centimetres. 

Daniel pits, Valtteri has a puncture, Lewis pits. Valtteri almost collides with Seb as he leaves the box. Remember they're going through the pitlane. Did the others actually pit or was it some automatic thing because they went through there? Oh god. We see the start from Max's on-board and I don't even know how he didn't collect Hulkenberg, it's insane. I'll gif it. 

Jenson is missing half his front wing. No Lewis and Daniel are still P2 and P3, I don't think they really pitted. It must have been the sensors going off automatically. Safety car in at the end of lap 2.

Lewis attacks Daniel but can't do anything yet. Again a couple corners later. And again. And again. Every corner. 

OH MY GOD. wait. On a replay we see a marshal running off the track as the cars arrive at full speed METRES AWAY. Insane image. Extremely dangerous. Unacceptable really. 

Some broken piece of bodywork from the collision has been flapping off Sainz' car and 6 laps in he gets a black and orange flag as the stewards see it as a potential danger. Verstappen is currently stuck half a second behind him, while Sainz himself is stuck 0.7 seconds behind Kvyat and so the commentators are wondering whether Horner is about to call Toro Rosso to have them move aside for Max. Now Verstappen is told Sainz is about to come in because of the black and orange flag. But Sainz doesn't come in. Ted thinks they're trying to make the stop coincide with their planned pit stop but they might get a penalty for staying out with a dangerous car. Ocon is under investigation for overtaking under the safety car. The stewards are also looking at the start incident and at the unsafe release. No further action for the collision. Nico is warned about brake management by his team. No further action for the unsafe release. And Nico is again warned about his brakes. The team sounds nervous. He needs to lift and coast. He's three and something seconds ahead of Daniel, it should be okay? Brundle says as we watch Lewis go by that his front brakes also look pretty yellow-white hot. I'm not good enough to see that myself but it doesn't bode well. Despite the warnings, Nico keeps increasing his gap to Daniel. 

It's lap 10. Nico, Daniel +4.0, Lewis +2.2, Raikkonen +2.3, Alonso +8.5, Kvyat +1.1, Verstappen +0.9, Massa +1.7, Magnussen +3.6, Gutierrez +1.4. Bono to Lewis : "So we really need to get on top of these front brakes." I can't understand Lewis' answer and I can't find the radio transcript. I just know it ends with "so much". He doesn't seem to be backing off either. Are these idiots playing chicken until one of them loses his brakes? Ted says Raikkonen has been told Mercedes is starting to panic about Lewis' tyres but he believes it might be at least partially bluff because again, they are still extending the gaps here. Bunch of pit stops. Lewis : "Can you keep me up to date please I have no clue what's going on." What's happening is he's losing loads of time on Nico as he is now actually managing the brakes. Ted says Mercedes said they're both managing the brakes now so they don't become a problem later on. Mmmh. Daniel and Lewis pit. It's unusual for them to pit the second car first. Very nervous about the tyre strategy, because they put him on softs while all the other teams are avoiding them apparently. Daniel is on supersofts. Lewis is not happy about it. "Come on guys, I needed a strategy that could get me past." Nico also gets soft tyres and it's a 4.3 stop. What the fuck are they doing? Raikkonen finally pits from the lead. Verstappen is battling Kvyat for P9 and it's tense and personal. Kvyat pushes Max wide over the kerb." Come on, man…" Verstappen comments on radio. Crofty comments that if he likes getting "punchy" when he overtakes, he has to expect the others to do the same to him. 

It's lap 20. Nico, Daniel +6.0, Lewis +5.0, Raikkonen +3.2, Perez +11.3, Seb +1.7, Alonso +4.8, Kvyat +2.3, Verstappen +0.4, Massa +1.7. Raikkonen apparently is faster than all three cars ahead of him. Max attacks again, and can't make it again. Kvyat is told he's racing Alonso. The commentators think it's code for let Max pass because it's not about him anyway. There's a piece of debris on the track. Maybe from Massa's car? Double yellows waved at the end of the lap. I think someone retrieved that piece of debris. Unfortunate because I think a safety car would have been good… Lewis says they have to come up with a plan so he doesn't lose P3 because this is all the pace he got with the brakes. He's unhappy. Raikkonen is catching him. There's a three way battle for 10th between Sainz, Seb and Gutierrez and it's stressful because all three of them are wheel to wheel on this very narrow track. Seb wins it. 

Lap 30. "Is the other car not having the same problems?" Lewis asks. Bono says Nico has a similar pace and is doing a similar level of management. "He does have the issue." But Lewis is under pressure from Raikkonen and Nico has a comfortable 4 second gap to Daniel. Lewis is 9.3 seconds behind, Raikkonen less than a second from him. Then it's Alonso 32 seconds down, Kvyat +2.5, Magnussen +6.7, Seb +6.8, Gutierrez +8.5, and Perez +0.8. Raikkonen is told again that Lewis has big brakes problems. Daniel pits. He's out behind Raikkonen in P4. I can't believe we're only barely halfway through this race. Raikkonen overtakes Lewis, expectedly. Now what, Merc? Nico pits. Raikkonen pits. Valtteri is having a super long pit stop and Ted says it looks like his seat belts have come undone. Lewis pits. It's a good 2.2 stop. He's out 5.6 seconds behind Raikkonen. Valtteri is retiring. I don't know why. Why are they saying he got married the week prior? He was never married was he? OH HE WAS. I did not know that at all. Not that it matters lol. (I'm still nosy so I still wanted to see what she looked like and boy does he have a type. Anyhoo.) Two consecutive messages to Lewis : first he's told there might be opportunities at the end of the race so he needs to use all of the PU, then he's told they're gonna move to plan B and he needs to pull Raikkonen in. So is that 3 stops? What's the gap to Raikkonen now? 5.3. Mmh. 

It's lap 40. Lewis just set the fastest lap. Nico, Ricciardo +4.4, Raikkonen +5.6, Lewis +4.6, Seb +15.0, Verstappen +6.5, Alonso +6.7, Perez +1.8, Massa +1.4. Lewis gained 0.938 seconds on Raikkonen in the last lap. Let's go! Two laps later the gap is down to 3.4. To Nico "Gap to Ricciardo is four point thr–" – "Stop, stop ! Stop telling me that." Oh Ted explains what happened to Valtteri : his engine cooked itself while he was sitting in the pitlane because his seatbelt was undone. Unfortunate. Seb pits. Lewis to Raikkonen gap down to 2.3. 1.9. Jenson retires. Verstappen pits. Lewis pits, for supersofts. Why not ultrasofts? Raikkonen is told to push, I guess they're gonna pit him as well? Oh they're not sure, over the radio. Weird. The garage is still. He eventually pits. It's used ultrasofts for him. Lewis is ahead but just so! 0.6. 0.8. 0.6. 0.7. Pull away, come on! The Merc garage is very happy about this undercut. Ricciardo pits, he's still P2. Nico is told to push hard. It's a chain reaction! He doesn't pit! They're waiting for him but he didn't come in. Verstappen is hunting Kvyat down again. Oof. It's done. And Perez overtakes Kvyat as well immediately after. Messy overtakes. They're struggling with grip. 

It's lap 50, we're finally getting close to the end. Nico, Ricciardo now +21.6, Lewis +5.7, Raikkonen +1.6, Seb +13.5, Alonso +26.3, Verstappen +6.9, Perez +4.5, Kvyat +0.5, Magnussen +3.6. Ricciardo gained 3.6 seconds on Nico in the last lap. Why didn't he pit? Ricciardo is told at the current pace he'll catch him with 4 laps to go. But well his tyres are not gonna allow him to maintain that pace for long are they? 10 laps to go. Nico asks how much more he can take out of the brakes and they tell him they'll let him know. Ricciardo is now 11.3 seconds behind. Lewis is 7.1 seconds off, his fight is with Raikkonen who's only 2.3 behind him. Max overtakes Alonso for P6. Nico hits traffic. 8.2. With 4 laps to go, Nico finally puts in a faster lap than Daniel. 5.3. He got DRS thanks to backmarkers. 3.9. It won't be enough for RBR. 

It's the end of the race.

Nico wins ahead of Ricciardo and Lewis. He's now 8 points ahead in the standings. 

Absolutely nothing happens in the cooldown room. Daniel forgets to take off his cap during the anthem. Lewis just hands his champagne bottle over to the Merc rep and doesn't really take part. 

It's Lewis' 99th podium though! 

Oh okay so actually Lewis had a hydraulic leak at some point in the weekend and so he didn't practise as much as Nico. Toto says it means he couldn't "double check" the setup, and he wasn't happy with his setup. 

HAHA. So Seb finished 5th even though he started 22nd. The journalist interviewing him asks "Sebastian when you sat on the grid at the start of that race I don't suppose you could have imagined finishing fifth, could you?" – "Why not?" he says with twinkling eyes. 

Alright let's listen to Lewis. He says he doesn't believe there was an opportunity for him to get a better result. He feels like he did everything he could. He made a mistake which wasn't great but he feels like it wouldn't have made much of a difference anyway. "Very trying weekend," he says. It happens and you have to take it on the chin and move forward. She doesn't understand what mistakes he's talking about. He says he passed him. She says right the pitstops. He says no I went wide and he passed me.

She asks about him asking for a strategy that allowed him to go fast over the radio. Did he get it in the end? He looks down while she asks, then shuffles uncomfortably. Hums.

"Well it was really… It doesn't really matter to be honest," he says, "I was having such problems with my brakes, doesn't matter what strategy they put me on." He takes a deep breath in.

He says they extended his first stint and they pitted him at the same time as (he gets a hint of smile, kind of cynical?) he thinks of his name, Daniel, he says, he shakes his head slightly all the while as he talks, still with the hint of a smile, "which didn't make sense to me" he says.

He calls it a missed opportunity. He still reiterates he had such problems with his brakes he wouldn't have been able to beat Daniel anyway.

About the engine he says it was turned up, he only turned it down once he had a gap to the car behind but then they told him he had plenty of engine to use because he thinks it's the last time he has to use this one so… He smiles, his eyes shine a bit.

She says it's tough to leave today being 8 points behind Nico, does he reset for Malaysia? He says it's not as tough as they think. "I don't know why but…" he makes a face.

I'm not convinced. He says he's been there before but he's also been a lot worse so. Anything he's learnt from this weekend in his approach. “Erm not really no.”

#f1 #lewis hamilton #vro0m's race reviews #2016 #2016 singapore gp

[reaperkiller]

tagged by @nuclearstorms @aartyom @faarkas and @cultistbase to do this tag game for some ocs!

not doing the picrew bc i can't make them all in it and it will make me insane but here it is for anyone else who wants to give it a try!!

FAVOURITE OC

SEBASTIAN VIDAL | 2077

it was a tie between him and alex. but i decided not to give alex special treatment bc otherwise he would be on here twice. anyway this isnt about him. this is about seb. the saddest wettest beast of an oc i think ive ever created. he can fit so much lore in him. he has the worst life. his now boyfriend once tried to kill him no less than 20ish times. his ex wife also tried to kill him. everyone is trying to kill him and he's just out here big silly and gay about it. AND he has great boobs. whats not to love. theyre so big bc theyre so full of the love he has for his friends and family. and im obsessed with him

NEWEST OC

VEGA | 2077

they are a bartender at a club. they have black and green hair. they love short guys and fast cars. theyre a menace. they were a merc once. they can down a whole can of beer in under 10 seconds. you want to he their friend so bad.

OLDEST OC

ALEX SHEPHERD | N/A

literally THE guy of all time who is SOSOSOSOSO important to me. he's gone through so many changes, appearance wise, story wise, even names. he is an amalgamation of so many old dead ocs i didnt know what to do with. he is THE babygirl of the moment and the moment is forever. he has existed in some form for 10??? years now. he CANNOT stay dead and it really shows in both his story and how many iterations he went through to get to this point. tall bastard man who im in love with actually.

MEANEST OC

RUTHIE O'CONNELL | N/A

she's a girlboss but also a horrible person. she tried to kill her husband [after she died. ghost revenge] and eventually succeeded. and then tormented his great[?] nephew, alex. for so many years. until HE also died. bc of her. and now his [not] life is in complete and utter shambles. 0 remorse she just saw this baby and was like ok now how can i torment him psychologically for the next 22 years of his life. and then did it. and for what. girl thats a wholeass fresh baked infant why are you haunting him. go somewhere else.

SOFTEST OC

NOAH TALAVERA | 2077

he is just a little guy who is SO full of love despite the horrors. so gentle with literally everything he touches. the city could have completely changed and ruined him. he could have become angry. he could have become a merc to get money. and fall into that pit like so many others did. but he didnt!!! he didnt let that happen!!!! yes the city may have hurt him and left him with cyberware he never wanted but it will NEVER stop him from being kind. ever. and i love him so much for it.

MOST ALOOF/STANDOFFISH OC

XAVIER MASON | 2077

he is an arasaka plaything whose whole personality has been completely altered bc of it. he used to be welcoming and friendly and Kind. but bc of literally everything arasaka did to him, he's extremely cold and distant, and a bit of an asshole. he is well aware of this, and there is a little voice in him somewhere. begging for him to be kind again. just once. because while he won't ever admit it, he doesnt want to die believing everyone thought he was nothing more than an arasaka bootlicker and an all around shitty guy. he's a loving father, deep down in there somewhere, he just cant show it. and he doesnt know how </3 he'll figure it out again. one day

DUMBEST OC

LUCIANO VIDAL | 2077

it's funny bc he is actually really smart, his brain is a sponge when it comes to learning new things, he is a great listener, and will remember basically everything you ever tell him. however!!! when he started his job as a security guard at a club, he somehow didnt notice his own brother was also there working occasionally. for a whole entire month. [theyre both idiots there sorry seb] but then after that. he also failed to mention to his two sisters that he finally got in contact with his brother again after almost 20 years. it took. ???? a good handful of months for anyone to find out. and it was entirely by accident.

he's very stupid and his idea of what is and isnt important is Very skewed. but i still love him.

SMARTEST OC

LEON DELLO RUSSO | 2077

he designed his own cyberarm. the fingers are full of different sized screwdrivers for different emergencies. he once plotted out the floorplan of an entire spaceship by memory and sheer luck. he is very good at repairing things. he is a cybersecurity expert. he almost got killed for hacking into the wrong systems at work once. he contains multitudes.

OC I'D BE FRIENDS WITH IRL

MARCUS/RYAN/VAL | N/A

yes theres three of them theyre a package deal. marcus sees ghosts. ryan is a wandering soul trying to find her body back. val can read your fortune with eerie accuracy. if the three of them were my friends my life would never be boring ever again

#oc tag #HELLO HI. THIS TOOK FOREVER I AM SO SORRY. READ ABOUT MY CHILDREN #THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR STILL TAGGING ME EVEN THOUGH IM SO BAD AT THESE 😭 <33

[leqclerc]

I'm so sorry bestie i just really need to rant rn. Like ferrari is literally fucking Charles over race after race and he always takes it with so much grace and kindness, never blaming the team, always holding himself accountable and he gets absolutely nothing in return. Like literally nothing. That video on b*notto talking to him makes me so unreasonably angry like stop wagging your finger at him, he has every right to be furious at you and the whole clown show so don't act like he is being unreasonable or anything. Like how can they throw away win after win??!? I just don't get it. You have a driver who is clearly cut out to race for a wdc and you don't prioritise him??? Am I supposed to believe that sainz is anywhere near his level??? They had no issue picking Charles over Seb (or at least they did imo and like I kinda get it) so why are they having such a hard time with it now??? And like Charles is stupidly loyal to this team and he wants to win here, with them, but how many more times will they let him down before he realises that huh maybe ferrari kinda sucks??? And like I want him to go on a rampage. I know that he'd never talk badly about them but I wanna hear him drag the team through mud, to tell everyone they suck and that he is disappointed and mad and saying that "the next race will be better" is not enough. I wanna see him destroy sainz at every given chance and race for himself and just go absolutely insane. I wanna see him enter his reputation era. I want to see ferrari on its knees begging him to stay and for forgiveness. I wanna see ferrari clearly treat him as a number one driver. Like I don't see him leaving and even if he did, where he'd go? But I want ferrari to make a fucking effort lol. Anyways, sorry for using your ask box for this and thank you for listening to my rant💖💖

No, you're so right, thank you for sending this in ❤️

Because they're essentially showing that trust, patience and loyalty isn't worth very much and when it comes down it it's every man for himself. Which is a part of racing, sure, but I don't think drivers are used to their own teams being their biggest rival/obstacle.

You make such a good point here, I keep thinking the same myself. Like, if I speak on it I'll probably get blasted, but it's so true and the attitude shift is so noticeable. The pit wall was very comfortable using team orders with Seb and Charles whenever they were near each other on track (which happened frequently since they were evenly matched on pace). Even when they weren't going for the win (in Australia 2019 they finished like 4th and 5th so) and the car wasn't consistently quick enough to be a title contender.

Now though? They literally dragged their feet for ages, costing Charles time, energy, and tyre life. Then they essentially chicken out of committing to a decision and just pit the teammate. They come out behind each other and the situation repeats itself. Again they're slow to respond, hesitant, but Charles eventually is let past to create a gap. And that all comes tumbling down under one safety car pit stop window. They say things but don't exactly enforce them very well - during the safety car period Sainz was told his priority is to defend from the guys behind and to let Charles create a gap in front, so the intention might've been there, but the execution? ...

Idk, a part of me thinks maybe he was antsy to get his "firsts" and by extension the team was too, but now that it's happened, where do they go from here? I don't think it'll change anything, at least not in a good way. Now you've essentially taught one driver that it's okay to disobey orders if it benefits him. Also the fact that both times Charles slipped completely out of podium contention, just left out there like a sitting duck...fuck, it was grotesque.

Imo B*notto was always a poor leader, always comfortable with throwing his drivers under the bus instead of reflecting on his own behaviour and attitude. People started warming to him this year and last year when things started improving for Ferrari, but on days like this he still shows his true colours. Berating Charles, saying he shouldn't be disappointed? What, because "there's always next year"? Farcical.

I mean, this is - or rather was, worst case scenario - a year where they are championship contenders. The driver that got himself into a position of being a title contender on merit was Charles. But I guess they don't give much of a fuck about the WDC for him if they still have this "oh well, it doesn't really matter which of the drivers wins 😊❤️" attitude. It's extremely disappointing and really quite baffling to see them going about it like this, consistently failing to do right by Charles, who is, by all metrics, their championship hope. It's not like they don't have a history of pulling team orders. Now they're tip toeing around it even when one has the pace and the other evidently does not. Even when there's a title on the line. What's changed? 🤔

#replies #maybe-we-are-we-were-fireproof #like sorry but how can you say seb and charles got too competitive between themselves and it started being a problem but then allow this #make it make sense???? #like idk maybe they didn't want him to feel left out and wanted to get those firsts but what now? is the wdc even salvageable at this point #do they even fucking care? probably not #.long post

[racingliners]

F1 Re-Watch 2013: Round 14 - South Korea

It's Winter break and I am FINALLY picking back up my 2023 watch through (given how it's December, I probably won't finish this before 2024, but that's okay!).

This is another one I watched live at the time at my friend's house, and my main memory apart from Seb winning is Mark Webber's car having an alternator failure and then going on fire (right after his Singapore last lap DNF which, ouch) and Nico Rosberg having a very sparky front wing. iirc Jenson had an alright race and scored points, though I cannot recall how Lewis did, so let's jump in!

Once again saying how much of a core memory the old F1 intro is

and also asking why can't F1 provide alternate commentary options, why must Crofty and Brundle be forced upon us 😭

On a more practical note, I never knew why this race was officially called the Korean GP instead of the South Korean GP

But Yeongam was a fun track even if the layout looked a bit odd.

Alrighty: Starting grid whiplash time! SEWIS FRONT ROW!!!! (this is for meeeeee) Grosjean P3 and Rosberg P4 Jenson P11 and Jev down in P16

[Formation Lap]: Almost everyone on the super soft tyres apart from Ricciardo who's on the mediums

and immediately cut to the mad rush of mechanics and engineers running back to the garages

huh, so today I learned that no one is allowed to sit on the pitwall at the race start in case there's an on-track incident. I really feel like I should have known this before now 😅

[Start/Lap 1]: Seb has in Seb fashion just shot off into the distance

CARNAGE

One of the Ferrari's got tagged, someone else span round, turn 3 was like a dodgems rink

right before all that happened Grosjean overtook Lewis and is in P2

[Lap 2]: But Seb is already 2 seconds ahead of P2. Just GOAT things.

[Lap 3]: Now 2.6 seconds 👑 (When Seb dominates in a Red Bull it's sexy, when anyone else does the same it's not - hope that helps x)

The Top 5 after the lap 1 nonsense is Seb, Grosjean, Lewis, Nico R and Hulkenberg.

[Lap 4]: Jenson has minor front wing damage 😭

ooh cut to Raikkonen and Ricciardo scrapping over 7th

and now Jenson has to come in for a new front wing 😭😭😭

it's apparently affecting his brake temps, fml

Okay start replay: oh my days the field was five wide before the braking zone for turn 3 no wonder that there was dodgems.

[Lap 6]: I'm starting to wonder if I mis-remembered Nico's front wing failing and sparking along the track. I'm sure it was at this Korean GP bc I remember my friend being so upset over it

[Lap 7]: JENSON FASTEST LAP!!!!!!!

Though this was years before getting the fastest lap was worth a point, but it's worth a point in my heart

[Lap 8]: Cars starting to make their first pit stops

[Lap 9]: Back to Seb fastest lap, he's over three seconds ahead of P2

Meanwhile Lewis just got told to push before his first stop

[Lap 10]: And in he comes for stop number 1! Super softs off for Mediums, he comes out in P9

So according to Ted the two stop is actually quicker, but the cars that have stopped already are likely going to have to do the three stop. inch resting.

[Lap 11]: And saying that, Grosjean comes in to cover Lewis, and comes out juuuust ahead

[Lap 12]: And in comes Seb! Also putting on the mediums

but we need to cut back to the Lewis & Grosjean battle bc it was getting spicy

And a Lewis fastest lap for funsies 🥰

[Lap 13]: He's now 8 tenths behind Grosjean

[Lap 16]: Hmm, there is not much happening

I am enjoying watching the cars go round though, but then again that's just me 😅

Saying that, Hulkenberg is leading a train of Alonso, Raikkonen and Webber from 6th-9th.

oh it's a DRS train before we called it a DRS train

[Lap 18]: And Rosberg gets past Ricciardo for 4th

[Lap 20]: Jenson, who's in P9, is apparently not having a fun time with his tyres

Meanwhile Fernando is trying very hard to break through past Hulkenberg

sadly it's not happening

[Lap 22]: And *another* Seb fastest lap

I do love it when he collects them like pokemon

[Lap 23]: Jenson pits again :(

tbf it would be very on brand for me to deliberately forget if Jenson had a bad race

[Lap 24]: Breaking News: Fernando has still not gotten past Hulkenberg

I am starting to remember this part of the race and I'm pretty sure Hulkenberg does end up finishing in 5th

"Right front is destroyed" "I've been through the graining phase, and it's dead" the precursors to 'Bono my tyres are gone'. Lewis also sounds painfully done on the radio 😭😭😭

[Lap 26]: and there's a somewhat stranded Force India in the barriers.

oof Di Resta had a slow spin into the barriers after getting on the kerbs

[Lap 28]: Meanwhile Lewis is painfully slow compared to everyone else

Ah ha! There's Rosberg's front wing failure (not that I was wishing ill on him, more well done me for remembering correctly)

He was about to pass Lewis on the straight when the nose of the car just dropped down.

And it is now trailing on the ground putting sparks everywhere

[Lap 29]: So either by choice or circumstance Lewis wasn't able to get past Nico while he was driving slowly with his borked front wing.

"When are you gonna call me in man these tyres are fucked?" Lewis' very not fun Korean GP

[Lap 30]: and he FINALLY pits for another set of mediums

the race is 55 laps long so he should in theory make it to the end

[Lap 31]: FUCK Perez's tyre just failed

I do NOT want anymore Silverstone flashbacks, that was not fun

The whole tread of the tyre just ripped itself off the canvas while he was going down the straight, NOT GOOD

[Lap 32]: Very understandably we have a safety car

"And Pirelli are here to inspect the remnants of their tyre, not that there is much" Ted Kravitz committing murders live on air since 2013.

Well I have to say that certainly spiked up my blood pressure, it's the fact that Perez just happened to be in the camera shot when it happened.

[Lap 33]: So while we have the SC, the current top 5 is: Seb, Grosjean, Raikkonen, Lewis and Hulkenberg

[Lap 34]: Cut to a probably quite stressed Pirelli engineer in the Merc Garage looking over someone's shoulder

[Lap 35]: Shoutout to Webber, who had to pit again for running over the debris from Perez's car so dropped down to P11, and was given a set of super softs because Red Bull did not have any mediums left

You can see why he went over to WEC

[Lap 36]: And we're back racing!

[Lap 37]: Thankfully for my nerves all clean through turns 1 and 2

...

and then there was turn 3

Sutil divebombed into Webber, who's car is now on fire.

Don't cut to the depressed RBR mechanics 😭

also WHERE ARE THE FIRE MARSHALLS?!

okay there they are

oh now we have Lotus on Lotus violence

and.... there's a fire car on the track??????

aaaaand safety car again.

[Lap 38]: Well... Lap 37 chose far, far too much violence

That was certainly a sequence of events

right before all that happened, Hulkenberg overtook Lewis for P4

so I'm not having a fun time

[Lap 39]: Good news: they put out Webber's car, bad news: it looks like a wreck

iirc Japan was seven days after Korea so yeah, a very not fun time for the mechanics who needed to fix that

[Lap 41]: And we're racing again. Boys I beg of you NO NONSENSE

Turn 3 I am watching you like a hawk

Lewis and Fernando are scrapping over P5

Jenson sighting!!!! he's in P7

[Lap 42]: Meanwhile Seb is still leading out front, by almost 2 seconds this time

[Lap 43]: So the top 5 is: Seb, Raikkonen, Grosjean, Hulkenberg and Lewis

[Lap 44]: Grosjean's been given the all clear to race Raikkonen for P2 🍿

[Lap 45]: Breaking news: Lewis is still behind Hulkenberg

but in actual news we have FIVE cars fighting over 10th

Maldonado, Guiterrez, Massa, Perez and Bottas

and I legit cannot keep up with who is where they're chopping and chaning so fast

[Lap 46]: Okay it's Massa (P10), Gutierrez, Checo, Valtteri and Maldonado

Make that Perez now in P11

that was a great battle though!!!

[Lap 47]: Lewis is very close to Hulkenberg...

...but still doesn't get past through turn 3

[Lap 48]: LEWIS IS INTO P4!!!!

...nvm Hulkenberg got back past on the second straight

And Fernando was very briefly in P5 but Lewis managed to hold fim

[Lap 49]: Bless at least the Sauber team are having fun

[Lap 50]: Lotus telling Grosjean that he can overtake Kimi but Romain saying he can't???? Team Enstone doing Team Enstone things

Massa and Perez under investigation for causing a collision, fellas...

At least Seb has a 4 second lead

[Lap 51]: 5 laps remaining klaxon!!

[Lap 52]: slow-mo shot of Seb's tyres, his front right does not look pretty

which was the same tyre that went on Perez's car

[Lap 53]: Lewis asking on the radio if anyone has suggestions for how to get past Hulkenberg. idk if Merc can gaslight, gatekeep girlboss their way out of this one

And Rosberg takes P8 from Jenson

[Lap 54]: uh no not another yellow flag

oop, Ricciardo's car decided to stop working

[Lap 55]: FINAL LAP!!

Lewis has properly closed up to Hulkenberg 👀

and Fernando has closed up to the back of Lewis

and SEB WINS THE SOUTH KOREAN GP!!!!! 🥳🍾

(gosh I've missed a driver sounding happy over the radio when they win)

The rest of the top 10: Raikkonen P2, Grosjean P3, Hulkenberg P4, Lewis P5, Fernando P6, Rosberg P7, Jenson P8, Massa P9 and Perez P10

lol at me saying Jenson has a nice race when he Did Not. But Lewis finish in the top 5 so that was positive bc I really had no recollection of how he did. Seb goated as per, and Lap 37 owes me financial compensation for all that nonsense.

Next race - Japan!

#F1 Re Watch #F1 2013 Re watch

[grussell63]

hello, can we talk about aston martins tyre strategy once again? and by talk i mean why the fuck did Seb start on hards just to pit in lap 21 🧍🏽‍♀️🧍🏽‍♀️🧍🏽‍♀️

#sebastian vettel

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thank you for the good luck! i hope your exams went/are going well 🫶🏻

yeah, people being upset that rb and mercedes have a first and second driver are understandable, especially if they support the second driver, but as we've seen that's how you win. back in the day it was kinda forbidden to have an "official" first and second driver. in the early 2000s ferrari was criticized by people and even got warnings from the fia for clearly favoring schumacher over barrichello over and over again, but as we've seen, by doing that ferrari went and won 5 championships one after the other and schumacher made history by becoming the first driver to ever get that many wins and that many champioship titles. also during the years of alonso and massa as teammates, team orders were forbidden, so ferrari (and other teams too of course) sometimes had to use weird phrasing to give team orders to the drivers without being too obvious. one example is the infamous "fernando in faster than you" [for context this happened during the 2010 german grand prix: alonso was starting in p2 and massa in p3. at the start seb closed alonso against the wall, so massa overtook them and secured p1, with then alonso in p2. the race was going well for massa so people expected him to win, also bc he hadn't won a race since brasil 2008 and then in 2009 he had a terrible accident in hungary. the problem was that for ferrari and the wdc the one fighting for the title wasn't massa, it was alonso. alonso was stuck behind massa trying to overtake him but couldn't, also bc the drs didn't exist yet in 2010. at one point alonso started complaining on the radio that he was faster than felipe and massa's race engineer told him to get more pace. then after some more laps felipe gets told "fernando is faster than you", so he slows down and let alonso pass him]. it was clear as day that that was a team order but ferrari denied it but yeah... pretty clear 💀

also idk what was up with binotto, i think he just wanted a team he could trust, reason why he sent a lot of engineers and mechanics away (some of the people in ferrari af corse, the wec team, were first part of the f1 team and then got sent away) and kept or brought in the ones he trusted. i personally think it's not like he didn't like charles, but he didn't like being told he was wrong and sometimes charles subtly did that. also after the hungary blunter, sky italy commentators and interviewers had a small talk with binotto and all of them were like "the strategy was clearly wrong, the hard tyres weren't right" and binotto kept saying the hard tyres were right and it was the car that just didn't have pace. carlo vanzini (italy's main f1 commentator) pointed out that another team had tried the hard compound (alpine i think) and the data showed that with that weather and temperatures those tyres weren't right AT ALL and that ferrari actually had pace. binotto kept defending the strategy and vanzini once again pushed that it was clear that that wasn't the case and that charles clearly said he was good on medium tyres but they made him pit and changed them to hard, which didn't make sense bc they kinda took another win from him. after that binotto basically left clearly upset and he didn't show up to any of sky italy's interviews 💀

so yeah, he seems like a difficult man to read, but whatever. what is done is done i guess.

on oversteery and understeery cars: yeah, oversteer kinda makes the car faster if you like it, max clearly prefers oversteer and so did most of the champions in f1. it still makes the car a bit unbalanced, but if you're fast and clean you can pull off amazing races. in this case it's clear that when charles has a car that fits his driving style he's basically unstoppable: bahrain was his at the end, even if verstappen didn't have that dnf, in that race charles had more than him. verstappen tried to pull the same trick THREE TIMES at the same corner and charles acted smartely all three times (he himself said in pist race interviews that he didn't think max would try the same thing in the same place that many times after seeing it didn't work the first time). jeddah was an almost win for charles and yeah almost wins don't count on the history books, but he was fucked over by the safety car. australia. do i have to say anything? yeah, no. imola was unfortunate. a lat pit stop made charles fall behind perez and while trying to overtake him he spun at the variante alta and that was it, shit happens. miami was clearly not ferrari's track bc the car lacked a lot of pace, charles got pole only bc verstappen made a mistake in his lap. barcelona could have been a perfect weekend, charles was going for another grand chelem, but yeah... monaco, i won't talk about monaco bc it only hurts, but his unfinished pole lap. he was already on pole and he was getting already 6 tenths faster than his pole lap (i'll never forgive perez for what he did, sorry not sorry).

and lastly, idk where the story of the drivers making their own strategy in canada came from, bc it's not really true... adami told carlos to pit and he said he wanted to stay out, but he was later pitted anyways. xavi told charles to box, charles said he wanted to stay out, then xavi told him to do "opposite of norris" and bc norris pitted charles stayed out. but tbh the drivers shouldn't have to make the calls themselves, bc they don't have the tools to see the whole picture of the race and anyways it's not their job. that's the team's job and what strategists are for. and tbh the whole narrative of "carlos is more assertive/charles is whiny" is also pushed bc of the way the live broadcast pick and choose what team radios to show and something about it doesn't sit right with me...

(Again so sorry for replying days later😭 my exams are going well. How are yours going?🫶🏻)

The 1-2 driver hierarchy is kinda cruel we can’t say no to that and sometimes it sucks seeing good drivers having to hold back performance or being forced to give up good chances in favor of their teammates and for the good of the team. I think valtteri in the recent years was a big example of that, even checo (sometimes and more in term of races rather than championships) right now but yeah sometimes it’s the only way to win, or if the team is in a league of their own, it’s the only way to break records in terms of at least wdc and wcc. And honestly, i feel like the phrasings such as “x is faster than you” or “x is gaining on you” are still pretty common for subtle team orders although we do see team orders them being blatantly given out now, and i feel like sometimes they’re still disguised due to the backlash teams get for openly favoring one of their drivers (even when it’s the logical choice because at the end, each person analyzes the situation, even race stats, subjectively and naturally each person wants team orders to benefit the driver they support).

As for Binotto, I truly feel like he was wasted a chance to lead a quite significant comeback in f1, because Ferrari winning after so long would’ve been such a big deal for this sport. Personally, i really hated his approach and how he responded to rightful criticism so i’m not surprised with his response to the remarks from sky italia. After some bad races, i would listen to his interviews and just think to myself that he can’t actually think they did they right thing (as he always repeated) because in my head i’m thinking “wow, i’m a new fan and i still can tell you fucked up” plus he had the entirety of f1 press telling him there’s something wrong and he still wanted to put up an image that he still was convinced in the team’s decisions. He literally had his rival teams’ team principals defending his drivers and even Horner defending Charles after i think silverstone or hungary and he still said “we believe we did the right thing”. Like no?! You didn’t. And sometimes it’s better to own up to a mistake than to act like you’re an idiot who can’t see it.

I remember hungary so well, because really they didn’t need any sets of data (even if they had one) to know hards weren’t gonna work, just logic. Literally my sister who watches a race once in a blue moon was asking me why did they put him on hards and i sat there like 🤷🏻‍♀️

Bahrain last year was such a good race tho and it showed racing intelligence from charles imo. And even in jeddah, that showed despite max winning but I think it was such an enjoyable battle to watch. Oversteery car obv seem tricky to drive but i feel like a fast driver who knows the limits and just how far he can push them can totally be comfortable and competitive in an oversteery (and obviously fast😂) car. I think as long as the driver is comfortable in the car he’s in and confident in it and at harmony with how it drives, he can pull amazing results out of it.

imo that showed in miami this year because to me, charles had so much trouble that weekend because he just seemed like he wasn’t comfortable or confident in the car, almost like he didn’t trust it or trust that he has control of it and confidence is such a key element in racing and driving in general.

As for canada, that’s what i meant (like you said), i just worded it falsely. The strategy was obviously the team’s doing but at some point the drivers had to make their proper calls too. Plus at the beginning of the safety car, xavi told charles to box and after that charles’ radio was practically gibberish but then xavi told him to do opposite of what norris was doing so i think maybe charles asked for that or at least said he doesn’t wanna pit under sc. but yes, it’s still bad that the drivers are having to point out things to the people who supposedly have the data and telemetry and everything.

But tbh, in canada’s case, I don’t care whose decision it was, all i care about was that it was a good Sunday. Makes me wonder what could’ve been if quali had went well for charles🥲 and it’s also kinda sad that we went from wanting to win the championships to celebrating p4 and p5 but oh well I guess…

(Honestly at this point feel free to message me privately if you’re comfortable with it and we can rant to each other haha. Plus you’re way more knowledgeable than i am so i’m learning quite a few things and i’m really enjoying talking to you🫶🏻)

[sweetteaz]

Race Thoughts(Interlagos)(longggggg post warning)

Another Ferrari strategy disaster class is looking immanent

Great start form Lewis and George

And a crash before the first lap is even finished

Really sucks for Kmag it looked like both cars could've kept going if Daniel hadn't hit him after the spin

Yeah that crash was entirely on Daniel

Nooooooo Lewis, and of course it's Max who hits him

Chaos!!!!!!!

Absolutely insanity

Charles :(, honestly I missed the contact at first and just though he had just spun out

Surprised that he is able to keep going thought he would be out for sure

Common Lewis you can bring this back

11 laps and better than Mexico by a mile

Penalties for Max and Lando, fair

Carlos' car is smoking in the pits also a super early pit stop for mediums most the softs are still on

Okay it was tear off I think?????

Bottas is also having a solid race he’s made up some solid places

Carlos!!!!! Some great overtaking

It’s looking like George has this in the bag

The Ferrari has definitely gotten over the pace issues they had last week

Stop the race!!!!!!! Ham, Rus, Vet

Alpha TEAM under investigation?????

These Mercedes are absolutely flying

Mick/Alpha pit drama!!!!!!

Some odd strategy from Ferrari yet again but nothing terrible so far just strange

Also lots of great overtaking today just some phenomenal racing

Mercedes 1-2??????? Looking positive

Mercedes strat seems to be fuck Sergio Perez

George wtf does that mean, no soft or NO soft

Charles has hade such a solid recovery drive so far

Some solid defense from Checo but ultimately Lewis has a slipstream and DRS

How many times are they gonna pit Charles

So many pit stops like someone is almost always in the pits

That was some odd decision making from Mercedes, Lewis had some great pace and his tires was fine so why pit him

Okay so it is softs for George

Okay it appears that Mercedes does know what they doing

It’s looking like it’s gonna be Carlos vs Checo for 3rd

No Toto :(

Kevin is apparently still stuck on the track

Nooo Lando and on his birthday :(

This race has had some insane strategy I don’t understand a single thing that is happening

Full safety car now could be interesting

This safety car is taking forever

Estie getting feistie on the radio over team orders

Okay it’s finally over

Another great start from George

Charles podium?????

Insanity!!!!!!!!

How on earth did they not make contact(Carlos & Checo)

This is looking like George’s to take

Charles has had such a great rescue drive

WTF is up with Yuki cause he’s over a minute behind Lattifi

Checo is just falllllling back

WTF why are they telling Max to pass Checo he needs the points way more, Max has already won

Charles is asking for Carlos’ position!!!

Max is being asked to give back position

Great for George!!!!!!!

Who doesn’t love a first win!!!!!

Max is such a fucking brat everything is handed to him constantly and he never repays the favor

Charles was also lowkey being kinda bratty(apparently the position switch was agreed too before the race but orders where never relayed to Carlos)

Some massive interteam fighting this weekend

Seb really got screwed from P3 to P11

The drama from this weekend alone is enough for at least 3 DTS episodes

#10/10 race #I was on the edge of my seat the entire time and pole sitter won #Also do I want Lewis to keep the record alive yes #but common who doesn't love a first win. #formula 1 #charles leclerc #lewis hamilton #max verstappen #sebastian vettel #daniel ricciardo #f1 #brazil22 #brazilian gp 2022 #carlos sainz #sergio perez #kevin magnussen #esteban ocon #nicholas latifi #yuki tsunoda #mercedes #ferrari #toto wolff #alpha romeo #mick schumacher #race thoughts

[justaredheadf1fan]

I'm actually speechless after this

Hello, hello!

I'm nervous. This is too much for me. I've come full circle now from last year when I first started watching F1 again. It's been tense but also fun, but stressful and annoying and exhilarating too.

It's lights out and away we go, the Merc boys do it perfectly and go on untouched. The Ferraris are pretty lost down there after Lando. AND DANIEL AND KEVIN TOUCH AND THEY'RE OUT, NOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Daniel what the hell!? That was so wrong... I know in that moment he was apologizing to Kevin after they got out of their respective cars, and the impact wasn't even that bad, but what was he trying there? Poor Kevin, I'm so sorry for him, he was having such a great weekend and he was doing such amazing work...

I'm having flashbacks once again with the SC today. God no. Let's hope that the W13 works as good as the rest of the weekend.

FUCKING CUNTSTAPPEN WHAT THE FUCK!!!! AND NOW LECLERC AND NORRIS, WHAT IS THIS!!!!!!

I'm so fucking ashamed of these commentators. Seriously, what a bunch of bullshit they're saying. So, when the fucking idiot doesn't know how to overtake without crashing into the rest of the drivers it's okay but when Lewis doesn't back down it's his fault. Suck my balls, mate.

Lewis is eating up the drivers in front of him with a fucked up car and next up is Seb. He's still faster than most. What is the W13 made of? The same materials as Alonso's Alpine?

Lewis came to war today, AND STILL WE RISE. FRAUDSTAPPEN AND NORRIS GET A 5-SECOND PENALTY EACH FOR BEING ABSOLUTE DIRTBAGS. There, I said it. Not sorry.

Lewis and Seb wheel to wheel with absolutely no need of any bullshit. Clean and nice. Seb a few laps later getting Norris.

GEORGE P1 LEWIS P2 AND SEB P3 STOP THE COUNT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!

Valtteri fighting Checo, for old times' sake. Thank you Valtteri, you did what you could.

LEWIS P1 GEORGE P2 SEB P3 STOPPPPPPPPP, FINISH THIS RACE!!!!!

Lewis might be the only one without having made a pit stop, I hope Mercedes do him justice today after everything that's happened.

Seb is having both the time of his life and an amazing race. I'm so happy for him, he deserves everything good before retiring.

Lewis is still on the hunt for Checo and he's gaining on him little by little. AND FINALLY HE GETS HIM, LEWIS UP TO P2!!!!!!

I don't see why they stopped Lewis so fast but let's hope it pays out... AND HE GETS FASTEST LAP, YES!!!!

Norris stopped, we have a VSC almost for sure. And that's on Karma for McLaren, ladies and gentlemen.

Shit, now Safety Car? Too little too late! I knew Lewis being forced to pit was a fucking mistake. Mercedes, once again, I'm so fucking angry. He's sacrificed his whole season for the team. And still he's found himself in this very same situation several time throughout the season for bad strategy calls and now in Brazil again? For fuck's sake.

Alpine is so shameful. Alonso sold them out without even announcing it to them in the first place, and now they're reprimanding Esteban on the radio for everyone to hear? How much did the old fuck need to cry to the team for them to do this? Unn-fucking-believable.

The Merc boys on the way to create as much of a gap as possible. Carlos flopping as usual. And now he does go through. Jesus. And how is it that now Sharl and Alonso got Checo too? What's going on with the RedBulls and why the fuck hasn't it happened from the beginning of the season?

Honestly, I'm happy for George but at the same time I can't be happy. Lewis should've been the winner, I don't care if it seems unreasonable.

And Checo's case today just made this uncomfortable subject the more clear. Team orders have always existed for a reason. Checo and Charles needed the points to stay ahead in the championship. Checo was fucked by Cuntstappen because he's an asshole (and obviously RedBull because it's a shitty as fuck team) and Charles was fucked by Scuderia Clowneria for a driver who doesn't even have the balls to overtake or defend when he actually needs to.

But then we have the Mercedes issue. Lewis has sacrificed his entire season for the team. The first few races he wore sensors and anything that could help collect data for the team to start improving that shitty car. And that included helping George because he was the one taking the responsibility of helping the team so that George could race carefree in his first year on the team. Still he's managed to give us several masterclasses on what being a Formula 1 actually means. And here we are, going into Interlagos, the race that actually means everything to him, and Mercedes couldn't really give it to him so that at least he could also keep his record of winning at least once in every season he's raced so far in his career?

I'm sorry but he's given Mercedes EVERYTHING. The 8 Constructor's Championships they have they won because of him. He sacrificed his whole season for them. And they keep fucking up his strategies in the same way over and over during the season, putting him in the position on being in Safety Car situations with Costappen behind him on newer tyres I think every single time to be passed like he's nothing and today again only today being his lucky day, after what happened in Abu Dhabi last year? You must be fucking joking. I don't care if it seems unreasonable saying all of this, but I don't believe it is. It's only fair at least to let him have one for all the sacrifices he made for everyone this year.

I'm pissed and next week's just gonna make this end of the season even worse because I'll have to say goodbye to Seb and Danny, and quite possibly Mick, and I can't quite handle this. It's so unfair.

Peace out.

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