Racing hearts verse
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Two boys born just sixteen days apart, sharing the same passion and talent for racing. Two names that are always mentioned together, two racing prodigies destined to shine and forever duel side by side.
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when you need two decades to understand what is in front of you...
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- Part 1 of Racing hearts verse
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Five times Pierre Gasly called Max Verstappen an idiot, and one time he (finally) didn't by Latulla80
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
28 Jan 2025
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The line crackled for a moment before Charles’s voice came through, loud and furious. “You will not believe what that asshole did today.”
Pierre blinked, sitting up. “What? Who?”
“Max!” Charles spat the name like it physically hurt to say it.
Pierre sighed. Of course, it was Max.
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Five times Pierre Gasly called Max Verstappen an idiot, and one time he (finally) didn't
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- Part 2 of Racing hearts verse
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Charles grinned. “Max, imagine it. The chaos. The intrigue. No faces, no words, just hands. It’s intimate, it’s unmistakable, and it will end them.”
Max grumbled dramatically, squeezing his waist. “You are enjoying this too much.”
“I am enjoying this exactly the right amount.”
Charles just smiled, utterly pleased with himself, and Max, well. Max was doomed. Because as much as he liked to complain, the truth was, he’d do anything Charles asked.
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Christmas chaos, gifts, family, and diabolical plans to break the internet.
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- Part 3 of Racing hearts verse
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Coming out is never easy, but when you're a Formula 1 driver, it’s a whole new level of difficult. And when that moment comes with your father, especially if your father is Jos Verstappen, it feels like the hardest challenge of all.
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- Part 4 of Racing hearts verse
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Sebastian nodded, still smirking. Max could argue all he wanted, but it was obvious. He wasn’t just impressed. He wasn’t just invested. He was lost in this, lost in the way Charles drove, in the way he thought, in the way he had been chasing him for years without even realizing it.
But Max? Max wasn’t anywhere near ready to admit it.
Sebastian wasn’t going to say it out loud. Not yet.
But he would keep watching. Because this? This was going to be interesting.
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- Part 5 of Racing hearts verse
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The past few days had been spent in a strange, insulated world. Just them, the cats, Leo. The outside had only existed in notifications and headlines.
But today, Max was going online. And Charles was walking out that door.
It would be the first time either of them really faced the world again.or
Max and Charles came out on New Year's, sending the internet into a frenzy and now they have to face the outside world.
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- Part 6 of Racing hearts verse
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“Sas,” he said gently, kneeling down.
I walked to him. Slowly. One step, then another.
He opened his arms, and I stepped in.
He didn’t even need to say it. I heard it in the way he touched the back of my head. In the way he pressed his cheek to my fur.
“I told you I’d come back, Prinses,” he murmured. “And I did.”
I let my eyes close.
“I know it’s scary,” he whispered. “But you’re coming with me. You and Jimmy. I’d never leave you.”or
Max officially moved in with Charles, like, no return ticket, fully committed, toothbrush and everything, and now he’s back to pick up Sassy and Jimmy too. Because if he’s building a life with Charles, obviously the furry children are part of the package.
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- Part 7 of Racing hearts verse
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My chest ached, hollow and deep.
I locked my phone and set it face-down on the counter. Tried to breathe.
It wasn’t that I hadn’t expected it. It wasn’t even the first time I’d read something vile or twisted or deliberately cruel. But this felt different. Because it wasn’t just about me anymore.
It was about Charles. And Alex. And Kelly.
And none of them had signed up for this.
This storm had my name on it. But it hit all of them too.
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After coming out on New Year’s Eve, Max and Charles are thrown into a full-blown media storm. British tabloids go on the attack, splashing their story across front pages with cruel speculation about a secret, years-long affair. Kelly and Alexandra are caught in the crossfire, framed as either deceived or complicit.
The story follows Max through a lonely, brutal week in Milton Keynes, far from Charles, and deeper than ever inside his own head. He knows the UK press is aiming most of its fire at him, and that everyone else are just collateral damage. They’re being called liars, manipulators, traitors. Max tries to push through, stay professional. But he’s not sleeping, not talking, and not letting anyone see how much it’s tearing him apart.Series
- Part 8 of Racing hearts verse
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Grid Babysitters Club: Lestappen Surveillance Protocol by Latulla80
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
07 Sep 2025
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The FIA isn’t exactly waving rainbow flags right now.
Max already has beef with them.
MBS definitely has an agenda.
If they wanted to make an example of someone… Max would be the first name on the list.Carlos
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He’s always one step away from telling them to f* off on live TV
Not idealAlex
So what do we do?
Like actually?Lewis
We look out for them.
Quietly. Subtly. Always.Lewis
Make sure nobody sneaks photos when they’re not paying attention.
If they forget themselves, be there to nudge them back.
Not in a way that shames them. Just keep them safe.Lando
ok but i can still make fun of them a little bit right 😈Lewis
Absolutely.
Just do it with love.Lando
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Max and Charles are heading to pre-season testing in Bahrain, and the rest of the grid is third-wheeling while trying to protect them from themselves
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- Part 9 of Racing hearts verse
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Max leaned back into the wide leather seat, the hum of the engines of AirMax a steady backdrop, and tightened his arm around Charles, who had half-slid into his lap like it was the most natural thing in the world.
It was warm, comfortable... dangerously so. Bahrain would be another story. Three days of testing, cameras everywhere, journalists dissecting every expression, the FIA waiting for any excuse. But here, at thirty thousand feet, Max allowed himself the indulgence of pressing a slow kiss into Charles’ hair.
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Max and Charles have gone public, ready to face preseason testing in Bahrain hand in hand. It should be a milestone, a new chapter, maybe even a little romantic. Instead, it turns into a three–day circus where the entire grid seems determined to thirdwheel them at every possible moment. Between unsolicited advice and badly timed interruptions, privacy becomes the rarest commodity in the paddock.
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- Part 10 of Racing hearts verse
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Abu Dhabi always felt unreal to Max.
Conservative country. Final race. Cameras everywhere. Don’t give anyone anything.
Max adjusted the brim of his cap and kept walking, shoulders loose, expression neutral. The fifth title hovered somewhere in the background of his mind like an abstract concept.
Technically possible, statistically improbable, emotionally irrelevant.
What Max wanted was simpler.
To be done.
To go home.
To close this season and leave the noise behind.He’d already won.
Not the championship, that one could come or not, it almost didn’t matter.
He’d won Charles. He’d won a life far away from this paddock, from these politics, from these men in suits who spoke of morality while sharpening knives.The rest was noise.
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The 2025 season finds Max and Charles racing with a target on their backs. They’re forced to navigate conspiracies, political games, and power plays unfolding both on and off the track. All while facing a powerful enemy determined to tear them apart.
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- Part 11 of Racing hearts verse