Chapters: 152
Fandom: Formula 1 RPF
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Charles Leclerc/Max Verstappen, Daniel Ricciardo & Max Verstappen, Pierre Gasly & Charles Leclerc
Characters: Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen, Pierre Gasly, Daniel Ricciardo, Lando Norris, Sebastian Vettel
Additional Tags: POV Max, POV Charles, lestappen, from rival to boyfriends, From hate to love, Feels, Hot, Funny, Sad, Introspection, Personal Growth, Couple growth, different couples at the beginning, References to Depression, seb & lew support, charles x max, max x charles, sensitive topics, from first steps, all written, Father-Son Relationship, Friends helping, a bit of side stories, Role Reversal
Summary:
“Of course I remember you, my dear, and I also remember as I called you to myself. Asshole. A nickname that is easy to remember, obvious and not very original, but truly representative. It suits you and your asshole way of driving.”
Max and Charles are in a constant race with each other since they were little, this race never ends, lap after lap the level increases, the relationship changes and they evolve. How do they go from hating each other to loving each other? And in the middle, how many things happen, how many do they involve?
CRDITS: the characters are not mine but their own since they are real, what I write is absolutely invented, it comes from my imagination and isn’t for profit but only for personal enjoyment. Some references are real, like those regarding F1 or other things that really happened, but the rest doesn’t exist. As far as we know.
NOTES: It is a long fic written in 152 chapters. I took the real situations and I intertwined them and adapted to my visions of their story that is told here from the beginning. It’s all very personalized, I exaggerated some things, I invented others. The goal is to bring Charles and Max together and live their wonderful relationship from the beginning in all their steps.
The fic is divided into three sectors, like an F1 track. Since we start from the beginning, there are also other couples, before seeing our heroes come together, so it’s correct that you know that there will be both MaxXDaniel and CharlesXPierre, even if it’s clear that we’ll end up with CharlesXMax. Oh, and for the record, I also point out that there will be reversed roles between Charles and Max, the top will not always be the same, there will be evolutions in that sense too.
I hope that my vision and version pleases, this is my translation from the original language (Italian) to English, I’m not as good as I would like, but I hope it’s at least decent, I apologize in advance for the not so great translation.
For those who don’t know, I also wrote ‘Still we rise’, 100 chapters of love about Seb and Lewis who are my two souls, so I couldn’t avoid including them here as a sort of supreme entities that appear from time to time, but not always (more Seb than Lewis). (when I wrote the fic Lewis wasn’t bothering Charles like he is now.)
I tried to inform myself on everything that could be useful, but there could be inaccuracies, I ask forgiveness in advance. Furthermore, I’m not a super expert, but a simple F1 fan, so I don’t have certain notions or details, I hope you can overlook my shortcomings.
I gave my all for this fic and I became very fond of these two, I hope you experience a bit of what I felt while writing.
The story starts when they’re young, but soon they grow up and the most interesting and intriguing things arrive, but it’s a slow and long journey that takes different periods and moments. It’s from the alternating POVs of the two of them. Happy reading. Kisses Akane
