#top 10 lestappen moment

[valyrfia]

guys no the max moment was during silverstone 2019. they fucked on track and later went OH maybe maybe we need to do this off track too

THIS is the correct addition to the timeline we were all missing because how did we collectively forget Max and Charles forgetting there was anyone else in that race and instead doing an elaborate mating ritual for 30 laps. Silverstone being the week after Austria 2019 as well....they had a lot to discuss. Horizontally.

[sennaverstappen]

ROUND 19/23 ⸺ american grand prix ✩ 22.10.2023

maple's rating: ★★★★ (8.2/10)

☁︎ click read more facts, highlights & experiences ☁︎

✩ facts

max's 50th win!!!

max's 15th win of the season, tying him with... himself for most wins in a season 😭😭😭

it was max’s 30th win with car #1, surpassing sebastian's total with the number and only michael schumacher has more👀👀

max is the first driver to win five consecutive grand prix in the USA

max today broke his previous record for the most points scored in a season (he scored 454 in 2022)

it was also mclaren's first podium in austin since lewis won the inaugural race for them in 2012

p4 for checo was his first top-four finish since monza

fernando’s dnf was his first retirement as an aston martin driver

esteban’s dnf was his sixth official retirement of the season, the most of any driver

✩ raceweek highlights

track. limits 😒

lestappen 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

max got da TRACK limits brother 😒

max FUCK ASS LAP‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

chole to min?! chole to min tonight queen?!😏😏😏🌷🌷🫶🫶🫶

charles in general was cuntenserven during quali 🥰🥰🥰🥰

logan out in sq1 :(

MAX SPINNY‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

alex to sq3 💖💕💖💕💖

max sprint pole!!!!! oh boy!!!! 🥂🥂🥂

LESTAPPEN FUCKING BATTLEEEE 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

carlando battle 👁️👁️

lewis off the fucking shits this weekend my brother 🌷

george brother what the hell was that move on oscar 😭😭😭😭

lance dnf 🥺

max wins the sprint🌷🌷🌷🌷💕💕💕💕💕💗💗💗💗🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳💖💖💖🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🍾🍾🍾🍾🌷🌷🌷🌷🥰🥰����🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😁😁😁🥹🥹

lando leading‼️‼️‼️

max p5 within one lap 😏

charlos battle‼️‼️‼️

lewis says bye to everyone on the grid 🤣🤣🤣

this 4433 race long battle… i was sick to my stomach yall literally 🥹🥹🥹

oscar dnf

LESTAPPEN BATTLE‼️🌷

horrid pit for lewis (merc moment)

NORSTAPPEN BATTLE 🫶

uh oh. uh oh. rocky is NOT happy yall💔💔💔💔

‘DONT TALK TO ME IN THE BRAKING ZONE MAN!!!’

seeing the gap drop. and drop. and drop.

fernando dnf :(

BUT MAX WINS THE GRAND PRIX‼️‼️‼️🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

… lewis dsq

… charles dsq

✩ maple's diary

[hungriestheidi]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

- tagged by my most beloved @racingliners <3 

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Sixteen works under my current ao3 user :) 

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 

Again, under current ao3: 210,771. I am overly verbose :D 

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently, only Formula 1, but before that I wrote… kpop. I shall not go further than that. 

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

The house by the sea, monachopsis, romance by the fractures, you could kill me (and you should) and in beds of flame, how often was i tried.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes! It takes me so long to reply to them because I have # issues regarding accepting compliments and also not quite knowing how to reply to them. People are terribly sweet and I’m so enamored with their kindness <3

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

he chose me (as his burial ground), my dead dove magnum opus!

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Monachopsis. I think if you compare it with the beginning, it is the happiest one!

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Nah, I did get an ask once saying I was promoting infidelity lmao

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Porn with feelings is the only way I can describe it lol

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Well, define crossover. I do mix drivers in every other fic because I need to have female characters or I die. I cannot exist without at least one female character T_T

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of, otherwise I’d scream. 

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, I cannot remember which one lol :)

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, for my old fandom lol, it was such a fun experience! Each of us wrote a scene, one after the other, from two different povs. Would love to do it again!

14. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

I’m not going to lie chief, I do not have an all time favourite. I have terrible fluctuations in favorites but if I had to pick a top 5 in no particular order it’d be sebchal, sewis, surene, kaisoo, galex. 

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Low fantasy lestappen featuring topics like slavery, some trauma, fictional religions and its rituals… and sex, of course. 

16. What are your writing strengths?

I’d say I’m pretty good at capturing the emotions of the moment, describing feelings and putting poetic stuff everywhere lol I was raised on latin american fiction and poetry :))) 

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Everything else lol. Being realistic, I think I’m weak on narration aspects. 

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I write the entire fic in another language, this is nothing to me (I never include any other languages unless I know them or unless I specifically know the meaning of the sentence I’m including or I have asked twice to friends that speak that language). 

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Anime, specifically Sailor Moon lmao

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

Monachopsis my beloved <3 

tagging @piastriachios @duquesademiel @crimsonicarus <3

[antimonyandthyme]

Tagged by the lovely @badboy-george and @rosyjuly for the 20 questions for fic writers game, thank you! <33

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

62!

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

196,925

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently it's only F1, but I've written for a bunch of anime fandoms like Haikyuu! and Daiya no Ace (even in anime I can't escape sports) and Naruto of course. And some movie ones like Tenet. And some random others. Like the Epic 7 and Fire Emblem game.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

The Cloud That Settles (sewis), then If You Don't Play, You'll Never Win (lestappen), then Treading Softly in My Head (martian), then All the Miles We Have to Shed (martian), then Shutter Speed (martian). Special mention to the sixth in line But I Exist to Serve the Master, which I think was the first fic up on ao3 for The Gentlemen (2019) fandom kekekeke.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes, absolutely. I have a backlog at the moment which I feel a little guilty about because I want anyone who's commented to know their words and thoughts are so beloved to me, and sometimes when someone leaves a wonderfully thoughtful comment it takes me ages to respond because I want to respond in kind.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Spring Cleaning (maxiel) or this prosenna tumblr ficlet

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Hmm. Looking through my fics I realize they often end on a very happy, resolved, or hopeful note. It'd be tough for me to choose the happiest. Maybe Down in the Depths We Make Our Home (sebchal pacific rim au), just for how complete it felt at the end.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not in the traditional sense, like I hate your writing! kind of thing. I've had some odd comments that I genuinely think weren't meant to be mean but have made me question some aspects of my writing, and I've learned to take those in stride. I'm also very very lucky to be surrounded by beloved people who have everlasting patience for my huehuehues.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Kekekeke. Y E S. I love doing so. I'm not sure I can describe what kind, I'm into so many flavours. The really, really horny kind? *me scrolling through my ao3* Oh wow yes the really, really, really horny kind.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I have not! Only AUs at the moment. The craziest AU I've ever thought of was probably an F1 Chainsaw Man AU.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't believe so!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! I've had If You Don't Play, You'll Never Win and Melt Your Aches and Call This Home (a baseball anime fic) translated into Chinese. Reading them has been a delight and a lesson all in one!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, but I am in talks with... some beloved people...

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

All time! Hmm. Hmm! Naruto/Sasuke my og pairing probably. But Martian and Sebmick are right up there too.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Huehuehue. I have a bunch languishing in my drafts at the moment. Rosquez, seb4seb, sebastidan wips are most in danger because my interest in them crests super hard one day and wanes the next. *sees a gif* *is inspired* *sees a gif of something else* *forgets*

16. What are your writing strengths?

Narrative voicing I think? A very clear, defining character arc. I've been told the porn's pretty good too, while being very emotional.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Long fic. Ah, geez. There are so many stories in my head that could only be done justice if I had the patience to take my time with it, put in the hours, put in the words, put in the work. But I'm very easily distracted by shiny things unfortunately. I also worry I write the characters the same across fics. Like my Sebs, I worry that he's getting a little too consistent and predictable even in vastly different works.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I probably wouldn't, I would worry too much about whether I got the nuances and grammar and structure and voicing right.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Probably Naruto?

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

This changes depends on the day you ask. At the moment it's actually my prosenna tumblr fics, which upon every reread I find myself liking more. (The real fave fave fic is something I chatficced with @rosyjuly that I hope will one day see the light of day)

No pressure tagging if you'd like to play! @sebrrari @effervescentdragon @ayceeofspades @loveisworry @wewentcarracing

[jjustcallmejuliett]

F1 Fic Recs '22 pt.II

Hi everyone!

Five months have past since my last fic rec drop and it was damn time I made another one 'cause some great stuff has been posted so here you have the 10 best fics I've read in a while!

(Most of them are M or R rated so watch out for that :)

-A Thousand Shades of You by Tianvette (SEWIS AU)

I'm totally obsessed with soulmates AU and this one in particular is beautifully built up, because Lewis and Seb meet in the middle of the mountains and even though you think everything will be predictable... It's not! The story keeps you intrigued till the very last word and it's totally fluffy and sexy and worth of everybody's time.

-Enter at your own risk by formulacherry (or the f1 drivers' sex party)

okay idk how to start describing this fic... I was surprised I haven't recommended it before since it's one of the most well writen orgies in the f1 fandom. It's writen from different perspectives so that you don't miss a single second of what's going on around the place, and the thing I like the most about this one is that it's not just sex between drivers. Some of them have feelings for each other, some of them are just friends, some of them are fuckbuddies and some of them just decided to f* and that's it! My huge respects and admiration to this writer :')

-Learning a new language (Series) by kiwialicat (Piarles+ Arthur)

Okay I must advert you that this is not for everyone's piece of cake, it includes some very explicit sex between brothers. But if you don't mind ... This is a jewel you must read. The story is well developed, the smut is both romantic, shameless and not excessive and whats most important, it feels natural. It's something that (for being what it is, the developing of a three way relationship) doesn't weird you out, not even for a moment.

-This Is New by blackest_eyes (Piarles)

Or my favourite Piarles fic so far this year. It's sensual, but overall it's sooo sweet. Pure fluff and comfort between two people who even when they're just friends they love each other so bad you can feel it as you read the story. If you want butterflies in your stomach go the hell off to read this.

-Does dirty talk work? by Tetralea (Lestappen)

Or how Max tricks Charles into speaking filthy for him but ends up well... even filthier. As someone who adores to read Charles topping during sex this was delightful to read, it was also funny and the dynamic between them is just perfect.

-All You Gotta Do Is Trust Me by wafflesandpancakes (Michael/Daniel)

Or the fic that made me fall in love with this pairing! It has all the ingredients honestly... shyness, pride, virginal thoughts, dirty thoughts, Daniel being a sweetheart and Michael being the boyfriend we all wish we had. Simply lovely.

-McLaren Sandwich Shorts by BearWithAHat

Or a compilation of Carlos, Lando and Charles being the sweetest and most perfect Ot3. It's fluffy, but also tries out every outcome and posibility for the not-at-all easy life of three drivers from different teams dating each other. An underrated pairing and an underrated work.

-Em's Omegaverse adventures (Series) by CustardCreamies (Lanseb)

Or Lando and Seb being pack mates and the most adorable squishy pairing in the omegaverse my friend Em created. This is pure sweetness, and the perfect series of drabbles to read when you're feeling down.

-Welcome in the family!  by 12romy (Kimi/Antonio/Minttu)

ahhjhfjfg this is basically Antonio living the nanny's dream when he gets the job of daycare in the Raikkonen's house and both parents of the kids fall for him and try to get to him in the corniest ways possible. If you don't like the pairing then you can still read it for the vibes because the dynamic in the house and the interactions have no waste.

I'm kinda glad they broke my heart ('cause now it's yours) by TheWiseOne12 (Sewis/Charlando)

Or a Cottage fic AU where a pregnant Lando runs from his past to a small town far away and ends up renting in the sewis property. Soon, he meets Charles who used to rent there as well and even though Lando holds a lot of secrets Charles Seb and Lewis slowly make their way to Lando's heart and it's so beautiful it makes you cry ugh. Go read it. Now. And the other stuff this writer has posted because it's as wonderful as this.

THIS IS IT FOR NOW :)

But Of couse if you have read these and are looking for something new, feel free to check my own stuff too.

[jenseclaren]

I posted 451 times in 2022

That's 451 more posts than 2021!

57 posts created (13%)

394 posts reblogged (87%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@dankesebi

@colors-of-feeling

@nekorosberg

@libraryofloveletters

@redfives

I tagged 206 of my posts in 2022

#nico rosberg - 58 posts

#random charlie thoughts - 35 posts

#jenson button - 27 posts

#brocedes - 23 posts

#sebastian vettel - 17 posts

#lewis hamilton - 16 posts

#charlie writes - 16 posts

#princess cake - 10 posts

#f1 - 10 posts

#jenseclaren masterlist - 7 posts

Longest Tag: 72 characters

#it’s from 2005 when jenson was in istanbul to test istanbul park circuit

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

the sluttiest thing a man can do is be jenson button

82 notes - Posted November 10, 2022

#4

I AM SO NORMAL ABOUT THIS

118 notes - Posted November 20, 2022

#3

making assumptions (judging you) based on your favourite f1rpf pairing

Brocedes: Did you take your meds today? Your favourite ao3 tag is probably angst. You probably get overly attached to people with the fear of losing them. You read Brocedes fics just to feel something.

Martian: Is this a right time to talk about your daddy issues or should i come back later? You probably go for people older than you and most likely with a protective instinct in relationships.

Sewis: You are the one person in your friend group who has their shit together. You also don’t need fan fiction to add excitement into your life. You are comfortable in your place. Probably mentally stable (but that’s questionable)

Simi: You live for the sunshine/grumpy trope. It’s probably because you are either of them and lowkey desperate for a sunshine or a grumpy of your own. You are in general very quiet and lowkey, you don’t like to be the centre of attention.

Princess Cake: Horny, you are definitely very horny. Also you tend to project into either side of this pairing. You probably talk a lot. You are a fun person to be around, you bring good vibes and chaotic energy to the group. Probably a bit bratty too but that’s not too bad, keeps you interesting.

Sebson: You are probably into hurt/comfort fics. You are very knowledgable in topics you are interested in. Basically you’re a huge nerd. You are either extremely introverted or extremely extroverted, no in between. Reading fan fiction is probably your comfort activity.

Carlando: You are gay and your first moment of realisation was your best friend in middle school. If you were a pre-teen/teen in the early 2010s, you had a YouTubers phase. You are very energetic, probably too energetic.

Lestappen: You had unrestricted internet access as a kid. There is no other explanation why you would turn out this way. You are probably very competitive and take your ambitions very seriously. People either love you or hate you.

Maxiel: You are in love with your best friend. You love partying and (maybe) drinking games. You are the kind of person who puts people’s moods up. You are a delight to hang out with. You are confident and but really insecure at the same time.

155 notes - Posted October 15, 2022

#2

Do y’all see it or am I the only one?

178 notes - Posted November 12, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

we won but at what cost

359 notes - Posted November 20, 2022

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[sennaverstappendiary]

las vegas grand prix ✩ 19.11.2023

if theres one race last season that i didn't ever in a million worlds expect to go THIS FUCKING HARD, it would have to be las vegas. what the actual living FUCK was this weekend 💀💀💀😭😭😭😭💥💥💥💥💥‼️‼️‼️‼️ like don't get me wrong i had fun, but help??? both me and max went into this weekend like "what fucking ever who cares" and SOMEHOW. one of the best races of the season, objectively 👀👀👀😀😀🍾🍾🍾🍾

so... this is another case where it's important to actually look at what happened BEFORE quali and race. because. erm. what the fuck lestappen... WHAT WAS THATTT 😭😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 HOW ARE U GONNA BE GAY IN THE MEDIA PEN ARE U OUT OF UR MINDDDD 😭😭😭😭💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕🌷🌷🌷✨✨✨✨ "lets ask him!" EXPLODE. NOW. 💥💥💥💥💥💥 also carlos rip ur race chances . dead by drain cover .

qualifying was crazy bc the moment, no, the second i saw charles on that track i knew his ass would get chole. chole to min? chole to min tonight? anyway yeah qualiii 🍾🍾🍾😁😁😁😁 i had been convinced for months we would lose this race, so to see max p3 was actually quite exciting for me, since i thought we had 0 chance 😁😁😁😁😭😭😭😭😭

waking up at 6 am for a race always feels a bit like a slap in the face. you wake up, drag yourself out of your comfy bed, and get extreme anxiety at a time that should be illegal 💀🙏 well. tbh i wasn't even nervous. i was NOT expecting anything 😭😭😭 AND THEN WE GET MAX VERSTAPPEN TERRORISMMMM LAP ONE TURN ONE 💀💀💀💀💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 god i couldve shot him im sorry. i was so madjdfhgdhgjhdfgdfg love that man tho 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 finally gets a penalty, "send them my regards" BOY IF YOU DONT SHUT YOUR MOUTH RN 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 and then i saw the gap. less. less. less. gets overtaken by charles. atp im convinced everything is #joever. but then. THEN. GEORGE MOTHERFUCKING RUSSELL DAMAGES OUR FRONT WING. AND WE WIN BECAUSE OF THAT. incredible. at one point i was convinced checo would win. like i genuinely cannot. cannot describe this race. this does not feel like a 2023 race man. love it tho. 💀💀💀💀🥰🥰🥰💕💕✨✨🌷🌷💌💌💌 charles overtaking checo was crazy. BUT WHAT WAS ALSO CRAZY WAS MAX FUCKING SCREAM SINGING ON THE RADIO AFTER HATING ALL WEEKEND. I WAS LITERALLY SHELL SHOCKED. I COULDNT BELIEVE MY FUCKING EARS. for sure top 10 moments in max radios for me jesus 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 AND THEN FORCED PROXIMITY BY THE CARRRR MY BELOVEDDDDD OH MY GOD LESTAPPENNNNN AND THIRD WHEEL CHECOOO 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 yeah i loved this shit lmfao

✩ song of the race: viva las vegas - elvis presley

✩ extra: a small photodump

[miamigrandprix]

dts s3 e9-10

e9: -bahrain is such a beautiful track btw i love her -damn they just jump straight into it boom explosion -before logan was the sad wet lil meow meow......2020 alex was the ORIGINAL -the way reporters are asking abt checo->red bull before he even won that race, makes me curious how much he was seriously in the conversation for the seat beforehand. anyone who was on tumblr at the time i'd love to hear what the gossip mills were like at the time 👀 -dany's "please tell me he's okay" always GETS me bc i know dany's the car he crashed with and it was 100% a racing incident but i cannot imagine the guilt he was feeling in the moment. i'm so fond of him he definitely deserved better by the red bull machine -gunther talking about how fire is the worst thing you can have in a crash--and thinking about how guanyu said his biggest fear in his silverstone crash was the car catching fire. we're really lucky that his car didnt honestly -the music design on this in INCREDIBLE like they really did an INSANE job here. cacos "thats an act of god" always gets me. really summarizes how improbably lucky he was to survive that. i'm so glad he did -gunther sucks but the way he insists he has to meet the rescue guys to thank them personally 😭😭 -ALBODIUM MY BELOVED (when will she return) -i didnt write anything down for the grosjean post crash self reflection bit. i just wanted to sit and experience it and not think :) -one can say this sakhir crash was the original checo third wheeling lestappen -when ppl ask how to get into f1, i always bring up the inside story series on youtube, and TOP of recommendations is the inside story on this race! it is truly insane what he did here, cant wait to see this race in full -i just think it wouldve been SO iconic if george had won this race. first ever mercedes race win before he even got a mercedes seat? wouldive been ICONIC. ppl talk abt the domino affect of alex's appendicitis but if mercedes didnt fuck up BOTH their drivers pit stops, checo wouldn't have won (probably), would he have been signed then? new butterfly affect to discuss -I THINK. i know the idea of checo leaving the sport soon is being discussed a lot, and even in this episode he discusses that if its the end for him he is proud of what hes accomplished and thankful for as long as he had to drive in f1. his red bull seat really was a lifeline, a second chance, and he has added to his legacy significantly with red bull. if he loses his seat on 2024, no matter what mean things i've said about him in the heat of the moment, he has a LOT to be proud of. if its his time to go, its his time to go

ep 10: -i think AD is a BANGER of a race track. i'm glad its the finale race -ok so lets see daniel gives renault their first podium in 9 years......then gives mclaren their first win in forever as well.....hmmmm.....washed up who? -cyril getting a tattoo youtube video is So Important 2 ME. cyril calling his wife to tell her the details while daniel dies silent laughing is the instant seratonin boost for me -every time zak & lando have a lil clearly staged chat it has the most sugar baby energy ever why do they do this -lando says so many nice things abt daniel here yet the dando antis choose to ignore them and insist lando does nothing but distrespect him 😡 anti-lando daniel girlies r my least favorite -NOT DANIEL HITTING THE BEAM ABOVE HIM IN THE GARAGE TOO the dando agenda continues -damn i hope they give this much dts attention to the battle for 7th last year too -lawrence rly hired seb to mentor his son huh -aston martin colors Do Fuck we all must admit -frothing at the mouth over the 4433 moment here. its mental illness innit -i've always felt. like the lewis racism segment was a bit shoehorned in here. like they went oh fuck we need to include this somewhere lets just slap it on the end of the episode. i think it would've been so much better and more impactful in a fully lewis focused episode. but ya kno? i'd rather they do it this way than not at all, so i suppose i shouldn't complain too much

[just-an-inchident]

Now I'm super curious about your lestappen origin story? Did you mistake someone's nationality? Did you hate one of the two demons? Did you love them both at first sight? I NEED TO KNOW!

You better don‘t expect any drama, cause I’ve always loved both of them! Right from the beginning Charles became my favourite driver and I also felt super positive about Max! I really wanted both of them to be good. In 2018 I had this as my phone background, yes it was this serious! They are my top 2 ever since ❤️

I don’t know when exactly I started shipping them, probably at some point during the 2019 season, so quite early I‘d say? Austria 2019 was pretty hard to be honest, I really wanted Charles to win and I was lowkey angry at Max for snatching the victory from him, oops. But obviously I think it‘s super funny now and I am very thankful for this masterpiece of lestappen content they produced. And then we were blessed with Silverstone and Abu Dhabi. So many good moments in 2019, at some point I had to fall for them 😅

I believe I started reading lestappen fics in 2020, which gave me the ultimate push into the fandom. And Bahrain 2020 was hilarious. Seeing both of them in the barrier after only 4 corners, I was literally laughing my ass off for 10 minutes straight. Stupid idiots (affectionate)! They couldn‘t give us a lestappen podium, so they gave us a lestappen double dnf. But you have to take the crumbs you get and in 2020 it was really all about the crumbs 😌

I honestly can‘t imagine a better pairing. The enemies to lovers storyline catched me so hard! I fell for that way too quickly… And I love how they have their gay little rivalry since karting and continue to fight in F1 🥰

Thank you so much for the ask, Aya! And no, unlike you or Elle, I did not mistake Charles‘ nationality 😉

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top 5 lestappen moments? i would ask for 10 but im afraid that would be all from their part(((((

Okay, let‘s see what we’ve got. I just let the pictures speak for themselves 😈