In Love With Formula 1

Part 97

Izzie's POV:

I was in my garage now checking over my car with my team and the race strategy, a podium was on the table with my performance in the first race and starting from the same position was promising. 

I had finished my warm-up and was waiting for the F1 quali to finish, I was watching it on my phone in my driver room, Carlos was P3 with Charles just ahead, Lando and Daniel were just behind them. When qualifying was over I had about 30 minutes until we needed to go down to the pitlane, I had downloaded some games on my phone, mainly for flights from country to country to distract me from the fact I was sat in a massive piece of metal flying through the air.

I was playing fruit ninja and was on course to beat my personal best when Tonio burst through the door

"Time to go Izzo" He said grabbing my stuff

"Okay give me a minute" I said as I put my phone in my bag and made sure that everything was in there before getting up and picking my helmet and gloves up.

"What are you thinking for the race?" Tonio asked me as we walked down to the pitlane

"The win obviously" I said jokingly

"It is achievable" 

"I know, I will do the same things again" I said talking about race one

"You were lucky in race one not to get any damage in to the first corner" 

"Cautious should be my middle name" I laughed 

"Considering your past, I don't think so"

"Was only joking"

We were now in the pitlane and Arthur, Olli and myself were chatting about the race before fist pumping each other and going on to the grid. I got rid of every other thought, like how I was now Carlos' girlfriend, I was beyond happy but I needed to focus on racing.

I stared down the straight visualising everything, I controlled my breathing and cracked my knuckles before putting my balaclava on and my helmet.

I took the knee to show how I was fighting for equality and to end racism, I had always been outraged by the double standard in race, I always stood up for what I knew was right, it made me a polarising character growing up.

I got up and stepped in my car with only one thought, winning.

The lights went green and we started our formation lap,

"What info do you want?" Tonio said over the radio

"Is there a wind, feels like there's a cross win down the straight"

"Very slight, less than 1mph"

"Okay, but give me gap behind and infront like usual but I also want the lap time of the leader every lap"

"Okay, can I ask why?"

"So I can be faster"

"Got it, have a good race" Tonio said as I pulled up on my grid spot

I took a massive deep breath and as I let go the lights came on and I was away as the lights went out, I got a bit of wheel spin so I only managed to get past one car.

I spent the rest of the lap swapping positions with the other car and down the straight I pulled out of the slip stream to over take when my rear right wheel was tapped sending me sideways. I could recover this quickly, I was facing the right way to go down towards turn two.

Then there was a massive impact in my side, I couldn't see what was happening from the limited movement in my seat.

Then there were more metal crunching sounds and I succumbed to the darkness, not ready to fight whatever had happened.

"Izzie, are you okay?"

"Izzie"

"Press any button if you can hear me"

I heard it as I came in and out of consciousness but my whole body was burning, I was in immense amounts of pain down my whole left side and my right side felt numb, I just closed my eyes and accepted it.

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A/N

so this is the last chapter :((((((

it has been an amazing journey, definitely not the story i had planned, a lot of it changed but it still ended the same way i planned

STORY NUMERO 2

ONE LOVE

the sequel will be called One Love and I will be uploading the prologue today so you all know where to find it,

i hope you have all enjoyed this story, i have definitely found more confidence writing as the story progressed

love you all and stay safe xxxx

edit:

I have another new book, called NOTHING LEFT TO HIDE 

if you could all check it out that would be amazing, thank you so much again for reading this book!!