Baby Blue.

Chapter 8: Porque ella es una diabla

It's RACE WEEK once again, kids!

I don't know how you feel but I'm excited and scared at the same time. 
So let's just forget Landitos performance in Russia and move forward.

If you haven't yet, you should hop over to TikTok and watch the two recent edits I made - Thank you Maneskin for this song!
For now: Have fun reading, thank you for all your reactions one again!

Besitos, sourpatchsoda

Daniel Ricciardo broke me. Well, more my vagina and the skin around her.

Cursing, I stand in the shower in my hotel room and try to do something about the chafing between my legs. At the same time, I notice bruises on my hips. Well, I can explain them away with the fact that I'm clumsy and constantly run into piles of tyres, but me walking as if I have something hanging between my legs, well...well. That could be getting difficult to explain.

Just as I put on some comfy leggings and an oversized McLaren team shirt (which I have to check the back of to make sure it's not accidentally Daniel's) there's a knock at the door.

I go to open and smile when I see who it is.

"Cariño, we have spoken so little this weekend. I'm not being replaced, am I?" Carlos gives me a playfully sad look.

"Never!" I hug him tightly and let him into the room, which is currently in chaos because I am packing my suitcase. And like every time, I wonder how my life fits into such a small suitcase.

"It's just different when I not only have to take care of Lando but also work at the same time. It's a different situation than two years ago," I say and my best friend nods in understanding.

"Are you happy with your performance?" I ask him and he sighs.

"I would have liked to catch Hülkenberg, but after the problems during the last laps I'm just happy not to have been pushed to the back," he admits. "But at least I scored more points than Charles," he adds.

"Have you spoken to Lando yet?"

"Sí, right after the interviews. Where were you, anyway?"

I can feel myself blushing.

"Oh, so you were comforting someone, I see." He grins from ear to ear.

"Yes, I was with Daniel. No, I didn't comfort him in the way you might think. At least not yesterday afternoon." I fold one of my shirts and wait for a reaction.

"You're both such dorks. Livvie, it's going to come out sooner or later. At the latest when you forget to turn off your tracking services again." Carlos looks at me worriedly.

"Please don't try to tell me what to do when you've been in love with the same person for almost three years without telling them."

He purses his lips. "Don't be mean."

I sit down next to him and put a hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry."

The first team dinner and sponsors' gala of the season.

Photos and videos of the five races so far and their winners run in the background.

But Lando is not the only one in the spotlight this year. Apart from Daniel's only DNF in Spielberg, he has also improved significantly. His best result was a third place in Bahrain, his worst P9 in Silverstone. So he now has almost as many points as last year just before the summer break.

With the new cars shaking up the field (and evening it significantly), the drivers' and constructors' standings are also very evenly spread. Both Red Bull and Mercedes are in the top two positions, but with a much smaller gap between themselves and others than in recent years. In theory, everything is still open and possible this year.