A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts.
Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message.
There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.
-Lois Wyse
"Here we are." I say as Emma, Talia, Shadow, Appa, Socks, and I arrive at our pit box.
Today/tonight/tomorrow is the 2023 Sebring 24 Hours charity race.
Yesterday was qualifying and we qualified first.
We just got back from the drivers parade around the track.
Basically each team rode around the track in an antique Ferrari.
We rode around in a 1962 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder.
I now want a 1962 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder.
"I like our color of Ferrari." Emma says as we walk up to our yellow Ferrari we'll be driving today.
Each team got to choose which color their Ferrari would be and we chose yellow.
We chose yellow since it's one of our foundations colors.
"Me too." I say.
"I hope we can keep it." Talia says. "It'll look cool in our HQ."
"We can probably buy it." I say as we walk into our pit box.
Once in our pit box area, we walk into the garage area where Stella Maxwell, our crew chief for tonight, is working on something on a computer in the garage.
"Hi Stella." Emma, Talia, and I say in unison.
"Hey." Stella says then she motions us over. "Here's the starting list."
Once we get to Stella, Emma, Talia, and I look at the start list.
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I hope my mother crashes.
"So Talia you'll drive the 2 4-8 shifts, Emma you have the 8-12 shifts, and Katana you have the 12-4 shifts."
The driving order will be Talia, Emma, Me, Talia, Emma, Me.
"Talia you have about 30 minutes to get ready so go get dressed in there." Stella says
"Yes Boss lady." Talia says then she goes and gets dressed while Emma and I sit with Stella.
"So have you wrapped up the world championship again?" Emma ask.
"Basically." Stella says. "There's almost no mathematical way anyone can catch me."
Since Stella joined F1 in 2019, she's won every drivers championship and every team she's raced with has won the Constructors' championship.
The best part of that statistic is that Stella has owned her own team since 2021 called Jaguar Racing and her team is an all-women team which means all this stuck up arrogant men have been getting their ass kicked by a woman.
"Sweet." I say. "Hey is Lewis Hamilton nice to you?"
"Yeah he's supportive of me and what we're doing at Jaguar Racing." Stella says. "Honestly if he wanted to I'd let him come work or race at Jaguar Racing.
"Good." I say. "He was the driver that made me fall in love with F1 so I'd hate for him to be a dick."
"I'm dressed." Talia says causing all of us to look at the Greatest striker to ever play football.
"Ooh that yellow turned out good." I say as I look at the fire suit that Talia's wearing.
"And it shows off your ass." I hear Leah say then I see Leah, Jessie, and Mikaela walking into the garage carrying boxes.
"And what are you three doing here?" Emma says with a smile.
"We bring gifts." Jessie says then my friends and I head to our respective wives.
"Gifts?" I ask then I open the box. "That's so cool."
Mikaela got me a custom racing helmet.
The base color of the helmet is red.
On the left side of the helmet is a drawing of Cleopatra, on the back of the helmet is a drawing of me snowboarding and a drawing of me singing, and on the right side is a drawing of Mikaela and I and of me, Oksana, and Oleksandr.
"This is awesome." I say then I hug and kiss my wife. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Mikaela says then she looks at my pups. "You two are with me for the next 24 hours."
It's not a good idea for to dogs to be around all the noise of racing for 24 hours so they're gonna go chill with Leah, Jessie, Mikaela, Hazel, Kingsley, Lanie, Axel, Kaia Zaire, and Shadow in Stella's sound proof motor home that Stella uses for all her F1 races during the race.
I think Kristie, Rayne, and the Maxwell pups will be in the motor home as well.
"Bye pups." I say then I pet my doggies.
After I pet my doggies, I kiss my wife again then she, Appa, Socks, Leah, Jessie, Mikaela, Hazel, Kingsley, Lanie, Axel, Kaia, Zaire, and Shadow leave the garage and head to the motor home.
"These are so cool." Talia says as we look at each others helmets.
Talia's helmet is green and has drawings of her family on it, some wolves, and some stuff from NYC.
Emma's helmet is blue and has drawings of her family on it and fish and sharks from the ocean.
"So cool." I say.
"Talia it's time for you to get in." Stella says.
"Alright." Talia says then she puts on her fireproof balaclava, her neck brace, her gloves, and her helmet.
After Talia is dressed, she walks over to our teams car and gets in then one of the crew members helps strap in Talia.
Once Talia is strapped in, the door to the car is closed then Talia leads the 24 cars out onto the track.
"How many laps do you think we'll do?" I ask as myself, Emma, and Stella walk to the pit wall
"They did around 300 laps in the 12 hour race earlier this year so probably about 600 laps." Stella says.
"Geez." Emma say.
"I can't believe we're doing this." I say as we reach the pit wall.
"I can't believe Arsenal is letting you do this." Stella says.
"Well it doesn't say in my contract that I can't do this so if I get released because of this then I'll ruin Arsenal." I say
"Ooh." Emma says. "Spicy Kit-Kat."
I chuckle then I chat with the ladies I'm with until the cars line-up for the start.
Once all the cars are lined up, we wait five seconds then the green flag waves causing Talia to speed towards the first corner.
"Ooh she's fast." I say causing Emma and Stella to chuckle."
"Come on Kit-Kat." Emma says as we watch Talia's car disappear from view. "Let's go eat dinner."
