P1: A scandal

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A scandal is an action or event regarded as morally or legally wrong which can cause general public outrage, anger or rumours.

When you search the word 'scandal', there are different things you'll find. Like a series, but Irina's life was far from a movie tale.

She grew up poor but loved. The one thing that thrilled Irina's busy mind was racing. She started street racing at the young age of 13. She was set for a future of racing once she realised she could make money from it. 

After months of saving up, she bought herself a cart. After loads of training, competing and patience, she found herself in an F1 car. It wasn't an easy route, especially as a girl, but she made it.

She was pretty set on being in F1 until she felt like retiring. She loved every part of her job. She was very proud of how she had risen from a young girl living in a rotten appartement somewhere in the busy city of São Paulo to the first woman racing in F1 for longer then a year.

 She had taken her family everywhere with her. They were and still are her everything. Sadly, there is a part missing from her family.

Elio. He was just a 22-year-old boy when he had to hand his life over. He was her brother and whole world. She was always close to him. He was a promising driver who was already driving in F2. 

22nd of July 2013, she can still recall the moment it happened. He waved at her from the track then the lights went green, and he was gone.

Four minutes later he caused a big accident leading to his death and the death of one other driver. It all happened in front of her eyes, and there was nothing she could do. 

He was driving very aggressively, and his results showed that he was driving under drug use. It had been in her family for a long time, but never in a million years did she think that her brother would have gone into the temptation.

His death caused her downfall. People were mad which was understandable, but only the person they were angry at passed away so all the hate was directed at her and her family. There was not a moment without threats and foul mouths whispering in her ear.

No matter how hard she tried and how many times she said sorry, it wasn't enough. It became insufferable, but F1 was her dream, how could she give that up?

She was destined to keep her head down and keep going. Until one day, someone threw a bottle at her mother which caused the need for seven stitches on her mother's forhead. The moment she got that phone call she decided to retire. It was just too much.

She hid away in her corner of shame and didn't come out of it for two years. She knew she did nothing wrong, but she blamed herself for not seeing his change in attitude before it was to late.

Since the ending of 2016, she has promised herself to stop hiding. It has been a couple of months, and she noticed that people weren't staring as much as she thought. She can live her life on her own terms. 

It has crossed her mind to go back to the racing world, but she knows she can't. Her name is associated with horror in the racing industry, she would never go back to it voluntarily.

She wipes the sleep away from her eyes when she hears the deafening sound that woke her up. She sits right in her queen-sized bed and looks at her phone on the nightstand. She sees the name of her assistant written on her screen. 

She still has an assistant, but it isn't like she has much to do with Irina. She picks up, "You better have the best excuse in the world to call me at-" She takes her phone from her ear and lookes at the hour. "Seven thirty in the morning, Malia."

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