My idol's daughter / CL16

2022 Bahrain Grand Prix: Media day

Quick A/N if the dialog is in italics people are talking in German:)

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After spending most of the holiday going back and forth between Geneva and Alfa Romeo HQ I was glad the first race of the season was finally here. 

Christmas was spent with my parents and my siblings, nothing really interesting, and the whole month of February was spent on the simulator and trying to get to know everyone in the engineer crew so that we could make the team work better. 

Thank god Alexis was able to come with me to Alfa Romeo so I wasn't alone, I also have been talking a lot with Aliah and we agreed I was gonna visit in the summer break to spend time with them and help Ava choose a kart, with Daniel's help. 

Me and Mick landed in hot Bahrain for testing 1 week ago for testing, day 1 I was 14th on the track so much better than I expected I thought I was gonna end up last. Day 2 I was 15th which was more or less the same. And on day 3 I was 11th, that gave me so much hope for the season.

 This led us here, the first press conference of the year as the first female driver since susie wolff. No pressure. 

I walked around the paddock in an Alfa Romeo crop top I had costume made for this hot temperatures and some light wash jeans with my PR officer John on our way to the media building. 

We went inside the room where the conference was happening and I waited looking at my phone. 

My turn in the conference was with my brother, who was nowhere to be seen by the way, Charles, Max and Lando. I never talked to anyone apart from my brother so I was just standing there, pretending to be looking at my phone. 

"Hey" Someone said to me and I looked up to see Charles there 

"Hey" I said and put my phone in my pocket. 

"How are you?" He asked 

"Great, a little bit nervous not going to lie" I said and laughed a little bit 

"yeah I get you, I started Formula 1 with Alfa Romeo too you know" he said and I widened my eyes 

"really?" I asked 

"Yeah just that at that time it was called Sauber that's the only difference" he said and laughed which made me laugh. 

"Well I hope they lay off you so that it won't be uncomfortable" he said and put a hand on my shoulder 

"Ok everybody the order from left to right for you to sit in is Charles, Schumacher, Verstappen, Norris and" a guy yelled pausing at the end  "Is this right? are there 2 Schumacher's" He said asking someone 

"Ok so i'll repeat. Leclerc, Schumacher, Verstappen, Norris and Schumacher" He said and we sat down where they told us to. That's juts an amazing way to start this weekend isn't it?. We all sat down and just waited for the guy to start 

"Welcome everybody to the drivers press conference ahead of the FIA formula 1 bahrain grand prix" God this is gonna be so boring, we are 15 seconds in and I already want to leave. "Let's start with the reigning world champion" This is gonna be so long. 

For some reason, I knew there was a weird vibe around the room. Everybody was so serious and Max was speaking deeper than usual. I glanced at Max but I caught the eyes of Charles. Instead he gave me a smile with his eyes, which I assume is a smile because of his mask I cannot see anything, and looked at whatever Max was saying. 

"Let's go to our rookie now" God no this was for me 

"Lena, very warm welcome to you. Just how do you feel coming into your first race weekend in Formula 1?" God I know I went over this with John but I was so nervous all of the sudden