𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐘 (𝐌.𝐕)

3. 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭

TW: RACISM & MICROAGRESSIONS

6 MAY 2022

"What the actual fuck?"
Whispered Victoria as she watched the one person she never thought would return to the paddock walk into the Redbull hospitality centre.

The one and only Kelly Piquet walked in with a megawatt smile. She knew that everyone was looking at her, after all the last time they saw her she was being broken up with publicly and yet here she was wearing Max's personalised Redbull jacket as the Miami breeze had brought a bit of a chill.

"Why is she here?"
Raymond Vermulen groaned next to the press officer. It seemed that every week Max did or said something that made their jobs ten times harder.

"The only reason I can think of is that Max wanted to torture us for not giving him a good enough car."
Christian Horner joined the conversation as they all watched Kelly interact with Max's mother who seemed mildly confused by the woman's presence.

Noticing the group of Redbull employees, Sophie gestured for help but all of them looked away. Nobody wanted to deal with the Brazilian that early in the morning.

"Oh Raymond come say hi to Kelly. Did you know her and Max are trying to work things out?"
Sophie spoke out, causing everyone's heads to turn to the Dutch PR manager.

"Fuck my life."
Raymond whispered as he forced a smile and made his way toward the two women.

"At least it wasn't any of us."

"Good luck my guy, be careful she bites."
The group quietly cheered him on, causing him to discretely flip them off. He'd get his revenge soon enough.

"Victoria I know you said you had a plan to save us all, is there any way you can implement it now?"
Jos Verstappen asked as he saw his ex-wife beckoning him over to greet his son's ex-girlfriend. Christian nodded, hoping that whatever the PR team had planned was big enough to get rid of Kelly.

"Well thanks to your son we've had to delay our plans."

"Great, when you find that son of mine please hit him around the head for me."
The former driver grumbled as he too joined the small group Kelly had around her.

"What is this big elusive plan anyway?"
Christian asked as he led the team to the meeting room. He'd been so focused on fixing the car that he'd been left in the dark about this plan, and quite frankly he hated it, especially when everyone seemed to be aware.

And ten minutes later, once everything had been explained, Christian was in shock. Mostly because what was being offered had never been seen before in modern F1, or at least he thought.

"You want Max to fake date the rookie reporter? First of all you are aware that Sky is already in hot water for being biased right? If we do this then we will be getting the heat not them. Secondly what makes you think either of them will agree to this?"

"I'm glad you asked. They both like each other."

"Like as in like like?"

"Yes as in like like."

Christian couldn't help but snort at the idea of Max feeling any emotion other than anger.