Formula 1 Oneshots

Max Verstappen- insecure

Max pov:

Max sighed as he made his way into the red bull media room, Daniel and Checo were already there. Max wasn't particularly fan of these challenges they had to do, and he made no secret about it. He thought they were dumb and annoying, he was a race car driver, that was his job. Not do annoying challenges and videos all the time. But maybe that was just something his father had drilled into his brain.

Max's relationship with his father was rocky to say the least, from a young age max had been taught that he had to win at anything and everything. Not to settle for second, everything growing up was about winning. And to please his father Max had put aside a normal childhood and thrown himself into racing, it was all he knew. He raced, ate, slept, repeat.

Max had often times been jealous of other drivers, like Charles, who had caring fathers and friends. But it made him push himself more and in the end that's probably why he's a two time champ that's dominating.

Max sat down next to Daniel, he was happy to have Daniel back at red bull, Daniel was really the only true friend max had ever had.

"What are we being tortured with today?" Max asked, Checo and Daniel chuckled.
"We're joining the rest of the grid for some sort of swimming thing." Checo explained,
"And because I'm so lovable I get to join yay me." Daniel added, max tried to smile at Daniel but he was panicking on the inside. Swimming? Seriously?

"Honestly the FIA is just trying to make the fans happy and at this point it's going a bit far, their just doing it so the fans get to see their favourite driver shirtless." Daniel said, Max nodded. Daniel had hit it bang on, the FIA wanted a bunch of shirtless drivers, which was a massive problem for max.

It's not like he had any secret tattoos, or scars or anything, he just wasn't confident enough in himself for the entire world to have an entire video where he's shirtless surrounded by the rest of the insanely fit drivers. Like Lewis, Charles, Carlos, and George. They all had six packs and were incredibly fit, they had girls swooning over them all the time. But he didn't, it wasn't that he wasn't in shape, he was, you had to be in the sport. He just simply didn't have the body the rest of the drivers had. His father had told him this many times.

Max stuck close to Daniel as they joined the other drivers at the pool. Everyone was joking around and having a good time, normally Mac would have joined in but he was to nervous to talk.

"Max, you awfully quiet today." Fernando commented coming to stand next Max, Max frowned as the rest of the drivers went silent and turned to look at him. He inched closer to Daniel, wanting to go hide.
"Yeah, you okay?" Daniel asked.
Max glanced at his shoes, "yeah I'm good."
They gave him skeptical looks but left him alone.

The lady running the video, got their attention and directed them to a changing room and told them to get changed. Max frowned, he had to change in front of the rest of the drivers. It didn't seem to bother the rest so max just turned his back and changed as fast as possible. He kept his shirt on tho, he didn't want to take it off till the absolute last moment.

Max was one of the first done, so he just sat in the change room and waited. When Daniel was finished he came and sat next to max.
"Don't lie to me, I know somethings up I've known you for long enough to tell. What's wrong?" He asked quietly looking max in the eye.
Max shrugged, "I'm fine it's kinda stupid anyways." He mumbles.
Daniel frowns, "I don't care how stupid it is, tell me. I can tell it's bugging you." Max sighed, he glanced around and made sure no other driver was listening to them before turning back to Daniel.
"I really don't wanna do this, I'm not comfortable with it. Look at you and all the other drivers, you guys are insanely fit, I'm not." Max whispered to him, he gave me a sad look.

"Max your to hard on yourself, your just as good looking as everyone else here. Your bodies perfect the way it is, don't listen to anybody else if they tell you other wise." Daniel sternly told me, "plus your the current champ so that's a one up on everyone here." He added while standing up, he offered Max a hand, he accepted it and let Daniel pull him to his feet.
Daniel gave Max's shirt a tug, "you don't need this."
Max pulled his shirt off before wrapping his arms around himself, Daniel sighed and pulled Max's arms away from his body.

"Max trust me you look fine, you have no reason to be so insecure." Max sighed and glanced at the floor,
"It's your job as my friend to tell me that."
"I'm not just saying it because your my friend, why do you feel so insecure, like what started it? Did someone say something to you?" Daniel asked, max glanced at the floor, Daniel and his father, Jos, didn't have a very good track record.

"I swear if it Jos said something." Daniel said angrily, max continued to stare at the floor. "I am going to kill that idiot! I hope he rots in hell!" Daniel spat angrily, this drawer the attention of the rest of the drivers, they all turned and stared at them questioningly. He wanted the floor to open up and swallow him, he almost put his shirt back on except Daniel grabbed it from his  hands before he could do anything.
"Daniel calm down." Max said,
"No! I'm not gonna calm down because that disgrace of a man, of a father, if you can even call him that, has gone way over the line! The next time I see him, I'm gonna punch him so hard he gets knocked to the ground. I will then stand over him and tell his ugly face just what I think of him!" Daniel said angrily, max stared at him with wide eyes. Slowly max glanced at the rest of the drivers who all looked confused.

"What happened?" Lando finally asked,
"Maxs boneheaded, dipstick, scumbag, no good prick of a father, told him his body didn't look good!" Daniel said, max sighed and rolled his eyes, he didn't need the whole world knowing.

"No offence but you should get a restraining order on him." Lando said,
"Well don't listen to Jos, max, there's nothing wrong with the way you look." Charles said. Max gave them a small smile,
"Anyone wanna join me in punching Jos?" Daniel asked, max rolled his eyes.