Part 2 - Competition time

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I woke up to the sound of my alarm at 7:30 am, ate some breakfast and applied some light makeup.
I had to get to the track by 9:15, and it took me 15 minutes to drive there, so I had some time to work out and chill abit before getting in the car.

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TIME SKIP:

I arrived at the track at 9:15, right on time, and got greeted by Christian and taken to my car that I'll be driving this season. I knew that I'd have to meet and talk to Max at some point, but I focused on getting ready to go onto the track.

The car felt amazing on track. "Radio check? Can you hear me?" My engineer said through his headphones.
"Loud and clear." I replied, I could feel the adrenaline pumping through my body as I slammed my foot on the accelerator down the straight, setting a decent lap time. "Good lap time, 1 minute and 17 seconds. Not bad." He said, "Max's is 1 minute and 13 seconds though." Shit. I forgot about Max. "Copy." I replied, trying my best to make it round the corner.

This time, I had passed the line at 1 minute and 14 seconds, almost beating Max, it still felt amazing though. "Okay, Isabella, that's your time up, you'll go back on in 2 hours." I drove back to the pits and got out the car, my neck and back ached, I went to my drivers room to chill for half an hour until i had to do more working out. I was just scrolling through instagram and messaging Lando until I heard a knock on my door, "Hey, Isabella, can I come in?" Christian asked, I wasn't gonna say no to him.
"Yeah, sure." I said, him entering soon after.
"You and Max need to take some photos together soon, for Redbull's Instagram, in about half an hour, so you might want to go talk to him about it. He's in his driver room." Christian said, walking out and closing the door behind him. Damn it, did I really have to go to talk to Max?

I gently knocked the door, instant regretting it. Hello?" I heard Max's voice behind the door.
"Hey um, it's Isabella, Christian told me to come and talk to you about some photos?" I said, I hated the way I worded that sentence.
"I'll be out in a minute," Max said, I was surprised he didn't tell me to go away. I stood next to his door, when I heard the handle click and twist, Max came out after. "So what does Christian want us to do?" Max asked, he started walking as I did,
"He said that we had to take some pictures for the Redbull Instagram account, soon, in about 20 minutes, he told me to come and talk to you about it." I answered him, I didn't look at him though, eye contact with him honestly scared me, I don't know why. "Okay, so are we meant to talk about what we're doing in the photos or..?" Max asked, again. So many questions I didn't know the answers to. "I don't know, all he said was to talk to you about it." I answered him, again. He shot me a glare, it wasn't my fault I didn't know?

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Me and Max took some pictures together, having to confirm them with Christian. I knew what the media would say, either we are dating or that there shouldn't be a female driver in formula one, both as dumb as each other, but I couldn't do anything about  it, my job was to just ignore it and practice my skills on track, not my relationship outside of the track.

I could tell Christian knew Max and I didn't like each other already, he saw the dirty looks we gave each other, he knew we would have to form some sort of friendship to successfully get through the season, he just didn't know how to get us to be friends.

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A/N: Do you guys like this so far? I can change and edit certain parts if you want to. Hope you're all enjoying it. Thank you so much for all the reads.

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