Pit Stops (Book I-F1 Series)

Chapter Seventy Six

She was with me in every GP after our wedding, Zandvoort, Monza, Singapore, Suzuka, and Lusail, and now we are in Autin and my nerves are racking because she'll be in the car to guest drive for F1 Academy.

She'll be under a special Ferrari livery and this will be the first time that she'll use our last name in a race, Anne Leclerc. I smiled at the thought of that but my mind was still worried.

They'll have two free practices today, two qualifying, one race tomorrow, and on the race day they'll have two races. But since it's sprint weekend, we will have our free practice now, and later is the qualifying. CT My mind is just so focused on her because we can't spend the day together.

"She'll be fine Charles don't worry her brothers are here too, to support her," Joris said as he patted my back. "That's good that Jacque is her race engineer," he said as I kept on looking outside since in thirty minutes they'd start their free practice.

"I'm worried that she'll be out of focus because of the journalists that are trying to get her statement because the cat is out of the bag." I sighed as I remembered that when reporters saw that there was a guest driver and it was Leclerc everyone wanted to ask us about her.

"Arthur already posted about her though, just in a story, Anne in overalls and her helmet," Joris said out loud and I immediately pulled out my phone and saw it was indeed Arthur.

Fourth Leclerc on a Formula car 💪🏼
@charles_leclerc @anne.mh

I smiled as I looked at the picture, It's her giving Arthur the thumbs up while sitting in her car.

"You should go out and watch your wife, Charles," Fred called out as soon as he saw me beside my car inside the garage. "Go, support her."

And I did. I went out of the garage my suit half down and I walked towards their pit stops and saw her already in the car. And as soon as she saw me in front of her car she waved her hand. I went beside her and hovered above her as she pulled her visor up.

"Be careful okay?" she gave me a thumbs up and I could see in her eyes as she smiled. "I love you."

She looks so good in her race suit, and it is making me think of other things that I want to do with her in that, but I have to keep it for myself. I smiled as I stepped back from her car and waved.

"She said I love you too," Marck said as he patted my back and gave me a headset. I put it on and Marck pointed at Jacque on the pit wall. "It is better if you're there." I smiled as I waved again at Anne and jogged to the pit wall.

Then after a few minutes, all the cars revved in unison as they one by one went out of the pitlane. Anne being in the last she's number 17.

My heart won't stop beating fast as the free practice started. And it mirrored on her heart rate monitors too, her heartbeat is the same as mine, even faster.

"Is she okay? Her heart rate is unusually fast." I said and Jacque just gave me the thumbs up as he continued in guiding Anne during her race.

As the free practice went on I just kept my eyes on her statistics, She has an undeniably fast pace and on her radio, she is enjoying it.

The day carried on and we got both p2 in our free practice and the same in my qualifying. And she was just ecstatic about both of our days and how it went.

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In her qualifying, she qualified P4 in Q1 and P2 in Q2 which means she'll start in P4 in R1 and P5 in R2 because it's in reverse order and shell start p2 in R3. After this, we had our free practice 3, and as soon as she got out of the car I pulled her into a hug even with her helmet on.