Team Principal | Carlos Sainz

chapter eight

Carlos S.

"Don't you wanna change before?"

Fuck, why had I asked this question. On her look I saw how attacked she felt with it. I didn't mean it in a bad way though I just thought that she was going on some sort of date or anything, maybe with Toto.

The two of them had seemed pretty close and I wondered for how long they knew each other. As he is Austrian and Antonia German they maybe had crossed ways in the past I thought. His hand though was a bit too long on her waist for my taste.

I wasn't her dad to tell her what to do and what was good for her but Toto Wolff was definitely someone to look twice at and question his actions multiple times. His intentions hadn't always been good and in Formula one you never knew what people would do to win.

"Stop there." Antonia next to me said and I did exactly what she told me.

Before I could say another thing she jumped out of the car and smashed the door behind herself. I really messed the situation up, fuck. I never wanted to give her the feeling that I would find her unattractive because that wasn't the case at all.

She was pretty and especially for a mother she really looked young and beautiful. Probably I shouldn't be thinking of this but Isa wasn't here and I have to say that I didn't really miss her. But she would come to the next race and I was pretty excited for that because I wanted to show her my new team and all that stuff so she maybe started liking it.

I just wanted to make Antonia feel a bit better but I ended up making her feeling even worse. She was always working so hard and giving everything fr the team, especially this week as her son wasn't here she had spent every day in the office or the garage.

Also I had to admit that I missed Luca around. I never really wanted children and when Isa had brought that topic up last year I had said to her that I wasn't ready. That was still the case, I could never be a father, not now, but spending time with the little boy made me smile and I really had a great time with him.

"Hello mate, what's going on?" I heard a voice behind me in the corridor as I was walking to my room.

"Landooo" I said without turning around.

The Brit quickly caught up and was suddenly next to me.

"Wanna grab a drink and talk about the good old times?" Lando asked me and a big smile appeared on my face.

"Old times, mate we are still young." I answered and laughed.

"Yeah yeah so are you down?"

"I don't know, I am tried from the day."

"Oh come on you muppet, it was only media day." Lando said and boxed my arm as he laughed at me, "But what do you say about the hotel bar?"

I sighed and looked at him.

"Fine but not too long, my team needs me tomorrow."

"It's just practice, you never said that at McLaren or Ferrari." he boxed me again as we made our way down to the bar.

"Yeah but this is my new team, I have to give everything for them, I need to prove myself."

"Is Toni really so hard, did she force you to do all the extra work?"

"No!", I immediately said and thought about her doing all the extra work and the hundreds of hours that she spend in her office even after everybody was gone.

"Wow that came fast mate." Lando laughed and took another sip of his alcohol free drink, "But now for real, how is she, is she doing good work?"

"Yeah she's great. She always prioritize us over the team and really looks after us and that we have everything we need. She works so hard herself and didn't want any credit for it, it's really impressive how she can do all of this while being a mother. Antonia really knows her stuff and always gives her best, I can ask for nothing more in a team principal."