Paper Rings: O.Bearman

𝕮𝒉𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓮𝓻 37

After media day, Ollie treated Hannah to a meal out before she had to get to business in FP1 and Qualifying on Friday where she ended free practice in an impressive P5 and qualified P13, surprising everyone by her performance. Over the course of the sprint, Hannah retired on lap 10 after contact with Esteban.

On race day, the green-eyed blonde walks into the paddock, an umbrella over her to protect her from the Qatar heat. "It's too hot." Hannah comments with Ollie and George beside her, both with umbrella's over their heads. "It will be tonight." Ollie says as George agrees. "Hopefully cooler than this. It's way too hot." Hannah complains. "We all better get to our respective teams so we all can prepare for our duties." George speaks up as the two teenagers agree.

Once they reached their teams motorhomes, the trio immediately begin their duties. George and Hannah attend their team meetings while Ollie sat in Haas' team meeting, reviewing his tasks with the team for the weekend.

After her team meeting in RedBull, Hannah heads to her private room to relax before getting ready for the race. "Hope your ready to lose." Max says barging into the girls room. "You are so fucking thankful I'm dressed and not changing. And what happened to hello? Oh wait, I never get one from you." Hannah sarcastically comments. "Just answer my question Russell." Max says leaning against the door and folding his arms. "My aim is to improve and work on my performance. Oh and hopefully score some points." Hannah smirks. "Don't make me take drastic actions." Max glares.

"Wouldn't bet on it in my wildest dreams." Hannah chuckles before he leaves her room. "And I hope you finally accept me as part of the RedBull family!" she calls to him before closing her door. The british girl collapses onto the sofa in the room before Hugh Bird, who's usually Checo's engineer but is Hannah's for the weekend, knocks on the door and walks in.

"Hey, you okay kid? A few of us heard you and Max arguing and I wanted to check on you." Hugh asks. "Just a clash of personality stuff. Oh, and him still not accepting me into the RedBull family." Hannah sighs as she runs her fingers through her hair fustrated. "Don't let him get to your head. You'll do great today." Hugh reassures the girl who nods.

As the time edges closer to the race, Hannah heads to her drivers room in the garage as quickly as she could and changes into her race wear. She does her warmup before heading to the garage to go over some last minute prep. "Now, it's going to be really warm, that's included the temperature in the cockpit. You sure your ready for this?" Hugh asks as Hannah nods. "I'm not passing up this opportunity this late on." the blonde beauty responds. "Okay then. Go join the others on the grid then head for the national anthem." the engineer smiles as she heads out.

With her umbrella over her, Hannah stands between George and Logan as the national anthem plays. The girl removes the grid kids cap and hands it to them, the kid smiling at her. After the anthem played, the drivers disperse and head to their cars. "Hey, good luck." George smiles as he embraces his younger sister. "You too. Don't make me eat your dusty ass too much." the blonde laughs before heading to her car. "Ready?" Eliott, who was accompanying the girl that weekend, smiles. "You know it. Whole weekend has been standard procedure for an F2 driver but it is fucking hot." she laughs. "You've got this. Just focus on yourself and nothing around you. Go smash this." the perfomance coach nods at the teen as she gets into her car.

"Radio check Hannah." Hugh speaks. "Yep. Loud and clear." the DAMS F2 driver confirms. She can feel the heat around her and through her racing suit as she sits in the cockpit waiting for the lights. "Formation lap in 2 minutes." Hugh speaks through the radio. One by one each car follows the other as they do the formation lap around the 5.412km circuit. "Okay. Are you ready?" Hugh asks the teenager. "Absolutely. Lets do this." Hannah responds. "Remember, 18 laps then we pit and do it again. Mandatory given these conditions." the engineer speaks just as the cars come around the last corner.