Three Dumb Ideas | Formula 1 fanfiction

58: Off track

AUTHORS NOTE: So as you all know, everyone makes mistakes. In the first chapter I wrote that Maeve drove for Alpha Tauri in F2. As we all know... Alpha Tauri is not in F2. But because I already wrote and published the chapters we will not acknowledge it as a mistake but we will just act as if Alpha Tauri was indeed a F2 team.
Sorry for the mistake... but they can happen

Also... LANDO NORRIS IS OFFICIALY A RACE WINNER OH MY GOD!! Yesterday's race was so good! (You will see this later probably). Oh my gosh I'm so happy. I promise y'all he will get a win in this fanfic too! Although I'm not sure you will all like how he wins... ;))

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Race Day Part Two

Maeve's point of view

My car is placed at the third place on the grid.

I started here before of course, in F2, with Alpha Tauri.

Now I am here, in F1.

It is not bad, P3... most people would only dream of it.

Yet for me, it is a nightmare... a nightmare which can not end soon enough.

Pierre's words are still in my head. I told Max everything... everything.

He was shocked, yet he was also angry.

Angry at Ocon, not at me in any way.

He also forbade me to sleep with Ocon, so I guess that's off the table.

Although it was already from my side.

But now we do not think about it, now it is racing time.

It is time we make this P3 a P1.

No thoughts can come in today, only the thought to win.

The red lights are counting down.

The red lights turn off and I push down my throttle.

It's racing time.

66 rounds left to go.

Round 4

I have a lot of understeer and my mood is not getting better because of it.

Basically, understeer is a term used to describe a really really really fucked up problem within a car. It is when the car doesn't react as well to the steering of the driver, in this case me.

So, to explain this a little easier, if I turn my steering wheel into a turn then my car says fuck you and drives straight instead of... turning.

It's basically because of uneven grip between my front and rear tyres, or too much speed while steering into a turn.

Owen and I have been trying to find solutions for it... but it has yet been unsuccessful.

RADIO: Just lower your speed for now, when driving into a turn.

MAE: Now we're back to the start, I already tried that, remember?

RADIO: I have no idea how else we can prevent this... you have to try something.

MAE: I'm literally trying everything I can, how do you expect me to win with this?

RADIO: Just try Maeve...

Round 7

RADIO: Our estimated pit is in 21 rounds since you are now on softs.

MAE: Okay, I want mediums.