Off the Track Series | Book 4
The Verstappen family is known around the world.
Catapulted into fame by racing championships and spicy interviews.
But no one knows hidden, quiet Ally K.
Until she makes a bold move that changes her world forever.
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Almost seven years earlier... ALLY
I'm not a dreamer.
Not in the traditional sense at least.
For the first time this morning, it really hit me.
My dreams are within reach, attainable moments in time, not romanticized notions of the impossible. Grown men worldwide fall to their knees and pray to their gods over these fifty minutes of racing.
But me?
I don't glamorize fate or leave things to chance. My childhood had two pillars: hard work and dedication. Those are what secure the win, not prayers to some higher power.
For my brother and I, our plans were mapped out while we still incubated in the womb.
A plan to be champions.
Which is why today I have an opportunity to win, unlike half the grid behind me. A bunch of dreamers who would do anything to win and progress to formula stages.
Which is exactly what I don't want anymore.
Maybe I never even wanted to begin with. That's the thing about plans that start as soon as you can walk, years later you're left wondering whose goals we're really chasing here.
It's high time I picked a goal that doesn't leave me in bruises and tears.
Hell, this is exactly the kind of intense thoughts I've been trained not to have right before racing.
This is so not the time Ally.
Forcing my body to inhale deeply then focus on what matters, the immient race ahead. Welcoming the smell of rubber I pull down my helmet, gloves gripping the wheel of my race car so hard my fingers tremble from the engine's vibrations while the metal hood rattles.
The Canadian crowd bursts with excitement as the crew pulls off my tire warmers. Yesterday's successful qualifying set me up for first on the grid meaning as long as I don't fuck this race up, the KF1 Championship title is mine for the taking.
Mine.
Allyson Verstappen, a girl.
Never in racing history has a girl won a title this high before. Never before has someone been so underestimated on the grid either.
The second I turned fifteen Dad put me in the KF1 league, first weekend out here I was all but laughed out of the room, now I'm one race away from taking the glory from all them.
