AN: I skipped the Qatar gp because, although it was an eventful weekend for Oscar, it was also a mistake to let the race and everything happen under this horrible heat conditions so I don’t want to write about it in a fanfiction.
US Grand Prix:
It’s funny how they call you an unsuccessful rookie in one moment and a future world champion in the next. The second you get a solid result they'll pretend like they always knew you had the potential to achieve it because they want your success to be theirs. But they would never share the failures with you – for that you have to take the responsibility alone.
Realizing this taught me just one thing: stopping to care about people like this doesn’t make you careless, it makes you a better driver. I’m aware of Landos self-destructive way of handling these people but I want to do it differently. Because nobody – not the media, not other drivers – should have an effect on my performance or my character. In the beginning of this season it was difficult to not be influenced by all the opinions but now, after the highs and lows, I know what really only matters – my own opinion.
And my opinion is, after getting my first sprint pole and win as well as standing on the podium for the second time in Qatar, that I’m a damn good driver who is eager to achieve even more in this sport.
Sometimes I wonder if it will effect my relationship with Lando. Although we are in the same team you cannot really count f1 as a team sport, in the end you fight alone to stand on the top step of the podium. But I’ll just count on my admiration and huge respect for him for us to get along because if he also extends his contract with McLaren, like I did, he won’t get rid of me for the next three years.
And as I stand next to him, shortly before we‘ll have to film a challenge for the McLaren chanel, I really hope he'd extend his contract. Because I will see him on track either way but I wouldn’t get to spend this much time with him if he is another team after next year.
"Remind me of the rules again“, Lando required.
"No staring at each other for longer than three seconds. No ambiguities that could make the other blush. No touches "by mistake"," I said dull. After Japan there were more posts about how close we seemingly are and a few rumours on social media to find. It’s mainly positive but we are still not sure how to handle this situation so we came up with the rules to buy us time.
Of course, there is always Carlos who could go public if our existence just pisses him off too much in one moment. Even though we have the recording of him, he might not care about his job when he will end up in bad team anyway. So we were happy that he wasn’t in the mood to do that in Qatar where political stand points could’ve been an issue but it’s like ticking time bomb with him.
"Impossible, but I’ll try my best“, Lando said with little conviction.
"Sure you do“, I looked at him and raised an eyebrow.
"Hey, look at yourself Mr. Heart-eyes Piastri“ I rolled my eyes but had a hard time hiding my smile. Sometimes it was funny to see videos of yourself acting like a complete fool around the person you love. But it would be even funnier if you didn’t know that a bunch of strangers saw you like that too.
"You know what? There shouldn’t be any rules. Oscar Piastri, do you want to be my official boyfriend – in private and in public?“ His tone was serious but I couldn’t take it seriously, or maybe I didn’t want to – not yet.
"Your boyfriend? I thought we are just casual.“ I played shocked but Lando didn’t take the joke.
"Stop it, I really mean it.“ Maybe I wanted to buy me more time for my answer because I continued to play with him.
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