Rumor has it ~ Charles Leclerc

Part 95

Charles shows me the Ferrari garage and brings me over to the strategists and the engineers. He himself has to go and do some important driver things.

I talk a lot to the others and the time till the start of the race just flys by.
All if the sudden I sit at the commando stand and hear the words and its lights out and away we go into the Dutch Grand Prix.

The first laps also fly by and Charles is now behind Max, who is behind Oscar, the race leader.

Commentary: what we can see here is a very interesting 46th lap. We have Landi and George battling for fifth, you can see the untersteering problem that Max has because Leclerc can catch up even faster then before and the gap between Piastry and Verstappen widens to twelve whole seconds.
When we look a bit further down the chart we see Fernando Alonso driving in 12th and Stroll right behind him. You can see him spiking on the inside and outside a few times but he doesn't get the overtake done.
He tries again, and and aaannnddd, oh no, he spins out! The wind has pressed so much to his left that he spun out and gut a taste of the wall.
His front rear out completely trashed, this race is completely over for this man.
But what is he doing there? He is driving! With his broken rear. He should stop that real fast because that will be a big big fine if he drives onto track with that.
My god.... This man does not care a single bit. And.... That is the fine. He crossed the white line with his shredded car. And to make it even worse he crosses the race line of Charles Leclerc and causes him to make a 360°

"What on earth is this guy doing?" The engineer to my left yells, completely out of composure.
"What kind of driving is this. That's absolutely horrible!" The engineer to my right says.
I stop all of my movements and forget to breathe for a second. What did he just say? That's it! That is what a woman said before I was hit. I wanted to go to an early appointment. I visited Charles and Hanna visited Lando.
"I remember!" I say quietly without even thinking about it.
"What did you say?" The engineer to my right says.
"I remember. You made me remember!"
"How did I?"
"I don't care how! Thank you soooo much!"

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS GUY DOING, JUST DRIVING ON TRACK LIKE ITS NOTHING" Charles screams over the radio.
"No worries mate, we are on it. Just try and catch up again to max."
I climb over to Charles' race engineer and make a head movement, that is supposed to mean can I talk to him real quick? He nods and gives me is headset.
"Hi char, I want you to really concentrate and catch up to max and Oscar. Just focus on the race and finish the race as quick as you can. We have got a lot to talk about, like a certain bet or anything else really."
"Does that mean?"
"Yes it does and now win the race for me, for us."

I hand the headset back and return to my seat. I watch the rest of the race with every muscle in my body tensing up.
The safety car comes out and the race is led by it for about six laps. In lap 52 it comes back into the pit lane and Oscar restarts the race.
The restart went great for Oscar but not for Max and neither Charles.
Until lap 61 Charles creeps up on Max slowly and by lap 62 he is in his DRS. He finally gets to overtake him on the straight a the finish line and peaks in the first corner and leaves Max behind him.
Now he has to overtake Oscar who is four seconds in front of him tho.

"Give it all they you got." His race engineer motivates him over the radio.
And he definitely does that. He makes one fastest lap after the other and by lap 69 he is only one more second behind him but can't quite reach the DRS.
He finally gets in it in lap 71 and they means two more laps to go and to overtake him.
He is so very close to him and finally at the last opportunity, on the last corner of the last lap, just before the finish line, he overtakes him.

We all run out of the communication stand and stand where he will park his car in just a moment. The others let me through, so that I can stand right at the gate.
He comes and parks the car.
He jumps out and comes running towards us, first he goes jumping in the group and then he comes to me. He picks me up and helps me jump over the gate. He pulls me into a deep and loving hug.
"I won't ever let you go, you know that right?"
"This made me even more sure of that fact. Everything I will experience in this life I want to experience with you" he adds.