"What about the team?" She asked the question I was dreading having to answer. "Maybe we shouldn't tell them for now." I replied. "Maybe we keep it to ourselves until we know for sure that this is it." I watched as Tess nodded silently. But in my head I knew already that this was it. At least it was for me. started: 13/03/2026 finished: driver x engineer grumpy x sunshine maxverstappen x tessamarkson highest rankings: #3 in formula1 (16/03/2026) #2 in verstappen (10/05/2026

Alessia and Andrea. They went to school together, they raced karts against each other. Now they line up on the 2025 Formula 1 grid as rookies together. One might call them friends. Sometimes not. Maybe even rivals. Kimi and Alessia share some sort of connection. One that always brings them back to each other. One they can't control. Even after 2 years of no contact between the two. When the 2025 rookies are announced, both were shocked to see the other's name after so long. The two deciding on different intentions; Kimi's, to rekindle their relationship. And Alessia's, to stay the hell away from Kimi. ・┆✦ʚ♡ɞ✦ ┆・ "𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚" "𝒴𝑜𝓊'𝓇𝑒 𝒻𝓊𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒸𝓇𝒶𝓏𝓎 𝒜𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒶" ・┆✦ʚ♡ɞ✦ ┆・ ★ Kimi Antonelli x fem OC ★ Childhood friends/rivals to lovers ★ Rookie driver ★ 2025 F1 season

A collection of supplemental material, articles, flashbacks, alternate POVs, transcripts, messages, and narrative fragments from the System Failure universe. Basically: deleted scenes, unhinged transcripts and bonus lore. Aka the Patch Notes.

Esme Travere thought she'd found her family when she was sixteen. Instead, she found years of bruises, broken promises, and the kind of love that came with conditions. When Severin throws her out with nothing but a carry-on and their six-month-old daughter, Esme swears Juliette will never grow up thinking love looks like this. Thanks to a chain of women with no patience for cowards, Esme ends up in Monaco, working in Pascale Leclerc's salon. And there, between hair dye and daycare runs, she meets Pascale's middle son-a Formula 1 driver with too-kind eyes, who looks at her like she's already halfway his.

Max Verstappen to Mercedes? The paddock is buzzing. The media's in meltdown. Dr. Anastasia "Ana" Wolff, Mercedes' notoriously brilliant, emotionally unavailable lead systems engineer and Toto Wolff's eldest daughter, is not handling it well. Because Max isn't just a potential signing, he's the man she's been sleeping with in secret for nearly a decade. And if the rumours are true, and Max Verstappen really is joining Mercedes, then Ana's carefully compartmentalised world is about to explode.

Chiara prints his worksheets. Kimi pretends to forget formulas just to talk to her. It was all working-until she stopped helping, and he realized he might've already lost her.

Max Verstappen is a World Champion. Isabelle Leclerc is invisible. She watched her family give up everything for Charles' career-Arthur's karting, their father's savings, even her childhood horse. She understood. She never asked for more. But Max does. He notices the things no one else does, listens when no one else will, and puts her first in ways she never imagined. With him, she isn't an afterthought-she's a choice. And for the first time, she realizes she doesn't have to be invisible.

Oscar Piastri had always been a calm, collected kind of guy. Unshakeable, even. Lando Norris, on the other hand? Not so much. And today? Today was the day Lando fully lost it. (Also known as: Oscar Piastri got married at 18...and forgot to mention it.)