The winter break is over, and George is ready for a fresh start. But his plans are derailed when his best friend, Lando, starts dating the grid's notorious playboy, Max Verstappen. Desperate to protect him, George makes it his mission to get Lando away from Max's influence. But as George gets closer to the enemy, he realizes there's much more to Max Verstappen than the reputation he's built. What happens when George starts to see the man behind the mask?

In Formula 1, everything is public-except them. Oscar Piastri is perfect on paper: polite, controlled, McLaren's golden boy who never breaks the rules. What no one sees is how soft he is, how deeply he feels, or how badly he's suffocating in a world that won't let him want the one thing he can't have. Lando Norris is chaos wrapped in charm. Touchy, loyal, all golden-retriever energy and reckless devotion. He loves loudly in private, even when he knows he shouldn't, even when it could cost him everything. They're teammates. Rivals. Best friends in the making. And completely, devastatingly forbidden. Behind closed doors and away from cameras, something dangerous begins-stolen glances, lingering touches, feelings they swear they'll ignore until they can't anymore. McLaren has rules. Formula 1 has expectations. The closet has teeth. But loving each other hurts less than pretending they don't. A secret, in-the-closet, rivals-to-friends-to-lovers Formula 1 romance about forbidden love, soft confessions, and the aching hope that one day they won't have to hide-because loving each other out loud might be worth the risk.

McLaren's Australian driver, 𝐎𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑 𝐏𝐈𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈, is struggling with the fact that he is a number 2 driver, and when Christian Horner takes advantage of Oscar's anger, he manipulates him into driving for Redbull where Max Verstappen is presumably retiring. He never tells his teammate and best friend that he's leaving, and when Lando finds out, the cracks in their relationship begin to form. And 𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐒, McLaren's golden boy, is struggling even more. He thinks that pushing his emotions down will work out in the end; he's been doing it since he was ten, so why wouldn't it work now? What happens now is that he breaks down in panic in his driver's room while Oscar tries to help him. He only realizes he can't go on like that when he's stuck in a burning car, not wanting to get out, and realizes he needs to do something about his feelings, not just bottle them up as he has been for the past year. In 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐖𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄, Lando and Oscar find a rivalry that's tied to Lando's mental health problems and Oscar's manipulation by Christian Horner, and how much they're in love with each other and don't even know it. As the season goes on and on, they drift farther and farther apart from friends, and closer and closer to what some would call enemies, through knowing each other so well that they know how to make it hurt.

During a golden, sun-drenched Monaco summer the Mclaren team takes a rare break. The villa they stay at is quiet, heavy with heat and the soft stillness of time off. Oscar arrives in the wake of a quiet breakup with Lily, carrying the silence of a man still figuring out what he's lost. He's withdrawn, his mind a haze of bitter thoughts. Lando watches from the edges, heart soft and aching. His crush on Oscar is old and carefully hidden, but now, without the noise of the track or the pressure of the season, something fragile begins to stir. In the space between cicadas and salt-kissed afternoons, conversations grow more honest. Oscar is lonely. Lando is hopeful. And sometimes, hope lingers even when it's sunburnt, peeling and sore, but still alive under the skin.

It's the profound tragedy of Lando's life, he thinks, to realise he's in love with his teammate - just as Oscar Piastri makes a habit of standing one step higher on the podium, forcing Lando to crane his neck to look at him. Oscar hates watching the light fade from Lando's eyes with every victory he takes from him. He accepted the inconvenient truth long ago: he loves Lando. But he loves winning more.

COMPLETED | Lando Norris + Oscar Piastri's bro day out prior to the 2025 F1 Season sparks up a funky dating rumour. But the McLaren PR team uses this to their advantage to accelerate both boys' careers. Fake/Pretend Relationship | Friends to Lovers | 2025 F1 Season Realistic .𖥔 ݁ ˖ ✦ ‧₊˚ ⋅.𖥔 ݁ ˖ ✦ ‧₊˚ ⋅ "We have a new PR strategy for this year to aid with keeping you both in the headlines for longer," Louise, the CMO, continues. "We want to lean into the wave you've both created already." "We want you to both be in a PR relationship," Zak finalises. Lando immediately spills a quarter of the water carafe onto Oscar's lap out of pure shock. Lando gasps out a few squeaky sorry's while Oscar stands up in a fright. "You mean with... models, or s-something?" Oscar stutters out, looking down to his pants which absolutely looks like he's just pissed himself. "No, that'd be a very easy strategy. We've used that one for years," Louise laughs. Neither of the drivers are laughing with her. "You two, together."

When Oscar Piastri wakes up one morning in Monaco, he's not hungover, heartbroken, or late for practice-he's six months old. Now Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen, and half the F1 grid are stuck babysitting a literal baby driver while trying to figure out how and why this happened. Between diaper disasters, sugar highs, and emotional breakdowns, one thing becomes clear: the universe might just be giving them all a second chance-to fix their mistakes, rebuild friendships, and learn what it really means to be a team. Because raising a baby is hard. Raising your friend who used to drive for McLaren? That's chaos on a championship level. PS - Do not let the amount of chapters fool you. This book is 40k words long.

Lando Norris couldn't accept his cold, new teammate, Oscar Piastri. But when their rivalry shatters the driver's facade, Lando discovers hidden wounds and profound pain. Falling deeply in love, Lando offers Oscar the only unconditional safe harbor. Yet, the power of that love terrifies Lando himself, forcing him to flee from an emotion he can't control. Can he return in time to prove his love is stronger than his fear, before the wounded champion seals himself forever in silence?

"You hate me, don't you?" "No. I wish I did." When rookie Oscar Piastri joins McLaren, Lando Norris doesn't think much of him: quiet, polite, unthreatening. Until the first test. Until Oscar's lap times start haunting him more than the thought of losing ever did. Rivalry turns personal, and attraction feels a lot like obsession. In the season that could make or break them, Lando learns that the real danger isn't on the track. It's the rookie sharing his garage. ✦ . 　⁺ 　 . ✦ . 　⁺ 　 . ✦ . 　⁺ 　 . ✦ . 　⁺ 　 . ✦ angst; enemies to lovers;

This was supposed to be Lando's first Christmas without having to answer questions about his boyfriend or his relationships. Unfortunately, the world had other plans, because when his boyfriend breaks up with him right before Christmas, his plans get complicated. Then, he makes a stupid decision by asking his best friend and roommate for help. Oscar has to pretend to be his boyfriend for a few days, gaining the sympathy of his family. However, they didn't know that this request would change everything. A Christmas story in which Lando begins to understand how blind he was to not notice someone so close to him, and Oscar no longer has to hide his deep feelings for his best friend.