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Dino Beganovic has it all - a seat with Hitech, Ferrari backing, and millions of fans who think they know him.
But behind every podium smile is a boy unravelling. Raised in a home where love was measured in trophies, Dino has spent years chasing perfection - starving, shrinking, and silencing himself in the name of success.
As pressure mounts and the cracks begin to show, Dino's carefully curated world begins to fall apart. And when the helmet comes off, there's nowhere to hide.
And when Stella Sargeant charges headfirst into Dino's life, she finds first an enemy, then a friend in the cut throat world. Through her time spent with him, she finds he isn't what he shows the world to be, and spends the season patching up the cracks of the boy she loves.
A raw, emotionally charged exploration of trauma, identity and the brutal world of elite motorport, Painted Stars is not a story about racing.
It's about surviving.