Blood In The Water

Sakhir 2020 Grand Prix- Charles Leclerc/Reader/Max Verstappen

Only the three of you were allowed to play, the confines of the game extending no further than the competition between yourself, Charles and Max had ever truly reached, the scope encompassing to include only one another as realistic competition to the other.

The game was to have no end, it would never be completed, and the winner would only be decided when it was no longer possible, no longer viable, to continue playing- that was to say, it would end only when everyone had retired from racing entirely.

And lastly, it was of the utmost importance that the game was no longer to be called anything as commonplace or mundane as King of the Hill. No, because from here on out, the elite game for three was to be known only and quite simplistically by the moniker King of the Grid.

As it turned out, the age-old game of who was the best and who could stay the best was something that could be played regardless of the slowly increasing number of candles crowded onto birthday cakes, or of the venue for that matter, untouchable and beyond the sway of race series or championship rankings.