The Art of Losing You

Gabriel Leclerc never belonged to the world of racing.
While his brothers chased engines, speed, and championship dreams, he chased colors, shapes, and the quiet pulse of art. Leaving Monaco for Paris was supposed to be an escape-a clean break from a childhood he shared with someone he could never have.

Max Verstappen.
His first best friend.
His first heartbreak.

Now, after years in the shadows and a silence he begged Charles to keep, Gabriel returns to the Formula 1 paddock for one weekend only. He expects noise, chaos, the heavy weight of old memories.

He doesn't expect Max.

And Max certainly doesn't expect the boy he once knew-the boy who disappeared overnight-to walk back into his world looking different, older, and still somehow painfully familiar.

Between roaring engines, stolen glances across the pit lane, and a past neither of them ever truly outran, Gabriel and Max find themselves pulled back into each other's orbit.

But some reunions hurt.
Some truths heal.
And some loves never leave at all.