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Daniel Ricciardo has always been Red Bull's sunshine-loyal, hardworking, endlessly upbeat-but even he can't hide the cracks forever. Years of feeling overlooked, underappreciated, and pushed aside begin to take their toll. Every missed opportunity, every strategic slight, every quiet dismissal chips away at him until even the brightest smile can't cover the hurt.
And then the unthinkable happens.
His little sister, Charlotte Ricciardo-the chaotic, lovable, oblivious hurricane of his life-gets offered his seat. Red Bull calls it "the future." Daniel calls it betrayal. Their bond, once unshakeable, fractures under the weight of resentment, guilt, and choices neither sibling is ready to admit to.
Charlotte isn't blind to her brother's pain, but she's tired of living in his shadow. For once, she wants to be more than "Daniel's little sister." More than a side character in someone else's career. So she takes the seat. She takes the spotlight. And she takes the one person Daniel never expected her to get close to-Max Verstappen.
What starts as petty revenge, a way to hurt Daniel the way he hurt her, becomes something far more complicated. Max-intense, rough-edged, impossible to read, and somehow soft in the smallest, most unexpected moments-gets under her skin. He challenges her. Pushes her. Sees her.
And she falls. Hard.
Now Daniel must watch the two people he loves most build something without him, while Charlotte discovers that love in Formula One is its own kind of high-speed danger.
Sibling loyalty shatters. Rivalries intensify. New alliances form in the chaos of the paddock. And somewhere, buried beneath anger and ambition, the Ricciardos must decide whether family is something worth fighting for-or something too broken to fix.