with teeth and hunger and snark and selfishness is just so much more human
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Oscar lost Lando a championship and left McLaren. There was still a year in between.
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17 Oct 2024
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He rushes to put his earphones on, then his balaclava, the HANS, his helmet, his gloves. The beautiful old ritual. He grins as he climbs into the cockpit, shaking with excitement and emotion.
He trembles and he shudders as the great wings of Yas Marina open up above, his monster of a car beneath, his incomprehensible feat of engineering, his technological miracle, his behemoth of a machine made divine, his peer, his equal, above all else, his friend—
He cut his teeth in McLaren, and now he’s got them out. In the car, he comes alive. His RB22 does too. He roars.
There is no fear anymore. He has nothing to be afraid of.
Oscar lets the feeling fill him—the gut-deep hunger, the awe and its enormity—it’s too big to hold, but he digs his claws in. He’s let go of so many things in his life, but he’s not letting go of this.
As he’s about to pull his visor down, he feels a pat on his helmet. Oscar turns his head.
Max is leaning over the halo, grinning wide, his eyes wild. Through the carbon fibre, Oscar hears him say:
“Eat them alive.”