We’ve Existed for Years
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Three races, three countries, and two people bound by something far deeper than the track. As the end of the season closes in around Max, the fight for the title begins to blur with pressure, jealousy, and a love that is becoming harder and harder not to notice. Charles tries to keep his composure, but when the cameras, the internet, and one question at a press conference start taking their relationship apart piece by piece, privacy stops being something they can easily protect.
Ferrari puts out fires, Red Bull adds fuel to them, and the paddock slowly begins to understand that Lestappen was not born suddenly over the course of one weekend. It has existed for years, and only now is the world beginning to look closely enough to see it. And Max and Charles have to decide whether they still want to pretend no one can see what has belonged only to them for a very long time.
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- Part 1 of We’ve Existed for Years
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After publicly announcing their engagement, Max and Charles try to learn a new kind of life — one without hiding, but also without sharing everything that, for years, belonged only to them. Ferrari and Red Bull set the rules, Mia tries to contain the catastrophe, Gemma enjoys the best story of the season, and the internet burns over every comment, every heart, and the fact that they still do not follow each other on Instagram.
But the 2026 season begins to pull them in different directions. Charles rediscovers joy in Ferrari, while Max loses more and more of the satisfaction he once found in racing and starts drifting toward GT3. When Charles feels Max beginning to disappear, instead of fighting to make him come back, he decides to follow him. And Miami, which was supposed to be their reward, becomes the weekend where everything public and private collides in front of the entire paddock.
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- Part 2 of We’ve Existed for Years
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Max and Charles’s public love does not protect them from what has been cracking underneath for a long time. The Nürburgring gives Max the breath he finds less and less often in Formula 1, and shows Charles a world where racing can hurt less than Ferrari. Canada, Monaco, and Barcelona only deepen the question of whether loyalty is still love, or already the most beautiful cage.
Charles wants to believe in the red team, because he promised it to his father, to Jules, and to himself. Max does not believe in Ferrari, but he believes in Charles.
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- Part 3 of We’ve Existed for Years
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After Barcelona, Max and Charles do not break up, but they begin living inside a silence that hurts more than another fight ever could. Austria, Silverstone, and Monaco force them to return to the same wounds — Ferrari, Red Bull, the promise of a wedding after a World Championship, and the question of who, exactly, is home. Through victories, DNFs, a party, jealousy, fear, and conversations postponed for far too long, they learn how to speak without using the truth as a weapon. There is no easy answer waiting on the other side of silence — only the decision of whether to stay.
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- Part 4 of We’ve Existed for Years