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driving a new ferrari down the dead end street (lestappen version) by azzurasedici
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
08 Dec 2024
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RedBull Racing fell apart after the 2024 season and they couldn't rebuild themselves.
The 2025 season marked the full fall.
They lost the drivers championship to Charles and the constructors championship to ferrari.
Max stepped out of formula one, adventuring himself more seriously with sim racing and even tried endurance for the 2027 season.
And then Hamilton announced his retirement at the end of the 2027 season. And one seat for the scuderia was open.or: max verstappen joins ferrari for the 2028 season.
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Jos Verstappen and his wife died in a car wreck in Austin when attending to watch Max for the Grand Prix. This is the story of what happens after, Max's journey to keep his little brother and littlest sister safe and happy. Charles and his family just... don't stop being around. Set in 2022, starting in Austin, two weeks after Max was named World Champion for a second time. (Story ended at Chapter 24, but some bonus chapters are posted occasionally.)
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22 Sep 2025
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Such a wonderful story, truly a wonderful slow and caring feeling
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Lost and Found (and Extremely Confused). by deletedaccountjustkiddingunless
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
07 Apr 2025
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Oscar keeps getting things. A Ferrari bracelet. An old MCL35 cap. A padel racket that reeks of Sainz. He doesn’t want to talk about it. He doesn’t want Carlos to be his soulmate. But the universe is persistent, and Oscar is running out of places to hide the evidence.
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“Apparently ‘Landoscar’ is climbing the ‘AO3 Top 100 Ships’ chart or something like that this year”, Oscar said, shaking his head in disbelief.
Lando grinned: “Can you believe they’re coaching us on how to act more ‘shippable’? All so we can dethrone those two.”
He nodded toward the far end of the table. Everyone turned to see Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen talking animatedly, hands flying, in other words Maxplaining and Leclarifying, completely oblivious to the conversation happening around them.
From across the table, Ollie and Kimi yelled in unison: “LESTAPPEN?”
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Right, fine, Charles could entertain himself for a couple of days. He had a phone, he had internet, he had Instagram…
Big mistake.
The app, desperate to entertain him, decided to serve up a familiar face: Max Verstappen.Charles didn’t even follow him, not since that race weekend years ago. It was a long story involving a track fight, a missed win, and the most awkward flight home in the history of aviation. But of course, the algorithm knew better.
The photo stopped him. It was just a Black-and-white close-up of Max’s profile, but…
He stared at it longer than he’d like to admit, then gave in to the impulse.Charles: Since when does Max Verstappen post thirst traps?
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I Took a While to Find You, Mi Amor. by deletedaccountjustkiddingunless for littlefroggyfairy
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
24 May 2025
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Charles Leclerc has been losing all year. On track? Disaster. Ferrari strategy? A philosophical experiment in pain. His AO3 haven? Under siege.
The Landoscar tag is exploding and Charles—longtime, definitely platonic, definitely normal consumer of Lestappen fanfic—has had enough. To protect the tag (and his fragile sanity), he convinces Max Verstappen to fake-date him.
It’s supposed to be strategic. It was supposed to be subtle. And maybe, just maybe, the greatest love story AO3 has ever seen. If Charles doesn’t cry first. Or crash. Or both.
Bookmarked by FM11
04 Sep 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Emotionally unstable speedrun towards relationship goals was not the fanfic I expected but it was the fanfic I needed
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31 Days of Lestappen: A Festive Christmas Calendar by f1writingbyme, LestappenForever
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
31 Dec 2024
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“Every year, she asks if I’m bringing someone home for Christmas. I think she’s worried I’m lonely. And every year, I have to tell her no, which I just know breaks her heart. So I might have said yes this time.”
That draws a surprised laugh from Max, who stares at him with wide eyes. “And you don’t actually have someone to bring home for Christmas, I take it?”
“No,” the Monégasque admits, rubbing at the back of his neck.
“Damn,” Max huffs, sounding both surprised and amused. “You didn’t give her a fake name as well, did you?”
And, well, at least he didn’t technically do that.
“Not exactly.”
“What does that mean?”
Charles lets out a groan and leans his head back against the wall again, staring at the bright Lusail sky.
He takes a deep breath, deciding he’s already told Max too much to back out now, and offers him the kind of honesty he was unable to offer his own mother.
“I might have told her I was bringing you?”
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OR: Charles lies about having a boyfriend to bring home for Christmas. That "boyfriend" is Max.
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New chapter will be posted at 09:00 CET every day throughout December!
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Bookmarked by FM11
01 Sep 2025
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love it soooo much, and the last Oscar bit had me in tears
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“What are you doing?” Charles asked, his voice cracking.
Max blinked at him once before he smirked and said, “Well... I was going to kiss you.”
“Why?”
“Because I want to.”
“Why?” Charles repeated, feeling like his legs were going to give out.
“Is that not a good enough reason?” Max asked.
OR: The childhood best friends to lovers fairy-tale-soulmates fic that nobody asked for. Charles has been in love with Max since he was seven years old.
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Max saw him for the first time in 2018. As the years pass, he’s still not sure if he wants to win for himself or for the chance to stand next to him.
OR, Max is a Formula 1 driver and Charles is the Prince of Monaco — and the love of Max’s life.
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13 Jul 2025
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The cutest, I need to hold it in my hands, and love the reactions at the end, so fun
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Max Verstappen loves racing, this is a universal truth.
He’s spent the last decade of his life racing on the biggest stage in the world of motorsport. Through all these years, Max never really got nervous or hesitant. He always knew, another universal truth, that he was going to be a world champion one day. There had been doubts in the paddock, of course, but he never shared them. It was always going to be a matter of time. A matter of when, not if. There had been no room for nervosity, no need for it. Through it all, Max Verstappen had always felt in control of his own future.
That is, until Max Verstappen met Charles Leclerc.
or: formula 1 driver max verstappen meets pop star charles leclerc on the same weekend he has the chance to win his fourth world championship and is subsequently put through the most gruelling, frustrating and thrilling chase of his life, both on- and off-track.
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08 Jul 2025
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I am INSANE about this, I will never be normal again, tattoo it into my fcking brain
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“Sorry I am late everyone, I overslept. What have I m-” Max stops when he sees Charles, and Charles’ stomach drops when his pale blue eyes meet his own.
Charles has never felt more stupid or naive. His name is Max, he travels for work, he lives in Monaco, they both happened to be in Milton Keynes for work. Max isn’t just “Max”. He’s Max Verstappen. Three time Formula One world champion. That’s why he looked so familiar.
or; the one where Charles is Max's performance coach, and Max teaches Charles how to be okay again
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Max Verstappen is a lot of things: fast, focused, ferocious. But feelings? Feelings have always been trickier.
So he does what any emotionally constipated thirteen year old would do: he starts a list.
And The List grows. Through karting, into Formula 1, across podiums and seasons and stolen glances. A hundred quiet observations of the boy who glows brighter than Monaco in July.
It’s just for Max. No one ever has to know.
Until Charles finds it.
Or, a decades-long pining spiral, Oscar Piastri as the hero of the story, and the quiet ache of being known—truly, entirely—by the person who matters most.
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Max Verstappen is the only woman in Formula One. One day, Charles Leclerc starts to realize just how important she is to him.
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Max has a problem.
And that problem is Charles Leclerc. Sweet, sunny, casually-touchy, infuriatingly pretty Charles Leclerc. They’re best friends and while Max is painfully in love, Charles is painfully oblivious. They study together. They drink too much coffee. Charles touches his hands and Max forgets how to breathe.
It’s all very normal. It’s fine. Max is fine. (He’s not.)
Or, how to survive having your crush wear your hoodie — a study by Max Verstappen.
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“Your name is Charles?”
“Yeah. Charles Leclerc.”
They stared at each other. The rumbling of an engine starting sounded from somewhere outside.
“You really don’t know who I am?”
Max shook his head wordlessly.
“So then… back at the bar–”
“I said the first name that came to mind,” Max said hollowly. “I was hoping that you’d just go along with it.”
The man–Charles–bit his lip, dropping his eyes to where his fingers were drumming on the countertop. His shoulders began to shake slightly, and, for a second, Max was afraid that he’d burst into tears.
That wouldn’t be fair. Max was the one who had been drugged and then essentially abducted, even if it was by a well-meaning, apparently famous person. If anyone should be crying, it was definitely him.
or, Max gets his drink spiked in a club, and rescue comes from an unexpected source.
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Charles Leclerc
[link: Charles_Leclerc_On_Date_With_Partner_Max_Bakker]
Lets get marriedMax Verstappen
Sometimes I get very concerned about you
Like you’re the kind of person where if you came to me one day and said “Max help me hide this body”
I wouldn’t be surprisedCharles Leclerc
Would you??Max Verstappen
I just said I wouldn’t be.Charles Leclerc
No, would you help me hide the body
DumbassOr: Max and Charles try to come out. No one believes them.
They take drastic measures.
OR: 5 times nobody believed Max and Charles are together, and 1 time they do.
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“I’m not so drunk that I don’t know what I’m asking you,” Max said.
Charles swallowed the lump in his throat. “Me either.”
“So, is that a yes?”
“Are you sure about this?” Charles asked instead, laughing unbelievably and shaking his head. “This is not something we do, mate.”
“It could be something we do,” Max said, grinning at him. His fingers flexed on Charles’ hip, and it did something weird to Charles’ brain. When he looked back on this moment later, he would blame Max’s big hand on his hip for what he did next.
Because for some reason... Charles kissed him.
He wasn’t sure why.
OR: the self-indulgent story of how Charles and Max fell in love over winter break 2022, in a classic Enemies to Friends With Benefits to Lovers fic that nobody asked for.
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Charles and Max got accidentally married in Vegas and have to deal with the consequences.
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Catch us in the mirror (and it looks a lot like love) by laughterxlines
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
01 Oct 2023
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“I’ll see you at the airport on Sunday then,” Max said right before hanging up.
He did feel bad for a second, as he heard Charles saying something, but the feeling did not last. They have not seen each other since Tuesday morning, right before Max left Milan. Charles was supposed to stay in Italy until Wednesday, for team meetings and simulator sessions. That was the plan! Then every time they talked on the phone, Charles would tell Max he could not go home yet because John Elkann invited him and some team members for dinner or because he had to visit a karting track.
Problem is: Charles cannot say no.