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Max Verstappen entered the F1 world too early in the eyes of many. A reckless, dangerous driver, the others are slow to welcome him, instead shunning and ignoring the warning signs that blatantly flash bright. Even the media casts a shadow over the brilliance that the young boy holds inside. As his early years continue on, the grid will learn the hard way just how much pressure Max is under, and will be pressed to try and salvage anything they can before it's too late.
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- Part 9 of Don't Give Up On Me
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“Is it really so unbelievable?” Max’s frowns, noting the doubtful looks still pointed at him.
He glances back at the picture of Charles on his phone — his features softening briefly because it’s Charles — before tucking it back in his pocket to glare at his so-called friends.
“Well, you’re a little bit of an asshole, mate,” Lando says, ever so blunt. He gives Max a brief once over, his brows knitting in what looked to be extreme confusion and even a little judgement before he continues, “And, no offence, but he looks a little too out of your league.”
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The 5 times nobody believed Max had a boyfriend, and the 1 time they did.
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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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On the drive back to the hotel Max had turned to him, blue eyes fierce and piercing.
“Promise me you won’t stop being angry. You’re angry because you know what you can do. Use it, control it, let it fuel you. Other people won’t understand but that doesn’t matter, you know what you’re capable of.”
You and me, he’d seemed to say, we’re the same.
Charles wonders now how he ever thought Max wouldn’t understand.
Or: Charles leaves Ferrari, tries to win a championship, and learns some things about belonging. All the while, Max is there.
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“Wait,” Lando said, voice high pitched, “you guys really think Max and Charles are into each other? For real?”
“All the evidence points to that,” replied Alex, sighing, all analytical and a tad regretful, as if it was a shameful fact, unavoidable.
“And you think they might be already sleeping together?”
“No, not yet,” Daniel admitted, “they are just friends for now, and Charles is simply clingy with Max, who is a big softie with Charlie, God knows why… But… I think they want to.”
or: 5 times Max and Charles acted weirdly couple-y (+ one time they noticed)
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“Oh, but you can send me into the barriers?! Fuck you, Hamilton, leave me alone.”
Lewis gapes at him. “Max, I was penali-”
“You still won! You still won and nobody criticised you for it because you’re the great Lewis Hamilton, but when I so much as set a foot wrong…”
“Max, your tyre touched my helmet. I could feel your car on top of my head. You brake tested me. Do you know how dangerous that is?!”
“AND EVERYONE HATES ME FOR IT! THEY WISH I’D JUST DIED IN SILVERSTONE! LEWIS, YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW IT FEELS WHEN EVERYONE’S ROOTING AGAINST YOU AND WANTS YOU OUT OF THE SPORT, BECAUSE YOU’RE THEIR POSTER CHILD, SO JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!”
or: Max only joins F1 in 2017 and is subsequently adopted by Lewis Hamilton. Which makes their championship battle all the more difficult for both of them; and both have to cope. One way or another.
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Tragedy strikes during the 2022 Singapore Grand Prix and nothing is ever the same.
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As he rounded the next corner, into sector two, he caught sight of the crash. From the collapsed barriers and the dust of the kicked-up gravel, it was a bad one. Then he saw a flash of red, the briefest of glances at the livery.
A Ferrari.
“Who?”
“Repeat?"
“Who’s in the wall?”
“Focus. Gap to car ahead, 1.3 seconds.”
“Who is in the wall?”
“Leclerc.”
Witnessing the aftermath of Charles's crash, Max makes a choice he could come to regret. As the media swarms their relationship, there may be more demons to face than they ever expected.
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- Part 1 of Hear The Engines Purr
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Bookmarked by Star33
21 Feb 2026
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The smile pulled across his lips again as he heard feet on the concrete behind him, and arms slowly wrapping around his middle, lips on his neck, hot breath on his skin. "It's early, come back to bead…”
"I've slept for almost eighteen hours, chéri, I'm fine," Charles replied softly, free hand sliding down Max's arm. "Besides, look at the view...”
Stepping to his side, arms still wrapped around him, Max fixed his gaze on Charles's face, a soft, familiar smile on his lips. "I am looking, schat."
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drive on, dreamer (you can't leave her) by champagne_for_breakfast
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
11 Sep 2025
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“If you were stuck in a timeloop, and you knew you had to stop something from happening, what would you do?”
“What 10-questions-to-ask-your-teammate-to-get-to-know-them site did you get that one from?” Lewis laughs, as he moves to pull the balaclava over his head. They have 5 minutes until they have to be ready in the car and admittedly, this moment might not be the best time to ask this kind of question.
“No, I mean it,” Charles insists, lifting his helmet from the stand, but holding it awkwardly in his hands, maintaining eye contact. “If you were stuck, what would you do?”
Lewis places his hand on his shoulder lightly, squeezing once. “We can talk about this after the race, yes?”
There won’t be an after the race, Charles thinks bitterly, but he nods his head anyway. “Yeah,” he agrees, “after the race, sure.”
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or: max crashes, charles deals with it more or less well, and the universe decides to meddle by having charles relive the same day over and over again
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Bookmarked by Star33
12 Feb 2026
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It is just the way things are. It is one of the unchangeable truths of the universe: water is wet, the sun rises in the morning, Charles Leclerc is in love with Max Verstappen. No matter how much he thinks and thinks, and overthinks his emotions, it will not change. Nothing in the world can make Charles not love Max.
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It was followed by the words, ‘Niente senza di te,’ because in the end, that was what Charles believed in, what he had lived for, and what he died for. His love for Max was everything, and he had given up everything to be with him again.
aka Charles crashes into Max at Monza, it doesn't end well for either of them.
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There’s no way in hell Charles is actually doing this.
Not here.
Not now.
But then Charles takes him deeper, eyes flicking up to meet Max’s gaze, and all of Max’s flimsy objections dissolve like smoke. Because when Charles is horny, he always gets what he wants.
One way or another.
And who is Max to deny him?
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OR: With half of his car still being somewhere between Australia and China, Max is stuck in a dull conference room, drowning in data reports and boredom instead of driving in FP1. That is, until Charles sneaks into Red Bull territory for a very different kind of distraction.
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For a brief moment, max feels like he’s flying. His mind is as calm as it is when he sends his car down a long straight, throttle pushed flat out. But then in his mind, he is breaking hard going into the chicane of realizing the implications of what he is doing, now that the elation of having said something has worn off.
He is going to be the first gay driver in formula one.
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Aka Max comes out as gay and makes his crush on Charles everyone else's problem
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The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory. by deletedaccountjustkiddingunless
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
12 May 2025
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After a devastating crash with Max Verstappen in the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Charles Leclerc is left to face the aftermath — and Max — in silence, guilt, and unbearable grief.
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Bookmarked by Star33
06 Feb 2026
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Charles stands still.
He doesn’t cry. He doesn’t flinch.
Because he doesn’t remember doing anything wrong. He doesn’t remember anything .
So he just says, quietly, “Am I a racing driver?”
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"I loved you in every life you tried to leave behind,
through every silence that broke your bones quieter than grief.
I loved you when the world ended and you chose to follow me into the ashes.
I love you now, in this stillness where even time forgets our names.
Until death do us part." -
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always one step back, and one step forward by goldeneyesandgoldenskies
Fandom Formula 1 RPF
23 Mar 2023
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Jos Verstappen dies and the grid slowly realizes that they’ve never really known Max at all
or 10 times Max shatters everyone's view of him and reinforces their view of his father
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- Part 1 of I torture Max Verstappen
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I think your house is haunted, your dad is always mad and that must be why by MoNsTeRsAmOnGMeN
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
20 Dec 2024
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“Max just bulldozes his way through everyone,” George said with a shrug. “Like we’re all just there for him to crush. He’s not even racing—he’s on some kind of mission, like he’s got a point to prove.”
Lando nodded, rolling his eyes. “He’s always driving like it’s life or death. I mean, what’s he so desperate about?”
Charles clenched his fists, his jaw tightening as he listened to them. They had no idea what Max had been through to get here—what it had cost him just to be himself on the track. The other drivers laughed, the reporters scribbled notes, and Charles walked away, feeling a simmering anger rise in his chest.
Or: AU if Max wasn’t friends with the other drivers, how mean would they get?