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Who is Max? A figure carved out of speed, precision, and determination. The world champion. A title so definitive in itself that at one time it would elucidate bravery and admiration, but now it is laden with heavy guilt and ruin. The world hails him for the victories, but he feels only losses. They can’t see the hands that shake under the weight of this existence; he so desperately wants to throw away after the crash. There had been a time when a victory brought joy; when the podium felt like home. But that time was a memory—a ghost of a life once lived, replaced by the creeping paralysis of guilt, the suffocating dread that nothing, no achievement, no glory, would ever be enough.
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20 Sep 2025
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Max Verstappen never expected to see Daniel Ricciardo again. After his tragic crash in 2019, the FMX world watched one of its brightest stars fall; six X Games gold medals, countless titles, all gone in a split second. Daniel disappeared, no statements, no comebacks, just silence. And now, there he was. Sitting alone at a bar in Australia, beer in hand, watching a Formula 1 race. Max took a chance, approaching him with a quiet “Hi, I don’t want to bother you, or—“ only to be cut off with a sharp, “Then don’t.”
Two former athletes cross paths; one trying to leave it all behind, the other still chasing something he lost. Maybe neither will find what they’re looking for, but maybe what they need is something else entirely.