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   Before He Gets Into Your Heart by SeafoamPearl

   Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF, Rush (2013)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   19 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • James Hunt/Niki Lauda
   • Marlene Knaus/Original Female Character
   • James Hunt/Agnes Bonnet (past)
   • Niki Lauda & Marlene Knaus
   • James Hunt (Formula 1 RPF)
   • Niki Lauda
   • Marlene Knaus
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Clay Regazzoni
   • John Watson (Formula 1 RPF)
   • Ronnie Peterson (Formula 1 RPF)
   • agnes bonnet (rush)
   • Alexander Hesketh
   • Anthony "Bubbles" Horsley
   • Harvey Postlethwaite
   • Alternate Universe - High School
   • Alternate Universe - Boarding School
   • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
   • adorable gay marlene
   • Pining
   • Secret Crush
   • Awkward Crush
   • Teen Romance
   • Mostly Canon Compliant
   • Sneaking Out
   • hill climb racing
   • grassroots racing
   • 1960s
   • niki is 16
   • James is 18
   • Period Typical Attitudes
   • Emetophobia
   • sorry james's canonical stomach has made it into the fic
   • james's canonical stomach
   • Sick Character
   • mutual beards niki and marlene
   • ride or die besties niki and marlene
   • lots of rush references
   • Minor Character Death
   • Claustrophobia
   • Cw claustrophobia

   Summary

   It's 1965. Niki Lauda has been shipped off to an English boarding school in disgrace. He hates everything about Lightfell College except his best friend Marlene, and the secret underground races he sneaks out to every weekend.

   But he hates super-popular jock sixth-former James Hunt the most.
   __

   James Hunt knows that the future his family want for him - medical school, marriage, suburbia - is hurtling towards him, in spite of his own desires. He wants to race. He wants things he's too scared to even name.

   And he wants to never see geeky new boy Niki Lauda ever again.

    

   ***COMPLETE***
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   Language:

   English

   Words:

   201,387

   Chapters:

   81/81

   Comments:

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   19 Sep 2025