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"Look what I just got!" George barges into Alex' hotelroom thursday morning holding up a videocamera.
"Dude that thing looks ancient. Does it even still work?"
Alex observes the thing carefully, it's definitely quite different than a modern camera. But hey, vintage is trending right?
"It does. I plan on making a movie about the paddock. How about I interview you first?"
"More media? It's thursday, I have to give enough interviews today."
"This is different Alex, just talk to me, okay?"
"Fine."
George holds up the videocamera to Alex.
"So Alex, do you have any secret talents that we must know about?"
Alex laughs. "No man, I can only do racing and padel. Actually Logan and Lando are so much better at padel than me."
He gets a frown from George. "No mention of George beating you?"
"No, I am better than this George you are talking about. Oh and golf! Oh no Lily is good at golf." Alex starts rambling
"Wait, does the red light mean on or off?" George suddenly says.
"Uhm, I guess the red light means not filming, since you have been filming me right? And the light isn't there."
"Yea that makes sense. Let me go find the manual, I left the box in my hotelroom. Be right back."
George puts the videocamera in the table and presses the button. The red light turns on. He quickly runs down to his own hotelroom, luckily Williams and Mercedes are in the same hotel this weekend.
As he walks back to Alex' room he hears some weird noises.
"What are you doing Alex?"
"Oh uhm, nothing. I was just thinking to myself. Did you find the manual?"
George sighs. "I didn't but I can work it out without manual. Anyway, I have to go and get ready to go to the paddock."
George grabs his camera and turns it off, after which he leaves.
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In the paddock George decides to go film a piece about Lando. He turns his camera on and enters the mclaren garage, but as soon as he does he hears cheers.
"George Russell! Can we please get a picture with you?"
Behind him a group of fans is standing fully dressed in George and Alex merch. His face turns from a big smile to a state of dissapointment. (please think of the meme)
"I am just going to put my camera here for a second, be right back. Not recording for MclarenTV today!" He tells a mclaren employee like its the most normal thing for him to even be in the mclaren garage.
He takes pictures with the fans (smiling and genuinly happy, dont worry) and returns to his camera. Lando's driver room is only a few steps away. He knocks on the door and enters, and sees Lando and Carlos standing suspiciously straight next to eachother facing the door like they are about to sernade George with a national anthem.
"George! What are you doing here?" Carlos asks.
"Could ask the same for you mate."
Lando swiftly looks at Carlos and back to George. "Oh! What do you have there George."
"It's a videocamera! I'm making a film about the paddock today. Would you guys mind being in it?" George happily explains, having already forgotten the scene that was just in front of him.
Luckily Lando and Carlos are willing to participate, so George starts filming and interviews them both. He leaves the mclaren garage with a smile and a giggling Lando and Carlos behind him.
-
During lunch break George finds Yuki and Zhou in the kitchen, making pasta for themselves.
"Yuki! Zhou! So happy to see you here! I am making a film of the paddock today, do you want to be in it?"
"Great idea George, sounds good." Zhou immediately says.
"I will show everyone how to cook well!" Yuki also joins in and starts explaining about making tomato sauce. George quickly turns on his camera and starts filming them.
He's trying to get a good shot, walking backwards to find a nice angle. This proves to be a mistake as he hits a table and a cup of coffee falls over.
"Oh no! Ugh. Let me clean this up."
He quickly puts his camera down and stops filming, turning the red light on again. He grabs some cleaning supplies and starts cleaning.
"Oh!"
"Oh no look what you did."
"How did you even do that?"
"Oh noo quick put it away."
George turns around again to find half the kitchen, and both Yuki and Zhou covered in red sauce.
"Blimey! What the hell happened here? Where is the pasta?"
"In the fridge" Zhou says.
"In the cupboard" Yuki says at the exact same time.
They look at eachother
"In the cupboard" Zhou says this time
"In the fridge" Yuki says at the exact same time again.
This is very strange.
"Uhm. Okay. Well I'll leave you to it, I need to have lunch myself aswell." George just says, takes his camera, and leaves.
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After lunch George ends up in the Williams garage, with Logan wanting to participate this time. Alex already prepared him. Logan will show some of the things in the garage. In the middle of Logans explanation of some computers they use, George phone starts ringing.
"Fuck sorry, its Toto, I need to answer this. Be back in a second." He stops filming, puts his camera down and runs out of the garage to have a talk with Toto. It turns out to not be as important as he thought, but he cant ignore a phone call from his boss can he.
He walks back into Williams and finds Logan completely tangled in some wires with a concerned engineer standing next to him. "Logan?? Are you okay? What happened here?"
"Uhm, don't look at me. Uhm. Let's end the video alright? I will get myself uhm, unstuck." Logan gives him a nice smile.
Georges decides to respect his wishes and takes his camera again and leaves. Let's see if Fernando wants to take part.
-
He finds Fernando about to wash his car, for some reason.
"Fernando! You want to be a part of my video? I can film you washing the car."
Fernando thinks this is a good idea and gets ready.
"Hi, I am Fernando Alonso and this is my car. Let me show you- oh hi Oscar! You want to join in?"
He asks as Oscar Piastri is just walking past.
"Uh, what are we doing?"
After explaining it to Oscar he joins and stands next to Fernando. Together they talk about the car while washing it. Suddenly an engineer drops a bunch of bolts and nuts.
"Fuck! Let me help you" George quickly puts his camera down and runs after the bolts. When he returns Fernando has a bucket on his head, another one on his foot and Oscar is completely drenched in water and soap.
"What the hell happened here?"
"Nothing."
"Not important."
Why is everyone acting so weird today? George wonders.
-
The last person he finds to film about is Charles, and a piano.
"Please Charles, can you play us a piece on the piano?"
Charles hesitantly agrees. George films him playing one of his own songs and stops filming again.
"Oh shit, I forgot to give you back your padel racket. Wait here and I will run to my room to grab it real quick." George tells Charles
"Alright, I will wait here and play some more piano."
George leaves his camera behind and quickly runs back to his drivers room where grabs Charles' padel racket.
"Why the rush?" Lewis asks him.
"Oh, Charles is waiting for me. I just filmed him play a piece of piano. I made a film of the whole paddock today!" George explains.
"Oh we should all watch it tonight! My hotel room?" Lewis asks.
That sounds like a great idea to George. He shoots all the drivers a text and runs back to Charles, who is still waiting.
When he gets back Charles is completely out of breath.
"Mate what did you do while I was gone?"
"Oh uh, nothing. Playing the piano can get very intense you know."
The paddock is a strange place today.
"Don't forget your camera!" Charles tells George before he leaves.
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That evening all drivers are together in Lewis' hotel room, who has a projector there, because why wouldn't he. Perfect to show the movie on.
"Alright everyone, thanks a lot for coming. I havent even gotten to see the film myself because of the quick plans, so it will also be the first time I am seeing it. Enjoy!" George holds his little speech and presses play.
"Wait, does the red light mean on or off?" George hears his own voice .That's not how he started it, is it?
"Uhm, I guess the red light means not filming, since you have been filming me right? And the light isn't there." Says Alex' voice next.
Lando gives George a weird look. "Dude, do you not know how camera's work?"
"Yea that makes sense. Let me go find the manual, I left the box in my hotelroom. Be right back."
George has got a bad feeling about this.
"Maybe I could do Opera." Alex says.
What is this now?
Alex suddenly starts to sing some sort of Opera song very loudly.
"Oh my god Alex I'm so sorry, I had no idea I filmed this..."
Alex is red as a beet.
"Oh no..."
"Wow Alex, didn't know you could sing!" Lewis tells him.
Alex looks at him flustered. "Thanks?"
The video shows George returning, and not finding the manual. Lando slaps his own forehead.
The video cuts to the mclaren garage. He already hears the faint sound of the fans calling his name.
"I am just going to put my camera here for a second, be right back. Not recording for MclarenTV today!"
"Jesus George, stealing my jokes?" Max asks.
Someone gives the camera a little hit, turning it slightly and pointing it right to Landos driver room, with the door opened.
Lando and Carlos shoot eachother a scared look.
Only now George hears The Way I Are from Timbaland playing over Landos speakers.
Soon enough Carlos and Lando appear in frame dancing their hearts out, Carlos even putting his hand on Lando's hip as they move in sync.
What has George done? Embarrassed person number 3 and 4 are added to the list.
"Holy fuck, those moves! I wish I had that much swag." Logan adds.
"I could never dance this good." Lance adds.
Suddenly Lando starts laughing.
"Honestly Carlos, we did kill it."
Together they laugh and George feels a lot more relaxed already. George is seen picking up the camera again and moving over to Landos room, where Lando and Carlos quickly let eachother go and stand very straight next to eachother.
"I thought that was weird!" George exclaims.
"Way to cover up man." Sebastian Vettel says with an arm around Kimi. When the hell did they get here?
Zhou and Yuki are next. They are seen cooking their sauce, and are about to add it to their pasta when a bird flies over their heads. Zhou gets jumpscared and throws the whole pan on the plate, which jumpscares Yuki again who simply throws the pan full of sauce up in the air.
"So that's what happened??" George says.
When George is about to get back to them they quickly sweep their ruined plates of pasta off the counter.
"Blimey! What the hell happened here? Where is the pasta?"
"In the fridge!"
"In the cupboard!"
"In the cupboard!"
"In the fridge!"
Valtteri gives Zhou a pat on the back.
"You guys should start your own cooking show!"
"It honestly is kind of fun being in a film." Alex admits.
"We're going to Hooollywoooood!" Lando yells.
Logan is the one shown next.
"Well this is going amazing isn't it. I'm killing it. Boom."
Logan hides his face in his hand.
"Let me see these wires. I bet I could connect these better than they are already connected."
"I hate my confidence." Logan says watching himself.
Because right after he unplugged some wires, he trips over one and gets completely tangled.
"Logan! What are you doing. Oh my god I will need to figure out all these wires again." A Williams engineer is heard.
"I'm sorry, I thought I could fix it and improve it." Poor Logan says.
"I swear to god, drivers." The engineer is saying. At that point George returns.
"You did well Logan, don't worry. Oscar says but you can hear him laugh. That is until the video cuts to him and Fernando next to Fernando's car.
"Oh no"
Oscar falls manages to fall over out of nowhere. He knocks the bucket over, all over himself.
"Smooth of yourself aswell mate." Logan tells him.
Fernando starts laughing at Oscar, something Oscar doesn't appreciate. He stands up and puts the bucket he just knocked over right on Fernando's head.
As a result, Fernando loses his balance and steps into the second bucket, still filled with water.
The whole room is a laughing mess now. This is absolutely beautiful.
"This explains a lot!" George laughs. "I was wondering what happened!"
Then Charles voice is heard.
"Alright, I will wait here and play some more piano."
His eyes widen and he stands up and yells.
"NO NO STOP THE VIDEO. WE ARE NOT WATCHING THIS!" George quickly pauses the video.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing. Just, privacy."
George accepts that.
"Anyway guys, I am so fucking sorry for this. I had no idea I even filmed all this."
"Turns out the red light did mean it was filming." Alex says.
"Of course it does you idiot." Lando still cant believe it."
"This movie was actually a lot better than what it would have been." Esteban says.
"You just say that because you weren't embarrassed!" Is Oscars reply
"No he is right. This was so much more fun."
"Who knew people had these hidden talents or tripping skills!"
In the meantime Pierre has sneaked his way up to the pause button, about to be a menace.
"Sorry not sorry Charles, you made all of us too curious with your yelling." He says as he unpauses the video.
"Oh no. Let me just pass away." Charles says, curling up."
Charles is seen agressivly playing some piano. Out of nowhere Max Verstappen appears.
"That was hot as fuck. Makes me want to kiss you."
The whole room is starting at the screen, mouths wide open, as Charles stands up and with no hesitation starts making out with Max.
"Oh my god."
"Charles. You knew the camera was there?"
Max asks.
"I thought it wasn't filming! Let me die here please" Charles crawls into Max' arms hiding his face and not wanting to be there anymore.
They continue roughly making out until footsteps approach. Max quickly puts a peck on Charles lips and says some very dirty things that should not be repeated, after which he quickly walks away.
"Mate what did you do while I was gone?"
"Oh uh, nothing. Playing the piano can get very intense you know."
The video ends with that.
The whole room is silent.
"I can't believe we just watched a Lestappen make out session."
"Yea yea shut up."
Lando silently hands Carlos a 50 euro note.
Sobs are heard from the back of the room.
"Charles! Why did you not tell me! I am so happy for you! How long ago did this happen? Finally no more pining. Congratulations!"
It is Seb.
This seems to wake the other drivers up as they start applauding and congratulating the two drivers.
"Now this, this explains a LOT." Kimi says.