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[thursday 1st february 2024]

[the rumors of lewis leaving mercedes to join ferrari for the 2025 season setting all the news channels on fire as they all eagerly await the news of the seven-time world champion’s departure from the team]

Padel Chat

10:25am

lando

👀

george

??????????

It’s half 10 in the morning why the fuck are you awake?

lando

cudn’t slep

pls

stuf is hapenig

george

you’re just as bad as the reporters mate

But at least they can spell

lando

i hate u

pierre

Is it true?

oui ou non?

charles

pls

i cannot take it

george

i don’t know

they haven’t said anything to me about it 

lando

boring

😒

pierre

you are lying monsieur russell

i can tell

@charles il ment, j’en suis sûr

charles

oui, il est très secret

lando

Not all of us spek french😒

pierre

Not my problem

george

Both of you shut the fuck up

If you want to know if Lewis is switching teams go ask him yourselves

lando

but u r write here

george

And I don’t know shit lando

Genuinely

charles

You lie George

@pierre he is lying again

pierre

So disappointing of him

alex

I’ve just returned from my run

What the fuck is going on

George how could you not tell me that lewis was going to Ferrari?

I am insulted 

george

Nah fuck you im sick of this

= = = = = 

George Russell has created a group

George Russell has renamed the group “I haven’t been told anything about lewis’ move to Ferrari so leave me alone”

George Russell has added Lando Norris , Daniel Ricciardo , Alex Albon , Lewis Hamilton , Fernando Alonso , Nico Hulkenberg , Kevin Magnussen , Zhou Guanyu , Esteban Ocon , Carlos Sainz , Charles Leclerc , Max Verstappen , Sergio Perez , Oscar Piastri , Lance Stroll , Yuki Tsunoda , Logan Sargeant , Valtteri Bottas and Pierre Gasly

11am

george

For the millionth time…

No I have no clue if its true

I haven’t been told a single thing

I havent spoken to lewis because it is his personal business

Can you all please leave me alone

lando

u dfo new

stop lieing

daniel

Maybe you should make a powerpoint on it

Might make it more believable 

george

I am going to hunt you down in Bahrain, Daniel

daniel

Don’t threaten me with a good time, Georgie😉

lando

💀

george

I hate you

alex

He doesn’t

Hes lying

He doesn’t hate anyone except lando

lando

shock

we never doubed how he felt abt u anywy

alex

And what does that mean

lando

u hve eyes

u can read

fernando

George you are a liar

george

NO IM NOT???

fernando

Do not argue with the wise cabron

george

@lewis come and help me out please

…

@lewis PLEASE

lando

U R A LIAR

pierre

YOU ARE AN ACTRESS

alex

That was a good season of love island

george

…

Lando im not surprised you watch Love Island

If you weren’t a driver we’d 100% see you on there

lando

real

george

Same with pierre

If he wasn’t with Kika or a driver he’d be on there too

You two would probably end up on the same season

lewis

im glad you’ve all agreed that lando and pierre would go on love island

lando

👀

alex

👀

pierre

👀

daniel

👀

oscar

👀

logan

👀

valtteri

👀

nico

👀

zhou

👀

kevin

👀

esteban

👀

george

👀

yuki

👀

fernando

👀

lance

👀

max

👀

checo

👀

lewis

You all really started replying the moment you saw my message

Never felt so special in my life

lando

stfu j tell us if its true or not

alex

lando💀

lewis

Never change, Lando😂

Never change

lando

c

He doest care lex

max

lewis... tell us now

Are you going to Ferrari?

pierre

Lewis??????

Hes gone

daniel

He did it on purpose

Im telling you

lando

@lewis

george

@lewis

pierre

@lewis

oscar

How about you guys just ask the Ferrari drivers

If lewis is taking one of their seats then they’ll know 

lando

UR RITW OSC

@carlos 

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

oscar

You could message him privately??

I don’t think everyone wants to get constant notifications

lando

evryon wants 2 no osc

Its good 4 evrton

alex

Real

We all do want to know

lando

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

*5 long minutes later*

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

george

@oscar this is your fault.

lando

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

oscar

Don’t blame me

You’re the one who created the chat

You think lando would be doing this if you never even made it?

lando

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

alex

Its lando…

lando

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

@carlos

oscar

Good point…

…

Guys

Hes tired himself out

george

Thank fuck for that

No wait he’s still here just lurking

I can see you Norris

lando

boo

charles

FUCK YIOU LANDO NORRIS

lando

Tf did I do?

charles

MY MUM THINKS I HAD A VIBRATOR IN MY POCKET

lando

Well did you?

alex

Oh my god

IM FUCKING CRYING

LANDO

CHARLES MUSTVE HAD HIS PHONE ON SILENT

AND YOU KEPT SPAMMING THE MESSAGES

lando

OH

💀

WOOPS???

Did u tell hr dat you had won?

That scres peopl awy

…

Thats wat my frind said anway

pierre

What’s the name of this friend lando🤨

For science ofc

lando

ill msg u

alex

@george THEYRE BEING HORNY

WHERES THE HORNY POLICE????

…

WHY IS IT JSUT ME???

lando

cuz he kows he cnt say shir

Fkn liar

george

For the last time…

I

DID

NOT

LIE

alex

George lets take some deep breaths

Lando is purposefully pushing your buttons because its annoying you

That’s all this is

lando

xactly

fernando

I hate all of you

Chapter Text

daniel

george you could’ve just kicked lando from the chat

But you didn’t 🤨

Clearly you want to know too

lando

THX DANEIL

alex

Sooo….

Sunny innit

nico h

i go for one workout

Suddenly this exists

Wtf

alex

welcome nico and Kevin!

lando

kev dndt txt?

nico

kev is sat next to me

Btw never call him kev again

carlos

That’s only going to make him do it more

nico h

@lando you call him ‘kev’ again you can deal with the fallout 

Hes danish remember

lando

Oh

[14:22pm]

george

Oh my god you silenced him for the entire day

Kevin I love you

daniel

kevin wasn’t messaging😭

george

The mere mention of his existence was enough 

oscar

*photo.png*

Nah he’s too busy asleep 

daniel

Are you at his flat?

oscar

he invited me over after we did a workout at the gym with our trainers

The early wakeup finally caught up to him

charles

Wake him up

I need to scream and bitch

pierre

Wdym?? IM RIGHT HERE?

SCREAM AND BITCH WITH ME?

charles

Non

It is about you

So we cannot

pierre

wow.

george

Charles! How is your mum? I take it you’ve left her place

charles

I left ages ago

pierre

After the whole ‘vibrator’ incident

He just walked straight out

Didn’t even tell her what happened

charles

How do you know???

pierre

She told me

charles

YOU TEXT MY MOTHER?????

daniel

Oh damn

🍿🍿

alex

Yo daniel

Gimme some

daniel

okok

Lando Norris added Nico Rosberg to “I haven’t been told anything about lewis’ move to Ferrari so leave me alone”

fernando

@lando I always knew you were my favourite

oscar

@lewis I promise I tried to stop him

pierre

Oh my god

💀

george

LANDO???????

WHAT THE FUCK

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT???

alex

WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?!

charles

@pierre YOU TALK TO MY MOTHER??

PIERRE??

ANSWER ME

lando

@nicor is it true? Is he going to Ferrari?

nico r 

I cannot say

lando

🤨

Nt was u sad in msgs 2 me

nico r

Fine

Yes

Its true

Im leaving now bye

lando

thnx

Nico Rosberg left the chat

daniel

that turned me on

alex

im shook

Genuinely

george

i am in disbelief

charles

@pierre REPLY TO ME????

YOU MESSAGE MY MUM?

lance

fernando is laughing like a mad man in our team meeting rn

What is going on???

yuki

I see lando has death wish 

lance

Oh god lando what did you do?

lando

Gt us sm fkn ansers

oscar

answers*

lando

Yh dat

lewis

oh

yuki

kill him 

He deserves

pierre

LEWIS SAVE ME CHARLES IS GONNA KILL ME

lewis

Good let him

pierre

WHAT DID I DO?????

lewis

Not respecting my privacy

daniel

@lando you were a good teammate and a pain in the ass alright 

You will not be missed

lando

Replying to lewis

Yu guys din’t ruspet my pirvacey wen me n Luisa brke up🤨

fernando

He talks back

I raised him well

😌

oscar

So guess im gonna be needing a new teammate

@daniel wanna make an all aus lineup?

daniel

Come join me at redbull and we will😈

oscar

ORRRR we go make a new team and make it entirely aus

daniel

AUS RACING???????

oscar

Let’s do it!

logan

y’all gonna be running off timtams and shoeys

daniel

DAMN FUCKING RIGHT WE WILL BE

AINT THAT RIGHT OSCAR

oscar

woo

alex

Damn who let Kimi into the chat😭

george

😭😭😭

Chapter Text

Lando Norris to Oscar Piastri

im scared

Why?

What’s up?

Also im literally sitting 

opposite you on the couch rn

We can say this in person

i thnk its carlos

Who lewis is replaing

replacing*

         (❤️)

Charles wnt live thm

So it has 2 b Carlos

:(

You won’t lose Carlos, lan

He’ll get a seat

I promise

alrdy lost danny

n sure he cme bac but

It’s not the same?

no

He my 1st teammate

bsicly a brother

I promise you

Carlos will get a seat

Don’t worry

The season hasn’t even 

started yet

thnx osc

Osc?

U clld me lan

thoght I culd say osc

unlss u dnt leik it

No its fine

As long as you like me 

calling you lan?

                       (❤️)

yh 😀

Oh the emojis are back 

Now remind me again why we

couldnt talk about it in person

ws embassing

Embarrassing*

yh

dnt want 2 say aloud

Its not embarrassing lan

Hes your best friend

He was your first teammate

Hes your golfing partner

his hlped lots

Exactly

Its not embarrassing to be worried for him

Talk to him

Check in

Because if he is losing his seat he’ll need you in his corner rn

yh I will

Thank you

❤️

Oh my god you spelt it all correctly

You really do mean it

Only 4 u

😁

Wow aren’t I honored

U shld b

😉

Go message Carlos

Ill cook us some food

Pasta?

Yus pls

                            (👍)

====

Lando Norris to Carlos Sainz

Ur bing replaed

rght?

Carlos?

Sorry Cabron

I was cooking food

u cok?

cook*

      (❤️)

Yes

I was making pancakes

So he is repleing u

snce pncakes r ur comfrt food

yeah

He is

Y dnt u tll me?

wen did u fnd out?

Two weeks ago

At the start of the break

They didn’t want to 

wait anymore

Apparently it had been 

set in stone for months

Which is why they weren’t open 

to extending my contract

Im so sorry

well get u a seat

We’ll? You’re gonna try?

ill even gt osc 2 hlp

You dont need to do that

Cabron

My team are looking

It’ll be okay

prmise?

I pinky promise

Thank you though

                      (❤️)

Ill be on the grid next year

Dont worry

I know how your brain works

It’ll all be okay

i alrdy spke 2 osc

abt it

he hlpd

Did he now😏

I know he’s in your flat hermano

u fkn pervrt

noting hppned

We spoke

I slept

his coking rn

I pray that your phone 

never gets hacked

Because if someone reads 

that message who doesn’t 

know you

They would be running 

headlines already

woops

💀

What’s he making you

Planning to seduce you

Need to give him the talk

NO

ffs

Pasta 

I need to go

But thank you for reaching 

out

                                     (❤️)

Dont kiss your teammate goodbye

unless you think he feels the same 

way

🖕

====

“I haven’t been told anything about lewis’ move to Ferrari so leave me alone”

19:58 pm

valtteri

What is this?

daniel

VALTTERIIIIIIIIIIII

valtteri

hello daniel!

alex

TLDR:

george hated that everyone kept assuming he knew about lewis’ move to Ferrari 

and he was sick and tired of people asking him about it

So he made this to tell everyone that no he did in fact not know

valterri

he couldn’t handle a few questions🤨

Wait till the season starts

Hell be getting asked even more then

alex

True that

Anyway welcome to the chaos

valtteri

Seems pretty tame rn

daniel

Lewis almost killed Lando and Charles tried to murder Pierre…

valtteri

Did you expect me to be surprised? Shocked even?

Have you met them?

alex

…unfortunately

daniel

😭😭😭

max

iracing anyone?

alex

@charles here you go Charlie

Someone to play with

And whilst you’re at it go follow each other back on instagram 

since you two can play nice

max

no

Following him mean admitting defeat

And I did not lose

charles

You lost ALL the time max

And I won’t follow you back first

I was in the right

You were in the wrong

alex

What did I do

lando

lmaooooo

oscar

Oh the kids are fighting

How fun

charles

You’re younger than me??

max

Hes a lot more mature than you

Doesn’t take much to be tbf

lando

NJNDJNDQOE

😭😭😭😭

daniel

💀💀💀

fernando

They’ll be saying all of this whilst staring at the 

screen with heart eyes

lando

REAL

fkers in lvoe

oscar

love*

lando

thnx osc <3

max

We are still in the chat??????

charles

We can read all of this???

pierre

Go back to your domestics

Leave the grownups to talk

lewis

Oh god please dont tell me this 

happens in the garage too

carlos

He walks around sulking for 10 minutes and

then max will walk by and he’s like a dog

Heart eyes

Following him

All of it

charles

I do NOTTTT???

max

@charles do you still want to irace?

charles

ill be on in 5 :)

max

Okay :)

lando

GAY

daniel

real

logan

Whos ready for the season to start?

daniel

I AM

lando

DR3 redemtion arc OTW

oscar

redemption*

daniel

KI KI KI

lando

RAH RAH RAH

oscar

I see the power nap has helped 

lando

YUP 😁

n teh psta u mde

oscar

Why thank you

pierre

Oh you cooked for him😏

Yuki never cooked for me

when we were teammates

yuki

U r annoying to cook for

Plain food only🤢

Yet will eat snails

pierre

yukino

I dont eat snails

yuki

Ur kind do

george

Guess yuki doesn’t like the French😭😭😭

alex

yuki you are the last person I expected to say this😭😭

Im 

pierre

Wow

My own best friend

How betrayed I am😭

yuki

U live

fernando

Yuki im now adopting you

Family dinners happen at every race weekend

yuki

… will there be snails?

fernando

Never

yuki

THEN YAY

lewis

Fernando you cannot claim all of them

fernando

Watch me

lewis

…