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The drivers learn about AO3 and get into shipping and fanfiction.

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F1 Drivers 2026

11:11 AM

 

LANDO

Does anyone know this flag?

The quality is ass but it was like that? Is this a country? Never saw that one before

 

Liam

Where did you see this?

 

LANDO

During fanzone today. A fan waved it at Oscar and me. I was confused because I didn’t recognize it

 

Max

That´s not the flag of a country

 

Alex

Our geography genius

 

Max

Maybe it’s the flag of a city or of a region from a country?

 

Carlos

Never saw that either

 

Hulk

Looks nice

 

Kimi

oh

 

LANDO

You recognise the flag?

 

Kimi

Yes

 

Charles

I do too

 

LANDO

Where is this from?

 

Charles

Ao3

 

Oscar

What’s ao3?

 

Isack

You don’t need to know

 

LANDO

Why do you say it like that?

 

Max

Ao3 is definitely not a country

 

LANDO

Thank you. I figured as much

 

Max

That’s what I get for trying to help

 

LANDO

You didn’t help

 

Max

Fuck off

 

Oscar

What´s ao3?

 

Charles

It doesn’t feel right to tell you that. I want you to keep your innocence

 

Max

What fucked up shit is ao3?

 

Oscar

I´m worried. And why do you know so much about it?

 

Charles

I wouldn’t say much. I just know what it is in theory

 

LANDO

Shere it with the class

 

Carlos

I want to know too

 

Arvid

Where´s George when you need him?

 

George Russell

I´m here but I want to see how this unfolds.

 

Liam

You support that? Why?

 

Arvid

Why aren´t you reasonable? Usually, you try to stop us from talking about things like that

 

George Russell

Because I know what ao3 is and I want to see how you struggle.


Kimi

That’s not very nice

 

George Russell

For once, I don't care and embrace this behavior

 

Isack

Brutal

 

Franco

Didn’t know you had it in you

 

Alex

Don´t @Max!

 

Max

Okay

 

Alex

You actually listen?

 

Max

Someone has to be reasonable when George isn’t

Also, explain to me what AO3 is, schatje

 

George Russell

Nee

 

Max

Don't turn your back on me. You owe me that

 

George Russell

Why? Because I love you?

Pffftf, I don´t owe you nothing

 

Isack

Brutal 2.0

What´s happening?

 

Charles

Damn

 

LANDO

Damn

 

Alex

Hahahahaha

 

Oscar

I want to get back to ao3. I´m intrigued

 

Kimi

I thought we'd agreed that you didn't need to know

 

LANDO

No one agreed on that

 

Max

I still want to know and since George hates me you need to step in

 

George Russell

I don´t hate you

 

Max

*middle finger emoji*

 

George Russell

Love you, darling

 

Max

*middle finger emoji*

 

Oscar

AO3. Tell me. Something. I can research, I just need to know what that even is. A country, a website, a person?

 

Kimi

You really want to know?

 

Carlos

Yes, we do

 

LANDO

Tell us

 

Isack

You really want to know?

 

Alex

Goddamn, it´s not that bad.

Archive of our own. That’s ao3

 

Oscar

Okay, that didn’t make things clearer?

 

Alex

Google it

 

LANDO

And?

 

Liam

You don’t search yourself?

 

LANDO

What do I have a boyfreind for?

 

George Russell

Slay

 

Arvid

You really go with it?

 

George Russell

Yes. For once I take on the role of max. Let there be chaos

Let me talk shit

 

Kimi

He doesn’t even use punctuation. He´s serious

 

Max

I don´t talk shit

 

George Russell

Tell yourself that

 

Max

What happened to my man?

 

Oscar

I do know ao3

 

LANDO

He´s back

 

Carlos

Talk to us @Oscar

 

Oscar

Ao3 is this really big fanfiction website

 

LANDO

Oh. Then I know it too

 

Hulk

I assume they waved the flag at you because there´s fanfiction about you?

 

Isack

About everyone

 

Carlos

Everyone in the f1 world?

 

Liam

More like literally everyone

 

Arvid

I think there´s a story between Jesus and Barack Obama

 

Max

A story as in love story?

 

Arvid

Yes

 

LANDO

Oh wow

I know fanfiction but I didn’t know fanfction could be so wild

 

Kimi

Ao3 is a whole world

 

Oscar

Theres over 10k stories under the tag Lando Norris/Oscar Piastri

 

LANDO

DAMN

That’s a lot

That the Landoscar tag?

 

Kimi

Yes

/ in the relationship tags means romantic

& means platonic

 

Alex

Most fanfics in the rpf Formula1 tag are about Lestappen

 

Hulk

Rpf is …

 

Liam

Real person fiction

 

Max

People write about Lestappen?

 

Kimi

15k stories I think

 

Max

That much? Are these people crazy

 

Alex

That’s how shipping works. You two got some wholesome moments together, that’s enough

 

Max

Can´t they see that I love George and not Charles?

 

George Russell

Forgot that we´re discreet?

 

Max

Maybe I shouldn’t be discreet anymore?

 

Kimi

That’s the fun with shipping. You can ship anyone with anyone

 

Max

I feel a little offended right now

 

Carlos

He hasn’t moved on. I see

 

Max

Yes, because it’s completely absurd. Charles and me together. I have a boyfriend and I don’t want no monegasque

 

Charles

It’s great to see how nicely you think of me

 

Max

That has nothing to do with you personally

 

Oscar

For some fans you and George as couple might be just as absurd

 

Max

But George and me is real. Charles and me is … something else. How? Why?

ew

 

Charles

Thanks

 

Max

No offense

 

Charles

None taken?

I think

 

Isack

Theres a fanfic on ao3 about Seb Vettel and Mark Webber

Guess how many words?

(yes i´m trying to change the topic before things escalate. Just go with it)

 

Hulk

20k?

 

Pierre

100k

 

LANDO

300K

or is that too much?

 

Isack

Nearly 7 million

The fanfic was uploaded in 2014 and has been regularly updated ever since

 

Oscar

Damn that’s crazy

 

LANDO

A lot of words

 

Oscar

I assume the slow burn tag indicates a long story?

 

Isack

Yes, slow burns thrive on building tension first. Long glances, deep emotional connections, physical contact but the characters don't get together. That usually doesn't happen until toward the end of the story

 

Max

How can people come up with that much?

 

Isack

Don’t know. Haven’t read it

 

Kimi

I read a fanfiction once

 

Max

You did?

 

Kimi

Yes. I received tons of gifts at a fan event. Among them were several cards with fanfic recommendations written on them. At first, I didn't pay much attention to them but during a free weekend I was bored so I read one of them

 

Ollie

What was it about?

 

Kimi

It was a Russtappen bodyswap fanfic

 

George Russell

Send link

 

Alex

@George Russell ????

 

George Russell

Can´t I read how it feels to be in Maxs body?

Oh, I forgot I already know how it is

 

Alex

@George Russell Um ?!?!?!?!?!?!?

 

Charles

Damn

 

Oscar

What?

 

Liam

I´m scared of this version of George

 

Kimi

The fanfic got deleted!

That’s sad, it was really good. The storytelling was great and the writing style? I felt like reading a book. I was so happy when George and Max were in George´s little cottage in norway and Max could bring the kids. It was so cute

 

George Russell

Thanks for praising this story so much only for it to be deleted. Great

 

Kimi

I can ask anonymously on tikok if anyone has downloaded the story?

 

Carlos

You can download these stories?

 

George Russell

I can do it myself. I have enough burner accounts

 

Max

You have?

 

Kimi

@Carlos Yes you can. That’s a really cool feature. Some people print out their favorite stories and turn them into real books

 

Max

Since when do you have burner accounts @George Russell?

 

George Russell

Doesn’t everyone have one?

 

Isack

I actually have one

 

Ollie

Me too

 

LANDO

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66984475

I like that

 

Oscar

A fanfic about us?

 

Pierre

It’s not even finished? I wanted to read the whole thing

 

Alex

You should give unfinished stories a chance. Most of the time they're incredibly good but people overlook them because they'd rather read finished stories

 

Carlos

I love how passionately you stick up for unfinished fanfiction

 

Alex

Someone has to

 

Max

You wanted to read a landoscar fanfic @Pierre?

 

Kimi

Why not? It´s interesting

 

Pierre

You´re right. Why should I waste my time reading about landoscar?

Searching yukierre rn

 

Isack

People are crazy creative

 

Oscar

There´s so many

 

George Russell

Some of these fanfics are straight up porn

I just learned what dacryphilia is

 

Carlos

I don’t want to know

 

Liam

That’s how ao3 works. There´s no censorship but that´s the whole point. You can write whatever you want

 

George Russell

I am expanding my vocabulary with some smutty words

 

Ollie

You can definitely learn about some new terms and kinks

 

George Russell

Watersports

Pussy Spanking (I don’t understand why that’s a tag in the f1 rpf fandom, nobody of us has a pussy)

Knifeplay

 

Charles

Can you stop?

 

Arvid

Are you listing ao3 tags or kinks?

 

George Russell

Breathplay

Deepthroating

Somnophilia

 

Alex

@Max Please stop him

 

Arvid

Definitely kinks

 

Liam

Is he just listing every kink he sees?

 

Oscar

I feel like these stories are either incredibly cute or incredibly smutty

 

LANDO

The other story was too many words, so I switched

Do these people have cameras in our bedroom?

 

Oscar

… why?

 

LANDO

They describe our sex life pretty detailed and sometimes weirdly accurate

 

Oscar

And everyone can read that? Lando and myself fucking?

 

Isack

Yes. There are stories similar to the y/n story where people can imagine themselves but I think shipping makes up most of the fanfics

 

George Russell

Cock-warming

Face Sitting

Voyeurism

 

Carlos

Could you please stop?

 

Arvid

This is starting to get a bit too R-rated for me

 

George Russell

Rimming

 

LANDO

STOP

 

Oscar

We get it. There are a lot of kinks

 

George Russell

I have his phone

This is Max btw

He had a whole list and there were so many more

That’s really crazy

 

Alex

Thought so

Thank you

 

George Russell

I take my role as new George Russell very seriously

 

Max

And now I can switch between the two phones

 

George Russell

hihihihi

I love my boyfriend and he´s the best driver there ever was

 

Max

Thank you, boyfriend

I love you too

 

LANDO

weird

 

Alex

Okay, maybe stop it. Just put George’s phone away

 

Pierre

I found some good yukierre fics. You want the link?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38355964

You get the link, if you want it or not

Even though it´s weird to read about myself. Like I know it´s not like that but it´s still me in that story

 

Oscar

I get that. It feels a little bizarre to imagine a lovestory that was specifically told about yourself

 

LANDO
Start reading about you fucking. That’s next level weird

 

Kimi

You can filter if you want. On the right side click on ratings. General audiences and teen and up audiences is without any sex

 

Oscar

Thank you. Will try that

 

Arvid

I didn’t know people shipped Julius Caesar and brutus

 

Alex

We´re going in different directions here

 

Arvid

I´m browsing

 

Isack

I think I found the longest fic

10 Million words about Cameron Phillips  and John Connor

 

Liam

Don’t know them

 

Isack

Me neither

 

LANDO

I read 3 fics already

Haven’t read that much for years. At last voluntarily

 

Carlos

Me too! There´s so much to choose from and so many good stories

 

Gabi

True. I read a gabico story and it was really cute

 

Oscar

The authors of these fanfictions have a lot of talent

 

Valtteri

I read one about brocedes

 

Ollie

I don’t know how I did it but I just read a story about m&m´s

 

Kimi

The candy?

 

Ollie

Yes

 

Charles

I underestimated what ao3 has to offer

 

LANDO

It is a whole world

And I love the part I saw

 

Oscar

You´ll keep reading?

 

LANDO

Yes

 

Kimi

I will too

 

Liam

I want to read the m&m story

 

Carlos

Me too?

 

George Russell

https://archiveofourown.org/works/89866731

https://archiveofourown.org/works/74391476

https://archiveofourown.org/works/70088461

 

Charles

Did that come from George or Max

 

George Russell

George.

I need to apologize for my behavior earlier. I'm just not cut out for this and I went a little overboard. Sorry.

As an apology I offer you Russtappen fics I read

 

Oscar

You went overboard a little?

 

Franco

You're paying my therapist's bill

 

Alex

You should´ve listed the freak4freak tag instead of rimming. Fits you and Max better

 

George Russell

Didn’t I just say that this behavior wasn’t very myself of me? I meant that

 

Alex

I know and I meant my message. You´re still freaky af

 

Max

Can’t argue with that

 

George Russell

Can and will argue with that

 

Kimi

You don’t have to explain yourself. We´re like ao3 here, we don’t judge you for your freakiness

 

Pierre

You read all these stories in this short time?

 

Oscar

If you´re really invested with it it’s possible. I read a 8k fic in the last twenty minutes and it was a masterpiece

 

Liam

I forgot how fun reading can be

 

Isack

I forgot that ao3 is like a real, free library/ bookshop. That’s so cool

 

Arvid

Very cool

 

LANDO

Question. Is the last link supposed to be a hidden message for Max?

 

George Russell

Maybe.

 

Max

I´ll spoil you however you want. You don’t have to hide your wishes in the link of a fanfiction. Just ask me

 

Charles

Where can I get another one like that?

 

George Russell

Not here. This one is mine and mine only.

 

Lewis H

Can anyone recommend some good fanfics?

 

Kimi

You want to read some?

 

Lewis H

You all seem really excited about it, so I think I'll give it a try.

I already thought fan fiction could be interesting when Charles and I shot this video earlier this year.

Not necessarily a story I'm involved in though. I´m happy about everything else

 

Alex

Brocedes has left its mark on all of us

 

Isack
Okay guys, we need to pick the best of the best. Something that shows Lewis the beautiful world of fanfiction

 

George Russell

I have some more.

 

Max

I´m working my way through the russtappen tag. I will save the best ones and can share them later

 

LANDO

Let me find this really wholesome landoscar found family story

 

Ollie

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40763772

 

Kimi

no

 

Isack

oh come on

 

Oscar

Out of all these wonderfully done works you can find in ao3 you send the link to the m&m story?

 

Ollie

I panicked

 

Lewis H

Oh, so the m&m´s are lesbian?

 

Arvid

Why did you read it @Lewis H?

 

Liam

I read it

 

Kimi

I read it too

 

Carlos

Sadly I did too and it was somehow very beautiful?

 

Gabi

Seems like there are different sexual orientations in this version of the m&m universe

 

Pierre

The m&m universe. Love it

 

Alex

Never I thought I´ll read a sentence like this

 

Lewis H

I thought it was a cute, little story. Completely different than what I expected but nice nonetheless

 

George Russell

I really enjoy and hate this conversation at the same time.

 

Lewis H

I just didn’t know that there´s a whole m&m universe

And they have genders?

 

LANDO

They don’t

 

Isack

That’s just fanfiction

 

Max

And we love it

Notes:

I hope the links to the fanfics work. I read them all and really liked them (yes, even the m&m story)

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