Lestappens one sided beef is giving one of those reddit posts titled smth like-
"TIFU by finding out that apparently me and my academic rival have been dating for the past 10 years"
"In my defence I 25M just thought that we were in a really intense fight to get that scholarship and didnt consider the fact that all of those 'intellectually nourishing' outings we had were just... dates'
AU where Max never publicly dates until one day he mentions “my boyfriend Charles” in an interview after his third championship win and everyone, Charles included, has a category 5 meltdown. Silvia locks Charles up in Maranello while Charles protests “I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW WE WERE DATING”. A follow up interview with Max has him saying that they’ve been together for years. Chaos ensues.
When I read a fanfic I like, the author becomes a mini celebrity to me. So when an author with a work I like kudos’ or comments on my own fanfic I just-
sources compiled: max verstappen and wsk promotion, both on youtube
series: 2013, karting
charles gets third at the cik-fia kz european championship in genk. max wins.
its been a year since the "inchident" and tensions are still high on track... just two races earlier, max is forced to retire after pushing charles into the grass so hard that it causes his already struggling gearbox to fail. charles' team, artgp, decries the maneuver on track as "unfair" via a press release titled "ART Grand Prix stronger than adversities". (meanwhile, charles' fansite decides uses slightly more flavorful language in its own race summary... describing the move as "incomprehensible," simply scandalous" and "shameful" while appealing for officials to do a better job of penalizing dangerous moves. max's site ignores the race entirely, leaving no summary to memorialize his team's take on what happened in sarno. it makes sense: its a lone bad race for the dutch driver in an otherwise dominant season.)
ironically, the cik-fia would start the next race weekend the two attended in wackersdorf with a conversation to all competitors about sportsmanlike behavior.
things may not be as dire as they originally seem, however. charles and max might be ignoring each other on the podium, but they're still friends on facebook: max apparently leaves a comment-- deleted as part of his early f1 social media account purge-- on charles' post about the race.