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Hey, we can do three-day polls now, cool! Time for a quick poll about a subject near and dear to my heart; coffee.

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redbullracing: The drumming really adds to the intensity🥁👍

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It’s that time of year. Reblog with how many you’ve heard of.

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napping boy with his dog.

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alex | aus gp 24 | 📸 mark sutton

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pumamotorsport: Carlos is a fan of Charles' talent 🥹

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Hmmmm

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Daniel Ricciardo at Supercross de Paris 16.11.24 | via

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Daniel at an LA Clippers game recently via his Instagram stories | 11.21.2024

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It's a weird feeling to head into the paddock while looking at pictures of Daniel in LA.

The rational part of Max's brain knows that Daniel won't be there, has known this for a few races already, but there's still a part of him, a part that may or may not be his heart, that hasn't wrapped itself around the thought quite yet.

He has seen Daniel not that long ago, and yet there's a weird ache in his chest at the knowledge that he doesn't know when he'll see him again, if not in pictures of him enjoying his life somewhere else. Somewhere Max isn't.

It's never been like this before. He feels like he's always known where Daniel is for most of his adult life. For most of his life, really, for as long as he's known of Daniel's existence. Even when he was the third driver, even when his hand was broken, even during summer and winter breaks, Max knew that wherever Daniel was in that moment he would have ended up in the paddock. With Max.

But now. Now everything is different. And for what feels like the first time in his life, he doesn't know where Daniel will pop up next, and when, if ever, he'll be withing reach.

It's weird and it's wrong and Max hates it.

His fingers itch every day to text Daniel where are you? what are you doing? when can I see you? why are you not here? why are you not with me? but he never does. Both because he knows it's insane, Daniel doesn't owe him any information, Daniel doesn't owe him his presence, and because it would probably be cruel, to tell Daniel I want you here when it wasn't Daniel's choice to go.

And yet the itch remains, and having an alert on Daniel's name so he can catch every piece of trash news about him, obsessively look at his Instagram, and scrolling through social media in search of a glimpse of him doesn't help.

Not even the half a day he had with Daniel, playing padel and then sharing a short lunch, had been enough. The whole time Max had been itching and itching to reach for him, to grab his arm and tell him stay, to drag him to Milton Keynes himself and declare he wouldn't race unless Daniel was in a seat.

He hadn't done any of that, obviously, because that would be insane, and Max is doing his very best to not do any of the many insane things he thinks about, but it had still been hard to let Daniel go when he had hugged him goodbye.

And now he's back in the paddock, in Vegas as if everything wasn't bad enough already, one step closer to his fourth championship, and all he can do is look for all the places Daniel isn't.

It's stupid, and it's painful, and it's insane, and it's not something Max seems to be able to control. So he gives in.

Looks at the tables in hospitality and sees not-Daniel empty places. Does the stupid media tiktoks and thinks this would have made Daniel laugh. Walks in the paddock and thinks Daniel would have made a joke about all these stupid things.

By the end of media day he's tired and annoyed and his fingers seem to move on their own on the keyboard.

I miss you.

He doesn't press send. He wants to. He doesn't want to. He hates it all.

You should be here. It would be better if you were here.

He doesn't send that either, knows it would hurt the both of them.

I saw this hat and thought you would like it

He considers the picture, a weird Fernando-themed hat on some stranger's head. That seems innocuous enough.

He presses send.

The ticks switch from the grey of delivered to the blue of read as he watches, and he feels his heart beat a little faster, waiting for the dots of Daniel's typing to appear.

They don't.

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Charles: That's where the manhole was. Carlos: I'm gonna show you a manhole. *crashes into him* Charles: ughh CARLOOOSSS!!! Carlos: It looks good, no?

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vistajet A memorable evening with @/carlossainz55, exclusively for Members, ahead of the electrifying #LasVegasGP this weekend 🌶 ✨ Special thanks @/thomasflohrvista and our partners for making moments like these.

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2006 Daniel Ricciardo- from Formula BMW Asia at Bira Circuit, Thailand.

I just love baby badger so much.

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Even the reddit bros know Max is missing Daniel 😭😭 | via

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max reverting to his 2017-2018 self and daniel becoming renault daniel again…the sex these two could be having…banging off the walls…destroying the bed…neighbours calling the cops…feral insane reunion sex…

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redbullracing: A new member to the family 😸