#MAXIEL

[epaulando]

F1 x tumblr but it's just @infectiouspiss's textposts

[slutforpringles]

Max/Daniel teammate duo was truly unmatched in every way 😌😩

Also I cannot stop myself from pointing out that had Red Bull not fumbled Daniel's pitstop in Monaco 2016 HE AND SERGIO WOULD HAVE HAD THE SAME NUMBER OF WINS IN THEIR TIME AS MAX'S TEAMMATE. And when you remember just how completely different the calibre of their machinery available to them was (Red Bull 2016-18 vs Red Bull 2021-24) that is genuinely INSANE.

[whowebber]

[undercoverdonderwolk]

The Infamous Max Hair Tuck at Danyul from Honda Thanks Day 2023. Would you mind sharing your thoughts, analysis, takes, theories, whatever you’d like as to what the hell was going on here, please?

I just find this entire interaction so amazing and endearing and it is so, so telling…but I’m not entirely sure what it’s telling me? 🤭 other than that Max is utterly head over arse in love with Danyul? (Even if it’s just platonic love? Idk.)

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSjB3od5x/

where to even begin... genuinely where to even begin... so high on the list of insane maxiel moment and that's saying a lot because there have been a lot of insane maxiel moments... it's way max is zeroed in on daniel in that big group and with a camera pointed at his face. he's like, you guys are free to think this is a group assignment but you would be wrong. and that juxtaposed with daniel trying his hardest to keep everyone included in the conversation... daniel's head on a swivel to cater to anyone who wants to participate in the convo and meanwhile max is like 'this is the perfect time to start a vague in-joke with danyul and danyul only :)' LOVE that difference between them whenever they interact... max's big breath in before he does the invisible hair tuck... the way he only starts laughing when daniel starts laughing... one of my fave maxism is the way he IMMEDIATELY starts laughing whenever he makes a joke so he can be sure the other person knows he's joking... but here he waits :((( for daniel :((((( just the way max is SO delighted to bask in daniel's light... just enjoys sitting back and watching the daniel show... and then he just cannot stop himself from wanting to participate too!!!! we all know max LOVES an in-joke and accidentally excluding people in the pursuit of those but i genuinely think he loves very little more than an in-joke with daniel. that's his GUY. the way max seems kind of over it (as he tends to be) until daniel plays up the ha ha ha isn't this so funny isn't this day wonderful isn't there really nothing else you'd rather be doing... i don't know i always go back to daniel saying he can get max to do things he initially doesn't want to do... and i know he meant like, drinking on the clock or whatever but it's this too!!!!! max voice 'danyul makesth everything fun :)' like max will do ANY marketing shit if daniel's there........ and he'll love it..... also the desperation in max's energy GODDDD. like genuinely insane behavior the way he's laughing SO hard in the hopes that daniel will look at him. if nothing else max was and is completely and totally enamored with daniel. just fucking LOVES being around him..... insane behavior

[verstappentime]

max & daniel, malaysia 2016, by the AP

[puzzlebean]

I'll see you at the end...

[think-like-a-poet]

Fic Recommendation Formula 1 (ao3)

a/n: I really liked these fanfics, so if you are ever bored and want to read anything, maybe it also has something for you. None of these are written by me. if you are the writer of one of these and want me to delete the fic, just message me and i will.

Includes: a lot of ships

Came to the conclusion i mostly read Max x driver fics.

! Please check the tags by each fic. !

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Eat them Alive by linearity (57k )

Max/Oscar and Oscar/Lando

I love this one with my whole heart.

I Don't Like Scary Movies by piccoloh(60k)

Lestappen, Landoscar, Charles/pierre

Dinner for three how hard can it be By (9k )

George/Max/Lewis

Rate your ride by My_blue_ wheelbarrow (12k )

Lestappen

Vanilla carnations by souvenir116 (33K)

Lestappen

Box, Box. Wait... What is a box by Once_and_future_loser(7.7K)

Max/Carlos

Come down by charlos66 (21k)

Maxiel

Greedy by vroom_vroom (buildarocket) (7k)

Gax

Mini-skirt and my gogo boots (i just want you to make a move) by crescendo_writes (7.7k)

Gax

Gold rush by OdotumSuojelius (51k)

Norstappen, galex, piarles

481 Pounds of Fine by Lescarbille (24k)

Landoscar

Operation Falling For The Cover Story by raekiastri (37k)

Landoscar, lestappen

[astronicht]

I’m anon who requested 2 and anything f1 works but maxiel if I had to choose!!!

2. running fingers through hair

(thank you everyone who prompted, these have been really helpful 2 me the past few days!!) Cited sources: i pulled some specific characterization beats from @garage-gremlin 's incredible fic over here (specifically, what max reports yuki said to him). There's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to casual yuki/max, and also i guess some max/daniel feminization going on in here.

They are on the yacht, because Max thought it would be good to remind Daniel that he still has many good things. Like Max’s yacht.

It is unfortunately a little chilly, but even off Monaco that is what January will get you. If Daniel had not spent so long running around America, they could have gone earlier. But it was fine: Max was racing, and Daniel likes America and his friends there. He did not want to bring them on Max’s yacht, even though Max asked.

“We should go to Palermo,” Daniel says from the deck chair next to Max. The hum of the engines had almost sent Max to sleep, even with the cool air across his face. His jacket is practically thermal. He put Daniel in a matching one, and belowdecks the heat is turned all the way up. The hardwood floors are heated from beneath, like they are at Geri’s house. It’s all very nice.

“Palermo?” says Max. “Will you speak Italian then, Daniel?”

“I want fried food,” Daniel says, sidestepping the Italian. Max is convinced Daniel understands more Italian and French than he lets on, but that’s not hard because he mostly pretends he doesn’t understand any. He gives people very blank looks sometimes, in shops and things, when they approach him. It is a little funny.

“We can go to Palermo,” Max says easily. “If you want to be gone for two or three days.”

Getting a spot to dock at Palermo is pretty much impossible, but that can be taken care of.

“Maybe,” says Daniel. About as expected, Max thinks.

When Max had tracked down the third new number Daniel had gotten in three months and texted to politely ask if Daniel wanted to come out on the yacht (asking doesn’t actually work with Daniel — he’d texted “You should come on the yacht with me. 24th.”) Daniel had replied with “lol I’ll jump into the sea 🏊‍♂️🏊‍♂️🏊‍♂️” and then showed up at 6AM the morning of the 24th.

Daniel being a little moody about Palermo is nothing, really. A little pleasant, in fact.

“Did you know,” Max says to the deck chair next to him, “That Yuki says when I cover my face I look like a girl?”

Daniel, presumably hitting pause on thinking of jumping into the sea, rolls over in his deck chair to face Max.

“What?” he says.

“When I am surprised, you know,” Max says, and models it: two hands over the lower half of his face.

Daniel mostly looks confused. And a little like he darkly suspects what happened after Yuki said this— but whatever, Max is not the one who was in America all this time, doing who knows what.

There is a pause.

“You used to let me be the girl,” Max says, to the gusting wind over the Mediterranean. The sea around them is like blue velvet, choppy but soft. 

Daniel’s face is finally blank and focused. He mouths ‘let me’ to himself.

Max rolls onto his side to face Daniel as well. This is not enough. He stands up, looking down at Daniel on the deck chair.

No need to tower. He sits on Daniel’s deck chair, his jacket whispering. He reaches out and tucks a few of Daniel’s curls a little more securely under his hat, because they are dancing into his eyes in the wind. He tucks Daniel’s hair behind his ear. Daniel’s hand comes up loosely around Max’s wrist. His mouth is parted.

“If you want to be the girl, you must of course just ask,” Max says.

Daniel’s throat works. His Adam’s apple bobs. 

Max says, “The girl can still fuck me,” and laughs, because it sounds funny to say.

“Oh,” breathes Daniel, like this is what unlocked something.

Max takes Daniel’s hand from around Max’s wrist and kisses the knuckles.

“Ah, Daniel,” he says. “You are cold again.”

[sequinsandfins]

The dichotomy of carcar and maxiel.

Carlos/Oscar = Meet Ugly

Max/Daniel = Meet Cute

[maxipad33]

“They’re still calling you Daniel. Thank you, Daniel.”

[reigningmax]

Max on Daniel's Spain vlog - "we're here with this horny man Daniel and he's gonna steal a lot of women's hearts this week."

[supermaks]

If Danny rics last record on the good book is a FL he pulled out of his ass just to help max against a vastly superior machine driven by his former teammate I truly believe he’s invented a new type of a love . A new type of love

[dannielricciardo]

for those moaning about how max didn't do a post or anything. max and daniels friendship has never been for public consumption. max and daniels friendship is about the small tidbits about how max texted daniel a photo of him driving dale earnhardt's car smiling from ear to ear. it's about how daniel knew that one of max's cats escaped. it's about how when everyone was piling up on daniel, max reached out directly to ask if he was ok. it's about max taking the time to read daniels writing mid-livestream and then leaving to process it. it's max inviting daniel to play padel. it's daniel silently, without communication, helping max out as his last act on the track.

you're so used to friendships that are manufactured to serve a PR team, so many friendships in f1 that are as deep as "who's jet are we taking this week", so many that are just casual acquaintances playing it up for increased brand awareness. the real friendship here is the person who was glued to someone realizing they are about to be fired in slow motion over a weekend. it's holding the umbrella so they don't get wet while you're out in the downpour. it's the shutting down of the implication that you're not one of the greatest. it's the million small moments that are not for the public, but for you and for that one person to know

[slutforpringles]

"He's always been very appreciative of our friendship and supportive. Even after Japan this year I was getting quite a lot of stick, and he [Max] was one of the only guys who sent me a text and said 'mate keep your head up. We know what you're capable of, don't listen to the noise.' So I respect and appreciate him a lot."

[maxcore]

daniel saying him and max had a "weird intimacy" as team mates while standing next to nico rosberg. you can never escape the narratives

[valyrfia]

daniel ricciardo taking the fastest lap point off max’s championship contender mayhem……..charles leclerc all up in mclaren’s business in a ferrari held together by prayer causing all kind of mayhem….….max has assembled his situationships like the avengers to win this championship