#engineer!max

[snowonhuronstreet]

instead of driver/engineer I propose engineer/engineer!lestappen enemies to lovers fic

(pls tell me somebody wrote this already 😭)

[le-stappen]

Engineer Max and Charles anyone?

[lsunstreakerl]

Now I’m sweating at the thought of Max being outside Ferrari as all their strategy mess happens 😰 He knows Charles deserves better than what they are putting him through but unlike the Sauber days he can’t talk through the data with Charles because he’s now actually part of a rival team. Max’s love language of acts of service being handcuffed like that 🫠

max just can't win with ferrari. he has SERIOUS beef with that stupid prancing horse, and yes you can find him bitching with fernando about it. (fernando is happy to complain about ferrari to anyone willing to listen, and also the people who aren't)

max sitting on the couch practically vibrating with how badly he wants to see the data and help but he literally can't so instead he sits there like "leave? leave the red team? please?" and charles is like "this team literally reaches their hand into my chest and manually pumps my heart you know I can't do that"

[finifugue]

'the F1 movie needed to have Brad Pitt fuck his female engineer because there needed to be sexual tension!' BORING. If they wanted sexual tension they should've made it historically accurate and true to real life and had Brad Pitt fuck his teammate

[currrsy]

new challenge!

[grogumaximus]

[rb19]

From the Archives: "Verstappen 'driving style' myth is a trait of greatness" Jan 19, 2021 by Matt Beer

"As a driver, it doesn't matter if you have an understeering car, oversteery car, slippery surface, grippy surface, you constantly adjust your driving style to that. If you just say 'this is my driving style', this is how it's going to be, you will not be quick. I think you learn in your whole racing career from go-karting to F3 to whatever, every weekend the car behaves a bit differently, so you always have to adjust to it. It's every weekend, constantly you're adjusting your driving style a little bit to make sure that the car is working well. And of course you try to set the car to your liking but it will never be fully to your liking. You always have to fine-tune. Or at least you try it. And at the end that’s what makes a driver fast."

Throughout F1 history the very best have had very different careers, been very different personalities, and on the surface seemed like very different drivers. But if they share one defining trait it's their capacity to handle different situations and adapt to what is required in each moment: they have a wider operating window. Verstappen speaks of adaptability as if it is second nature. Probably because it is. This is a young man who has been carefully moulded into a world-class driver. The devotion to the craft of driving, instilled at such a young age, is why at 23 he has greater intuition and 'feel' than most will have at the peak of their powers. [...] Verstappen's ability comes from his intuition, which in turn a legacy of years of relentless preparation and practice. So, when he finds himself dealing with a skittish rear end, or in greasy conditions, or driving through rivers like in the 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix, he has an extraordinary bank of data to use to handle those challenges. And he can access it automatically. It's why he handles them better than most, why even if a data overlay of a given lap or a comparison of a race stint might have shown Gasly or Albon where Verstappen was quicker, and a binary idea of what he was doing to be quicker, it doesn't fully account for how he was doing it. Driving a car is a dynamic process, with multiple inputs and countless adjustments. It's an immensely complicated sensory puzzle and piecing it all together through conscious thought is difficult, if not impossible. Most of what makes Verstappen so effective is happening on an unconscious level. [...] So, what can lazily be described as Verstappen's 'driving style' is far more complex than that. He doesn't have one way of driving, he has the skills required to drive in multiple different ways and is building more and more experience to know what way works best in any given moment. That manifests itself in such delicate, refined inputs that most drivers can see what he's doing and get close to replicating it, but not quite. And that's worth tenths of a second at a time, especially when it comes to the 2020 task of taking a capricious car and driving around its vices. This is what is second nature to Verstappen now, why the speed seems to come so effortlessly. In 2020 he augmented that with further gains in maturity and judgement. This is a vital second trait that will, car permitting, allow Verstappen to translate his performance into championships. [...]

[hajimedics]

more world grand prix stuff because I'm sick in the head

[inchidentalmeowmeow]

I feel Max watches Charles’ onboards so often he got xavi “we are checking” ptsd by osmosis

Now i need his reaction to the praise kink palooza that is bryan bozzi. Will he get jealous? Start asking gp “How come you never tell me im a good boy huh?”

[snowonhuronstreet]

Heyy, I just saw the Daniel and Carlos as the lestappen/engineer au and I laughed so hard, my dad complained for waking him up!! Cane we have more?? Maybe some team radios??

carlos and daniel would definitely fire engineer!max and engineer!charles if they weren't winning all the damn time

(and my apologies to your dad 😭)

[le-stappen]

Rival Engineers Max and Charles who constantly work to beat the other, but can't help falling in love in the end.

[lsunstreakerl]

Once again screaming after reading your latest chapter what a masterpiece!! I was wondering if you ever thought about exploring Max's relationship with the older grid? This part here "You might have to see if one of the older drivers can help you out. They did say they'd always look after you" just has me imagining a mini Max running around the grid and the older drivers all fondly looking after him

almost made it into the fic but got cut- Max actually does hit up Paul, who actually does live in Monaco 😭 there will most likely be a minific focusing on different drivers and Max, probably from the drivers POV.

[frosting-surfeit]

this song inspired me AGAIN i SWEAR... :<

But subconsciously i probably got inspo from this amazing amv/song as well

[jinxedjay]

some guys in cool outfits. based on @multiheadcanons' outfits for the mercs post!

[grogumaximus]

Max Verstappen reading a data sheet in Q1 | Dutch GP 2024

The sheet:

[gentlemensarts]