#rookie lewis

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Rookie Lewis and Fernando Alonso at the launch of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-22 (2007)

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sign of the times x f1 2024✨🏎️

[severide-stella]

Chenford + I'll always be looking for you in the distance, wherever I am.

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Formula One: Changing of the Guard (2014-2025)

Daniel Ricciardo, Valtteri Bottas and Kevin Magnussen will retire from the Formula One grid in 2024, leaving just four drivers on the 2025 grid from 2014; Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez.

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Tag list: @mintraindrop (tell me if you want to be added!)

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happy 17th anniversary to the insanity that was the 2007 hungarian gp featuring:

1. lewis sabatoging fernando by exiting the pits first thus taking the optimum fuel strategy that was supose to be fernando's. (details: basically at the time the amount of fuel you started with in q3 would be how much you started the race with so drivers would do a set number of fuel burning laps to achieve optimum times, however drivers can't be on the same fiel strategy as that would require double stacking during the race so mclaren alternated which driver had the optimum strategy. mclaren policy was to give drivers the same fuel load and give one the advantage by letting them out first thus giving them more fuel burn laps and a lighter fuel load for their fast lap. Hungary was suppse to be fernando's turn however lewis disobeyed team orders and left the pits ahead of fernando)

2. fernando getting back at lewis by holding up his pit stop so he couldn't set his final quali lap

3.fernando getting a 5 place grid penelty then trying to BLACKMAIL ron denis into sabatoging lewis' race by threatening to expose spygate emails, specifically he wanted mclaren to cause lewis to run out of fuel mid race

4.ron denis tries to stop fernando from driving in the race entirely and calls the fia presidant max mosley telling him what happened, mosley then tells ron denis not to pull fernando from the race

5.after the race mosley launched a second spygate investigation and demanded access to all of mclaren's emails BUT this was not because ron dennis called him as he already knew about the spygate emails cause fernando told flavio briatore (crashgate guy. also why am i not suprised) who told bernie eccelstein who told mosley

6.also lewis lead every single lap of the race (sorry nando karma's a bitch)

anyways these guys were actually feral teammates and bald lewis may have been a little evil

tldr: lewis sabatoged nando so nando sabatoged him back but then was punished for it so he tried to blackmail ron dennis into sabatoging lewis which almost got him pulled from the race

ttldr: nando tried to blackmail ron denis during the 2007 hungarian gp

source is this bbc article

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hello children I am the fairy textpost duck 💫

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Model reading about Sir Lewis Hamilton (2007)

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i don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t need to hate any of the drivers. it’s okay to have favourites and not post hate on others. hope this helps.

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every other formula 1 driver trying to act all tough and cool like "i don't get nervous i have a killer instinct winner's mentality cold and ruthless" and then you have the 2019 rookies going well actually 🤓 lol. anyone who says they don't get anxious is lying. we're all humans who are affected by emotions and past races and general life stuff. we all have our own ways of dealing with it all. actually, mental health! and this is why i love them most.

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Gonna have to rename Formula 1 in 2025 to “Formula 1 car left on track by lap 2”

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The SH but if gp had a gun changed me, I need more.

using your ask to add this little snippet for the Lewis and Fernando fans! 900 words, rookie year MCL Lewis POV! hey! this is part of the darkbull universe, so it's a lil bit violent. if you're cool with that, keep reading <3

Lewis looks up from where he's unpacking his suitcase as his hotel room door beeps open. Nico steps inside, eyes wide as he shuts the door behind him.

"Nico?"

He takes a few steps forward, shoving Lewis' phone into a pile of clothes with his own, before dragging Lewis out of the room.

"Nico- Nico slow down-"

"Shut up."

Lewis snaps his mouth shut as Nico tugs them down the stairs and into a maintenance closet, clicking it shut behind them as he presses his ear to the side, listening.

Lewis is not freaking out. He's not. They can't both be freaking out, and clearly Nico is, which means Lewis needs to be the calm one here, even if his best friend is having a complete mental break.

Finally Nico turns back to him. His eyes are still slightly wild as he runs his hands down Lewis' arms, fingers tapping behind his ears.

"You don't have any weird injuries right? No unexplainable scratches?"

"Nico- what? No, man."

Lewis is so confused.

Nico breaths out a sigh.

"Okay. I need to talk to you, before I can't. You signed with McLaren, yeah?"

"How the fuck do you know about that-"

The ink on Lewis' contract isn't even dry yet. There's no way any other team should know about it. Certainly not Williams.

"That's not important. Lewis- Formula One isn't like karting, and McLaren is one of the worst, you need to-"

Nico runs his hands down Lewis' arms again, thumbs pressing into the inside of his wrists.

"You need to be careful."

Yeah, careful with Nico as he drives him to a hospital. Lewis turns his hands so that they're gripping Nico's, leaning their foreheads together.

"Nico, I'll be okay. I promise."

Nico takes a shaky breath, squeezing his eyes shut.

"You can't trust them Lew, you can't. Promise me you won't trust them."

Lewis is genuinely concerned now.

"Okay, Nico. I won't, I promise."

Nico nods. He's still trembling a bit, but he squeezes Lewis' hands.

"Once I get to Mercedes- we'll come get you, I swear. Just give me a few years, that's all I need."

"Of course I want to drive together."

Nico frowns, eyes bright when he looks at Lewis.

"That's not what I'm saying. Don't trust them, Lewis. Any of them."

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Over the course of Lewis' first year, he'd managed to put the whole incident out of his mind. Sure, McLaren is weird- they're a bit twitchy, and sometimes when Fernando has conversations with shareholders or Ron Lewis it feels like there's a second conversation happening, one he doesn't understand.

But other than that, things are normal. It's not near as weird as some of the other garages. Ferrari keeps their secrets and their drivers close to their chest. Williams seems too happy and put together. Redbull is-

Actually, Redbull is pretty normal too, from what Lewis can see. As normal as a team named after an energy drink can be, anyways.

He's honestly kind of forgotten about it as he's getting ready to leave one of the bars the team had crashed. Normally he tries to find someone to take to bed with him, since Nico had apparently decided they couldn't talk anymore after Lewis made it to Formula 1, but he wasn't feeling it tonight.

It's only when he's getting to the doorway that he feels an arm warm on his elbow, and he turns with surprise, makes eye contact with pretty brown eyes and sunkissed skin.

He thinks it might be one of Ferrari's tire gunners.

The man smiles at him, easy and friendly, and Lewis thinks maybe he's scored after all.

"Going home alone?"

Lewis grins back, winking.

"Hopefully not anymore."

They have their hands on each other as they leave the bar, and Lewis barely registers that they're stumbling into an alleyway until-

There's cool metal pressed against his temple.

"Put your hands up."

Lewis is frozen. He's suddenly ice cold, and the front of his shirt is unbuttoned, and he's being held at fucking gunpoint. He was tipsy when he left the bar, but right now he's not sure he's ever been more sober in his life.

He shakily raises his hands up. The mechanic isn't smiling anymore, eyes cold where he's looking at Lewis.

"You'll be a problem if we don't handle you, Hamilton."

Lewis swallows. There's gotta be a way out of this, and then he'll go straight to Maranello, tell them to get a better screening process so they don't hire insane gunman-

"We try not to kill drivers, but I was told to make an exception for you. Any last words?"

Lewis opens his mouth. To beg, to plead, to scream, to try and talk his way out of the situation- he doesn't know. All he knows is that he opens his mouth, and there's a sharp cracking noise splitting the night sky.

He drops to the ground immediately, eyes squeezing shut, waits for the pain to hit, waits for his brain to let him know hey you just got shot!

Nothing.

He hears footsteps walk towards him, unhurried.

"Stupid rookie. Your boyfriend warned you, no?"

Fernando.

Lewis sits up, palms scraping against the pavement as Fernando tucks the gun into the front of his waistband, hauling Lewis to his feet.

"Alonso- what-"

Fernando tuts at him, brushing gravel off of his cheek.

"Stupid, stupid rookie."

Lewis inadvertently looks over at the Ferrari mechanic, sees him laid out prone on the pavement, dark maroon slowly seeping into the ground.

Lewis throws up.