#truly believe that in those 2 weeks before singapore last year when daniel went back home

[rickybaby]

also your tags are excellent, truly the culmination of a 10 year long narrative

and no one is more aware of the narrative than Daniel.

he reeled christian in by making a whole show of giving toto his merch to wear which of course led to the whole clandestine hotel room meeting in mexico of all places. He sat across christian at a swanky restaurant and told him point blank he wanted to race for redbull again, when he hadn't yet been near another race car, when all he had to back himself up was just his belief that christian would do anything for him. And every time he went about making his batshit crazy fairytale comments about redbull (re miami and monaco) his main opponent didn't just stumble but had a glorious fall

and of course, being aware of what the Silverstone test represented? The 'yeah i had a young driver's test at silverstone ten years ago that ultimately got me the red bull seat' and treating it like his one-shot audition and nailing so fucking much that they had to give him a seat only after 7 laps (like it was just a formality for christian, mr. i was just going in to work and stopped by to see how daniel was doing when he had his phone in hand hyping him up to marko)