#val d'argenton 2012

[il-predestinato]

Oh, Charles... your memory isn't bad. It's just selective. 🥺

Saudi Arabia 2024 // Val d'Argenton 2012

[andthatsp1]

a not-so-fun fact is that we only have the "inchident" interview footage because they thought Jos might do something crazy 🥲 (x)

[charleszleclerc]

Timeline

June 21st 1997

Evelyn Martin is born to Elise and Hugo Martin who already have one son named Adrien.

October 16th 1997

Charles Leclerc is born to Pascale Leclerc and Hervé Leclerc who already have a son named Lorenzo.

April 2nd 1999

Elise and Hugo have their last child. A girl named Arielle. He completed the Martin family and both Evelyn and Adrien were happy with their new sibling.

October 14th 2000

Hervé and Pascale welcome their third son. Arthur Leclerc completes the Leclerc family.

2001

Evelyn starts ballet dancing at the age of four because she had seen it on tv and wanted to be a ballet dancer

2005

Charles starts go kart racing competitively he was eight.

He wins the French  PACA Championship in 2005, 2006, and 2008

Evelyn decided she wanted to be a professional ballet dancer when she grew up so she became more serious about her dancing and entering competitions.

2008

Evelyn fractures her foot for the first time when one of her jumps went wrong. She was out of dancing for awhile.

Charles won the French PACA for the last time

2009

Charles became a French Cadet Champion

Evelyn returned to ballet and won a few competitions. Her dancing outshone others and she was offered a place at a prestigious ballet school in Monte Carlo.

They both join the same secondary school

2010

Charles moved to the KF3 class where he wins the junior Monaco kart cup

Evelyn is having a hard time at the ballet school as none of the girls really like her but her love for ballet stops her from quitting

2011

Charles wins the CIK-FIA KF3 World Cup, the CIK-FIA Karting Academy Trophy and the ERDF Junior Kart Masters

Evelyn joins her school’s photography group

2012

Charles partakes in Val D'Argenton track is hosting the second round of the WSK Euro Series season this is where max and he have their “inchident”

Evelyn attends the race with her family she meets max and they become friends

2013

Max and Evelyns friendship grows

Evelyns dream to be a professional ballet dancer and that’s all she cares about instead of school

Charles  won the South Garda Winter Cup and claimed sixth position in the CIK-FIA European KZ  Championship and finished second in the CIK-FIA World KZ Championship, behind Max

Evelyn and Charles meet at school and become good friends towards the end of the year

2014

Evelyn tears her Acl in January of 2014 and is told her dreams of being a professional dancer will never happen

Charles is there and supports her through it all. They start hanging out more.

Evelyn realises there is more to life than dancing. She puts her spare time into fashion and creating clothes.

In 2014, Charles graduated to single-seaters, racing in the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps championship for British team Fortec Motorsports. During the season, he took seven podium positions, including a double victory at Monza, to finish runner-up in the championship behind Koiranen GP's Nyck de Vries

October 2014 Jules Bianchi crashes in Japan

Evelyn’s there for Charles immediately

Christmas day Charles and Evelyn decide to start dating

2015

Charles and Evelyn finish school at the age of 18

Charles joins F3

Evelyn applies to start a fashion design course

Their relationship is a bit rough when Jules dies but Evelyn stays by Charles side

2016

Charles and Evelyn’s relationship is stronger than ever

Evelyn decides to start teaching ballet to children to spread the love she had for it

Charles claimed three victories and took the title in his first year of the series, despite crashing out in the feature race of the season's final race in Abu Dhabi in the GP3 series

In 2016, Leclerc joined the Ferrari Driver Academy and he acted as development driver for Haas F1 Team and Scuderia Ferrari.

2017

Charles joined formula 2 for the 2017 season with the Prema racing team

Evelyn graduated and started working on trying to set up her own business  

Hervé Leclerc passes away

Evelyn is there for Charles day and night. Their relationship only grows stronger

Charles wins the f2 championship

2018

For the 2018 Formula One World Championship, Leclerc signed for the Sauber F1 Team as a race driver

Evelyn released her first clothing line

2019-present

Charles signed with Ferrari

Evelyn continues to release clothing items building her brand one step at a time

She also continues to teach ballet

Max and Evelyn’s friendship has continued to grow over the years

May 2024 Charles wins the Monaco grand prix

July 2024 Evelyn finds out she’s pregnant

December 2024 marked 10 years since they started dating, Charles has something to ask Evelyn

Here is a new post!! this is sorta a timeline and masterlist so if there is anything you would like a blurb/oneshot on send me an ask. I'm excited for this story but I am in college right now so updates might be slow. All the dates and events I took from Wiki so sorry if their wrong

[lucithornz]

I am legit watching the WSK Euro Series 2012 Round 2 at Val d'Argenton so I can see "The Inchident" and everything surrounding it. Including full track conditions. For fic accuracy.

In case anyone was doubting my commitment to lestappen lore.

[chibrary]

title: excerpts from "WSK Euro Series 2012 Round 2 Val d'Argenton 3-6 May 2012”" source: wskpromotion on youtube format: video season: 2012, karting

[tatinkatin]

Lestappen Karting Times Masterpost!

The iconic video of their "fight" in karting (it was just an inchident, on the race)

CIK/FIA Press Conference KF2 European Championship

Charles clapping for Max going to the podium (0:00-0:03) & a part of the aforementioned press conference not included in the video above (3:27-5:00)

A steward talking to Max and Charles on the Wackersdorf race of the KF2 European Championship in 2012 (0:05-0:10)

A race in Sarno in 2012 which Charles won due to Max's mistake (Max was left behind at a gas station after that race)

The pre-final in Sarno 2012 (Max came 1st and Charles 2nd)

The Second race in Wackersdorf

A recap of the Wackersdorf races (plus footage of Max and Charles together on the podium (11:36-12:12))

The 1st Heat of the first round of the WSK Euro Series in the KZ1 category in 2013

A race in Genk in 2013 in the KZ category with Max and Charles together on the podium (27:07-30:56)

The final race of the KZ category, with Max and Charles again on the podium (and my favorite) them on the carriage/back part of a car doing a lap of the track (29:40-37:54)

Max moving his kart away so that Charles can place his own in the assigned space (1:26-1:37)

Some interesting reads:

(The first two are in French; the third one is in Dutch while the last one is in Italian thus a translator might be useful, also the sources are rather biased so take whose fault it was with a grain of salt)

A recap of the race week in Val d'Argenton (aka just an inchident place)

A description of another incident between Max and Charles which is not widely-known (near the second half of the article)

Another incident between Max and Charles (again near the second half & brief description of it)

Armando Filini (Charles' first karting team Manager) talking about Max and Charles, their incident etc.

Pictures from the karting times:

Charles' page and Max's page in the KSP site (the pictures are separated by each race they were taken, but they are watermarked)

Max's site itself also has some pictures of his karting times, with some of them including Charles (the pictures are separated by year and month so you can check 2010/11-2013 for karting)

[il-predestinato]

Then:

Now:

Val d'Argenton 2012 vs. Austria 2023 ↳ Max Verstappen when it comes to "unfair" and his rival Charles Leclerc

[il-predestinato]

You are Max Verstappen. You've just had an inchident with Charles Leclerc ... again. 🤯

For reference:

Val d'Argenton 2012

Austria 2019

Austria 2019

Japan 2019

Japan 2019

Sakhir 2020

Sakhir 2020

[il-predestinato]

The race steward has a word with Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc at their first race together since the infamous "inchident" at Val d'Argenton one month earlier.

Max Verstappen & Charles Leclerc | WSK Euro Series KF2 | Wackersdorf 2012 🎥: [x] (June 8-10, 2012)

(Max: *nods his understanding, shakes the steward's hand* 🫤 ... meanwhile, Charles: *I refuse to even look at him* 😠)

[il-predestinato]

https://twitter.com/Charles_Leclerc/status/198830741528920064?t=Ow0_UiVQhhW2j5OBc0vgvQ&s=19

wow we even have a tweet about val d'argenton? pity the oringinal post on facebook was deleted, i wanted to know more about their "muscled fight" from whoever was writing for charles at the time 😅

Bestie, what is this!!!

2012.

Omg. I'm dead.

Baby Charles tweeting about Val D'Argenton, about the inchident? Forget Austria 2019 - this is where Lestappen was born. Damn right, these babies' battle was trop musclée. 💪🏼

This is too much. 😭

[il-predestinato]

I don’t get how you can say you are a Charles fan when you celebrate Max’s win in Austria 2019 when he won just because he pulled a dirty and illegal move on Charles.

Wait, is this diatribe about this gifset I reblogged?

Wow. 😂

Okay, ignoring the fact that you're desecrating the holy temple of Lestappen in my inbox, let's just review a few things:

Max's crimes against Charles: Austria 2019

Charles's crimes against Max: Val d'Argenton 2012, Suzuka 2019, Sakhir 2020

Charles doesn't do the "being a pussy"™ approach and certainly doesn't need you to defend him. He's perfectly capable of destroying Max on his own. But by all means, enjoy your gatekeeping and I'll just keep making banana gifs.