Max Verstappen learning how to people
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Max Verstappen joined F1 at sixteen, and the rest of the grid never quite forgave him for it. Too young, too intense, too impossible to read—they stopped trying to understand him after year one.
He didn’t party. Didn’t chat. Didn’t linger after races.
Just drove like hell and vanished.So when Max passes out in the paddock one afternoon, no one expects what comes next: the overload, the burnout… and the quiet unraveling of everything they thought they knew.
Turns out, there’s a lot more to Max than fast laps and Red Bulls.
Turns out, maybe they should’ve asked sooner.Now the grid is reckoning with the truth—and trying, maybe too late, to fix it.
(Or: Max Verstappen is overworked, underfed, secretly studying engineering and literature, and the grid has no idea… until they do.)
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- Part 1 of Max Verstappen learning how to people
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Max Verstappen is a finely-tuned machine—faster, sharper, and more closed-off than anyone else on the grid. That’s how he survives.
So when George Russell brings him a sandwich, it shouldn’t mean anything.
When Carlos follows it up with coffee, and Lando offers him half a cookie (already bitten), and Lewis threatens him with a meal plan, it definitely shouldn’t matter.But suddenly Max can’t stop thinking about things that aren't lap times. Like kindness. And Shakespeare. And whether it's normal to feel... weird when people care.
He’s not sure what’s happening.
Only that it’s quieter than he's used to.
Softer.
Dangerous.Series
- Part 2 of Max Verstappen learning how to people
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Yuki Tsunoda didn’t mean to adopt Max Verstappen. It just sort of happened. One minute he was cursing at his sim data, the next he was chasing after Red Bull’s resident robot-in-disguise like an emotionally volatile duckling imprinting on a race-winning Roomba.
Max, for his part, seems deeply confused by Yuki’s persistent existence.
He’s even more confused when Yuki starts showing up with snacks. And questions. And unwavering loyalty.But Yuki knows a lonely person when he sees one.
And if no one else is going to befriend the paddock’s most terrifying cheat code, then fine—he’ll do it himself.
Loudly. Annoyingly. Relentlessly.
(With sandwiches.)Series
- Part 3 of Max Verstappen learning how to people
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Max Verstappen doesn’t do social events. Or parties. Or “normal people things.”
So when Yuki convinces him to attend a low-key F1 driver hangout—just food, video games, and absolutely zero emotional trauma—Max assumes it’ll be a disaster.And maybe it is, a little.
The Mario Kart physics are wrong. Pierre is a menace. Lewis sings TLC with alarming sincerity. And someone brought tea.But no one’s asking Max to perform. No one’s trying to fix him.
They’re just... letting him exist.And somehow, impossibly, he doesn’t hate it.
(Not that he’s admitting that out loud. Obviously.)
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- Part 4 of Max Verstappen learning how to people
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Max Verstappen signed up for a university lit class under the vague hope it would be solo, anonymous, and quiet.
What he got was a group project.
With Lily Albon.
Who’s smart, casually chaotic, and entirely too perceptive.
Now he’s dodging Zoom calls, lying about his Wi-Fi, and trying not to have a breakdown every time she sends a Pride and Prejudice meme at 2am.
It’s fine. It’s manageable.Until she figures out who he really is.
And then refuses to tell her brother.
Which is somehow worse.
(He just wanted to talk about 19th-century narrative structure. He didn’t mean to make a friend.)
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- Part 5 of Max Verstappen learning how to people
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Max Verstappen is many things: a world champion, a racing prodigy, a borderline insomniac. What he's not supposed to be is in a group project for English Literature 402, stress-texting annotated Jane Austen quotes at 2am to his teammate—who just so happens to be Alex Albon’s little sister.
Lily isn’t sure what’s more unbelievable: that the Max Verstappen is in her class, or that he knows how to cite MLA correctly. Alex isn’t sure what’s more concerning: that Max is juggling Formula 1 with finals week, or that no one noticed—not even him.
The secret leaks, the group chat explodes, and the paddock starts looking at Max a little differently.
Turns out, it’s a lot harder to pretend you’re fine when someone finally starts paying attention.
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- Part 6 of Max Verstappen learning how to people
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Max had always been too much. Too young, too intense, too easy to ignore until he wasn’t. He showed up at sixteen with sharp edges and sleepless eyes, and while the world judged from a distance, Red Bull took one look and claimed him as theirs.
They never said it aloud. They didn’t have to. Somewhere along the way, a quiet promise took root:
If Max won’t protect himself, we will.Now, years later, the rest of the grid is just beginning to notice the cracks—offering kindness, concern, and apologies too late to matter. But Red Bull?
They’ve been here. Through the burnout. Through the brilliance. Through every grim smile and twitching hand.And if the others want to be part of his life now?
They’ll have to prove it.Series
- Part 7 of Max Verstappen learning how to people
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Susan from PR Would Die For Him (and Maybe Kill for Him, Too) by Dream_nexus
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
09 Oct 2025
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Behind every champion is someone who sees the fight no one else notices. In the chaos of F1’s media circus, Susan—Red Bull’s soft-spoken, muffin-baking, clipboard-wielding legend—protects her favorite driver, Max Verstappen, like only she can. Ruthless when needed, kind always, she remembers the years he was overlooked… and makes damn sure no one forgets him now.
Think F1 meets “The Devil Wears Prada” with heart.
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- Part 8 of Max Verstappen learning how to people