It had been worth it – all the blood and the cruelty and the fight. All the younger generations entering the sport – Ollie, Kimi, Franco – all of them are protected now. Formula One will never see an eighteen-year-old with freshly trimmed wings like Max again; it will never see another George Russell, pushed into wing dysmorphia. It will never see... See more

Valtteri’s gaze slides from Lewis’s crooked feather up to Seb’s face again. He tilts his head as his lips twitch in a small, resigned smile, as if to say, I understand.

Seb is not the only one who should be Lewis’s flock, but isn’t.

Seb returns Valtteri’s smile with a wry one of his own, and turns back to the briefing.

He thinks of teammates and... See more