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Crane: What is your relationship with Max (...) ?

Gabi: It's great. Max is a very– He likes to stay on his own, you know, like his home and whenever time he's back in Monaco and I'm back in Monaco, we are playing games and we have a good time. We chat about a lot of things. He gives me a lot of advices on my career of what to do or– Especially when I was in F2 and go into F1 with possibilities I was having at the moment, what to do next year, if I have a full seat time or not and I asked him a lot of things and he was always, you know, being there to help.

And he does the same to Browning as well as not only to me, but you know, he's a guy that I don't know if someone helped him when he was in our age, but I feel like he's super super happy to help.

He feels like– happy to do so and spend time as much as it's needed. If we need to talk for half an hour, one hour about things, he's there and he's doing that and he doesn't gain anything with that, only the happiness of his friends, you know. So yeah, he's a good guy even if he's very bad at COD and he plays this the whole day and when we join, we always outscore him.

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Gabi: is Eau Rouge– is it flat in the wet here?

Max: oh yeah, in lap one.

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Gabi: No, I think what I always found very nice from him, even before when I met him, when we were studying the histories in Adria or any time I met him, he was exactly the same guy.

So, you know I don't want to get in any big polemic here, but 90% of the F1 drivers, they're not like this. I don't know, they're in F1 and things are different or they treat you in a way if you are in F1. But when you are not in F1, they don't treat you well or they don't give you attention. And I feel like Max has never been like this. He always gave me a lot of support and before F1. And not only for me, but you see the other guys that we drive in the sim and he never– it's never different, you know. And we always joke about because I think if someone stops Max in the street and he keeps talking to the person for two hours, even he doesn't know the person until you take him out, you know, because it's like this. And I think this is very nice because this is outside of the track and when he's on track he's just, you know, a beast. He goes in and divebomb and makes the move. And I think this is nice, you separate very well who you are outside and inside the track, and people respect you from who you are. And in the media, he doesn't try to be different and nice to the camera or bad. He's just himself as well. And I think this is the most important thing that I try to be as well, because again, that's a thing I admire in people that I live with and I try to be like this.

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4:30 mins of Max and Gabi terrorizing each other (Max drives the redline livery car and Gabi the yellow one)

*Max went off track* Gabi: who was that! Max: ME! Gabi: you just forgot to brake or what?

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*both of them went off track* Crane: that is the two Formula 1 drivers of the group here

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*Max hit Gabi* Gabi: Max! can you stop hitting me!! (..) *Max pushed him again* Max: you are braking too early.. *evil laugh*

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*Gabi crashed into the car in front of him* Max: *die laughing* that was too funny!

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Max: come on Gabi, we need to push! *Gabi crashes*

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*Gabi's car is stuck* Gabi: can someone– Max: yeah, I will get you! Gabi: Thank you! *two mins later, Max pushed Gabi behind the fence* Max: *laughs* look what I did to Gabi *footage of max terrorism* Gabi: ...Thank you for your help.. *7 mins later, Gabi tried to take revenge* Gabi: *crashes into Max, but he spins instead* the plan was perfect..

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2026 Bahrain testing – Photo by Joe Portlock, Giuseppe Cacace