#gax

[adayyinthelife]

The art: The artist:

[gaxfest]

The Gax Summer is a two weeks long fandom event focusing on George Russell and Max Verstappen with three prompts for each day to choose from and create something for.

RULES

🐡 George Russell/Max Verstappen should be the main pairing. (There can be other pairings but the creation (story, drawing, GIF set, video etc.) has to focus on Gax.)

🐶 The first prompt for each day is something either George or Max said in connection with the other (with a few exceptions that could still fit in), and if you choose one of those prompts, the goal would be to take them out of context. (For example the first prompt was said during an interview, but in a story/creation it’d be ideal for a crime setting where the police questions George after Max has disappeared.)

🐡 You can choose only one prompt or combine two or more of the same day. Please don’t combine prompts from different days.

🐶 You can create any type of work, writing, art, GIF sets, podfics, videos, posters/edits, web-weaves, crafts, anything.

🐡 This event focuses on short single-chapter stories and quick creations like sketches. You can write multi-chapter stories if you really want to, but all chapters of multi-chapter stories must be finished by the deadline (the end of the day of your chosen prompt(s)) to ensure people can read the whole story and that it won't be left unfinished.

🐶 There’s no minimum wordcount or equivalent for any type of work.

🐡 This is an AI free event. Please respect your fellow creators and do not bring any AI slop here.

🐶 All ratings and themes are welcome but please tag appropriately.

🐡 Please don’t post your creation before the day of your prompt.

🐶 If you post your creation(s) on Tumblr, please put the day and the prompt itself somewhere at the beginning of your post, and use the Gax Summer 2026 tag so that I can see and reblog your posts.

🐶 Please pay attention to correct tagging. F1 Esports RPF is not the same as Formula 1 RPF, it’s about the esports players, not the F1 drivers. Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings is also not the same as No Archive Warnings Apply and they shouldn’t be used on the same story. The first implies that one or more of the required warnings could apply to the story but the author doesn’t want to spoil it, while the other means there aren’t any topics in the story that’d require any of the warnings.

🐡 If you want to post your creation on Ao3, too, please claim the prompt of the day to which you’ve created for in the collection of the event, and fulfill the claim in time (by the end of the day of your chosen prompt – 23:59 CEST).

Ignorance of the rules does not exempt you from following them.

TIMELINE

Reveal of the prompt list: 17 June.

Beginning of posting: 1 July.

End of the event: 14 July.

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If you have any questions, feel free to send an ask (or a private message). 😊

[ablogtocheck]

I felt a little nostalgic for 'old-school' Gax...so here is a compilation of them laughing and smiling with, at, or about each other...in pretty random order.

[russthappen]

i came across this pic george posted to congratulate max on his 4th wdc and omg? max looks so tiny in george’s arm🥺

GASP stoppppp because if there's one thing i love about them it's the helmet on helmet interactions. or george looming tall above max with his helmet on looking like he's about to EAT him alive, as shown below:

height difference? foaming at the mouth rn.

this interaction one too. george looks so tall. augh!!

can't not mention baku!! hot even whent they're fighting (might be even hotter because they are)

some more because i can. but you're right. this one you sent, their arms. delightful. very gentle. more angles:

honorable mentions

general gax interactions just because i can and i miss them touching each other:

anyway. THANK YOU for sending this to me. very lovely!!!!!! thank you!!!!!

[f1puppylove]

Has anybody written any zombie apocalypse su russtappen it's important for completely selfish reasons

[cuntcedes]

Do you ever let your rpf brain overanalyze interactions or comments by the drivers? I don't think they are fucking or will ever do, honestly. But I always think that max has got a little crush on george. Might be my delusion but it helps me sleep at night.

all the time. specially with gax yup because while not outright attraction there is definitely something different in the way max specifically refers to george and views him in his mind. he does not rate him - far from it i'd say, but it's clear he just finds george more interesting than most other drivers. interesting to piss off or just to get riled up about. i don't think there are a lot of things that hold max's attention for long outside racing. i think he gets bored easily (with media, with pr duties, with social interactions, even with his family). but i have never seen him get bored with george. the reactions he has aren't always positive but they are reactions nonetheless - and i think for george it's also a thing where max gets under his skin far more easily than most other drivers. i think george knows he and max will never be friends but they are more alike than they both want to admit.

i think max is a very upfront person about what he likes and doesn't like and how he responds to outside stimuli. and george is the complete opposite. i think he is constantly struggling with what he should do and what he wants to do - and he almost never shows his instinctive response to things, but rather the learned behavior. which is where the "two faced/pr robot" conception comes from. it's not that he's faking things - he just has a need for control that makes him second guess and rationalize most things before letting himself feel them. so when max wants to push george pulls, and when max says hot george says cold. in action they are opposites but mentally they seem to operate in a more or less equal structure. max just doesn't like having to play games or second guess things and finds it very irritating when george forces his hand to actually stop and analyze things.

i don't think max thinks about george a lot as more than an abstract concept. a vaguely annoying blurry shape in his life that represents a lot of things max has been taught to dislike and find beneath him (emotional, insecure, dramatic, feminine, articulate, etc.) and as a result fixates on it, on him, and wants to dominate and destroy. so yes - sometimes max acts like he has a crush on george because he fills a role that benefits from having people like george around. he looks better and stronger in comparison. and in a sense, that means to be the provider - the caretaker, or the authority figure - for george. in formula 1 everything is a power dynamic and max is hardwired to get the upper hand in every single one.

meanwhile, george has grown up in a world where he's been told since he was a kid that max is the standard for what a good driver should be. he both admires and envies his skill but he doesn't care about max beyond that skill. george thinks about max far less than max thinks about george, but george is still hardwired (and actively fights against this instinct) to seek validation from people like max. logically he does not want or care to have this need met because george has learned to rely on no one but himself and races not for the glory or the acceptance but for a far simpler, baser thing: to fucking win. and yet here we have max, who not only wins and makes it look easy, but he is also loved and admired for it. while george accepted long ago he can't have it all, max gets to have both.

they both envy each other for different reasons - and they both think they have less need for the other than the other one does. they're an unstoppable force and an immovable object who both bet on the other one to move. but yeah i wouldn't say i let the rpf brainworms ever make me overanalyze them why are you asking

[timsaxon]

you seem pretty sad for a boy in second place

f1 | george russell/max verstappen | mild angst, post-Barcelona GP 2026, 100 words

They never talk, during. Max thinks it's unnecessary, but he can't not say anything after today.

"You didn't look very happy up there," he mutters, running his hand along George's hip and heated skin.

George furrows his brows, blue eyes flashing with surprise or maybe hurt. For a heartbeat, he looks like he might talk—about Kimi, Toto, the team, the whole damn situation that's been weighing him down. But this isn't the kind of relationship they have and his face shutters before anything spills out.

"Just get on with it," he sighs, turning around to get on all fours.

[caaaasikkk]

they are so awkward🥹