Febuwhump Day 14: Becoming the Monster
pairings: gen
summary: a story about y/n, Redbull’s new second driver, told in non-sequential order
a/n: I love febuwhump and have participated before for other fandoms but this is a first for me — attempting to compete it via smau only. Hopefully I can write a complete story eventually and I will be posting it on its own masterlist in the correct order to read but it’ll be written based on the febuwhump prompt list! @febuwhump
a/n2: based on the 2024 year; sorry checo but you got replaced earlier!
a/n3: listen I like Lando but I needed a villian here
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y/n_gossip
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y/n_gossip: it seems like little Lando Norris might be thinking of a matador career — he keeps tempting the bulls! After a few close calls with Verstappen, Norris and L/N collided resulting in a DNF for our girl with some pretty harsh words coming from both of their radios afterwards.
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user1: this is what racing is!
↳user2: I know — I was on the edge of my seat…
user3: pretty harsh?? Girl sounded like she was gonna run him down on foot and take him out
↳user4: lol did you see the rb team after she got back to the garage?
↳user5: they literally just picked her up and moved her away from the reporters 😂😂
user6: oh the post race interviews are gonna slap
↳user7: I can’t wait!
user8: that’s so completely unfair! y/n was ahead at the apex — Lando should have given it away, not crashed into her
↳user9: seriously?? Where on earth did you get that information??
↳user8: uhh by watching the screen??
user10: oh shit….
↳user11: Lando’s post interview??
↳user10: how dare he say something like that???
f1gossip
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Transcript:
interviewer: and what are your thoughts on y/n and your collision today?
Lando: obviously not ideal. You know you never want to be in a collision- especially when it’s not your fault. Y/N…she should spend less time with Max, don’t need her becoming another monster, ya know…
f1gossip: what an interview! During his post race interview for Austria 2024, where he was forced to dnf after two different collisions with both Redbulls, Norris didn’t hold back his thoughts. During this brief moment, he talked about the close friendship between this year’s Redbull drivers — saying that y/n (a rookie) should take a step back from her more senior teammate because no one “[needed] her becoming another monster,”. He also went on to say that he was losing respect for Verstappen and the way he raced.
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user12: did he really just fucking say that?
↳user13: oh my god he did
↳user14: it’s even worse when you actually watch it because you can just barely see max next to him — when Norris said this, both max and the interviewer froze
↳user13: i mean i would too. That’s a really harsh thing to say about someone
user15: people want cunty f1 back again but can’t handle this little spat??
↳user16: cunty? Yes. Whatever this was? Absolutely not
user17: he’s just salty she’s better then him
↳user18: how do you figure that??
↳user17: she literally won her very first f1 race? He’s been racing for years and only just won his first this year
↳user18: it doesn’t count really. Everyone knows that redbull cheats
↳user17: oh my god just shut up
user20: i feel bad for y/n…it really wasn’t her fault nor did it affect lando too much but he’s (someone she’s said she looks up too before) putting her on blast with some pretty harsh words…
↳user21: she looks up to him??
↳user20: yeah! She’s said multiple times that she really admires how open he is talking about his mental health and that she really wanted to emulate him
↳user21: oh ouch…then today and that interview has got to hurt…
user22: anyone else interested in what she’s gonna do to retaliate?
↳user23: 🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️
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