for me, russtappen takes the cake because they will never be normal about each other. whenever they meet on track the fanfiction writes itself. they can’t even provoke the other without the commentators bringing up their history. like do you know how feral about the other person you have to be to race them unusually aggressive right before pitting? in a machine going 300kmh+ passing centimetres from the other?? between them there will never be “no risks required”.
max is the cliche hothead on track and is pissed when george doesn’t let him have his way. off track, he’s a goofball around george and acts like nothing bothers him. deep down, he is very bothered, probably more than he should be in this stage of his career. it’s obvious in literally any press interview with the two of them together, from that one iconic clip of him being extra fiddly to not wanting to touch george’s hand (almost in fear of annoying him).
and yes, george is still annoyed but reluctantly smiles at his antics. he has to, at least for the sake of cameras, return a slight press of the lips. he’s outwardly passive on the whole issue but you can tell he is hung up about it through his sarcastic comments, bringing up max when he does not need to. from indoctrinating kimi to his anti-max agenda in that ep of dts by telling him the horrors of max ramming him off the track (he doesn’t realise it’s just him), to george joking that they had a good relationship.
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