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ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - DECEMBER 04: Alexander Albon of Thailand and Williams looks on in the Paddock during previews ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi at Yas Marina Circuit on December 04, 2025 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

I...would sincerely hope that all twenty drivers on the grid can drive? Considering that, yk, it's their job to drive cars for a living. And they get paid millions for it as they compete in the highest level of cars go vroom vroom in circles. I would be very very concerned if it came out that Alex Albon in fact does not know how to drive a car. Or anyone on the grid for that matter o_O

thank you again anon for the ask! and to everyone else, im open for prompts and requests for almost any f1 ship ;)

Georgie.

That's what Alex calls her; Georgie.

The woman is 1,80cm tall, for the love of god – nothing is little about her. Not her legs or her ass or her huge fucking eyes or her insufferable temper.

She's always all up in Max's business telling him everything he's done wrong in a race or quali or, hell, even a practice. They bump into each other, and she barely says hi before saying; "You're breaking too soon on turn 9" or "You know that oversteering cost you at least half a second, right?" or even "Maybe you're just not as good anymore, maybe you only won because the car was dominant," and fuck, Max might be in love with her.

She's so- Fuck, she's infuriating. She's observant like hell and talks as if she could even begin to drive a Formula 1 car herself in her high heel stilettos. She talks to him as if they're long time friends or rivals or something in between and how the hell does Alex ever let this woman out of his sight?

It's not unheard of drivers stealing each other’s girlfriends; giving the media a field day about it while doing so. It's in fact common enough that it has happened to drivers on the current grid, and the one before that.

And Alex really thinks that no one is going to want his girl?

George Russel, the perfect woman, and no one's going to bat an eye?

If it were any other girl, Max would've give a pass – but George? Georgie?

God, she's unbearable, and Max needs her.

And it's sickening, watching Alex kiss her cheek softly and kiss her lips slow and steady, hands to her neck and hip but no actual intention behind it – when Max knows that George must like it rough. God, her splayed out on a bed, all open and pink and wet, wrists tied together above her head and legs trembling and her begging... Max would do that to her. Max would make her feel so good.

"You're okay, mate?" Lando says, breaking him out of his transe by snapping his fingers on Max's face.

"I'm good," Max forces out, downing the rest of his drink as if to make a point, "Why?"

Lando ignores his question, "What were you looking at?" he asks, looking around the general direcion Max had been staring.

Alex and George are still there, still dancing. Alex is whispering something in her ear and she is laughing and Max's hold turns firmer on his glass cup without him noticing.

Lando turns back to him after a beat; "You're still hung on that, mate? You know, they seem well together. Alex told me-"

"I really don't wanna know, Lando," Max says, too earnest. He's ordering another drink before he can think better of it, ignoring his friend's stare to his profile. "Relax, I'm not gonna do anything. Nothing she doesn't want to, anyway."

Lando stands there baffled for a second, right until Max turns to wink at him. "You're impossible," he announces, snatching the drink from Max's hand and rejoining the McLaren crew on the other side of the club.

Max orders another and drinks it as he watches George dancing with her back to Alex's front.

Their eyes meet as Alex kisses the back of her neck.

Max doesn't look away.

Neither does she.

It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human's hormone and only does weak human things:

Given the fitness world's persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries. Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat's energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males. Estrogen's ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body's response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn't receive estrogen supplements.

Banger post being cooked up