Hii hope you're doing well
With the recent rumours about redbull offering max a majority stake in racing bulls and to get him to stay and solve the two teams owned by one problem I can't help but think about SH max being offered that because redbull is being forced to sell vcarb by the fia and they would want it with someone thats one of theirs. I'm imagining them also offering him the TP position since he's helping with their driver academy and would also know the baby bulls that come into f1 well and would handle it better than redbull has in the past. Would he take an offer like that after a few years of distance from the sport or would he want to maintain his part in the sport only as charles' partner and a bit behind the scenes at redbull?
hi!! this is sort of a tricky question– with the way I have search history written out, I can't really retcon or add this in any meaningful way, but if I were to write search history today, it absolutely would be a major point! unfortunately I never considered that as something that would be happening in the future, so I didn't have it anywhere in the fic or the verse.
if I were to be actively writing search history right now, max taking on TP for racing bulls would probably have replaced the foundation plotline (and added a really interesting point of contention for his and charles' relationship– a TP and a driver for another team would be a metric ton of paperwork and even more media scrutiny.) I do think I would've written him as accepting that offer though, because he cares so much about younger drivers and that's the "junior" team (even if the whole deal is meant to eliminate the junior team concept). I also would've focused more on him butting heads with the FIA over the sport and the regulations, especially surrounding the safety concerns about the batteries at the beginning of the year (like when ollie crashed).
it would've completely changed the direction and tone of the story, just because there's so much upheaval that comes with new regs and all of that. if I were to try and add that discussion to the current verse, I'd probably write max turning down the offer, because he's busy with the foundation and has gotten a fair amount of distance from formula 1– outside of it literally being charles' job, he tries not to let it dictate his life.
