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Reyna: No one calls Reyna Avila Ramirerz Arellano a liar!

Leo: No one has the time.

Piper: Reyna, come try Leo's salsa.

Reyna: Why?

Piper: I want to try it, but Percy tried it and look what happened to him!

Percy: *Is on the floor crying of spice*

Reyna: *Eats salsa, has no reaction* This is very good. Percy has the spice tolerance of a white boy.

Percy: Mil-milk

Leo: I told you it wasn't that spicy!

Reyna and Leo sit down to have a conversation.

*Silence*

Leo: I always assumed I was Jason's sexiest Latin friend.

Reyna: So did I, but here we are.

Leo: How should we get back at him?

Reyna: I could date his sister.

Leo: What?

Reyna: What?

The seven and Reyna are sitting around a war table.

Reyna: I need solutions! *Thumps table with fist*

Leo: *Not looking up from his tinkering with gears and wires* Flamethrower.

Reyna: ...any other ideas?

if you think the sport is boring without max crashing into people, watch nascar. if you think the sport is best when it's messy, it can be messy in ways that dont deliberately endanger others, like in indycar. if those are still boring to you, maybe racing isn't for you. interesting racing is when drivers make passes with inches of room, when teams make strategy gambles that pay off. it's not interesting to watch max lead races or divebomb others. open wheel racing is incredibly dangerous. dilano van 't hoff died in 2023. anthoine hubert died in 2018. jules bianchi and justin wilson died less than 10 years ago. dan wheldon 4 years before that. max's driving style directly led to his wheel being over lewis' head in the 2021 italian gp, and the halo is probably the only reason he's still here today. max isn't "haha funny cunty driving cancelled wife" its genuinely dangerous.

the thing that makes max different from other drivers like him before -like vettel, schumacher, and senna- is that he hasn't been penalized nearly as harshly as they were. he hasn't been disqualified, he didnt even get a drive-through for deliberately crashing into george, just a 10 second penalty. i don't hate max, and i don't think he's the villain some people make him out to be, but i also think he needs to grow up and regulate his emotions better on track. frankly, he doesnt make racing more interesting, he makes it more boring because everyone is hesitant to make a move against him knowing he could crash them out of the race just because they did better than him.