13 Works in Reader is a Red Bull Formula 1 Team Driver

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    “I didn’t support any particular team,” I say, and the words are clean, like the snap of a clutch. “I didn’t care about team colors. I supported the drivers themselves.”

    Ekko whistles softly. “That’s... Actually kind of radical.”

    “It’s practical,” I counter, shrugging. “Teams are big machines — crews, sponsors, politics. Drivers are the pulse. They’re the ones who climb into hell and somehow walk out laughing, or crying, or both. Those are the people I root for, not the brand on their cap.”

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    There’s a particular hush in the room when the people who love you meet one another — a wary, protective accord. This was it: Laughter cut through the edges, but every jab and joke had an undertone of care.

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    We pull into the paddock hours later, headlights slicing the dark. The air here smells of fuel and possibility. Men and women move around us like a swarm with its own gravity, and the flags are still in the bags, waiting for morning. As we climb out, Vi yawns theatrically and then becomes all business, already scanning the skyline for the garage labeled with our number. Caitlyn straightens her jacket, eyes narrowing in focus that could cut glass. I breathe in deep, tasting the metallic sweetness that always promises one thing: A race.

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    I still remember the first time I slid into the cockpit under floodlights and thought the world reduced to a steering wheel, a throttle, and the faint hum behind my ears. That hum never really left me; it just changed pitch as years passed, as podiums accumulated, as they started calling me "champion" without irony. When my Red Bull team called about mentoring, I pictured tutoring sessions on race lines and telemetry. I didn't expect my life to rearrange itself around two people who remembered the same hum from their own childhoods.

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    We were proof that the Formula 1 Academy’s women could stand at the front in the Formula 1, that love and rivalry could coexist, and that the roar of the crowd could be part of a life that contained tenderness as well as fire.

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    Vi leans back and bites her lip, suddenly conspiring. “We should tell them,” she says, but as a joke — a wink at scandal. Caitlyn smirks. “Would they believe us?”

    I’m the one who speaks then — not carefully, not planning a narrative but honest in a way that is both thoughtless and inevitable. “We’re together,” I say. The words land like a stone in a still pond. The sound of the room changes, like the air has been measured anew.

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    “It’s not surprising,” Vi said, voice low enough to be almost private. “She’s always been like that.”

    Caitlyn nodded. “Focused. Minimal. She treats everything like strategy — even downtime.”

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    “I don’t want to be defined by whatever the internet wants to call us,” Caitlyn says. “I’m me. I’m a driver. I like you two, together, separately, however. But I don’t want a label that someone else put on us.”

    Vi nods. “We don’t have to explain our choices to strangers. We’re allowed to be unlabelled.” She clenches and unclenches her hands, the way I do when I’m trying to quiet my mind on the grid. “And if people write things? They’ll write. Then they’ll forget when the next scandal or podium comes along.”

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    I remember the first time I saw them on the grid — two dark streaks of focus and grin, helmets tucked under arms, whispering like conspirators while the rest of the Formula 1 Academy fumbled with cameras and nerves. Caitlyn had that quiet, measuring kind of confidence: long-limbed, crisp in posture, eyes that catalogued the track the way some people catalog books. Vi burned the opposite way — a laugh that landed like a challenge, a shoulder that shoved at the world and dared it to move.

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    I felt something steadier than a lap time: I felt chosen, and I felt brave enough to be mine.

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    An F1 driver aspiring to make history in the sport, gets into a rivalry with Carlos Sainz, who makes her task a lot more challenging.

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    Red Bull reader sees an interview Jenson did where she thinks he’s criticising her. She confronts him. Also he’s not married in this.

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    Despite their breakup, the team comes first

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