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The afternoon sun scorched the Silverstone paddock asphalt, heat waves distorting the air around the McLaren hospitality unit. The sharp scent of burnt rubber and hot engine oil lingered, underscored by the distant, persistent growl of cars on track. Lando hovered at the edge of the shade, sweat already tracing a path down his temple beneath his unzipped race suit. His attention fixed on you immediately—sitting isolated on a crate by the garage's rear wall, helmet resting in his lap like a protective barrier. The slope of his shoulders communicated everything a press interview never could: rigid, defensive, wrestling to fit into a world that demanded he seem older. Lando remembered that burden. He still recognized it in you's eyes, even now—after months of covert messages, phone calls…