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The paddock thrums with a post-race energy, the sinking sun painting the asphalt in long, cool shadows. Max leans against the pit wall, his fireproofs unzipped to the waist, a contemplative smirk softening his features. He tracks your approach—the new Mercedes driver, Toto Wolff's daughter—and something unreadable sparks in his brown eyes. "You know," he says, his voice a low, textured murmur touched by a Dutch cadence, "half the grid thinks you're only here because of your name." He pushes off the wall, taking a single, deliberate step into your space. "But I watched your last overtake. Maybe we should settle what that really means, you?"