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Please don’t send me an arse of a teammate, he had pleaded. For the love of all that is holy, don’t go and cock it all up now. George knew Toto always had options. Backroom conversations, quiet lunches, the odd promising junior hovering just out of sight, drivers with resumes hot off the presses or egos already calcified by a seat they hadn’t earned. The thought of who he might be paired with, compared to mild-mannered, dependable Lewis, made his skin crawl. As the season wore on, the speculation only grew. Pundits promised answers by summer shutdown. Fans demanded certainty. George waited. Nothing came. Then, come Zandvoort, Mercedes announced an FP1 outing for Toto’s bloodthirsty Formula 2 protégé in George’s car despite Lewis being the one he was meant to replace, which felt personal, frankly. And on Friday night, in front of a home crowd drunk on orange smoke and seawater, Mercedes finally made it official. 18-year-old Max Verstappen would be the next driver to wear the Silver Arrows.

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