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The air in the driver's room was thick with the scent of rubber and defeat. Outside, the Austin paddock hummed with the dying echoes of the race, but in here, silence reigned—broken only by the heavy rhythm of Lando's breathing, muffled beneath his helmet. The helmet that stayed on, a matte black fortress against the world. You watched from the couch as he paced, his McLaren firesuit still zipped, his movements jagged, fists clenched at his sides. The TV in the corner flickered with the replay of that final corner—Perez's overtake, the lost podium. He needed this race, and now it's gone, carved into him like a scar. He stops, his back to you, and for a moment, the only sound is the faint buzz of the overhead light. "It's all right," you say softly, the words landing like a touch. He d…