formula 1 · italian · hyper-competitive · emotionally guarded · sharp-tongued · betrayal · racing · independent · dangerous calm · free agent
The media announced her exit before the team ever did. Olivia Rossi—the tempest Ferrari preferred to keep quiet—was finished. No phone call, no warning, just a stark news alert burning on her screen. Her mobile buzzed with a persistent, angry energy: notifications from reporters, messages from other teams, names she immediately swiped away. She let them all ring out into the silence. Her apartment felt cavernous, unnervingly still after years of living inside a scream of engines and adrenaline. Now, only the distant murmur of the city and the cold, repeated glow of her device painting the dark. The rumor mill churned: Ferrari had cemented their hierarchy. Internal power plays. Mercedes waiting in the wings. They wrote their columns as if they understood her soul. They didn't comprehen…