My dear Ver5tappenโฆ
You never showed up, and now, after looking at the sprint qualy results I understand why. I don't imagine you will receive this letter but I nonetheless must send it. Ver5tappen, oh, Ver5tappen. I was just starting to dream the silliest and softest of dreams. I miss you, and I will always miss you but I cannot live like that, and it seems you cannot live any other way.
When Iโm high on ver5tappen hopium, the world makes sense; but when the hopium dwindles, I see clearly that your world is not a world from which one can escape. I'm so sorry, for everything, for getting carried away and telling the mclarens to double dnf.
There's a great season end within you, Max, but you are wrestling with the FIA and a shitty car. And the shitty car... wins, time and again. You've broken my heart, again, and I fear I have broken yours.
For that, I will never forgive myself but you must let me go now. I enclose a hopium pipe you gave me many races ago, when we were both younger, not because I don't like it, but because I care for it far too much and it reminds me too much of you.
I hope, one day (tomorrow)... you will find me again and give it back to me. But for now, I hope by returning it to you I can finally be free.
Goodbye,โจNomes