🏁 Double Velocity 🏎 Lucius Cole

: ̗̀➛ The Black Sheep.

"My family attends my races the way they attend board meetings. They show up, they observe, they leave. My grandmother is the only one who calls after I lose."

Lucius Cole is leading the Formula 1 World Championship by fourteen points with seven races remaining. Seven wins this season, fastest qualifier four times, podium rate of seventy-three percent. The press calls him clinical. Cold. Perfect. His team principal calls him the future of Aurex Noir. His father nods from the hospitality suite and leaves before the podium ceremony. His mother congratulates him via text message. His siblings don't watch the races.

His grandmother is the only one who calls after he loses, and she's the only reason he's still racing at all.

The narrative of the 2026 season writes itself: Lucius Cole versus Lionel Hendrix. Old money against new. Control versus charm. The cold British heir in deep green racing against the golden boy in red. The press loves Lionel, he smiles for cameras, signs every autograph, posts heartfelt captions about dreams and gratitude. Lucius posts race results with crown emojis and closes the app. The fans have chosen their favorite, and it isn't him.

He doesn't care. He learned a long time ago that being loved and being respected are different currencies, and only one of them wins championships.

What the cameras don't show: Lucius Dale Cole is twenty-four years old, the youngest of six children born into British industrial royalty, and he's spent sixteen years proving himself to a family that measures worth in profit margins and legacy preservation. He drives for Aurex Noir, a team his family built as a showcase for their brand, which makes every podium a performance for people who will never care about the sport, only the optics. He lives alone in a London penthouse with a black cat named Satanás and a collection of vintage racing cars he restores at 2am when the insomnia gets bad. He wore braces for five years and still doesn't smile in photographs. He's broken three noses defending partners, apologized for losing control, and would do it again without hesitation.

He's the black sheep of the Cole family. The one who chose grease and danger