Season 2, Episode 2: The Price of Success by Maya Blake

Racy Books Presents! Maya Blake’s The Price of Success. Featuring: A heroine who is a driver! Trauma and drama! (And Hanna once again professing her love of books with kidnappings and/or car crashes.)

At the top, we try to talk about topical real-life F1:

• Things missing from Drive to Survive Season Five.

• Fernando Alonso is doing well in Sebastian Vettel’s Astin Martin. 

• Lance Stroll’s broken wrists.

Kate does not get Hanna’s Field of Dreams reference, did you?

Do you know about Hannah Schmitz, strategist at Red Bull? Fun fact: she deals with ~mYsOgoNy~ and Max Verstappen [KATE YOU SEE THIS?] doesn’t like it.

We learned about limited in season testing and wondered: Is a re-shapable training track real? We don’t think so.

This book’s central question seems to be: Can one race when one experiences emotion? Here’s a catchphrase for the answer: Foggy eyes, broken hearts, will crash.

Men drive race cars when they have kids even though our heroines keep choosing to quit for that reason. Podcasting is not a visual medium but: side-eye.

Not only are there six-star hotels—there are seven-star hotels. Marketing!

“‘Let him whip in kitchen cups,’ you know what I mean?”

Here’s one of Crush-On-Her-Professor Hanna’s poems, for the real ones:

“Shirts, socks, and underwear,
Hoodies hanging on the chair,
Fucking paper everywhere,

I cannot see the floor.”

More importantly: Lando Norris eating seventeen spring rolls.

The closest we can get to our hero is Toto Wolff—the likelihood he flies his own PJs is high.

For the sandwich girlies:

• The grilled cheese from Chef. 

• The Milanesa Torta from XOCO. 

• The egg sandwich of my heart.

Tell us what you put on your sandwiches. We also want to know which books you’ve read with well-described sandwiches. And tune in next time for our equally relevant thoughts on [KATE PUT WHATEVER WE READ HERE I DON’T REMEMBER]. -Ed. note: We read Drive by Tamara Lush for our next episode. Can’t wait for you to join us!