The Dutch pilot and his partner Kelly Piquet, daughter of the triple Brazilian world champion Nelson Piquet, announced last December to wait for their first child.
The Dutch Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen will not give interviews Thursday in Miami as before each Grand Prix because he will become a dad, informed his Red Bull stable on Thursday. “Please note that Max will not participate in the media day in Miami on Thursday because he is waiting for a baby. Everything is fine and it will be present on track Friday for the race weekend. We will not make other comments out of respect for Max’s private life and his family ”said the Austrian stable two hours before the start of the press points.
Verstappen (27) and his partner Kelly Piquet (36), daughter of the triple Brazilian world champion Nelson Piquet, announced last December to wait for their first child. The Brazilian model already has a daughter, Pénélope, born in 2019 of a union with the former Russian pilot of F1 Daniil Kvyat (31 years old).
“Mad Max”, world champion in the past four years, has won one of the first five GPs of the season, in Japan in early April, and is in third place in the world championship classification, respectively two and twelve lengths of the British Lando Norris and the Australian Oscar Piastri, the two McLaren pilots.