Formula 1 Driver Max Verstappen and Girlfriend Kelly Piquet’s Relationship Timeline
Kelly Piquet and Max Verstappen attending the FIA Prix in December 2021. Hollandse Hoogte/Shutterstock
Love on the fast lane! Max Verstappen may be one of the biggest Formula 1 stars in the world, but his heart belongs to Kelly Piquet.
The two-time World Drivers’ Championship winner and the model began dating in 2020 after first dating four years ago. Although they are 9 years old, they have a lot in common when it comes to racing. The thing is, they both come from F1 families.
The Belgian-Dutch driver is the son of Jos Verstappen, who was an F1 driver from 1994 to 2003. The fashion columnist is now the daughter of Brazilian Formula 1 champion Nelson Piquet. His older brother, Nelson Pickett Jr., is also a racing driver who previously competed in Formula 1 and Formula E. “My earliest memory is of the song,” Kelly told Vogue Netherlands in a December 2022 interview. “There’s a really cute video of him walking down the pit lane with a sandwich in one hand and a drink in the other . Follow the track. I was always involved in my brother’s career. I’ve been through the ups and downs and seen what stress does to a person. “This world is very familiar to me and I know what these kids have been through.”
Before she started dating Max, Kelly was in a relationship with F1 driver Daniil Kvyat, whom she dated from 2017 to 2019. The former couple welcomed daughter Penelope in July 2019. Max doesn’t have any kids, but he seems to enjoy spending time with Penelope since he started dating Kelly. Attending her baby’s third birthday in July 2022, she was pictured with her friend Penelope, who dressed up as a mermaid for the occasion. “Favorite moments of the night 💕,” Kelly wrote on Instagram at the time, captioning a photo carousel that included a shot of Max in front of Penelope’s mermaid cake.
Max has been relatively quiet about his romance with Kelly, but occasionally shares photos of the two outings with his millions of Instagram followers. “A trip to Austria…coming soon 🚁🗻🇦🇹,” he wrote alongside a photo of him and Kelly riding a helicopter over the mountains in January 2022.
In December 2022, Kelly revealed that she would like to have more children in the future, telling Vogue Holland that she “wants to have more children”. Meanwhile, Max told Dutch newspaper De Limburger that month that he “definitely” wants a little one of his own. He also agrees with his future young children to follow the racing path, but only if it is their choice. “I don’t force my kids to compete,” she explained. “They have to want it for themselves.”
The two first met in Monaco, where they had dinner with Kelly’s brother Nelson Jr. “Something magical happened that night,” Kelly recalled to Vogue Netherlands in December 2022. At that time, she was 28 and Max was 19. The pair made their romance official on Instagram after Max shared a photo of the two getting cozy on New Year’s Day. “Let’s make 2021 a memorable year in many ways,” he wrote. “I hope you find as much luck, love and happiness as I have found myself.”
“Happy Mother’s Day to these amazing moms 🙏😀,” Max wrote on Instagram, sharing a photo of Kelly and her mom Sophie Kumpen. Another photo shows her younger sister Victoria Verstappen, who has two children with boyfriend Tom Hughes. Seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton called out Kelly’s father after he used a Brazilian-Portuguese racial slur to describe Hamilton in an interview. “It’s more than language. This is an outdated mindset that needs to change and has no place in our sport,” Hamilton said on Twitter at the time. “I’ve been surrounded and targeted by this attitude my whole life. There was plenty of time to learn. “Now is the time to act.”
Brother Nelson. It was later claimed that his comments were taken out of context. “What I said was a misconception, and I’m not trying to defend it, but it illustrates that the term used was used colloquially and historically in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for ‘man’ or ‘man,'” he said in -a declaration. to CNN. “I would never use a word that I have been criticized for in some translations,” he said. I strongly condemn any suggestion that the word was used to denigrate a driver because of the color of his skin. We sincerely apologize to everyone affected by this, including our lovely host Lewis. However, the translations in some media currently circulating on social media are not correct. “There can be no discrimination in F1 or in society and I will be happy to explain my views on that,” he said.
Max said Nelson Sr. “wasn’t racist at all,” but condemned his comments. “I don’t think the words used in different cultures and the things they said as children are incorrect,” Max told reporters at the time. “Let it be a lesson for the future not to use that word because it’s too offensive, especially now that it’s getting more and more attention.”
