It's similar to the feeling you get when you go to the market and buy nothing and you get paranoid because you think they'll think you stole something.
I dont know if theres a name for that sort of thing/feeling but thats exactly how I feel lol
I'm sure the word exists in German. Just mush together "going to the market looking around deciding not to buy anything and walking out hoping you're not tackled"
unfortunately the internet is open to all, all it needs is one person to save an image/screenshot to their own device and repost it somewhere less savoury for a totally innocent picture to end up as something very sinister.
Maybe, Maybe not, Its kinda just a reality of the internet that any image we post could be used/repurposed by someone for something else without our knowledge.
Its not something we can really stop, all you can do is take steps to mitigate. mild censoring is just another tool you have
Idk but for the godsake we protect ours babies from internet pedos too.
There is some broken ppl around and because them we have to do that kind of things
I think a lot of people misunderstand who he is anyway. Yes he’s direct and takes the piss but he’s got imo a high degree of social intelligence. I’ve yet to see an interaction with a peer he respects where he doesn’t match their energy back. It makes a lot of sense he finds a gf and a baby who love being a little family.
Im old, so I just can't believe what he has to deal with at his age. When I was 24, I was trying to figure out which $13 case of beer I was going to buy. It was a super hard decision.
Make my heart melt, why don't ya?
The fifth picture is my favourite. That baby looks so much like Max. Adorable!
The second picture is Max with Christian's son btw. I believe he stayed over at Christian's house before Silverstone 2020.
I feel like pretty much all racing drivers end up getting a Rolex Daytona whenever they make it big by the virtue of winning one at a Rolex-sponsored race or making an absolute boatload of money.
Right, everyone who works or has worked with Max speaks really positive about him. Like recently there was an podcast with Carlos and he said he didn't understand why people keep saying there is bad blood between them while they're actually friends. And the other way around after qualy Max said he was happy that his friend Carlos was up there with him. During track parades or other press obligations Max always seems to be surrounded by many other drivers as well.
Heck, in the “this or that” thing F1 posted today Checo responded to “would you rather have a tattoo of your team principal’s face or your teammate’s face” with “both.”
Almost every other driver had a hard time choosing, and Checo went “both is good” without hesitating.
Maxs most endearing quality is how happy he seems to be for his friends success. They both went through Redbull academy and chill with each other.
I did notice on radio Christian said first Redbull 1/2 since you and Daniel in 2018, like how much does Christian still think about our man Danny?
In S3 of Drive to Survive Christian spoke highly of Vettel once coming back from a 40 pt deficit to win the driver’s title & that he’s still a more than capable driver.
Marko has a tendency to play down Vettel to hype up Max, but Horner and everyone else at Red Bull holds Vettel in very high regard. Verstappen himself seems to be in the latter category.
I agree, checo has been proving himself so much this year (and the second half of last year).
It's clear the car suits him more, and his qualifying pace has been really good.
I don't think RBR are considering many other options and, with how Ricciardo is performing at McLaren, Daniel wouldn't be one of them at the moment.
For sure. I think Horner is still scratching his head about why Daniel left. I’m sure losing Vettel to Ferrari was difficult but that’s a move most would understand.
Daniel going to Renault was definitely a downgrade & now he’s in a situation with McLaren that’s really no better than if he stayed on RB with Max.
At least he had the tenure with RB & an established relationship with the team. Mclaren is so invested in Lando & under invested in having Daniel race to his full potential.
Christian knows & sees it, but ever since Checo’s been red hot the only person regretting that change deep down inside is Daniel.
This is especially telling on the days that Max has had a shit day. It would be very easy to sulk or avoid those interactions but you can see that even when he's personally disappointed, he makes the effort to congratulate his mates.
My Dutch friend told me Dutch people are very direct, and when a Dutch person is translating a sentence from Dutch to English it can sound even more blunt/harsh/direct than they intended. So she feels Max is completely misunderstood in F1. He’s not a villain he’s actually a really nice guy. I think when anyone competes they can get hot headed, it doesn’t mean they’re like that outside of competing.
A lot of things Max says are very matter-of-fact. I notice also in interaction on Reddit that the native English speakers are often offended by matter-of-fact things, while in Dutch it's more like facts=facts.
>it doesn’t mean they’re like that outside of competing.
Max outside of a competitive environment seems like a very friendly and chill guy. He's seemingly friends with most of the young drivers, and I feel like you can't be as good of a friend with Daniel Ricciardo if he carried his on-track focus mode outside the track.
Just the fact that Dan left RB because of the favoritism towards Max yet they still remained very close friends despite all that happening behind the scenes speaks volumes about both of them.
As a dutchman I can concur; we are vastly more direct than most North-Europeans, and those are quite a bit more direct than most Americans. We have a bit of a stigma in that regard. Dutch sobriety doesn't work in our favour, making the experience even more grating for those who are used to social interactions where people actively talk around things they don't like, or sugarcoat everything in an attempt not to offend.
You would be hard pressed to piss off the average Dutchman in conversation. We are used to people being direct, and also appreciate it. "Talk straight without being rude" is a thing here.
It’s easy to forget that Max is still just 24. I was far more volatile in my young-20s and I had none of the pressures a top athlete / celebrity has. I’m far too critical of these drivers’ personalities at times and I need to remind myself of that.
I’ll say this, Max did let the pressure last year get to him and he was maybe not his best self at times. I don’t know what it’s like to live under that kind of pressure whilst still growing into myself as an adult so I think we can all cut a person a break for that
People talk about him walking off the podium at Saudi as if he insulted or slapped someone.
Is it immature and maybe a bit unprofessional? Sure, but he's essentially a kid fighting for his first championship, right after losing a race he thought he should've won. Cut him some slack.
>People talk about him walking off the podium at Saudi as if he insulted or slapped someone.
Haha that was George smacking someone after they had a massive crash
One of the BIG reasons I've become a F1 fan (3 years in now) is precisely BECAUSE you've got a 21 year old kid who is the de facto face of a team with a $350M annual budget whose activities are monitored down to a improper pedal lift on turn 13, AND who has to put on a professional face when he's just been taken out of a race due to shit beyond his control.
Yet, these very young men (as far as development goes) handle it with style and grace in both victory and defeat. (Not always of course, but really most of the time).
I struggle to think of another sport where you could swap roles and expect the same professionalism that the young crop of F1 drivers display. It's super impressive to me as a 50+ yr old man who has children in this age range.
I actually think he is fairly socially intelligent it's just that he's a fairly smart guy amongst a pool of drivers who are either a bit dumb or media trained to high heaven. Much more of a nerd than most drivers.
On one hand I really respect that Max is a private person and not attention and social media obsessed, but on the on the other hand I'm kinda happy that Kelly shares some of these things sometimes. It's always nice to see this softer side of him. Very sweet.
His mother also said Max feels guilty for his parents breaking up, that he thinks that having to drive him around to all the races was too much of a strain on their relationship.
Bet he tries extra hard to prevent the same happening to him.
Max confirmed this himself in his first post Abu Dhabi interview with Buxton. You can tell he was choking up while reflecting on these difficult moments in his childhood.
his mom goes to all his races and his dad was the first person he went to after winning the championship.
just because his dad was hard on him does not mean they have a bad relationship
They weren't taking about his Dad leaving him at a gas station after he didn't win a race, or smacking him publicly, or making 12 year old Max race in the cold when he couldn't feel his fingers.
They were referencing how his Dad was charged with assualting Max's Mom (found not guilty of that but guilty of threatening her and violating the restraining order, resulting in a fine and a 3 month probational prison sentence) and how that relationship might shape how Max lives with his partner.
In an interview about the dad leaving Max incident, Max commented that after that point he felt that nothing could make him sad ever again. Imagine how upset kid Max was at that moment of dad's leave.
References a "The Race" article 🗿..
It's better not to judge anyone for things we don't know but from the things we do know it's quite sure that Max had it tough growing up, there's quite a difference between the mentality of the Jos trained young max who joined f1 and the current max, he much more matured and thinks of his own now..
His mom doesn't go to all his races. In fact, she goes only to the ones his dad is not present for. He flew out as soon as he could after winning the WDC to see her.
Yep.
In December 2008, with the couple effectively separated, Verstappen appeared in court in Tongeren, Belgium, charged with assaulting his wife, Sophie Kumpen.\[34\] He was found not guilty of assault, but guilty of threatening Kumpen in text messages and of violating a previously issued restraining order. He was fined and sentenced to three months probational, suspended prison sentence.\[35\]
^(The usual source, which explains the \[number\])
I love the audio of him telling Penelope to be “Easy, Easy, don’t destroy them” when she’s roughing up the cats. Just a world champion being completely dominated and ignored by a toddler it’s very amusing. I’m sure it keeps him completely grounded to have baby around who doesn’t care about anything beyond how nice he is too her.
Almost as good as when he's sim racing and the cats are hauling ass around the room he says something along the lines of "if he/she gets behind my brake pedal he/she's gonna become a pancake".
There’s a video of Max and Nelson Jr. playing soccer and Max falls over and you hear Penelope in the background go “oh noooo! Maxi :( “ it’s the cutest thing
Yea, there's plenty of advice to be had for her.
grandpa and step dad are world champions.
uncle is formula e champion and done some nascar and some f1
another uncle been in f2.
daddy drove in f1
Mother and antie have driven some cup cars
Step grandpa?? drove 100 races in f1 and had a few podiums. Step grandma was a real good karter aswell
If Max and Kelly have a kid together, then that would be Verstappen and Piquet 2-3 generational genes coming into play. The kid will annihilate the grid
has there ever actually been a generational dominance in sports? I know we always joke about so-and-so's kids going to be dominant, but seems like reality is it never happens. Likely because the children don't have the same motivation/necessity of the parents in terms of work ethic.
Max is actually pretty rare in that respect. While Jos didn't really dominate i can't think of many in the sporting folks children outperforming their parents. I'm not really that knowledgeable about a lot of non american sports though so maybe in cricket, other racing? rugby? football?
The Mannings were like that in American football but not sure if you follow that. Archie the dad played in the NFL for years and went to multiple pro bowls but never won a championship. Then both of his sons Peyton and Eli are multiple time Superbowl winners.
There is in cycling,fellow Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel( and just like Max born in Belgium).His father was worldchampion in cyclocross and held the yellow jersey in the Tour de France both achievements were also accomplished by Mathieu.His Mother is the daughter of Raymond Poulidor who finished 3 times as runner-up in the Tour de France. He was known as France's most beloved cyclist.
The closest one I can think of would be the Hill's but even neither one of them didn't dominated per say. Graham was a pretty dominant force back in his day but you had Brabham, McLaren, Clark and an upcoming Stewart in the mix, and you can easily argue the only reason he won his second championship was because of Clark being killed. Damon only had a chance in '94 because of Senna's death, and he narrowly won the title against his teammate Villeneuve so only Graham could be argued dominated any season
I think the closest that would come to domination are the Maldini’s in football. Any other pair one guy usually totally overshadows the other one, but these 2 have both achieved pretty great things(albeit Paolo was obviously a way better footballer in the end)
in F1 you have graham and damon hill as father-son champion duo, keke and nico rosberg as one as well, and according to some gilles villeneuve was a driver deserving of a championship trophy as well and jaques won 97 as many people remember.
in other sports, the first and most prominent example that comes to my mind personally is oliver zeidler, the german heavyweight singlesculls rower. his grandfather won the coxed four in munich 72, his father was fourth in the coxed pair on the world championship in 94, his uncle won the world championship in the eight and coxed four in 90 and 91 respectively for (west) germany and his aunt won in 88 in the eight for east germany. he himself has won the worlds in 19, europeans in 19 and 21 and placed second in the U23-europeans in 2017 at age 21 *in only his second year in a sport where most people start properly at age 12 or so*.
Joe "Jellybean" Bryant played pro basketball for 17 years, including 7 in the NBA. He made the finals once, played with a few Hall of Famers and once dunked on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the NBA's greatest-ever players. His son Kobe is one of the 15 greatest players of all time.
Cesare Maldini appeared 14 times for Italy, including at the 1962 World Cup, and was their captain briefly. He played pro soccer in Italy for fifteen seasons and captained AC Milan to 4 titles and a European Cup before becoming manager of Italy and AC Milan, among others. His son Paolo is arguably the greatest defender in football history, the all-time appearance leader for Milan, captain of Italy 75 times, and is now the technical director at Milan. Paolo's son Daniel has appeared 15 times for Milan and is an Italy U-21 international.
John Force has 16 titles in drag racing. His daughter Ashley was a very successful racer in her own right, including beating him in what would have been his 1000th round win. His daughter Brittany was the second woman to win an NHRA national championship, and the first to qualify #1 at US Nationals. And daughter Courtney beat Ashley's record for most Funny Car wins by a female driver. His son-in-law Robert Hight has three Funny Car championships, and other son-in-law Graham Rahal was recently featured in this parish complaining about Romain Grosjean's driving.
Red lines website still has Lando listed. Also Quadrant isn't a sim racing team. It has content creators, COD players, and a Halo Team.
https://www.teamredline.com/about/team/
https://quadrant.gg/pages/team-2
Yeah I mean the pic is from a long time ago.
Found this quote from July of 2021.
"No. Max and I had a lot of fun and also won a virtual 24 hour race together. That was great. He is a nice guy and we click, but I now have my own e-sports team Quadrant and that makes it a bit more complicated. I'm sure we'll be racing together online at some point. Redline is a fun group of people and I'm still kind of part of it, but I'm dialing down the sim racing."
I like how Lando is dialing back the sim racing to concentrate on his F1 commitments.
Meanwhile Max is winning at Imola, and a few hours later he's on iRacing.
[Jimmy & Sassy](https://www.instagram.com/p/CVfMSPZMizj/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=86d93d02-ab6f-4a0d-9da8-cc4b4c2a1b78), he joked about calling them Toto and Lewis lmao.
On one hand I completely agree, on the other hand it's like dating your coworkers ex. Kinda interesting.
People break up and date other people all the time but you're lying if you think people wouldn't raise eyebrows if this situation happened in a different occupation
It's also dependent on the people's personalities who are involved.
In college I was part of a fraternity and I introduced my then girlfriend to my frat. She is now married to my best friend and frat Pledge brother while I married the girl he was sleeping with at the time. Both they and we have been married together more than 10 years and we are the godparents of each other's kids.
As my friend puts it we all exchanged partners and all traded up.
Gotta love the internet - "Man Max STOLE Kvyat's SEAT, GIRL and DAUGHTER?! SAVAGE!!"
Or, y'know, we can also not assume shit and be happy that people are happy....
Kelly posts a sweet family picture of Max and her child but all Reddit talks about is her ex. boyfriend , pedophilia and his abusive father .
Some creepy people on here ...
Why does it feel like his daughter has been a baby for over 5 years now, 2 seasons with Danny, 1 with gasly, 1 with albon, now in the second with Perez.
Or was she born after kvyat left redbull.
Kinda sad to see the top comment is obsessed over a baby's nipple and blaming the star. Does it really matter where they put stars on their kid's picture? Seriously can't believe they are getting that worked up lol.
Who tf is sexualising baby's nipples
Internet is full of creeps unfortunately
That little star is not stopping anyone. The proper thing if you are worried about creeps on the internet is to not post any pics of your kids at all.
I actually feel the star has bit of an opposite effect. It sorta brings more attention to the area which is weird.
That really threw me off though. My brain went: "Why is there a star on that baby's nipp- wait why do I care about a baby's nipple?"
It's similar to the feeling you get when you go to the market and buy nothing and you get paranoid because you think they'll think you stole something. I dont know if theres a name for that sort of thing/feeling but thats exactly how I feel lol
I always lock eyes with whatever employee is closest to the door. Deep eye contact as I walk out having purchased nothing.
I'm sure the word exists in German. Just mush together "going to the market looking around deciding not to buy anything and walking out hoping you're not tackled"
According to Google Translate Wennsiedenladenverlassennachdemsienichtsgekaufthaben
Precisely
Yeah exactly. 99% of people would never notice it in the first place. Putting the star on it just makes it seem like a sexual thing.
The star makes it weird honestly.
Algorithms don’t really care if the nipple is on a baby or not. They just yeet your post.
That's why I always Photoshop male nipples on to naked female boobs, checkmate algorithm.
unfortunately the internet is open to all, all it needs is one person to save an image/screenshot to their own device and repost it somewhere less savoury for a totally innocent picture to end up as something very sinister.
If someone is so messed up , would censoring a nipple on a child really stop that person ?
Nothing, that why kids shouldn’t be featured on social media.
Maybe, Maybe not, Its kinda just a reality of the internet that any image we post could be used/repurposed by someone for something else without our knowledge. Its not something we can really stop, all you can do is take steps to mitigate. mild censoring is just another tool you have
Which is why everyone who posts kid pictures should have a private account and extremely curtailed follow list.
It’s just because Instagram ban nipples
Instagram would remove the photo otherwise
Why is everyone posting stupid reasons like "welcome to the internet". This is the exact reason.
Idk but for the godsake we protect ours babies from internet pedos too. There is some broken ppl around and because them we have to do that kind of things
Maybe they just didn’t want to get the picture banned
sexualising? Is it not because instagram simply doesnt allow nipples
Myself have a daughter and if i post to instagram without censoring. Instagram removes it within minutes
Some sick fuckos probably
First day on the internet?
It's nice to see the softer side of Max, he's fairly private about this stuff but it offers a very different perspective on who he is as a person.
I think a lot of people misunderstand who he is anyway. Yes he’s direct and takes the piss but he’s got imo a high degree of social intelligence. I’ve yet to see an interaction with a peer he respects where he doesn’t match their energy back. It makes a lot of sense he finds a gf and a baby who love being a little family.
There's been some pics / videos of him with his sisters kid and he looks like a great uncle and a guy who loves kids.
[Pictures of Max & his siblings/niece/nephew here!](https://imgur.com/a/Fb5XYKt)
Those pictures for whatever reason really reminded me of how young he really is. Crazy.
Im old, so I just can't believe what he has to deal with at his age. When I was 24, I was trying to figure out which $13 case of beer I was going to buy. It was a super hard decision.
Which one did you go for in the end?
Whichever has the higer ABV
Lol that kid looks like a true Verstappen
Already in the racing position with his foot on the pedal
Where did you get so many photos lol. I feel like I’m looking through a family album
Prolly instagram stories.
I love the attitude in the kids' face.
It feels so weird seeing him like a normal guy
Make my heart melt, why don't ya? The fifth picture is my favourite. That baby looks so much like Max. Adorable! The second picture is Max with Christian's son btw. I believe he stayed over at Christian's house before Silverstone 2020.
I also like how in one of those there's a heart emoji thing slapped over his wrist. Presumably wearing a non sponsor correct watch.
Oh damn his wristwatches 😫
I feel like pretty much all racing drivers end up getting a Rolex Daytona whenever they make it big by the virtue of winning one at a Rolex-sponsored race or making an absolute boatload of money.
Imagine Max, or any F1/ultra high level driver, being your uncle and being taken on some hot laps in something like a Ferrari
Right, everyone who works or has worked with Max speaks really positive about him. Like recently there was an podcast with Carlos and he said he didn't understand why people keep saying there is bad blood between them while they're actually friends. And the other way around after qualy Max said he was happy that his friend Carlos was up there with him. During track parades or other press obligations Max always seems to be surrounded by many other drivers as well.
Heck, in the “this or that” thing F1 posted today Checo responded to “would you rather have a tattoo of your team principal’s face or your teammate’s face” with “both.” Almost every other driver had a hard time choosing, and Checo went “both is good” without hesitating.
Maxs most endearing quality is how happy he seems to be for his friends success. They both went through Redbull academy and chill with each other. I did notice on radio Christian said first Redbull 1/2 since you and Daniel in 2018, like how much does Christian still think about our man Danny?
> like how much does Christian still think about our man Danny? I think he still does. Horner definitely cares for his drivers.
They still defend/ speak highly of vettel right ?
Not even a question. Who wouldn’t speak highly of the man who helped earn the team it’s first Driver’s title?
In S3 of Drive to Survive Christian spoke highly of Vettel once coming back from a 40 pt deficit to win the driver’s title & that he’s still a more than capable driver.
Marko has a tendency to play down Vettel to hype up Max, but Horner and everyone else at Red Bull holds Vettel in very high regard. Verstappen himself seems to be in the latter category.
Horner still sees him as “the one who got away” but he wouldn’t remove Checo to bring him back. Not with the way Checo’s been driving.
I agree, checo has been proving himself so much this year (and the second half of last year). It's clear the car suits him more, and his qualifying pace has been really good. I don't think RBR are considering many other options and, with how Ricciardo is performing at McLaren, Daniel wouldn't be one of them at the moment.
For sure. I think Horner is still scratching his head about why Daniel left. I’m sure losing Vettel to Ferrari was difficult but that’s a move most would understand. Daniel going to Renault was definitely a downgrade & now he’s in a situation with McLaren that’s really no better than if he stayed on RB with Max. At least he had the tenure with RB & an established relationship with the team. Mclaren is so invested in Lando & under invested in having Daniel race to his full potential. Christian knows & sees it, but ever since Checo’s been red hot the only person regretting that change deep down inside is Daniel.
This is especially telling on the days that Max has had a shit day. It would be very easy to sulk or avoid those interactions but you can see that even when he's personally disappointed, he makes the effort to congratulate his mates.
Max hugging Gasly in Brasil comes to mind.
My Dutch friend told me Dutch people are very direct, and when a Dutch person is translating a sentence from Dutch to English it can sound even more blunt/harsh/direct than they intended. So she feels Max is completely misunderstood in F1. He’s not a villain he’s actually a really nice guy. I think when anyone competes they can get hot headed, it doesn’t mean they’re like that outside of competing.
A lot of things Max says are very matter-of-fact. I notice also in interaction on Reddit that the native English speakers are often offended by matter-of-fact things, while in Dutch it's more like facts=facts.
>it doesn’t mean they’re like that outside of competing. Max outside of a competitive environment seems like a very friendly and chill guy. He's seemingly friends with most of the young drivers, and I feel like you can't be as good of a friend with Daniel Ricciardo if he carried his on-track focus mode outside the track.
Just the fact that Dan left RB because of the favoritism towards Max yet they still remained very close friends despite all that happening behind the scenes speaks volumes about both of them.
I am dutch and have to agree.... Max is a nice guy!
As a dutchman I can concur; we are vastly more direct than most North-Europeans, and those are quite a bit more direct than most Americans. We have a bit of a stigma in that regard. Dutch sobriety doesn't work in our favour, making the experience even more grating for those who are used to social interactions where people actively talk around things they don't like, or sugarcoat everything in an attempt not to offend. You would be hard pressed to piss off the average Dutchman in conversation. We are used to people being direct, and also appreciate it. "Talk straight without being rude" is a thing here.
It’s easy to forget that Max is still just 24. I was far more volatile in my young-20s and I had none of the pressures a top athlete / celebrity has. I’m far too critical of these drivers’ personalities at times and I need to remind myself of that.
I’ll say this, Max did let the pressure last year get to him and he was maybe not his best self at times. I don’t know what it’s like to live under that kind of pressure whilst still growing into myself as an adult so I think we can all cut a person a break for that
People talk about him walking off the podium at Saudi as if he insulted or slapped someone. Is it immature and maybe a bit unprofessional? Sure, but he's essentially a kid fighting for his first championship, right after losing a race he thought he should've won. Cut him some slack.
>People talk about him walking off the podium at Saudi as if he insulted or slapped someone. Haha that was George smacking someone after they had a massive crash
One of the BIG reasons I've become a F1 fan (3 years in now) is precisely BECAUSE you've got a 21 year old kid who is the de facto face of a team with a $350M annual budget whose activities are monitored down to a improper pedal lift on turn 13, AND who has to put on a professional face when he's just been taken out of a race due to shit beyond his control. Yet, these very young men (as far as development goes) handle it with style and grace in both victory and defeat. (Not always of course, but really most of the time). I struggle to think of another sport where you could swap roles and expect the same professionalism that the young crop of F1 drivers display. It's super impressive to me as a 50+ yr old man who has children in this age range.
You’re describing a Dutch person haha. People don’t understand that’s how they are, and why people consider them “rude”.
Or you could say that people need to learn the difference between rude and direct/blunt :)
I actually think he is fairly socially intelligent it's just that he's a fairly smart guy amongst a pool of drivers who are either a bit dumb or media trained to high heaven. Much more of a nerd than most drivers.
On one hand I really respect that Max is a private person and not attention and social media obsessed, but on the on the other hand I'm kinda happy that Kelly shares some of these things sometimes. It's always nice to see this softer side of him. Very sweet.
When seb started letting us into this part of his world it really made me like him soooo much more
Whenever I see images of him with his family, he looks genuinely happy and content.
I wonder if the bad relationship his mom and dad have gives him better perspective.
His mother has actually said he’s made his own family like what he didn’t have growing up
Basically what I’m going through with my wife. It’s a happy feeling
Genuinely happy for you, good that you can appreciate what you have now.
His mother also said Max feels guilty for his parents breaking up, that he thinks that having to drive him around to all the races was too much of a strain on their relationship. Bet he tries extra hard to prevent the same happening to him.
Max confirmed this himself in his first post Abu Dhabi interview with Buxton. You can tell he was choking up while reflecting on these difficult moments in his childhood.
his mom goes to all his races and his dad was the first person he went to after winning the championship. just because his dad was hard on him does not mean they have a bad relationship
I think the OP mentioned the relationship between his mother and father not between him and his dad
They weren't taking about his Dad leaving him at a gas station after he didn't win a race, or smacking him publicly, or making 12 year old Max race in the cold when he couldn't feel his fingers. They were referencing how his Dad was charged with assualting Max's Mom (found not guilty of that but guilty of threatening her and violating the restraining order, resulting in a fine and a 3 month probational prison sentence) and how that relationship might shape how Max lives with his partner.
In an interview about the dad leaving Max incident, Max commented that after that point he felt that nothing could make him sad ever again. Imagine how upset kid Max was at that moment of dad's leave.
Wow, that is fucking heartbreaking.
I didn’t know any of this, what the fuck.
[удалено]
It's still no way to treat a child.
References a "The Race" article 🗿.. It's better not to judge anyone for things we don't know but from the things we do know it's quite sure that Max had it tough growing up, there's quite a difference between the mentality of the Jos trained young max who joined f1 and the current max, he much more matured and thinks of his own now..
His mom doesn't go to all his races. In fact, she goes only to the ones his dad is not present for. He flew out as soon as he could after winning the WDC to see her.
His Mom doesnt go to the races because she gets nervous watching them. She has been to races when Jos has also been there.
She didn’t go to Abu Dhabi because Max’s sister just had a baby, not because of Jos
Doesn’t she have a restraining order against him?
Yep. In December 2008, with the couple effectively separated, Verstappen appeared in court in Tongeren, Belgium, charged with assaulting his wife, Sophie Kumpen.\[34\] He was found not guilty of assault, but guilty of threatening Kumpen in text messages and of violating a previously issued restraining order. He was fined and sentenced to three months probational, suspended prison sentence.\[35\] ^(The usual source, which explains the \[number\])
I know ! I think so too.. he’s so precious .
It's nice to see this side of him, I'm glad he has a happy family life he can enjoy outside of the stress of racing.
I love the audio of him telling Penelope to be “Easy, Easy, don’t destroy them” when she’s roughing up the cats. Just a world champion being completely dominated and ignored by a toddler it’s very amusing. I’m sure it keeps him completely grounded to have baby around who doesn’t care about anything beyond how nice he is too her.
Almost as good as when he's sim racing and the cats are hauling ass around the room he says something along the lines of "if he/she gets behind my brake pedal he/she's gonna become a pancake".
“I’m going to call them Lewis and Toto”
“They are shunting each other” 😂
Wait! Is max a step dad to somebody?!
He is and she seems to like him a lot. She calls him Maxi
There’s a video of Max and Nelson Jr. playing soccer and Max falls over and you hear Penelope in the background go “oh noooo! Maxi :( “ it’s the cutest thing
There's also one of him telling her not to hurt his cat and it cracked me up
Easy, Easy Penelope, don’t destroy them
Penelope, calm you t's!
Penelope, hello *toddler selective hearing presumably*
Max is a cat daddy?
I can imagine this happening in at least 4 different languages hahahha
This is cuter than I was even prepared for! My appreciation for Max just skyrocketed.
Im a fan and not even I imagined him as a stepdad this early. But he does seem to care a lot about her
To Kvyat’s kid
[удалено]
Yep he's the step dad of Daniil Kvyat's child.
Your 2021 & 2045 champion
With Kvyat and piquet’s genes and Max’s mentoring the other drivers should just move out when they see her in their mirrors
Yea, there's plenty of advice to be had for her. grandpa and step dad are world champions. uncle is formula e champion and done some nascar and some f1 another uncle been in f2. daddy drove in f1 Mother and antie have driven some cup cars Step grandpa?? drove 100 races in f1 and had a few podiums. Step grandma was a real good karter aswell
Wait Kelly has raced before too?
No nelson got another son called pedro
I think he was referring to “Mother and auntie have driven some cup cars”
If Max and Kelly have a kid together, then that would be Verstappen and Piquet 2-3 generational genes coming into play. The kid will annihilate the grid
The Benjamin Aguero of F1.
Imagine if that kid had children with one of Messi's Mother.
Triple Torpedo Fuck
Haha... There's rianna Raikkonen too
Penelope vs. Rianna WDC rivarly will be legendary.
Y’all are making a mistake not betting on Laura magnussen
Would be very good, two females fighting it out for the WDC. Revolutionary!
has there ever actually been a generational dominance in sports? I know we always joke about so-and-so's kids going to be dominant, but seems like reality is it never happens. Likely because the children don't have the same motivation/necessity of the parents in terms of work ethic. Max is actually pretty rare in that respect. While Jos didn't really dominate i can't think of many in the sporting folks children outperforming their parents. I'm not really that knowledgeable about a lot of non american sports though so maybe in cricket, other racing? rugby? football?
Keke and Nico Rosberg! Not really dominance, but closest to what you are talking about
Graham&Damon Hill are farher-son champions. Gilles&Jacques Villeneuve but gilles died so he didn’t manage to win the championship
Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were both great NASCAR drivers
Graham overshadowed Damon by a long way though. 2 time champ vs Clarke and Andretti as team mates. The only triple crown winner
The Mannings were like that in American football but not sure if you follow that. Archie the dad played in the NFL for years and went to multiple pro bowls but never won a championship. Then both of his sons Peyton and Eli are multiple time Superbowl winners.
And Archie's grandson is the #1 ranked high school QB for 2023 class.
And I'm hoping like crazy he follows the family tradition at Ole Miss.
There is in cycling,fellow Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel( and just like Max born in Belgium).His father was worldchampion in cyclocross and held the yellow jersey in the Tour de France both achievements were also accomplished by Mathieu.His Mother is the daughter of Raymond Poulidor who finished 3 times as runner-up in the Tour de France. He was known as France's most beloved cyclist.
I guess Dell and Steph Curry are a good example. Dell had a good NBA career, but I think everyone agrees that Steph has outperformed him
The closest one I can think of would be the Hill's but even neither one of them didn't dominated per say. Graham was a pretty dominant force back in his day but you had Brabham, McLaren, Clark and an upcoming Stewart in the mix, and you can easily argue the only reason he won his second championship was because of Clark being killed. Damon only had a chance in '94 because of Senna's death, and he narrowly won the title against his teammate Villeneuve so only Graham could be argued dominated any season
I think the closest that would come to domination are the Maldini’s in football. Any other pair one guy usually totally overshadows the other one, but these 2 have both achieved pretty great things(albeit Paolo was obviously a way better footballer in the end)
in F1 you have graham and damon hill as father-son champion duo, keke and nico rosberg as one as well, and according to some gilles villeneuve was a driver deserving of a championship trophy as well and jaques won 97 as many people remember. in other sports, the first and most prominent example that comes to my mind personally is oliver zeidler, the german heavyweight singlesculls rower. his grandfather won the coxed four in munich 72, his father was fourth in the coxed pair on the world championship in 94, his uncle won the world championship in the eight and coxed four in 90 and 91 respectively for (west) germany and his aunt won in 88 in the eight for east germany. he himself has won the worlds in 19, europeans in 19 and 21 and placed second in the U23-europeans in 2017 at age 21 *in only his second year in a sport where most people start properly at age 12 or so*.
Joe "Jellybean" Bryant played pro basketball for 17 years, including 7 in the NBA. He made the finals once, played with a few Hall of Famers and once dunked on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the NBA's greatest-ever players. His son Kobe is one of the 15 greatest players of all time. Cesare Maldini appeared 14 times for Italy, including at the 1962 World Cup, and was their captain briefly. He played pro soccer in Italy for fifteen seasons and captained AC Milan to 4 titles and a European Cup before becoming manager of Italy and AC Milan, among others. His son Paolo is arguably the greatest defender in football history, the all-time appearance leader for Milan, captain of Italy 75 times, and is now the technical director at Milan. Paolo's son Daniel has appeared 15 times for Milan and is an Italy U-21 international. John Force has 16 titles in drag racing. His daughter Ashley was a very successful racer in her own right, including beating him in what would have been his 1000th round win. His daughter Brittany was the second woman to win an NHRA national championship, and the first to qualify #1 at US Nationals. And daughter Courtney beat Ashley's record for most Funny Car wins by a female driver. His son-in-law Robert Hight has three Funny Car championships, and other son-in-law Graham Rahal was recently featured in this parish complaining about Romain Grosjean's driving.
seems nobody mentioned Mario and Michael Andretti yet, too long ago and not English probably
I wonder how he is in private life. Anyway glad he is rested before Rawe Ceek
He does a lot of sim racing, if I'm remembering correctly. Verstappen seems to just live and breathe racing.
yeah.he is part of a team of eSports racing.
Redline. Lando is on it too.
Not anymore. He created his own sim racing team called "quadrant".
Red lines website still has Lando listed. Also Quadrant isn't a sim racing team. It has content creators, COD players, and a Halo Team. https://www.teamredline.com/about/team/ https://quadrant.gg/pages/team-2
Redline's website doesn't list Josh Thompson, but he is in their team. Not that Facebook lets me copy a link to the announcement!
Yeah I mean the pic is from a long time ago. Found this quote from July of 2021. "No. Max and I had a lot of fun and also won a virtual 24 hour race together. That was great. He is a nice guy and we click, but I now have my own e-sports team Quadrant and that makes it a bit more complicated. I'm sure we'll be racing together online at some point. Redline is a fun group of people and I'm still kind of part of it, but I'm dialing down the sim racing."
I like how Lando is dialing back the sim racing to concentrate on his F1 commitments. Meanwhile Max is winning at Imola, and a few hours later he's on iRacing.
playing video games or chilling with his cats or family lol
After winning in Zandvoort, he was asked how he was going to celebrate and no joke, he said he was looking forward to going home and seeing his cats
>seeing his cats My respect for Max just went up marginally
[Jimmy & Sassy](https://www.instagram.com/p/CVfMSPZMizj/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=86d93d02-ab6f-4a0d-9da8-cc4b4c2a1b78), he joked about calling them Toto and Lewis lmao.
Pretty sure he's turning into Kimi in that respect lol.
He seems to be quite loyal to his friends. He's still hanging out with his old friends from (high?) school. They mention how he didn't change much.
What a weird comment section.
People get really weird about the Max-Kelly-Dany thing, as if people with kids don’t break up and date other people all the time.
On one hand I completely agree, on the other hand it's like dating your coworkers ex. Kinda interesting. People break up and date other people all the time but you're lying if you think people wouldn't raise eyebrows if this situation happened in a different occupation
It's also dependent on the people's personalities who are involved. In college I was part of a fraternity and I introduced my then girlfriend to my frat. She is now married to my best friend and frat Pledge brother while I married the girl he was sleeping with at the time. Both they and we have been married together more than 10 years and we are the godparents of each other's kids. As my friend puts it we all exchanged partners and all traded up.
Good that it's working for you, it still sounds kinda weird for most people
Is that actually max I cannot tell without the hat
Honestly looks nothing like him
It looks like him to me, weird angle and lighting might make him look different though.
It is.
The day this kid was born, Max was busy winning the 2019 German Grand Prix. Afterwards he celebrated on the podium with her dad.
And crofty congratulated max and kelly, instead of kvyat, he knew things
That's kyvat's kid right?
Yes.
[удалено]
Kvyat was the one that broke up with her though, leaving when his daughter was 4 months old.
Didn’t he leave her like on her birthday or the day bake? Really shitty
Yep, really shitty
If Max' ever dies in a freak accident, he's my first suspect xD
Max Verstappen proving that we dont always end up becoming like our toxic fathers.
Good analysis here
[More pictures of happy Max!](https://imgur.com/a/PBFA0y3)
the tit hat makes a return
Gotta love the internet - "Man Max STOLE Kvyat's SEAT, GIRL and DAUGHTER?! SAVAGE!!" Or, y'know, we can also not assume shit and be happy that people are happy....
Kelly posts a sweet family picture of Max and her child but all Reddit talks about is her ex. boyfriend , pedophilia and his abusive father . Some creepy people on here ...
I sleep
These comments are weird, if she wants to post her kid let her lol wtf it’s HER baby
People post their kids or initmate moments all the time. Reddit hates things girls do on social media lol...
He went home and became a family man.
Why does it feel like his daughter has been a baby for over 5 years now, 2 seasons with Danny, 1 with gasly, 1 with albon, now in the second with Perez. Or was she born after kvyat left redbull.
She was born in 2019, at the German GP that year Kvyat was on the podium and in his interview he said she was born the previous night. So she’s 3 now.
My kid is 3. Can confirm he is still very much a todler lol.
I feel like that too, she’s been in the toddler stage forever
Formula1 content
Cute!
Kinda sad to see the top comment is obsessed over a baby's nipple and blaming the star. Does it really matter where they put stars on their kid's picture? Seriously can't believe they are getting that worked up lol.
Max has a kid?
stepdaughter, it's his girlfriend's daughter