Max Verstappen: Fatherhood doesn't make me slower
This week in Max Verstappen's life is very special, and he even flew to Miami a day later because he and his girlfriend Kelly Pique had a daughter, Lily.
Yesterday, Lando Norris, congratulating Max on his qualifying victory, joked that his hopes that becoming a father would make the four-time world champion go slower had been dashed. Moreover, Norris was not the only one who spoke in much the same vein, but Verstappen's next pole position can be considered the answer to all rivals.
"It's good that I was able to spend a few days at home before coming here," the Dutch Red Bull Racing driver said after qualifying. – Lily has just been born, and I want to be sure that everything is going well. Definitely, fatherhood does not make me slower, and this is a positive moment, so those who mention this circumstance can forget about it.…
I don't pay attention to such nonsense and just go about my business. I think there have been quite a few racers in the past who became world champions after they had children. To be honest, I don't even know where such assumptions come from."
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