“In a world where there is constant hate thrown around”– Max Verstappen’s girlfriend Kelly Piquet points out hate messages she has been receiving

Max Verstappen’s girlfriend Kelly Piquet in her recent Instagram story talks about how people have been trolling her lately.

Max Verstappen and Kelly Piquet are some of the newest couples in the F1 world. But with the recent success by the Dutchman, there have been massive trolling of both.

Some of their photos have been posted online, with some F1 fans with differing viewpoints to Verstappen body-shamed them. With over constant two months of trolling, Piquet now took onto the internet to confront people.

“In a world, there is constant hate thrown around for no reason,” wrote Piquet on her Instagram story. “Which as anyone will know -is bound to take its toll.”

“There are now far too many vicious things circulating that are utterly unacceptable. I’d like to remind people that I am still a human being and have my rights.”

“Circulating rumours, photoshopping images, spreading hate, fabricating completely false stories and messaging friends and family will never be acceptable.”

“Please rethink before you write and engage in this. Everything has repercussions,” concluded Piquet.

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Kelly Piquet receives support on Twitter

Soon after posting about the online abuse, Piquet received massive online support. Many F1 fans including Lewis Hamilton’s admirers granted their support to Piquet.

It has been generally conceded that amidst the rivalry of Hamilton and Verstappen, dragging Piquet is a new low. Introspection needs to be raised: where to draw the line?

Kelly Piquet is probably the most uninvolved person in the situation why are people going after her?

If it’s purely because of her association to Max then these people need to find better things to do with their time

— Chiesa_SZN🏎 (@BolingoliF) February 11, 2022

Nah man I feel bad for them, they don’t deserve some of the extreme hate and abuse they get, doesn’t matter how much we hate max or think he unfairly won the title, like tbf to him it wasn’t really his fault he won that way? + pic.twitter.com/ZBi3tHMtBJ

— Sam 🖤 (@drtotowolffstan) February 11, 2022

Some accounts on Instagram and tiktok are posting daily hate about Kelly Piquet. They make fake stories or photoshop pictures in a bad way. This time there was a (fake) picture spread around with the message that is was Kelly with an other man. But is was a pinterest picture pic.twitter.com/BHzMS4rmZZ

— Sandra (@sanmeermaan) February 11, 2022

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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