Max Verstappen’s girlfriend Kelly Piquet goes in-depth talking about the start of their relationship. After hearing the statement, Formula One twitter fans had quite a mixed reaction to the discussions.
Kelly Piquet, daughter of legendary Formula One driver Nelson Piquet gave an interview on Dutch Vogue. She spoke about the involvement of women in motorsports and also spoke about her boyfriend Max Verstappen.
Max Verstappen lives a private life with his girlfriend who often accompanies him to the garage in the race. Two spectacular years of world championships followed year after year.
Max Verstappen and Kelly Piquet’s relationship
Kelly Piquet spoke about how Max Verstappen and her got to know each other. They do have an age difference as the Brazilian is 9 years older than the two times world champion.
Moreover, she was previously in a relationship with Daniil Kvyat, and have a daughter together. Piquet recalls, while she was with the Russian driver, she met Verstappen who was just 16 years old in 2016.
According to her, there was a spark in the first meeting itself. Since then, they have been connected with one another and eventually made their relationship public in 2021.
Max Verstappen and Kelly Piquet at FIA Prize Giving Gala 📸 pic.twitter.com/2ENVfozTWI
— Channel 4 F1® (@C4F1) December 17, 2021
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Formula One fan dicy after finding out about their relationships
Kelly Piquet did acknowledge that the internet will talk about it and will keep the details private. Hearing all this, below are the best-mixed Twitter reactions:
I can’t deal with this. nope. nah pic.twitter.com/CcXMaqiBT3
— eda 🦄 (@edascedes) December 19, 2022
Both are adults so legally there’s nothing wrong there
— Conner (@Conner_MV33) December 20, 2022
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So 9 or so year age gap? What’s the big deal there?
They were both legally consenting adults?
The age of consent doesn’t change based on how old the other individual is..
— Scottie Designs (@ScottiesDesigns) December 20, 2022
This is wild. Some things you just don’t mention publicly
— … (@xx_buhlss_xx) December 19, 2022
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