Kelly Piquet: Girlfriend of Max Verstappen and mother of F1 champion's baby

Kelly Piquet

Kelly Piquet: Girlfriend of Max Verstappen and mother of F1 champion's baby

The Brazilian is regularly seen in the Formula 1 paddock alongside Max Verstappen

Andrew McLean

Wednesday 4 March 2026 08:30 Updated: 12:51

Kelly Piquet is the girlfriend of Max Verstappen and the pair welcomed their first child together in 2025.

Full name Kelly Tamsma Piquet Souto Maior, she was born in Homburg, West Germany, on December 7, 1988, and is now 35 years old. She stands 1.7m (5ft 6ins) tall and now lives in Monaco.

Piquet is also the daughter of three-time F1 champion Nelson Piquet.

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Piquet has worked as a model and fashion columnist as well as a social media and PR consultant, most notably working alongside Formula E in 2015. She has been a health and wellbeing coach for the last five-and-a-half years.

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Kelly Piquet and Max Verstappen

Piquet and Verstappen are said to have started dating in 2020 but did not become official until January 2021.

Kelly has been reluctant to reveal too many details about how they met, given the intense media focus which is constantly on Verstappen.

Kelly Piquet is Max Verstappen's girlfriend

Kelly did take to social media in the winter of 2026 to jump on the 2016 trend. In this post, she shared a picture of herself and 19-year-old Verstappen and wrote: "Met this guy...the very next day he told me I was the love his life. Little did I know 10 years later we'd be celebrating five years together and have a perfect baby girl.

"P.S. I absolutely did not have a magical night that night, but there was serendipity in the air."

The pair often share updates on their lives away from the track on their social media accounts.

In May 2025, Piquet and Verstappen welcomed their first child together, daughter Lily.

Much has already been made of Lily Verstappen-Piquet's racing genetics, but her four-time champion father is less keen on her becoming a racing driver, and when asked has said: "I hope not."

Kelly, Nelson Piquet and a famous F1 family

Piquet was well known in F1 long before her relationship with Verstappen as the daughter of champion Nelson Piquet.

Nelson Sr was one of the most formidable drivers in the sport during the 1980s - winning the world championship in 1981,1983 and 1987. In more recent times though he was ordered to pay almost $1million in damages for racist and homophobic comments made about seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton.

Kelly has six siblings, including another former F1 driver, Nelson Piquet Jr. The Brazilian represented Renault for 18 months between 2008 and 2009, partnering Fernando Alonso.

Nelson Jr was the driver infamously involved in the F1 'crashgate' saga, alleging that he had purposely crashed during the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix under instruction from team bosses to benefit the Spaniard’s chance of winning the race.

Kelly Piquet and Daniil Kvyat

Before she started dating Max Verstappen, Kelly had been in a relationship with another F1 driver in the shape of Daniil Kvyat.

Kelly and Kvyat officially got together in January 2017 and their daughter Penelope was born in July 2019, just one day before the Russian claimed a podium at the German Grand Prix. They split up in December of that year.

A model, influencer and much more

Kelly studied at the International School of Nice, St Clare’s Oxford and the Marymount Manhattan College with her final degree coming in Politics and International Relations.

Piquet has spent time as a model, posing for PatBO, Lucas Boccalão and taking to the catwalk in numerous fashion shows. She was the cover star of Vogue in the Netherlands in early 2023.

Kelly has also worked as a fashion stylist and columnist as well as taking on numerous roles within marketing. She took over the social media for Formula E between April 2015 and December 2016 as she utilised her in-depth knowledge of motorsport.

She has an influential social media presence today and has over 1.7 million followers on Instagram as of December 2024.

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