Max Verstappen’s Viral Monaco Moment With Daughter Has F1 Reddit Predicting 2045 Grid

A short clip of Max Verstappen standing on a Monaco balcony with Lily, his one-year-old daughter with his partner Kelly Piquet, has been doing the rounds on r/formula1 this week, and the comments section has done what comments sections always do when an F1 driver shows up holding a small child. It has skipped past the wholesome part and gone straight to building a fantasy grid for 2045.

The video itself is about as soft as Verstappen content gets. He is filmed from behind in a plain white t-shirt, no Red Bull logos anywhere on him, holding Lily in one arm and pointing down at the streets below.

The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” plays over the top. A car, likely involved in the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, drifts through frame somewhere down on what is, depending on the time of year, sometimes a public road or sector two of the Monaco Grand Prix circuit.

The text overlay reads: “Okay so he’ll wear red bull merch everywhere… except when he’s with his daughter.”

The OP captioned it with the line every F1 fan immediately heard in their head: “See that’s where you brake early and prioritise the fast exit.” Lily, for her part, is also pointing. Whether she is identifying the apex or a pigeon is unclear.

The Comments Have Already Built the 2045 Grid

The top reply, from user swannyhypno, lays out what we all hope happens: “Lily Verstappen Vs Leonard Alonso Vs Robin Raikkonen at Monaco in 20 years can’t wait.”

Another user added “Vs Fernando Alonso,” which got 244 upvotes because the joke writes itself. A third followed up with “Vs Hakkinen back from sabbatical.”

The Schumacher fan in the room, Kaptainoff, added, “This is where you don’t push in order to charge the ,” which is the kind of comment that only works if you have spent too much of your life laughing at the comments Verstappen has been making recently about the regs.