{"id":627557,"date":"2026-04-25T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627557\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:51:11","slug":"max-verstappens-viral-monaco-moment-with-daughter-has-f1-reddit-predicting-2045-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627557\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen\u2019s Viral Monaco Moment With Daughter Has F1 Reddit Predicting 2045 Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"

A short clip of Max Verstappen<\/a> standing on a Monaco<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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The Ronettes\u2019 \u201cBe My Baby\u201d 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<\/a> or sector two of the Monaco Grand<\/a> Prix circuit.<\/p>\n

The text overlay reads: \u201cOkay so he\u2019ll wear red bull merch everywhere\u2026 except when he\u2019s with his daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The OP captioned it with the line every F1 fan immediately heard in their head: \u201cSee that\u2019s where you brake<\/a> early and prioritise the fast exit.\u201d Lily, for her part, is also pointing. Whether she is identifying the apex or a pigeon is unclear.<\/p>\n

The Comments Have Already Built the 2045 Grid<\/p>\n

The top reply, from user swannyhypno, lays out what we all hope happens: \u201cLily Verstappen Vs Leonard Alonso Vs Robin Raikkonen at Monaco in 20 years can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Another user added \u201cVs Fernando Alonso<\/a>,\u201d which got 244 upvotes because the joke writes itself. A third followed up with \u201cVs Hakkinen back from sabbatical.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Schumacher fan in the room, Kaptainoff, added, \u201cThis is where you don\u2019t push in order to charge the battery<\/a>,\u201d 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 new<\/a> regs.<\/p>\n

User _Antipodes_ went with the bleaker comment: \u201cFormula Nepo downloading.\u201d Another user called it \u201cThe mufasa and simba kingdom meme irl,\u201d which I much prefer. LeBron and Bronny got mentioned, inevitably, as did the prediction that Verstappen \u201cain\u2019t retiring till his 40s.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Then the thread changed, as Reddit threads do, into real estate. User carlos_castanos pointed out that the balcony in the clip appears to be in Mareterra, the new development built on reclaimed land in Monaco where a penthouse reportedly just sold for \u20ac450 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeems like Max has upgraded lol,\u201d they wrote. Another user added: \u201cMust suck so much for the apartments that had a nice open sea view but now look at this new apartment block instead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most accurate comment in the entire thread, though, came from user FutBineApasat, who predicted Verstappen\u2019s future Monaco GP routine: watching the race from the balcony. The reply underneath is probably more realistic: \u201cCan\u2019t watch from his sim you kidding me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever Lily grows up to do, the internet has already decided she is racing<\/a> Fernando Alonso. Given how Alonso\u2019s career has gone so far, that may not actually be a joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A short clip of Max Verstappen standing on a Monaco balcony with Lily, his one-year-old daughter with his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,129414,3018,576,577,235174,53760,235175,1885,3837,1882,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-627557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-f1-grand-prix","12":"tag-fernando-alonso","13":"tag-formula-1","14":"tag-formula1","15":"tag-grand-prix-de-monaco","16":"tag-kelly-piquet","17":"tag-lily","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-monaco","20":"tag-red-bull","21":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}