Paternity, decade in F1, give the verbal perspective on life

Miami Gardens, Fla. – If you wait for Max Verstappen to stress or freak out, or how any other racing driver in the history of the automobile is obsessive about the next generation to suddenly fill his rear -view mirrors, you can continue to wait. Because he doesn’t do anything about it.

On Friday morning, the 27-year-old strolled four-time defending champions to the Miami Grand Prix Paddock, who did not look like a twice winner of this race or the winner of 64 F1 events. When he politely navigated photographers and fans, they would have no idea that he had just greeted a newborn daughter. And when he slipped into an Infield Cabana for a sit-down interview, there would be no idea that he won the five of the five races in one of the five races with the accident at Red Bull this season and in the championship, in the championship, in the McLarens of Oscar Piatri and two, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, and two years, For years, the hunting stomach two-tw-myjo-Norris-Norris-Norris-Huns-M-Norris-Hing-Moitor-Magen-Norris-Hing-Mogeln. Stop.

No, he only looked like a man in the garage, exactly where he should be, where he was all his life, but now with more perspective than ever before.

“You just try to do the best you can. We are currently not the fastest team. We are trying to be as competitive as we can, but at the end of the day it will not change my life in any way,” said Verstappen, but not, but not factual. understand.”

On the constantly warmer-closer titanium intensity of the F1 grille, the reserved tone of Horner’s No. 1 driver for the people around him is just as difficult to understand if it loosens them again. Likewise for billions that consume sport on television, be it live events or streaming reality shows and believe who is the true Max. (Spoiler alarm: He says that they don’t do it, and he also says that he doesn’t care.)

But even now that if you run away with checkered flags, it is not as easy as it was, somehow his behavior, no matter how misunderstood, has become more relaxed.

“I come here, do my best, go home, do other things and then go to the next race, try to do the best I can and go home,” he says with a little shrug. “So, for me there is not much additional pressure or whatever. When I’m at home, I don’t think: ‘Oh, as if I was P3 in the championship, I have to do something!’ Or ‘What can I do?!’ True experience over the years know what to do and what is not.

The simple attitude to such a statement is that it is the voice of a new father, his neurochemistry, which was born in Monaco this week, who was born in Monaco through the arrival of his first child with long -time girlfriend Kelly Piquet, daughter Lily.

But his rivals know better. Verstappen Chillness is nothing new. It always dragged on to its hammer-down temperament on the race track, although even those who know him well noticed an increase in his downplayed tone. A trend that seemed to be transformed into a higher corridor hardly 24 hours before the birth of Lily.

See: A question that leaned a little in this lecture that Horner had irritated on Thursday. How long will Verstappen still do this? Under no circumstances will he be like a friend Fernando Alonso, who still races at the age of 43 on the 20th anniversary of his first F1 title, right?

“No,” said Verstappen about this idea and giggled.

“I have a contract until 2028, so until then he only depends a little on the kind of projects there is or not if it is interesting or not,” said the man, who has teams in GT3, rally and virtual races. “After winning my first championship (in 2021), everything that comes next is a bonus, and so I really see it.

“I will do it as long as I enjoy it and I can refer to the sport as I want. As long as I enjoy it, that’s really, enjoy it. And, you know it’s okay to leave the family back.”

You can also see his willingness to praise championship leader Piatri, who was only 24 years old last month and won three of the five races of this year and won all five of his career victories in the past nine months. After Verstappen had taken second place in Saudi Arabia, he said about Piastri: “He is in his third year and he is very solid. He is very quiet in his approach, and it likes it. It shows itself.

If you are not familiar with the functioning of racing car drivers and praise you praise you with one of these championship fights? Yes, that’s not super typical. But it is also the sign of a racing driver who, not too long ago, is the young party crashing veteran title fights, now the wise old veteran itself.

“If people ask me a question and I want to answer them, I will answer them in my own way, and I’m always honest and open and open.

“I have a lot of respect for the young people who have also come to sport, and Oscar does a great job, and I don’t have the feeling that they have to try to hide it. It is not a weakness. And for me it doesn’t matter whether they talk positive or negative about a guy.

As a young racing driver who becomes a legend, they also remember those who used to be good at them. And they really remember those who weren’t?

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“Do you know, many drivers who are still in a paddock or around the paddock think it’s nice, you know? When you build a good relationship between the drivers.”

If that reads like a group computation, like a sudden lack of killer instinct, then it reads wrong. When he hears it loudly, he still sounds like Max Verstappen, the third year-round racing driver in the 75-year history of Formula 1. The man who only flows the holy F1 triumvirate of Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher and Juan Manuel Fangio at the championships won.

Only now does he sound like a man who found out what so many others never have in his chosen profession: work-life balance. A man we have seen before our eyes decided to choose this perfect personal setup, as he has done with so many racing machines over the years.

“I’ve been thinking about it for a long time.”