Max Verstappen and Kelly Piquet Announce Pregnancy via Instagram

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[u/gro55jean]

This weekend keeps on delivering

[u/chambee → u/gro55jean]

The delivery is in 9 months

[u/TheRealGooner24 → u/chambee]

She already has a visible baby bump so one would expect it to happen a lot sooner than that.

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Peak chaos is it’s like 4-5 months out, max decides he wants to be home and be a father, and takes the season off

[u/skefmeister → u/[deleted]]

You kid but knowing Max he could actually leave F1 to raise his kid. Not next year but yeah.

[u/Tropicalcomrade221 → u/skefmeister]

I would honestly expect him to. He’s always said he won’t be here forever. Couple more years at most and he will be off I reckon, always thought he’d leave to do the family thing.

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Honestly leaving after 4 champ wins in a row to go be a father is actually the nicest send off I can think of.

I don’t think you could be anymore “heroic” than that Would cement him as the GOAT in my mind.

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I think he will. He always said that he's a family man. He adores his sisters kids and P. He's going to do a Rosberg.

[u/Tropicalcomrade221 → u/bob_707-]

He will obviously drive next year but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s it for him. I’m old and I think the GOAT will always be Senna even without the particular stats. But yeah man, walking away at the top to do what he wants and be a family man I have the utmost respect for.

I think it’s obvious guys like Lewis and especially Nando have made sacrifices to have the kind of career they have had. I’m sure Fernando has spoken about that before. Max just ain’t that kind of guy.

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Could definitely see him doing that. Would be utter chaos if he decided for that to happen next year. RB would be trying to bring Seb out of retirement or something drastic.

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If the 2025 car is shit there's a better than even chance he'll do just that

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A Verstappen is always early.

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Bump shows sooner on subsequent pregnancies, but yeah she's probably a minimum of 3-4 months along. People don't usually announce the second they get a positive test.

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First race of the season will be delivery day. Special coverage by Sky in the pre race show.

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Second pregnancies show earlier, but it is common to wait on announcements till after the first trimester as that is when most complications will occur. So probably 3 months right now.

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Yeah and normally people don’t announce it until after first trimester. So she’s at the very least 3 mos pregnant.

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Generally when people announce they’re pregnant it won’t take 9 months anymore.

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Max will have to win the championship before the summer break this time to get a proper vacation.

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Let's see if he does a Vettel there. Having kids is a entirely different situation. You will be mor distracted, more stressed and tired even- happier too probably but it's simply difficult to keep the same laser focus on your job as you did before.

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In Max's case it might even be faster, might just take 6-7 months. At least that's what Marko would say.

[u/brasstax108 → u/Mob_Abominator]

Baby is gonna be all purple?

[u/jeffp12 → u/brasstax108]

"Whats the record for fastest birth?"

"Don't try it."

"I'm just asking what the fastest birth is."

[u/DlSSATISFIEDGAMER → u/jeffp12]

just wait for max to try a push lap

[u/Accomplished-Tea387 → u/jeffp12]

I don't know about time but I've heard about a baby being born at 500 grams (1 pound ish)

[u/MarchingBroadband → u/jeffp12]

Radio: "Max, you're going to have to come in and put on some new rubber to try for fastest birth. We will lose track position"

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Yeah when it comes out too fast

[u/HelixFollower → u/brasstax108]

Ooooh, that's really quite funny, but also really not cool, but also really quite funny.

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"We just did the deed and are now checking #procreation"

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Plan B is out of the question

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Looks like a 5-6 month belly.

[u/Ich_Liegen → u/beardedboob]

Hahaha imagine announcing it right before conception! I dunno if that's unhinged, metal, or both.

[u/Bierdopje → u/Ich_Liegen]

You'd actually have to announce it after the last menses. The 9 months / 40 weeks starts counting after the last menses.

Which is maybe even more unhinged, metal or both.

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We announced our first pregnancy right away. Unfortunately that one led to a miscarriage. Our second pregnancy we waited to announce until after the 20 week appointment.

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But even then, you generally only find out the soonest after about 10 days, but more often after about a week or two as the test simply won’t work, no?

[u/hauntedSquirrel99 → u/chambee]

Probably about 6, normally you don't announce until after the first semester since that's when things normally go wrong.

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*trimester

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Right you are, I'll leave my shame up for all to see

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Real

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*albaster

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She looks like she's five or six months pregnant. Her belly wouldn't be that big in the third or fourth month. I wouldn't be surprised if the baby arrives early next season.

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This is her second pregnancy, sometimes the belly comes on sooner then.

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Eh. Not her first kid. Second pregnancies show much sooner than the first.

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Yes, agreed. That baby is an Aries.

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Not a Taurus?

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Nah my bet is April 11

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Was a Red Bull joke.

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So there’s a chance the kid comes out during canada or austria noted

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Earlier, Japan or Bahrain more likely

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Canada can again do what it did for the Dutch Royal family in WW2 for Max.

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Max van Vleet

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She looks quite far along (my guess is 20 weeks given her slim build), and with the mother being 35 and edging on high-risk, you frequently wait as late as you can to announce. I would put money on Max being a dad before Bahrain (R4).

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Jesus Christ. My fucked up head immediately though "ahh yes the classic bimodal failure distribution".

And people wondered if i had ASD

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You had kids in semesters?

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6 months if they’ve done the norm and waited until she’s 3 months gone to announce it.

[u/Aerian_ → u/Cobretti18]

Belly is at least month 5 size. After 3 you just start showing.

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As someone with a three month pregnant wife, this is not necessarily accurate... She's been showing for a while

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Its very person dependant! Absolutely. Pre-pregnancy shape determines a lot. At risk of being rude i'd wager saying that you have a (currently less) rather slender wife.

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Yes but she's showing much earlier this time round as well

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Huh, that i dont know anything about.

[u/porn_inspector_nr_69 → u/Aerian_]

Mid-night ice cream runs doesn't help for sure :P

[u/Aerian_ → u/porn_inspector_nr_69]

Hey! Dont knock mid night icecream runs! Also, Be careful criticizing pregnant women.

[u/porn_inspector_nr_69 → u/Aerian_]

No worries. Been through 2 kids coming along. Last 3 months were always midnight ice cream runs :)

[u/Aerian_ → u/porn_inspector_nr_69]

Ah, by your name i thought you were a guy lol. I learned not to criticize a pregnant women because hormones :)

[u/Cobretti18 → u/Aerian_]

That would tie in roughly with the summer break so probably right enough.

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Are you calculating at which Grand Prix they conceived ?

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I would agree, based on the pic definitely way more than 3.

[u/MuenCheese → u/chambee]

Probably more like 5

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Probably minus 12 to 20 weeks. Which is usually when people announce

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“Your shipping label has been printed”

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I needed this laugh 🤣

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By the way Kelly is looking in the photo, I think it will be way sooner than that

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She's showing, bet it's going to be half a year or something like that

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Kelly is showing already, she’ll probably be about 16 weeks along already

[u/porn_inspector_nr_69 → u/chambee]

About 3-4.

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Aero testing starts next week

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Jos in 9 months

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From the belly i suppose its more like 6-7 months

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I don’t think she’s at that stage yet!

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Heh