F1 news
F1 / NEWS & CONTEXT
Max Verstappen · Dutch Grand Prix, Zandvoort 2024

Verstappen reassures new father Leclerc over sleepless nights

Archive photograph: Max Verstappen · Dutch Grand Prix, Zandvoort 2024 · 2024-08-25Archive photo · 2024-08-25 · Steffen Prößdorf · CC BY-SA 4.0

At an F1 fan forum in Brazil, Verstappen congratulated Charles Leclerc on the birth of his daughter Bianca and reassured him that the difficult nights would get better.

At an F1 fan forum in Brazil, Max Verstappen congratulated new father Charles Leclerc on the birth of daughter Bianca. Leclerc said everything was going perfectly apart from the nights; Verstappen, who became a father in 2025, told him the nights would get better.

Lewis Hamilton joined the conversation, joking that Leclerc and Verstappen would soon be pushing a buggy together; Verstappen played along. Leclerc then said he had slept only about an hour and 15 minutes. Hamilton laughed and told him to get used to it and say goodbye to 12 hours of sleep.

Sources 01
  1. SOURCEVerstappen dolt met 'vader' Leclerc: "Wordt alleen maar beter!"RacingNews365 Nederland