by Reuters
New dad Max Verstappen showed he could be even faster as a father after storming to pole position at the Miami Formula One Grand Prix ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris on Saturday.
Days after the Red Bull driver and partner Kelly Piquet welcomed daughter Lily , his first child, the four-times champion set a blistering lap of one minute 26.204 seconds around the Hard Rock Stadium.
The pole was an immediate and impressively firm response to being demoted to last in the wet earlier sprint race following a 10 second penalty for an unsafe release in the pitlane and collision with Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli.
“Clearly it didn’t make me slower as well, being a dad, so that’s the positive,” said Verstappen.
“We can throw that out of the window as well for people mentioning it.”
Norris, winner in Miami last year after Verstappen also secured pole for that race, was 0.065 slower
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