Max Verstappen and Kelly Piquet have four pets - three cats and a dog, with the latter being added most recently. The Dutch driver previously had two cats Jimmy and Sassy, who are of Bengal breed, but added a third one in the last months of 2024. He revealed the name of his newly added cat "Donatello" to the public during the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen has made a new enemy in Williams Esports driver Jaden Munoz, who labelled the four-time world champion a ‘spoilt brat’ who would be ‘nobody’ without his father following two collisions in an iRacing event.