WHO DID MAX VERSTAPPEN DATE BEFORE KELLY PIQUET?
Executive summary
Max Verstappen's publicly reported romantic history before his relationship with Kelly Piquet includes a small number of named partners who appear in entertainment and fan reporting: notably Dilara Sanlik, Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky and Joyce Godefridi are repeatedly listed in timelines compiled by media outlets and relationship sites [1] [2]. These accounts place those relationships in the mid‑2010s up to 2020, with Verstappen and Piquet becoming a couple around 2020 and going public in early 2021 [3] [1].
1. The short list: names that appear in reporting
Public compilations of Max Verstappen’s dating history commonly cite three women by name before Kelly Piquet: Dilara Sanlik, who is described as his partner from about 2017 to 2020 in at least one profile [1]; Mikaela Åhlin‑Kottulinsky, who is reported to have dated Verstappen around 2015–2016 [2]; and Joyce Godefridi, who is mentioned in the same timeline coverage as a 2016 link [1]. These references come from entertainment and fan-oriented outlets and relationship databases that track celebrity pairings [1] [2].
2. What the timelines say about dates and sequence
According to available reporting, Mikaela Åhlin‑Kottulinsky is usually placed earliest in that mid‑2010s sequence (2015–2016), followed by Joyce Godefridi around 2016, and then Dilara Sanlik from roughly 2017 until about 2020, after which Verstappen is reported to have begun a relationship with Kelly Piquet [2] [1] [3]. Multiple sources mark 2020 as the year Verstappen and Piquet started dating and note the couple went Instagram‑official on January 1, 2021 [3] [4].
3. Public confirmation and the strength of sources
The sources behind these names are predominantly entertainment sites, fan databases and aggregated celebrity timelines rather than primary statements from Verstappen himself; outlets such as Legit.ng and relationship databases list Dilara Sanlik and others as ex‑partners [1] [2]. For the transition to Kelly Piquet, mainstream profiles and features (People, US Magazine, Yahoo and others) consistently report that Verstappen and Piquet began their relationship in 2020 and subsequently announced family milestones together, which is better documented [5] [6] [7].
4. Caveats, gaps and what can’t be claimed from this reporting
The available reporting does not include exhaustive primary-source confirmation for every alleged prior relationship, and entertainment timelines occasionally conflict on exact months and overlap; therefore, while Dilara Sanlik, Mikaela Åhlin‑Kottulinsky and Joyce Godefridi are the names most frequently linked to Verstappen before Kelly Piquet, those accounts rely on secondary reporting rather than uniform, direct statements from the people involved [1] [2]. The record is clearer, however, about when Verstappen and Piquet’s relationship became public and about their family developments since 2020 [3] [5].
5. Why the narrative concentrates on a few names
Celebrity relationship timelines are attractive to outlets because they are compact and repeatable, and fan sites aggregate social‑media posts and paparazzi coverage into neat lists—an approach that amplifies the visibility of a few reported partners whether or not each relationship was widely confirmed [1] [2]. Major lifestyle and news outlets focus more on the Verstappen–Piquet relationship, which is corroborated by social posts and public appearances; as a result, earlier reported links receive less rigorous follow‑up in mainstream coverage [5] [6].
6. Bottom line
Based on the collected reporting available, the most consistently cited people Max Verstappen dated before Kelly Piquet are Dilara Sanlik (reported 2017–2020), Mikaela Åhlin‑Kottulinsky (reported circa 2015–2016) and Joyce Godefridi (reported around 2016), with the transition to Kelly Piquet occurring in 2020 and public confirmation in early 2021; these claims come mainly from entertainment timelines and fan databases, while mainstream outlets provide stronger sourcing for Verstappen’s relationship with Piquet [1] [2] [3] [5].