On Tuesday, Daniel Suarez and wife Julia Piquet announced the arrival of their first child, son Otto Suarez Piquet.
The baby arrived after the due date but thankfully didn’t prevent Suarez from racing last Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway.
“We got a little lucky there,” Suarez said. “On Saturday morning, we were at the hospital, and they told us it could happen in the next 12 hours, so I was a little bit concerned. When I went to Bristol to race, I was a little bit nervous. It was a little bit of a stress race for me, but luckily things worked out.”
Suarez was thrilled to be able to witness the birth of his son.
“It was pretty incredible,” he said. “I’ve got more respect for women, especially moms, because it’s crazy what they have to go through to give birth. Julia worked her butt off for two days to get to that point before giving birth.
“For me to get to experience it first-hand, it was very shocking, honestly. I never imagined it was going to be this tough, and it was.”
The couple picked the name “Otto” not because of a family association, but simply because they liked it.
“It’s a name that we both like and heard for the first time a few years ago,” Suarez said. “We did a little research on it, and it’s a German name that means ‘prosperity.’
“Julia is 25-percent German, so we thought it would be kind of nice to have a little something that is German. And it’s a name that we really liked.”
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