For the past two years, Max Verstappen has been acting out his frustrations with Formula 1 by dabbling in other forms of motorsport beyond his long-established fondness for online sim racing.
In 2024 Verstappen won the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix from pole position, dovetailing this with stints in the virtual Nurburgring 24 Hours on the iRacing platform – which his team also won. He later applied his name to a real-world team racing in the GT World Challenge Europe – and, having grown increasingly disenchanted with Red Bull’s performance through the 2025 F1 season, he successfully contested a round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) between the Azerbaijan and Singapore Grands Prix.
