Verstappen Reveals Mission Of His Exciting New Project Vertappen.com Racing

Saturday, 23 December 2023 at 05:00

Updated at Saturday, 23 December 2023 at 14:12

Max Verstappen shared details about his Verstappn.com venture as he explained his plans for the future outside of Formula One.

Red Bull Racing F1 driver Max Verstappen hinted multiple times in the past he might not stay in Formula for too long as he has other passions and goals outside of the sport.

One of the Dutchman's goals is to establish his own team that could compete in endurance racing. The triple World Champion has already started the project Verstappen.com Racing, which is the first step towards his dream. He explained on his official website:

"Using Verstappen.com Racing, we sponsor and support the racing activities of various people close to me via consultations and advice. It all started with the sim racing of Team Redline."

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While not many people take sim racing seriously, Verstappen believes it's a serious sport and dedicates lots of his resources to it. He continued:

"We’re also busy right now at Verstappen.com Racing with Thierry Vermeulen in DTM and GTWC Sprint, and with my father in the rally races, but the goal is to eventually start our own race team."

Everything that Verstappen.com Racing now does eventually leads to establishing its own team, and the triple World Champion wants to start in GT3-class.

"We’ll begin in the GT3-class, and see which way the wind blows. If I do something, I want to do it right. I always want to win: at this as well."

The Dutchman's mission is to allow young drivers who start out with sim racing to transition into real racers that could even compete for his GT3 team.

"The focus is on making the step from sim racing to GT3, so that not only you can enter racing via karting, because that’s ridiculously expensive at the moment."

Every single Formula One driver that we see on the grid today had to start with go-karts, but Verstappen hopes to disrupt this system so that people don't have to spend fortunes on their way to becoming racing drivers.

"Sim racing, in comparison, is a lot cheaper. Such a switch is possible. It’s happened before, of course, but never really well, for a number of reasons. If you do everything professionally, I believe you can build a great racing career out of sim racing."