Max Verstappen reveals plans to set up own GT3 team

Max Verstappen has revealed his intentions to establish a GT3 team, aiming to ascend to the pinnacle of endurance racing.

Operating under the banner of Verstappen.com Racing, the Dutch driver and his family are in the process of organising a two-car GT3 team.

The team's aspirations include participation in series like the GT World Challenge (GTWC) starting from 2025.

Verstappen, who is an enthusiastic virtual racing participant, envisions crafting a platform that identifies promising sim racers and grooms them for a potential career in GT racing.

He affirms that his aspirations as a team owner are just as ambitious as his pursuits on the Formula 1 circuit.

"It all started with Team Redline in sim racing," Verstappen said in an interview the Dutch magazine Formule 1.

"With Verstappen.com Racing we are sponsoring and supporting various racing activities from people close to me. We are also active in DTM and the GTWC Sprint with Thierry Vermeulen [the son of Verstappen's manager Raymond Vermeulen] and with my father in rallying, but the end goal is to put together our own race team.

"The first step in our own GT3 team and then we'll see where we end up. It would be nice to be able to grow to the highest level in endurance racing.

"We are working on it at the moment. Next year will be tight, but I would like to have it as soon as possible. Having a GT3 team in 2025 with a minimum of two cars should be possible.

"If I do something, I want to do it right. I want to win with this as well. And it's about creating a stepping stone from sim racing to GT3, so that you don't have to only go through karting to get into motorsports, because that costs a lot of money at the moment.

"We have been working on it for a while. The planning phase is over, we are in action mode now."