Max Verstappen is naturally incredibly busy as a Formula 1 driver, but has hinted on several occasions at his interest in other racing classes. The 27-year-old world champion is setting his sights on long-distance racing and earlier this year tested a Ferrari on the Nordschleife. He did so under the playful pseudonym Franz Hermann.<\/p>\n
Max Verstappen is to make his race debut at the Nurburgring Nordschleife next weekend, according to reports in German media.<\/p>\n
The Red Bull F1 driver previously tested a Ferrari GT3 machine earlier this year under the pseudonym ‘Franz Hermann’ but is set to compete under his own name at an event later this month.<\/p>\n
The four-time champion will drive a car on Saturday 13th, September, the day after a theory test on racing at ‘The Green Hell’, where he is officially a rookie, having never competed before, Auto Motor und Sport has reported.<\/p>\n
If this test goes well, he will race in the ninth round of the NLS championship on September 27th, in a Ferrari GT3 under his own Verstappen.Com Racing banner.<\/p>\n
Both weekends fall either side of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, a race he has only won once, back in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen is naturally incredibly busy as a Formula 1 driver, but has hinted on several occasions at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-127826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}