Max Verstappen seems to have sparked the ‘GT virus’ in the F1 paddock after the Dutchman competed in the Nurburgring Langstrecken-Series to get his category A license for the Nordschleife.<\/p>\n
To do so, he had to drive a rebuilt Porsche Cayman GT4. But not only the Red Bull driver took a GT car onto the track in the gap between the Italian and Azerbaijan Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
Williams team principal James Vowles decided to put a McLaren 720s GT3 EVO through its paces. To do so, the Briton travelled to the Circuito de Navarra in Los Arcos, Spain.<\/p>\n
The McLaren GT3 is a ferocious beast. The 4.0-litre V8 twin-turbo engine propels the car with around 740 hp, good for a top speed of around 340 km\/h.<\/p>\n
Vowles shared a photo on Instagram in racing attire with the caption: “Spent a fantastic two days at the Circuito de Navarra in Spain. Mostly dry and a great technical circuit. I was driving a McLaren 720s GT3 Evo with Garage59. It was great to be back with a team that I have a strong history with.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I was rusty to start, it\u2019s been a few years out of a GT3 but very happy with where we ended up after two days of testing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I had to hang up most of my engineering brain and focus on driving – and loved every second…”<\/p>\n
The question now is who will be the next driver or team boss to step into a GT3 car? The candidate pool seems to be growing thanks to the renewed popularity of the class.\u00a0<\/p>\n
View James Vowles’ Instagram posts below, including onboard images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen seems to have sparked the ‘GT virus’ in the F1 paddock after the Dutchman competed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-150089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150089","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=150089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}