Method 1 star Max Verstappen made a shock look at a personal Tremendous GT check on Wednesday, driving a Nissan Z GT500 contender.
The four-time world champion drew the eye of followers gathered on the Fuji Speedway check when he rolled out of the pits in a Crimson Bull-liveried Nissan in the course of the second day of the producers’ check.
Motorsport.com understands that the outing was a part of a promotional shoot organised by Crimson Bull.
Verstappen accomplished a number of laps of a moist Fuji monitor by way of the day, as he obtained up to the mark with the Z GT500 and its two-litre inline 4 engine. No lap instances have been printed from the check, during which solely a handful of GT500 vehicles have been in attendance.
It marked solely his second outing in a contemporary Tremendous GT machine, having beforehand sampled the previous-generation Honda NSX-GT in 2022 throughout Honda’s Thanks Day occasion.
A Honda NSX GT3 entered within the GT300 class was additionally noticed in Crimson Bull colors in the course of the two-day check at Fuji.
Crimson Bull was beforehand concerned in Tremendous GT, having sponsored the Mugen-Honda staff as a part of a collaboration that prolonged into Tremendous Method.
The vitality drinks large additionally routinely positioned its junior drivers in Japanese motorsport, with present Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson its most up-to-date graduate from Tremendous Method.
Verstappen has been regularly broadening his horizons past F1 in recent times and is ready to contest the Nurburgring 24 Hours for the primary time with Mercedes-AMG. He and team-mates Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella provisionally gained final weekend’s NLS2 spherical on the Nurburgring Nordschleife, however have been later disqualified from the outcomes on account of a tyre infringement.
Verstappen’s Tremendous GT check look comes forward of this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix on the Suzuka Circuit, the place he returns to F1 following a difficult begin to the season in Albert Park and Shanghai.
After the opening two rounds, he sits eighth within the championship with simply eight factors on the board, in comparison with 55 for championship chief George Russell (Mercedes).
Crimson Bull holds sixth place within the groups’ standings, whereas its erstwhile engine companion Honda has struggled for efficiency and reliability after becoming a member of forces with Aston Martin for the beginning of F1’s new guidelines period.
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