Formulation 1 star Max Verstappen made a shock look at a non-public Tremendous GT take a look at on Wednesday, driving a Nissan Z GT500 contender.
The four-time world champion drew the eye of followers gathered on the Fuji Speedway take a look at when he rolled out of the pits in a Purple Bull-liveried Nissan throughout the second day of the producers’ take a look at.
Motorsport.com understands that the outing was a part of a promotional shoot organised by Purple Bull.
Verstappen accomplished a number of laps of a moist Fuji observe by means of the day, as he received in control with the Z GT500 and its two-litre inline 4 engine. No lap occasions had been revealed from the take a look at, through which solely a handful of GT500 vehicles had 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 Purple Bull colors throughout the two-day take a look at at Fuji.
Purple Bull was beforehand concerned in Tremendous GT, having sponsored the Mugen-Honda staff as a part of a collaboration that prolonged into Tremendous Formulation.
The vitality drinks big additionally routinely positioned its junior drivers in Japanese motorsport, with present Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson its most up-to-date graduate from Tremendous Formulation.
Verstappen has been regularly broadening his horizons past F1 lately and is about 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 had been later disqualified from the outcomes as a consequence of a tyre infringement.
Verstappen’s Tremendous GT take a look at 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).
Purple Bull holds sixth place within the groups’ standings, whereas its erstwhile engine accomplice 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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