Verstappen is also racing at night: 'It's relaxation for me'

The average athlete's life consists of good nutrition, good training and lots of rest. Well, this will certainly also apply to Max Verstappen, only he doesn't find his rest by lying in bed reading a book. When Verstappen wants some rest from racing he goes.... racing!

Team Redline is the E-sports team that Verstappen owns and sometimes drives on behalf of in online races, such as the virtual 24 Hours of Daytona. The team sometimes goes live on the streaming platform Twitch, where people live stream their games. So did Max Verstappen, who was racing on the sim-racing game iRacing at four in the morning, local time, on the day of the race.

After the race, Verstappen explained why he gets so involved in racing outside the race track, an especially why so late: "I just stayed a bit on European or even UK schedule, so I would go to bed at 4 a.m wake up late… ," the Dutchman explained. He continued: "The thing is, of course, also, I have my own sim team, so naturally I'm just catching up with them a bit. It's a bit of just unwinding as well. I mean, I don't have a rig here. I'm driving on my controller, so it's just fun. Just not having to think about Formula 1 and just be with people that are friends. Whenever I can, I do it."