Verstappen continues to have GT3 racing on his mind: 'Definitely something I'll keep doing'

Ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix, it was announced that Verstappen will remain with Red Bull Racing until the end of the 2030 Formula 1 season after months of speculation about the four-time world champion's future.

In 2025 and again this year, Verstappen competed outside of Formula 1 at the famous Nürburgring Nordschleife. He could also race in the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring, as it did not clash with the Formula 1 calendar.

Endurance racing will be something Verstappen will remain committed to over the next years, he said. "Yes, for me that was definitely something that I want to keep doing. But, of course, it depends a bit on the F1 calendar, what will be possible also next year."

Verstappen added: "All the big endurance ones. 24-hour races in general, they would be, yeah, cool to drive in."

Red Bull Racing had a weekend to forget at the final Dutch Grand Prix for the foreseeable future. Verstappen crashed out on the first lap, and Isack Hadjar's replacement, Liam Lawson, finished seventh.

Red Bull team boss Laurent Mekies did not mince his words after Sunday. The Frenchman said: "Performance-wise I think there is nowhere to hide. It was a very difficult weekend. It seems like we have made a bit of a step back compared to where we were before the summer break. Of course, we'll never know what the results will be the real pace of the car in the race will have been with Max, but it's fair to say that session after session it looked more difficult than it was in Budapest or in Spa or in Austria."

He added: "So, some tough work for us to do to regroup and to see if it is simply the competition that has done a better job than us at upgrading the car or if something has been limiting us more than it should have been here in Zandvoort. That will be for us the next two weeks before we fight back in Monza all together."