Max Verstappen used a fake name to secretly test a Ferrari at the Nürburgring

Turns out Max Verstappen really likes racing. Yep, who would’ve thought it? Of course, we already knew about the Dutchman’s obsession with sim racing in his downtime from F1, but now it seems he’s getting into real-life GT3 racing too. Although he does also have a newborn baby, so perhaps he just needed to get out of the house for a few hours.

Still, this wasn’t just any GT3 racing, because Max spent last weekend at the Nürburgring testing a Ferrari 296 GT3 under the pseudonym ‘Franz Hermann’. Given the car was in full Verstappen.com livery (Max’s eponymous racing team) from its exploits in the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup, it wasn’t exactly the most discreet appearance possible.