The 2024 season might not have gone all his way so far, but on his day, three-time F1 World Champion Max Verstappen is still a formidable competitor. Come the end of the summer break, it seems unlikely anyone will be able to stop him from adding a fourth championship to his win tally. But during that summer break, what might you find him driving in his spare time? Join us for a look at Max Verstappen’s car collection.
Aston Martin Valkyrie
Aston Martin Valkyrie
Verstappen’s huge F1 success has been behind the wheel of incredibly quick cars designed by Adrian Newey, so it’s no surprise that he drives one in his spare time, too. The Aston Martin Valkyrie’s inception came when Aston and the Red Bull F1 team had a sponsorship tie-in, long before Aston went it alone in F1.
Designed by Newey as the most extreme road car possible, the 1160bhp hybrid Valkyrie has a screaming 6.5-litre Cosworth V12 and costs around £2.5 million. Verstappen was filmed by a passenger driving his along the French Riviera last summer, sparking a minor controversy when he appeared to break the speed limit in a tunnel.
Honda NSX Type S
All three of Verstappen’s championships so far have been won with Honda engines (although two were with them rebranded as Red Bull Powertrains following Honda’s short-lived withdrawal from the sport). It’s no wonder, then, that the Japanese manufacturer looks fondly at the Dutch driver.
To mark his achievements with Honda power, he was gifted an NSX Type S at 2022’s Honda Thanks Day at Motegi, an annual year-end event the company organises to thank its motorsport drivers and fans.
The Type S was a run-out special edition of the hybrid second-gen NSX, with its peak power taken up to 602bhp and more track-optimised bodywork. Only available in North America and Japan, it was a Japanese-spec car he was given, so it’s not clear if it now lives with him in Monaco. He has been spotted driving a white standard NSX around the principality, though. When new, the Type S cost the equivalent of upwards of £150,000 for anyone not fortunate enough to be given one for free.
Ferrari Monza SP2
Ferrari Monza SP2
Yep, despite Ferrari proving some of the biggest on-track rivals to Verstappen in the last few years (when it’s not been making a mess of its strategy), it seems even he’s not immune to the charms of the Italian brand’s road cars.
It was widely reported in 2020 that he’d bought a Monza SP2, a limited-run, open-cockpit ‘Barchetta’-style supercar. With 799bhp from a 6.5-litre V12, and no roof or windscreen at all, perhaps it’s one of the closest road-legal approximations he could find to driving an F1 car – although its looks are more inspired by sports racers of the 1950s.
Just 499 Monza SP2s were built, and one would have cost around £2 million when new.
Ferrari SF90 Stradale
The Monza is far from the only car from Ferrari Verstappen owns – he’s also got one that’s literally named after Ferrari’s 2019 F1 car.
The SF90 Stradale is a mid-engined hybrid supercar with a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 and a total system output of 986bhp. He appears to have taken delivery of it early in 2023, going as far as opting for the classic red colour scheme of his on-track rivals. When new, the recently-discontinued SF90 cost from around £380,000.
Ferrari 488 Pista
Ferrari 488 Pista
Rounding out Verstappen’s trio of Maranello machinery is a 488 Pista. This lightened, track-biased version of the 488 GTB churned out 710bhp from a 3.9-litre twin-turbo V8.
Not much is known about Verstappen’s Pista, including whether or not it’s still in his possession, but he’s been widely reported as owning one over the years. A near-instant classic when unveiled in 2018, they’re generally worth at least £250,000 today.
What other cars has Max Verstappen owned?
Verstappen’s owned plenty of other high-performance machines that he’s since moved on during his F1 career. Widely known for making his F1 start aged just 17 in 2015, he was too young at the time to legally drive in his home nation of the Netherlands. When he did turn 18, his first car was a Renault Clio RS 200, the final generation of Renault’s stalwart hot hatch, and likely a result of both Red Bull and its junior team, Toro Rosso, using Renault engines at the time.
The first car he’s known to have bought with a sizable F1 paycheck is a 991-generation Porsche 911 GT3 RS, which he acquired after his Red Bull debut in 2016. This iteration of the hardcore, lightweight 911 had a 493bhp 4.0-litre naturally aspirated flat-six.
He’s also repped another of Red Bull’s biggest rivals in the past with a Mercedes-AMG C63 Coupe, while the team’s past tie-up with Aston Martin saw him own a succession of the British brand’s cars, including a DB11, Vantage and DBS Superleggera. The last of those three was spotted up for sale in the Netherlands, wearing British plates, in 2020.
