Verstappen, who clocked up 106 starts during his F1 career with Benetton, Simtek, Footwork, Tyrrell, Stewart, Arrows and Minardi, has been a long time fan of rallying, electing to switch to the discipline last year.
His maiden season included an outing at the World Rally Championship round in Ypres last August.
The father of reigning F1 world champion Max Verstappen, who won Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix, claimed his first spoils driving a rally car in peculiar circumstances last weekend.
Competing in a first rally after being forced to withdraw from the Belgian Rally Championship season opener Rally van Haspengouw through illness in February, the 51-year-old ended the asphalt rally’s 11 stages with an identical overall time as rival Davy Vanneste, driving a Volkswagen Polo.
Verstappen, partnered by Renaud Jamoul, who co-drove for WRC driver Adrien Fourmaux, set fastest times on four of the stages, including the Dikkebus test which featured in the Ypres Rally WRC round last year.
However, a 10-second false start penalty followed by a further time loss for Vanneste brought the pair level on the timesheets. In the event of a tie, the rally was decided by times set on the opening stage resulting in Verstappen being declared the winner.
Source: Autosport