Verstappen was racing in the LMP2 category, which is the top category in the virtual series, but he didn't take control of the car until the fourth stint of the race.
Of course, it is early days and 2028 is quite a ways down the road, but Verstappen's comments did send a little bit of a shockwave.
The race was won by reigning F1 world champion and Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen while Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz finished P2 and P3 respectively.
He became Formula One's youngest driver at the 2015 Australian Grand Prix, when he was 17 years, 166 days old
Max Emilian Verstappen is a Belgian-Dutch racing driver and the 2021 Formula One World Champion. He was born September 30, 1997 in Hasselt, Belgium to Jos Verstappen and Sophie Kum...
Ahead of the 2022 season, a new documentary on Verstappen has been released that shows the dramatic final lap at Abu Dhabi.
Max Verstappen says decisions made under pressure and with outsiders exerting influence makes it only natural that not everybody will agree.