Team Redline was founded in 2000 by Dom Duhan. The team initially competed in a variety of racing games including TOCA Race Driver and Grand Prix Legends, gradually progressing to professional tournaments. They shifted focus towards the iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series in 2010, where they won five world championships with Greger Huttu. By 2015, Duhan stated in an interview with GTPlanet that the team had collected over 100 professional level victories and forged connections with racing drivers including Richie Stanaway, Nicky Catsburg, Kelvin van der Linde, and Max Verstappen. Verstappen became a formal member that year.
Heading into 2016, Team Redline formed a Gran Turismo team, signing players including future Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters champion Ayhancan Güven. Mikail "LIGHTNING" Hızal, a Team Redline member, won in two disciplines at the 2019 FIA-Certified Gran Turismo Championships, securing the Nations Cup and Toyota GR Supra GT Cup championships at the World Finals in Monte Carlo, Monaco, defeating Igor Fraga and Kanata Kawakami respectively.
Ahead of the inaugural 2020 V10 R-League season — an Assetto Corsa round-robin tournament — Team Redline was selected by Porsche to represent their entry. Competing as Porsche24 Redline, the team consisted of Ben Cornett, Jeffrey Rietveld, Michal Šmídl, and founder Atze Kerkhof. They won the championship, defeating Williams Esports in the final match week at Yas Marina Circuit, ending the season with 26 race victories and 6 match wins. At the end of 2020, Team Redline was selected by BMW M to join the BMW Motorsport SIM Racing programme, which required the use of BMW sports cars when available on the selected platform in top-level virtual sports car racing events.
In the 2021–22 Le Mans Virtual Series, Team Redline ran in both the LMP2 and LM GTE classes, with the LMP2 entry in support of TDS Racing competing as Realteam Hydrogen Redline. The team swept both championships, including a narrow points lead over Williams Esports by half a point in LMP2, and secured victories in both classes at the Le Mans Virtual event held at a virtual Circuit de la Sarthe. Jeffrey Rietveld and Michal Šmídl were joined by Felipe Drugovich and Oliver Rowland as part of the winning LMP2 squad.
The team repeated as LM GTE champions in the 2022–23 Le Mans Virtual Series but lost the LMP2 championship to Porsche Coanda after their race at the season finale was plagued with technical problems stemming from security breaches to publisher Studio 397's rFactor 2 servers. Max Verstappen, part of the title-rivalling LMP2 team that retired, publicly denounced Studio 397 for the incident, labelling the event a "clown show".
On 12 April 2022, Team Redline was confirmed to represent the Verstappen.com Racing initiative in sim racing launched by Max Verstappen and Red Bull. On 31 October 2023, Team Redline entered a formal partnership with Red Bull Racing, taking over the latter's sim racing operations including their F1 Esports division. Under this arrangement, the team helped Red Bull Racing win their third Teams' championship and secured their first two Drivers' championships in 2023–24 and 2025 with Frederik Rasmussen and Jarno Opmeer respectively. Opmeer's 2025 title was his record-setting third Drivers' championship.
Team Redline was among the first professional teams to enter the Rennsport competitive scene in 2023, participating in ESL R1 alongside organisations including FaZe Clan, G2 Esports, and Mouz. Enzo Bonito, Luke Bennett, Jeffrey Rietveld, and Kevin Siggy formed the team's initial Rennsport roster. In the series' first year, despite finishing runner-up in the Drivers' standings at the inaugural Major to R8G Esports' Marcell Csincsik, Team Redline won the Spring Season Teams' championship. Kevin Siggy won the 2024 Esports World Cup finale, and Team Redline went back-to-back in 2025 under a restructured team-based format, finishing ahead of Virtus.pro and Team Vitality.
On 23 March 2026, Max Verstappen formally absorbed Team Redline into his eponymous racing team Verstappen Racing, rebranding the organisation as Verstappen Sim Racing. As part of the transition, the team became part of Verstappen Racing's driver development ladder ecosystem, providing team members with opportunities to progress towards a real-world race seat. Verstappen cited Chris Lulham as an example of sim racing developing real-world talent. Team boss Atze Kerkhof described the rebrand as building on Team Redline's legacy, framing Verstappen Sim Racing as part of an era where sim racing serves as a development pathway for real-world motorsport. As of 2026, Verstappen Sim Racing consists of 13 players, competing in iRacing and Rennsport, and managing Red Bull Racing's F1 Esports operations. Gabriel Bortoleto currently serves as an ambassador for the organisation.
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