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Originally Posted by AmuroRay
Ham went from 10th to 2nd and passed Max. Guess Max is garbage
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Originally Posted by AmuroRay
With the media fawning over the "greatest driver ever" you would think he would have more accomplishments besides winning 2.5 WDCs. His toughest competition this year was a guy who was clearly a step behind Sainz, and he almost lost to him.
The cognitive dissonance here is wild.
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Verstappen demonstrating his racing skills ain't limited to F1 only.
He already won the
virtual "24 Hours of Le Mans" and
virtual "Nürburgring 24h" (he's considered to be amongst the finest drivers worldwide in sim racing too) and I expect him to also win the
real "24 Hours of Le Mans" after retiring from F1.
Combining an F1 race weekend with a sim racing world competition event (while all competing F1 drivers are focusing on the race weekend events only: FPs, qualies and race), and win both events: which other F1 driver ever pulled this off ?
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Originally Posted by Artemis
Max The Machine...
Sat May 18 - Sun May 19 - 12:30pm-1:30pm: 1h F1 Free Practice 3 at Imola - P6
- 4pm-5pm: 1h F1 Qualies Q1-Q2-Q3 at Imola - P1
- afterwards: F1 press interviews at Imola
- 8:40pm-11:35pm: almost 3h sim GT3 evening stint at Nürburgring 24h (hours of darkness) - P1
- after midnight: watches Usyk-Fury world heavyweight title fight
- 9:15pm-10:15pm: 1h sim GT3 morning stint at Nürburgring 24h (daylight) - P1
- afterwards: joined the Discord channel - Twitch - Team Redline teammates
- 2:50pm: sim Team Redline wins Nürburgring 24h (GT3)
- 3pm-4:30pm: F1 race at Imola - P1
- afterwards: F1 press interviews at Imola
"Verstappen indicated Imola's bumpy track had caused him more trouble in the end.
"I'm just broken from the bumps, to be honest. My back, everything is hurting. It's not so much from the physical side of things, but just it was so bumpy out there. Already after like 20 laps, I could really feel my back," he said.
"So I'm just looking forward to laying in bed. Maybe take some painkillers. And a massage."
https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/4...-one-day-imola As Verstappen's sim rig didn't fit inside an F2 trailer, it was transported to Imola with a flower vendor truck... "Verstappen manages two wins in one day thanks to iRacing N24
By Morgan Raynal | May 19, 2024 4:46 PM ET
Max Verstappen is known to participate in sim racing events during downtime from his busy F1 schedule. Impressively, this weekend the three-time world champion won both the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix and the Nürburgring 24-hour on iRacing.
On Friday, Team Redline announced that Verstappen would be driving the No. 20 BMW GT3, and naturally his fans wondered how he would participate during the F1 race weekend.
The Dutchman had a special racing simulator made that would be small enough to fit in his motorhome close to the Imola circuit.
“We were supposed to ship it in a Formula 2 trailer with MP Motorsport, but the sim was just a tiny bit too big, so it didn’t fit, but they helped us out greatly,” said Atze Kerkhof, Director of Team Redline.
MP Motorsport came up with a solution and sent the sim rig with a flower vendor who was headed to Imola anyway.
“The sim got shipped in a bus or in a trailer with flowers to Imola… He had everything pre-connected, so basically it was almost plug-and-play,” Kerkof said.
Verstappen took pole position in Imola qualifying, which ended at 5:00 p.m. CEST. Meanwhile, his Redline teammate Diogo Pinto was starting the 24-hour race. By 8:45 p.m. Verstappen was driving his first two-and-a-half hour night stint at the Nürburgring.
After some sleep and solid stints by Pinto, Chris Lulham, and Florian Lebigre, Verstappen returned for another two hours at “the Ring” before doing 63 laps around Imola in his Red Bull.
At the end of his second and final stint, he joined the Discord channel with Twitch stream commentator Luke Crane and Team Redline teammates.
“Right, mate, that was lovely,” said Verstappen. Crane congratulated him on a nice final stint and Verstappen replied, “Yeah, extended the gap a bit, very lovely… I have to go.”
Chris Lulham drove the final stint for the No. 20 and secured the win for Team Redline after 24 hours. Fifteen minutes later, Verstappen took the green flag at Imola.
The Dutchman dominated the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix; McLaren driver Lando Norris was a close second and Charles Leclerc finished third for Ferrari." 
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