Max Verstappen hit with hefty double penalty as F1 off-season race goes badly wrong

Max Verstappen was hoping to triumph the virtual 24 Hours of Daytona race, but the Dutchman's squad ended up finishing 4th aft helium was progressive successful a clang and received 2 large penalties

Formula 1 satellite champion Max Verstappen is staying engaged during the off-season, with the Dutchman entering the virtual 24 Hours of Daytona race.

Verstappen won the Esports lawsuit past twelvemonth successful the GTD people alongside Ole Steinbraten and Gianni Vecchio for Team Redline. He entered the GTP people this twelvemonth with teammates Diogo Pinto and Chris Lulham, but was incapable to prime up different triumph aft a immense crash.

Verstappen's squad were starring the contention erstwhile helium attempted an overtake astatine the International Horseshoe hairpin. However, his car appeared to aquaplane and helium made interaction with the different conveyance and crashed it into the barrier.

He was capable to instrumentality to the race, but Redline's pb slipped portion they visited the pit lane. Despite their champion attempts to recover, Redline ended up finishing 4th with Verstappen besides fixed 2 immense 40-second clip penalties for driving into the pit lane successful an unsafe manner.

Verstappen is simply a immense instrumentality of sim racing, having been a subordinate of Redline since 2015. Speaking backmost successful 2022, Verstappen claimed that sim racing has helped him go a amended Formula 1 driver.

"It keeps maine acceptable to go, due to the fact that I'm spending a batch of clip besides past connected the setup," Verstappen told CarNext. "I'm not racing a Formula 1 car connected the simulator, but it's similar GT cars, truthful it's besides a antithetic method of driving.

"I conscionable support investigating myself, and particularly these sim drivers... they're truthful quick! "It's precise absorbing to spot them thrust due to the fact that they person nary existent acquisition of a car but, somehow, erstwhile you look astatine however they're braking, however they're controlling, it is however it should be.

"It's precise absorbing for maine to past comparison myself to them, due to the fact that they're people speedy connected the sim, I'm people speedy successful existent life. For me, that's different motivation, due to the fact that I cognize that I'm assured that erstwhile I privation to leap successful a existent car, I'll beryllium quick.

"But connected the simulator, these guys are the benchmark and I person to propulsion myself to that limit. I similar to trial myself and amended myself to besides larn from them truthful [in] my downtime, I'm inactive trying to amended myself, which I deliberation besides helps maine successful existent life."

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