Max Verstappen labelled a “racing machine” after unique dual wins
Max𓃲 Verstappen called a "racing machine" after winning F1 at Imola and the Nurburgring 24 H🌳our sim race on the same day.
Red Bull F1 team principal Christian Horner says 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s unique double victory over the Imola weekend shows he is a “racing m๊achine”.
Verstappen celebrated a double win on Sunday, fending off a late-charging168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris to claim victory in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix for Red Bull, while he wa🍌s also part of the ෴winning team in a virtual 24-hour race.
The three-time world champion combined his F1 duties at I🅺mola with helping his Team Redline squad win the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring iRac🅺ing sim race.
It was made💯 possible because Verstappen has a new simulator rig that he is taking to European-based F1 grands prix.
Asked whether he had any concerns about Verstappen dovetailing his raci🦩ng commitments, Horner replied: “No, because he’s basically a racing machine.
“It’s quite often he’s ﷽testing different set-ups in the ev𒆙ening and this kind of thing. So it’s not unusual for him to do that.
"He has won two races today [Sunday🅷]. One in a BMW M3 and one in a Formula 1 car.”
Horner added: “He's had a very busy weekend. I think Max this weekend, and you heard what it meant to him, the pole position yesterdayꦺ, he really had to dig very deep,🌞 and the performance again today was a masterclass.”
Verstappen did not have things all his own way at Imo🐽la and struggled with his tyres🦹 in the closing stages, finishing only seven tenths of a second clear of McLaren’s Norris.
That followed a closely-fought qualifying session which the Dutchman only just edged, having started the weekend on the back🀅 fo🦩ot after a difficult Friday practice.
“Probably with hindsight, we would have been better running a hard on Friday, just because we had opted to take two new 💃hard tyres into the race and maybe it would have been better to have got t♛he information on the tyre,” Horner said.
“But when you look at the turnaround from Friday into Saturday to get the pole and to get the victory, it’s been a phenomenal performance from the team, but also Max has been ♊incredible this weekend.
“He’s had to 𝕴🐭work very hard for both the pole and the victory.”
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