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What we learned from Team Verstappen’s lost Nurburgring win
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Max Verstappen’s woeful luck on the Nordschleife in 2026 continued with a heartbreaking blow while on course to win the Nurburgring 24 Hours on debut.
Verstappen might be partly using the Nurburgring as a glorious distraction from a version of F1 he’s been hating this year, but make no mistake, he had been tirelessly working for months to achieve one clear goal - to win on his Nurburgring 24 debut.
And it looked like he and his team-mates Dani Juncadella, Lucas Auer and Jules Gounon had done absolutely everything they needed to do behind the wheel.
Here's what we learned from being on the ground at the Nurburgring to see Verstappen's incredible adventure.
00:00 Verstappen's heartbreak
02:00 Verstappen raises the bar
04:29 A race of attrition
06:22 Team Verstappen will return
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