Just a week after his victory at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Max Verstappen will be back behind the wheel – even though there's no Formula 1 race. Instead, the Red Bull star will fulfil a long-held dream in the Eifel Mountains: competing in an official round of the Nurburgring Endurance Series (NLS).
The influential Helmut Marko remarked in Italy that Verstappen was so focused on F1 he "even wasn’t talking about GT." Yet this Saturday and Sunday, the Nurburgring Nordschleife will host NLS rounds 7 (ADAC-ACAS Cup) and 8 (64th ADAC Reinoldus Endurance Race) respectively, each lasting four hours – and Verstappen plans to compete.
