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Yeah, I need to practice that a bit with the traffic, the air watching in the

bus, because in our practice server I had the LMDH in front, I spun off.

It's a hobby.

Yeah, it's just also really fun to do. It's a little bit less physical, of

course, no G -forces, but it's still very intense, and because I want to do

best I can, but it makes me also forget about F1.

which is good because it just relaxes your mind a lot.

Max, you are a three -time world champion. That's absolutely

Very lovely.

People sometimes ask me, what do you do in your free time? They expect you to be

something completely different to anyone else.

Focus,

man. You damaged the car.

I think my life off track is just very normal.

Nice and simple.

For me, gaming is also a hobby.

Of course, already racing so much with F1, when you come home, it's a way for

also to relax a bit and that I don't really need to think about anything else

life, I would say, at that point when I'm in my simulator.

He was in it already when he was very young, when he was three. He was on the

MotoGP games. And sometimes I said, Max, no, you have to stop, go play outside

or whatever.

Because he was so focused.

He was always on the PlayStation.

But basically it hasn't changed, has it?

I like... games in general like i mean some people love to be outside and be

more active outside of course i was doing that with go -karting for me and

on quad bikes and stuff like that but then sometimes in the evening when i

come home i would also like to game a little bit of course initially on the

controller then steering wheel whole setup and yeah it gets more and more

professional of course look from up above though at the daytona

speedway a fantastic track it is qualifying underway right now

I remember when I first told my friends about it, they didn't believe me.

They were like, there's no way.

Maybe that's not him. It's someone under his name and whatever.

But then I started to show them pictures. This guy, that's him.

And then they started to believe it.

Max Verstappen and, of course, an integral part of the furniture now at

point of Team Redline.

He's breathing racing in a way, like he can jump in any car and he's fast.

What you cannot expect from a Formula One driver is that he's so fully

to sim racing, but he wants it so much.

He had races where he did like 50 hours of practice.

And then he did the race and he completely destroyed the field. And

the best drivers in the world.

So we know that when he has the time to prepare, he is actually the top three of

the world. And yeah, that's quite nice to work with.

Early doors in this day is going to be brutal.

It's not a game. It's the realest eSport that you can get.

You sit in a sim, you have your pedals.

you have your wheel you have i mean it doesn't get much more real than that

not a game people who say that they they don't understand so they can just stay

away if you're not interested don't say anything stupid about it like whatever

like it's okay have a drink

We are going to be joined today by a lot of amazing people. We've got our

finalists from all over the world with us today. And, of course, Max Verstappen

himself for one very important final.

I mean,

I barely have enough time to drive this to implement even more games.

They see him like, ah, very famous, top, top guy.

But when you are with them together, it's like talking to a very good friend.

But am I using any DRS or battery shit? DRS is here.

Where does it open? It's here, right?

No!

He comes in, first thing, spins. And he was like, ah, guys, what do I need to

do? And we told him, and he didn't do it. And we were like, come on.

No, no, no, no, no.

You have to cut, Max. You have to cut on the inside. You have to go super tight

in. But don't go fully to the outside. It's more like a V -shape. It's like a

center. It's a V -shape.

This little shit fight.

The thing is, he knows he's good. He knows that. The reason for sometimes

we have to tell him twice or three times is because he just expects that he has

a better idea in that moment.

Takes three, four tries, and then he's like, ah, maybe you guys are right.

it depends, of course, on if it's the right feedback or not, according to me.

Have to tell them in a very passionate way.

No, no, no.

This is post -gear also, right? What? Yeah, mate.

Never post.

Yeah.

Okay, well, once you guys make up your mind, you tell me what to do.

Johnny did a 13 and I did a 10 -4, so, I mean... Let's bring in

João Pianata from Brazil.

The competition was really cool. There were people who, like, are really good

the game, actually.

It's hard to compete against people who have, like, a thousand hours from their

own sort of game, and he has, like, 30 minutes.

Oh, my God, the atmosphere.

I mean,

it's impossible to beat. It's like you put a rookie in an F1 car next to me.

This man is a three -time world champion, Team Oracle Red Bull Racing

He loves his tomato soup. We can invite and get a massive round of applause for

Matt. Big round of applause, please, everybody.

Hello, mate. You all right? Good.

Welcome. Hi.

Yeah, no, it's great to be here.

I practiced a whole 20 minutes, so it's going to be fantastic.

How does it kind of feel competing next to Matt?

No, I'm just pretty much enjoying the moment.

Of course, it was hard to believe that I would be racing against Max. Now he's

right there sitting next to me. It still feels like unreal to me.

Yeah, it's amazing.

It's amazing.

Well, sim racing is a niche world. It's very small.

You have the bigger games like Gran Turismo, which have a lot of users, but

competitions are a bit smaller. Then you have F1 Esports, which is huge because

it gets pushed by F1 itself.

So it is big, but the sim racing part itself, like iRacing, the thing that Max

does, for example, it's a very small community, but the level there is so

incredibly high. The biggest sim race of the year is on the cards.

Johnny, are you jumping in? Yeah.

Now, please.

Well, long race, stay out of trouble.

And most of them are also endurance events, so you have to share the car

other people, which I also find quite enjoyable.

The car you cannot change. You can only add fuel and change tires during the

race. So everything needs to be perfectly set before the race starts.

I can't see only setup from Max and stuff.

Yeah, it's fine. It's fine. It's good.

People maybe sometimes don't really understand that because they see us

the race and be like, ah, it looks so easy for them.

They don't see what we do the three to four weeks prior to that.

You never have enough time to test it all to 100%, but you try to, of course,

get it to the closest perfection as possible.

And we're ready to go for the biggest sim race of the year.

It's the iRacing Daytona 24 hours. Extra states on the line. Spots in the 2024

MZ Sports Global Championship.

And we'll see it crash before the GDPs even get off the bench. Yeah, go with

him.

It's a mental top spot. You need to be super, super unique in a mental capacity

to be able to win the biggest race in gym racing.

Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Try to be a bit closer, mate. I'm trying.

I'm trying.

Even if it costs more, too, I don't give a fuck.

I'm trying.

deliver a lap time and then on top of that you need to do it under full

You sit there and your legs start shaking and you feel like if I mess up

it's going to cost me 10k in prize money and that's a horrible feeling and some

drivers can handle that much better than the others.

When

you

do a mistake and it's on you

Worst feeling ever. I mean, the disrespect anyway.

Danny, are you fucking blind?

Man, what should I do there?

No, it was a little bit of a dive, Max. It was a bit of a dive.

It's okay, it's fine. Good control.

I'll be back in a second, guys. I'm gonna make some food quickly.

Nico is there.

Fabio is there.

I drive myself for Team Redline.

Luckily, everyone is very good at their job, you know, so you trust each other a

lot. But, yeah, it's not only just the driving part, but then in the

there are more things to look at.

You go straight and on the right. Yeah, on the right. Special entrance.

Yeah, here, right.

Okay.

I like to be involved, you know, and see what...

What's happening day to day.

Ladies first, Raymond.

This is where some of the magic happens. This is basically where I work every

day. And we have a few drivers here full time.

Management, marketing.

One of my tasks is to make sure that we have such an attractive team for the

drivers to make sure.

that they want to be in team redline and i think that's our unique selling

position we have obviously max is a great ambassador and he's a very

for everyone in the team so it's an honor to work with a driver like max

going to be my new rig for in um In my motorhome, once I'm ready.

Fuck me, this thing is massive.

It's really big.

You can't use it as a... You can't play iRacing on this thing.

I met us during my F3 season.

I was driving for Van Amersfoort.

And you spend, of course, also time on the simulator preparing.

And I think back in the day, my engineer there, Rick, he said, like, we have

this really good simulator guy that, you know, comes and practices. He's done it

before with other drivers for us.

In the beginning, it was mainly to drive with me, to train. We did a lot of one

-on -one training in iRacing, where we practiced overtaking on certain tracks.

iRacing had the latest -gen version of Spa -Francorchamps.

But that was more for fun that we tried it on the simulator with the F1 cars at

the time and see what kind of angles that you could overtake. And of course,

also crashed in the Blanchimont, just touching each other.

Normally, that's not a corner where you would consider overtaking.

In a sim, it's a bit easier.

I think the Aponkas that we had on the game, they were a bit slower in terms of

top speed and a bit more downforce.

So when I went for the move in real life, I had more top speed and less

downforce. So the moment was the car was moving around a little bit more.

I heard of that story, but that was afterwards. But I knew when he was side

side that he would not give up.

But I didn't know at that time when it happened that he already practiced that

on the sim.

Yeah, it was fun. At the time, I enjoyed it a lot.

I don't think your dad enjoyed it. No, no one. He came straight after the race.

He told me, never do that again.

I was like, what do you mean? I passed him. It's okay.

Now I understand why.

At that point, I mean, I was 17 still. I think I was like... I go for it.

Probably I wouldn't do it now.

No.

No, really?

No.

It's not worth the risk of doing it. I would have easily maybe passed in the

next corner or whatever.

But at the time, I was like, I don't care. I will show everyone that it's

possible.

And now as the other drivers find their way into the mark, instantly up on the

jacks. And now with Steinbraten out, as expected, it's Max Verstappen that gets

into the car. Yeah, Max Verstappen on board the Team Redline Mercedes. Max

Verstappen gets on board the Mercedes.

There's a quick fade for you.

You're still thinking about the same kind of things. How can I improve the

setup? You go through all these kind of ranges.

You know, you're working on strategy.

You're defending, of course, overtaking. You're doing start.

You know, there's a lot that, of course, what you do in F1 that comes back. So I

always feel that when I jump back in an F1 car, that it just feels normal.

You know what I would like right now?

A kebab.

That would be so good.

No.

Turkish kebab. Oh, so good.

Yeah.

I love it. I think it's honestly one of my favorite.

Like if you would tell me you're on an island, you have your last meal, what

would it be?

Turkish kebab. A kebab would definitely be included.

Yep.

Last year, Max told us, so guys, you want to come to Zandvoort?

Yeah, for them to be part of that F1 paddock and see everything, see the

teams, see the other drivers.

And we were like, we don't say no to that.

Lovely,

lovely. Being what we saw at Zandvoort, first of all, the car, insane.

really crazy like ah just seeing that thing is i mean that was like that was

really the first time i got so close to a car it's crazy

Come on, mate.

Put the gear in.

Jeez, that's not that hard.

What is the difference?

37 seconds.

But we're losing a lot of time now.

I mean, I think we should just slow down.

Why? No, we do over the night. We just get it back with the 33 lapper. It's

fine. We shouldn't give up five seconds.

It's stupid to give away five seconds.

Yeah, Max is right.

He's an inspiration for the guys because what he does on the real track and what

he says, he actually lives up to it.

He likes to get into your head and the effect he has on drivers is once he pops

up behind you in your mirrors, then you know you're screwed.

I can't watch others.

I hate that. Even if it's him. I mean, I know he is good. I know it.

But, there's the biggest but. Sorry, Max, but it's true.

He sometimes takes a risk that others wouldn't take.

And the main thing is...

While he's doing that, he can talk and he can talk about doing groceries or

about his new monitor or new pedals. And meanwhile, he's driving the best laps

out of everyone.

Are we beating for softs? No, no, we put the hard.

Plan D.

Plan C or D?

What is plan C?

You need to have some balls to break at the very, very last moment, because it's

your life.

They will reach a peak of 6G. Your eyes are popping out almost.

It's ridiculous.

You cannot really simulate that.

Yes,

please.

Take me out, take me out.

Yes, yes, yes.

Good job, guys, good job.

My fucking legs.

Good job, Max.

Yeah, you too, mate. That was very good.

Yeah, let's keep going.

Yeah, what time do I need to be back?

4 .53.

Fuck.

Okay.

Okay, I'll be... I'm gonna go a little nap then.

Enjoy it, Mitch. Alright, ciao.

Wait, hold on. It goes down the inside of Mark here.

I love every slide we're getting from Max, but still keeping it close. Wheel

wheel, two turns, two and three. Very well done.

Mark's not backing off. He's closing closer and closer to Max. He fakes the

outside. He goes down the inside.

Takes the inside line, and Max is going to have to tuck back in.

And not bad.

I wouldn't say that I'm the outright fastest, I think, in terms of qualifying

pace or whatever. But I don't think that's realistic as well, because that's

their job.

That's what they have to do. That's their profession.

Every day or every week, they have a certain amount of hours that they drive.

And of course, I unfortunately cannot do that because of F1 and other stuff, of

course, in life.

He called Max out.

into 14. He is feeling very good himself.

If we can get a massive, massive round of applause for Flores Vallejo for

winning the Hardwickon 5 -0 -0 international event.

What an absolute winner.

Matt Gustafson, P3, crossing the line and right behind with an amazing battle,

Mark Antoine from Canada. Some absolutely amazing racing from these

We've got one more driver.

Warm.

I

do

feel that people with a lot of talent in

the simulator world, most of them, they don't really have an opportunity in real

life to show that, or at least that we find out how good they actually are in

the real car.

So that is also, of course, something that I'm looking at, how we can make

work in the future.

Well, hello there, everyone, once again.

Delighted to be back here to the end of the iRacing Daytona 24 Hours, first of

our Grand Slams for 2024.

I'm sure plenty of people here, Peter, are here to support Max Verstappen in

that number four redline car that just continues to lead at the very front of

the field. But I'm sure there's plenty of other people supporting other teams

and drivers. Good morning. Good morning.

I feel so tired.

I did four hours in a row, slept for 20 minutes, then went again.

Johnny's complaining about sleep.

Max is incredibly driven.

full results you're going front max or what you're only allowed well i think as

far as if you go in front no guess that i bumped you there's an unlimited amount

of rain he like keeps pushing us insanely hard so i was expecting the

guy just to flat out go for it but i need focus on the driving do not they

one car fight position and then obviously when max talks in a firm way,

everyone listens, and then everyone is impressed.

I

think,

you know, if he could raise as he talks... I think he would win by one lap

of everyone else.

My God, mate. There's nothing to me.

There's nothing.

I don't know what you're on about.

It's your fault that you hit that car because you're just not focused. Relax,

relax.

No, I mean, he's a great guy. He's good, you know, sometimes a little bit

dramatic, but that's okay. We can deal with that.

And he's always done great whenever we really needed him to do well. And that's

something also quality, you know, that we are looking for in a driver.

Hey man.

For me?

Yeah, it went well, but it's very slippery, that new asphalt everywhere.

It went both in here and that last sector.

Hey, hey, hey.

How's it going?

Rob, thanks a lot.

Thank you.

Team races, they are very used to see at home. It's not like any other sports

where you need to be together.

We talk a lot online.

You never really see them face -to -face. Of course, we have sometimes, you

know, you're on a meeting, cameras on or whatever, but it's not as personal as

in real life.

Final lap of the race is about to start. Brate Calpini has come out of the start

minute straight.

Don't do the fake braking on the bus stop marks on the last lap, please.

And there are many examples where he was on track and he brings his laptop with

his controller and he's driving on his controller in his off -time on the

racetrack in Formula 1 to help the guys in the CM team making a setup.

That's how he is.

That's what you don't see on TV, but the guy is pushing through every wall just

to help his racing family.

Yeah, we'll go next to him.

Go to the finish line, go to the finish line.

Come next to me.

Team Redline, one and three, but Max Verstappen, Gianni Vecchio, and Oli

Steinbrecht, now winners of the biggest sim race of the year. Bravo, guys,

bravo. Well done, yes.

Can I blow up the car?

You can blow it up, yes.

You still get the same emotions, for me at least.

At the end of the day, it's the same, because I celebrate in the car with my

helmet on, you know.

I'm celebrating with myself.

And then, of course, you go to the people, but that's fine. I mean, the

are in your PC more or less.

Good job, Gustavo.

Smoke the pancake.