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(Transcrito por TurboScribe.ai. Atualize para Ilimitado para remover esta mensagem.) Yeah, I need to practice that a bit with the traffic, the airwatch and the bus stuff,

because in our practice server I had the LMDH in front and I just fell off.

It's a hobby.

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

I know G-forces, but it's still very intense and of course I want to do the 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 unbelievable.

Very lovely.

People sometimes ask me, what do you do in your free time,

and they expect you to be something completely different to anyone else.

We were aerobatics.

Focus, Max, you damaged the car.

I think my life off track is just very normal, nice and simple.

Go!

The car just felt fine in the bus stop, and you just moved the brake pads a bit forward, right?

For me gaming is also a hobby.

Of course already racing so much with F1, when you come home it's a way for me also to relax a bit

and that I don't really need to think about anything else in 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, hasn't, so...

I like games in general, 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 race on quad bikes and stuff like that,

but then sometimes in the evening when I would come home I would also like to game a little bit,

of course initially on the controller, then the steering wheel, the whole setup,

and yeah, it gets more and more professional of course.

Look from up above though at the Daytona International Speedway,

a fantastic track it is, qualifying underway right now.

Good luck, Max.

Yeah, good luck mate, don't fuck it up.

Good luck.

You shut the fuck up, Johnny.

It's just I'm telling you what they told me.

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

They were like, ah, there's no way, you're just, maybe that's not him,

it's someone under his name and whatever.

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

And then they started to believe it.

Say hello of course to multiple-time Formula One World Champion Max Verstappen,

and of course an integral part of the furniture now at this point of Team Red Line.

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 dedicated to sim racing,

but he wants it so much.

Like he had races where he did like 50 hours of practice,

and then he did the race and he completely destroyed the field,

and those were 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. It's not a game.

People who say that, 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.

Max, you need to practice.

Yeah, I need to practice twice, or I'll be half a lap behind.

That's quite a long...

Eighteen laps.

I really need to catch up in the fifth lap.

A long reset, I don't know what you mean.

No, no, no. The damage is gone.

Yeah, I have no chance.

It's not going to work at all.

Look, if it was on iRacing or something, then I might still have a chance.

Then I definitely have a chance, but not on the F1 game.

Yeah, but yeah.

Do I have to lie there and then...

Yeah, no, I drove 100 hours on that game.

Then you're screwed.

Then you're completely screwed.

Hello.

Sorry I'm late.

Hey.

Look up.

Oh, hello, mate.

What is the fastest line through the pack?

You go inside, outside.

Oh, you lose off.

You just send it.

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

But when you're with him together, it's like talking to very good friends.

Am I using any DRS or battery shit?

DRS is here.

Where does it open, the DRS?

Ah, it's here.

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.

On a Scheiburg.

No, no, no.

You have to cut, Max.

You have to cut on the inside.

You have to go super tied 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.

Fuck.

This little shit slide.

The thing is, he knows he's good.

He knows that.

The reason for sometimes that we have to tell him twice or three times

is because he just expects that he has the better idea in that moment.

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

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

You have to tell him in a very passionate way.

No, no, no.

This is fourth gear also, man.

What?

Yeah, man.

No, it's fourth.

Never fourth.

Yeah.

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

Gianni did a 13, and I did a 10-4.

So, I mean, just listen to every single one of them.

Let's see.

Bring in Xiao, Bjarne, Deft from Brazil.

Bjarne probably died.

The competition was really cool.

There were people who, like, are really good at the game, actually.

It's hard to compete against people who have, like, a thousand hours on some sort of game,

and he has, like, 30 minutes.

Oh, my God, Gianni's there.

So, what line here?

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 driver.

He loves his tomato soup.

We can invite and get a massive round of applause for Max Verstappen.

Big round of applause, please, everybody.

Hey, 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 Max?

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.

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 the 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 things 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?

Yes.

Now, please.

Well, long race. Stay out of trouble.

And most of them are also endurance events,

so you have to share the car with other people,

which I also find quite enjoyable.

The car, you cannot change.

You can only add fuel and change tyres during the race.

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

I can't see Ollie set up from Max to stop.

That's the only thing I can see.

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

People maybe sometimes don't really understand that

because they see us doing the race and be like,

ah, it looks so easy for them.

Just 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 that's possible.

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

It's the iRacing Daytona 24 Hours.

Extra stakes on the line.

Sponsored the 2024 E-Sports Tournament Championship.

And we'll see a crash before the GTP is even gone.

Yeah, go with him.

It's a mental top sport.

You need to be super, super unique in the mental capacity

to be able to win the biggest races in sim 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 fuel, 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 stress.

You sit there and your legs start shaking

and you feel like if I mess up now,

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.

Of course, we lose 7-10, mate.

Stop complaining. It's a long race. Come on.

When you do a mistake and it's on you,

worst feeling ever.

I mean, the disrespect anyway.

Johnny, are you fucking blind?

Mate, what should I do there?

It was a little bit of a drive, Max.

It was a bit of a dive.

It's OK. It's fine. Good control.

I'll be back in a second, guys.

I'm going to make some food quickly.

Nico's there.

I drive myself for Team Red Line.

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 background,

there are more things to look at.

You go straight and then right.

Yeah, and right. Special entrance.

Yeah, here, right. Yeah. OK.

I like to be involved, you know,

and see 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,

plus 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 Red Line.

And I think that's our unique selling position.

We have, obviously, Max is a great ambassador,

and he's very inspiring for everyone in the team,

so it's an honour to work with a driver like Max.

This is going to be my new rig for in my Motron,

once it's ready.

Fuck me, this thing is massive.

It's really big.

You can use it as a... You can play iRacing on this.

Oh, really?

I met Ats 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 laser-scanned 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, like, see how... what kind of angles that you could overtake.

And, of course, we also crashed in the Blanchimont,

like, 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 F1 cars 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 by 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 else to help me. 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 OK.

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?

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 marks,

instantly up on the Jackson.

And now it's time, Bratton 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 bait 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're working on strategy.

You're defending, of course, overtaking.

You're doing starts.

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.

It's going to rain on Saturday and Sunday.

I'm going home.

I don't know, Helmut Annenhoef.

I'm not going to drive like this.

But now in Monaco it's still super wet.

You have 35 degrees.

You know what I would like right now?

A kebab.

That would be so good.

Not a freaking dough?

No.

Turkish kebab.

So good.

Right, Cengiz?

Yeah.

Should we stop for it?

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.

Hot.

Hot?

Hot.

Let's take this sticker off.

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 other teams,

see the other drivers.

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

Seeing what we saw at Zandvoort,

first of all the car, insane.

Really crazy.

Just seeing that thing,

that was really the first time I got so close to a car.

It's crazy.

Oh, mate.

I can smell it.

Come on, mate.

Put your gear in.

Jesus Christ, it's not that hard.

What is the difference?

37 seconds.

But we're losing a lot of time, man.

I mean, I think Porsche should just slow down.

Why, mate?

No, we do over the night,

we just get it back with the 33 Lapra.

It's fine.

We shouldn't give up five seconds.

We just find 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.

So the Stormforce car is going to be left on its own here.

Magnus Tappelen is going to go through.

Careful, Tiger Racing, they've just found the gap.

Up on the high side there,

that's got three and four.

Yes!

Yes!

Favela, favela.

Here's Favela, mate.

You know that?

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.

Tide sometimes takes risks 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 talk about his new monitor or new pedals,

and meanwhile he's driving the best laps out of everyone.

We beating for softs?

No, no, we put the hard.

Plan D.

Plan D.

Plan C or D?

What is plan C?

I don't know.

Oh, it's 25-0.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Oh, 25-0 for Max as well.

Those are the moments where you have to be really sharp,

when you're on your side.

You need to have some balls to, like,

break at the very, very last moment.

Because, I mean, it's your life.

They will reach a peak of 60.

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, that was good.

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.

All right. Ciao.

Slide again from Max, but still keeping it close.

Wheel to wheel, two times, two and three.

Very well done.

Max not backing off here.

Closing closer and closer to Max.

As he fakes the outside, he goes down the inside.

Fakes the inside line, and Max is gonna have to tuck back in.

Not bad.

I wouldn't say that I'm the outright fastest,

I think, in terms of, like, qualifying pace or whatever.

But I don't think that's realistic as well,

because that's their job.

You know, that's what they have to do.

That's their profession.

Every day or, you know, 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.

11.13 into 14.

He is feeling very good himself.

If we can get a massive, massive round of applause

for Floris Vargas for winning

the Hamilton Play00 International event.

What an absolute winner.

Max Gustafson, P3, crossing the line,

and right behind him with an amazing battle,

Mark Antoine from Canada.

Some absolutely amazing racing from these guys.

Got one more driver to cross the line.

Warm.

Amazingly, and it is the Play00 International champion,

Mr. Floris Vargas.

I do feel that people with a lot of talent,

like 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 that work, you know, in the future.

Well, hello there, everyone, once again.

Delighted to be back here to the end

of the iRacing Daytona 24 Hours,

the 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 red line 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 through.

Morning.

Good morning.

I feel so tired.

Did four hours in a row, slept for 20 minutes,

then went again.

Johnny's complaining about sleep.

Max is incredibly driven for results.

Are you going in front, Max, or what?

Well, I think as fast as you go in front,

no, Gustavo, that I bump you.

He, like, keeps pushing us insanely hard.

I was expecting the Japanese guy

just to flat out go for it, but...

And he focuses on the driving.

Obviously, when Max talks in a firm way,

then everyone listens, and then everyone is impressed.

Apex.

Oh, excuse me, Peter.

Okay, yeah.

Johnny!

What do you mean?

You are so stupid.

It's unbelievable how stupid you are.

I lifted so much.

Now you damaged the car.

You're marking on the Apex.

Fucking focus, man.

You damaged the car.

I didn't.

You did.

I can see it.

I think, you know, if he could race as he talks,

I think he would win by one lap ahead of everyone else.

My God, man.

It's not.

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.

Relaxed, relaxed.

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.

Sim racers, they are very used to be 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 in a meeting, camera's on or whatever,

but it's not as personal as in real life.

Final lap of the race is about to start

for Até Calvo,

who's come out of the start and finished straight.

Don't do the fake breaking the bus stop marks

on the last lap, please.

And there are many examples where he was on track,

then 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 sim team making a setup.

And that's how he is.

Like, 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 Red Line, one and three,

but Max Verstappen, Jean Ivecchio and Oli Steinbrach

are 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 people are in your PC, more or less.

Good job, guys.

Come over the pancake.