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Verstappen gets into Nurburgring 24 Hours lead in first stints

Max Verstappen moved the Red Bull-liveried Mercedes into the lead of the Nurburgring 24 Hours during his first two stints in the car.Dani Juncadella started the Team Verstappen car from fourth, moving up to third almost immediately and then challenging the polesitting Red Bull-backed Team Abt Lamborghini into the second turn of the Nurburgring Nordschleife. Juncadella made slight contact with the Lamborghini that had Mirko Bortolotti at the wheel, something that triggered a rear-left puncture for Bortolotti by the time he’d made it to the final chicane of the Nurburgring grand prix circuit.Juncadella survived that contact and a lairy moment on the grass while trying to overtake the new race leader, Marco Mapelli in the #130 Lamborghini, one that cost him two …


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Author: Josh Suttill

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