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. “Success would mean winning. That’s very simple, that’s why we are here,” Verstappen said ahead of the event. And it looked like he and his team-mates Lucas Auer, Jules Gounon and Dani Juncadella had done absolutely everything they needed to do behind the wheel. But it all went horribly wrong just two laps into Juncadella’s late Sunday morning stint, Juncadella having taken over from V …
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Author: Josh Suttill
