The 2026 Nurburgring 24 Hours will long be remembered as the year Max Verstappen made his debut and raised the profile of the race to new heights. But there were so many stories of success and disaster beyond his race, as we show in our winners and losers from the top class at the Nurburgring 24 Hours. Winner: Win-drought-ending Mercedes While others lost their heads in the chaos of the rain showers, the Winward Racing team, which runs two Mercedes AMG cars, including the ‘Team Verstappen’ car, got its tyre calls spot on and built itself a comfortable one-two with the #3 and #80 cars. Fabian Schiller, one of the quartet in the #80 shared with Maro Engel, Maxime Martin and Luca Stolz, told The Race that the early tyre calls were the “basis for the win” as it allowed them to “ …
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Author: Josh Suttill
