Before Verstappen’s #3 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 was disqualified from the NLS2 results, it had secured victory by a margin of one minute, but how?
The 58th Barbarossa Prize, as the second round of the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) was known, was headlined by the participation of Max Verstappen. The Red Bull driver swapped his Formula 1 car for the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo, a car run by the experienced Winward Racing in partnership with Verstappen Racing.
In qualifying, Verstappen immediately made a strong impression by setting the fastest time: 7:51.751. He was two seconds slower than the track record, but he also knew that pole position doesn’t necessarily mean much in a four-hour race – certainly not at the ‘Green Hell’. Moreover, qualifying is a ninety-minute open session, and traffic and yellow flags play a major role.
Source: Motorsport Network
How Verstappen managed to build huge winning margin before his NLS2 disqualification