Max Verstappen qualified sixth in the CUP3 class at the Nurburgring ahead of a four-hour race on Saturday afternoon, while driving a detuned Porsche GT4 Cayman.

While he was around 15.3 seconds off the top time in class, Verstappen’s performance can be better analysed by the enormous 25-second gap to the next car in the CUP3(G) class.

Max Verstappen qualifies 25 seconds faster than class rivals at Nurburgring

At a wet Nurburgring on Saturday morning, Verstappen was one of dozens of drivers across GT3 and GT4 looking to set a time for the afternoon’s four-hour NLS7 race.

Using the entire Nurburgring layout, which incorporates the corners from the Grand Prix circuit last seen in Formula 1 and the fearsome Nordschleife, that left 170 turns to navigate to complete a lap of the ‘Green Hell’

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