Verstappen out from leading position in virtual 12 hours of Sebring
Max Verstappen took to the simulator on Saturday to be in action at the virtual 12 Hours of Sebring, but not long after the start, the adventure seems to be over for Verstappen and his teammate Alex Palou.
End of story for Verstappen in 12 hours of Sebring
Just an hour and a half after the start it is over for the Team Redline drivers. Verstappen drove in the lead and took a lead until he appeared to make contact with a GTP class driver. However, there may have been an error in the game: contact (and thus damage) was detected, but on the footage there seems to be enough space between the drivers.
As a result, the Ferrari 488 GT3 sustained such damage that the Dutchman was forced to stop it in the pits. The damage proved too severe to continue the race and so the virtual long-distance race came to an early end for Verstappen and IndyCay champion Palou.
The moment can be watched back in the live broadcast below with about 10:37:50 to go.
A crash? Well certainly the other driver should have given Max more space.
Unless the game is hosted on a LAN party, events like this are unavoidable
It's so disappointing when you get things like server glitches or DDos attacks like what happened not long ago. Yeah LAN would be infinitely better but a lot less do-able unfortunately. No wait... everyone round to Max's place !! :)
And here I was thinking it was because of a noisy driveshaft. :) All teasing aside, it's cool that F1 drivers get into sim-racing. During the Covid period it was cool watching Max, Norris and Albon going at it.
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