{"id":103075,"date":"2025-05-15T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103075\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:46:08","slug":"helmut-marko-stunned-after-max-verstappen-test-track-record-broken-by-two-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103075\/","title":{"rendered":"Helmut Marko stunned after Max Verstappen test: &#8216;Track record broken by two seconds&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has claimed Max Verstappen informed him he shattered the lap record at the Nurburgring during his surprise test outing last week.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen appeared at the German track under the pseudonym Franz Hermann and drove a handful of laps around the famous Nordschleife section of the track.<\/p>\n<p>No official data has been released, however track expert<a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/max-verstappen-guest-appearance-stuns-fellow-drivers-shows-up...does-a-lap-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Misha Charoudin claimed the four-time F1 champion produced a lap record for the GT3 class.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marko has seemingly confirmed the rumour following communication with Verstappen himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGT racing is his great love and he has his own team,\u201d Marko told Kronen Zeitung.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told me that he beat a record by two seconds after just three laps, knew every one of his lap times and everything about the suspension.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was almost more into the details than he was with his Formula 1 car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen&#8217;s only previous experience at the Nurburgring came through sim racing, an area the Red Bull driver also holds a strong passion for.<\/p>\n<p>Marko expects Verstappen to continue his investment in sim racing and use it as a platform to boost racing careers due to its low costs in comparison to professional karting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe runs a sim racing team and now he wants to put one of his best drivers in a GT car,\u201d Marko added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s active promotion of young talent. Because nowadays a whole season in karting costs a quarter of a million euros.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd what does the equipment for sim racing cost? Maybe \u20ac30,000 to \u20ac50,000 in total.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMax also develops software for the simulators used by Formula 2 and Formula 3 teams.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has claimed Max Verstappen informed him he shattered the lap record at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-103075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114510979685081123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}