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Max Verstappen had never driven the Nürburgring's old loop, the "Green Hell", in real life. Not even in a road car. He learned it on a racing simulator: thousands of laps in iRacing, with a sim racing team he joined in 2015. In May 2025 he finally drove it for real, in a Ferrari GT3 race car, under the fake name "Franz Hermann". He says he went faster than the GT3 record that day. Then he did the newcomer licence like anyone else: a written exam, laps behind an instructor, a race in a Porsche wi…
