Verstappen wins Silverstone endurance race

Max Verstappen and teammate Rudy van Buren won the Eight Hours of Silverstone with Team Redline. Verstappen used a weekend without a Formula 1 race to keep himself sharp with a contest in the simulator. Verstappen and Van Buren were too fast for everyone in the Oreca LMP2.

The online race was held on the rFactor 2 simulation game, with Verstappen fans able to tune in live via a stream on YouTube.

Team Redline also includes McLaren driver Lando Norris. The 19-year-old has teamed up together with Verstappen a number of times. The two young drivers form a good team according to Norris.

He told Motorsport.com: "We understand each other fairly well, because we spend a lot of time doing the same things, which is fun. We speak the same language, the language of racing.

Well done to @RvBuren & @Max33Verstappen supported on pit wall by the awesome @Racer_D winning the @rf2VEC @SilverstoneUK 8 hours!! 💪🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱💪

tx @fanatec @AkInformatica @SimLab_eu @F33Lgg !! pic.twitter.com/n9rfyw4XKH

— Team Redline (@TeamRedlineSim) April 6, 2019

"[Other] people like it, of course, that they can say that they've defeated a Formula 1 driver. So you get people to love you and most of the time it's a lot of fun, but sometimes there's someone in between who is just annoying and gets in the way all the time while trying to do a qualifying round."

One such annoyance recently prompted Verstappen to run a rival off the road, prompting a backlash from the online racing community, but Norris tells a different side to the story.

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"He was just annoying Max because he wanted to race against him," Norris said of Verstappen's rival.

"That is understandable, but it is sometimes annoying if you want to drive for your own pleasure and someone just keeps you in the way."

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