Max Verstappen Nurburgring LIVE: NLS4 schedule, times and free live stream today

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LIVE: Max Verstappen at the Nurburgring, watch now as F1 champion races in NLS4

How to watch Max Verstappen at the Nurburgring today (Saturday April 18)

Sheona Mountford F1 Journalist

Motorsport journalist working in F1 since 2024.

Saturday 18 April 2026 17:18 Updated: 21:01

This was our live coverage of Saturday's NLS4 race at the Nurburgring, featuring Max Verstappen. We ended our coverage after a horrific crash early in the race which brought out a red flag. The seven-car incident would later claim the life of 66-year-old Juha Miettinen, and the race has subsequently been cancelled. Our thoughts go out to Juha's family and friends at this tragic time.

Max Verstappen is in action today at the ADAC 24h Nurburgring Qualifiers and you can watch every second of the action on GPFans, live and for free.

The four-time F1 champion ramps up his preparations for the 24h race at the Nurburgring in May, by taking part in not just one, but two NLS races this weekend (NLS4 and NLS5), alongside Top Qualifying for the event in May.

The NLS4 race is next up later today (Saturday, April 18, 4:30pm UK) with Verstappen returning to his Mercedes-AMG GT3 Verstappen racing team, this time alongside Austrian driver Lucas Auer, who will also accompany Verstappen during his 24h debut.

It will be an uphill battle for Verstappen after he and Auer qualified only in P6, and were then handed a three-place grid penalty down to P9. Verstappen's Mercedes has also been subject of a forced change.

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Watch Verstappen LIVE at the Nurburgring now

You can watch Verstappen's GT racing exploits right here on GPFans, with our live stream having all the action from 4:30pm UK:

You can also watch the live onboard from Verstappen's #3 Mercedes car:

What time does Max Verstappen start today at the Nurburgring?

With Qualifying now in the books, Saturday evening's race is next up.

The action starts at 17:30 local time (CEST) and 16:30 UK time (BST). Stateside that is 11:30 (ET), 10:30 (CT) and 08:30 (PT). The race will last four hours.

Nurburgring weather forecast for 24h Qualifiers: NLS4

The opening day of competitive action on Saturday is expected to be clear with less than five per cent chance of rain forecast for the morning qualifying. Temperatures will then rise to 14 degrees Celsius before the end of the session.

Over the course of the four-hour race NLS4 however, the chance of rain rises to 70 per cent with temperatures dropping from 17 degrees Celsius to 14 over the entire distance.

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