Max Verstappen is a man who has literally had the entire motor racing world at his feet for the past two years. He is the one who ended Lewis Hamilton's seven-year winning streak and became the F1 world champion in the last two seasons. Despite racing on the track with real cars, he likes to sit behind the virtual cockpit and, given that he belongs to the young generation of drivers, we can see him streaming on Twitch from time to time, where he enjoys virtual races with his F1 friends such as Lando Norris or Charles Leclerc. In addition, the guys also play some Call of Duty and the like from time to time. However, this time the submission MaxIt wasn't just a weekend relaxation, but the two-time F1 world champion took part in the virtual Le Mans race along with three other colleagues Jeffrey Rietveld, Luke Browning and Diogo Pinto.
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Since he just participated in the race Max, it was a great show and was also supposed to be a great advertisement for the game rFactor 2, in which the race took place. After seven hours, he was driving Max and with more than a minute lead over the rest of the starting field, when the organizers first decided that it would start raining during the race. The implementation of the weather change resulted in the game being interrupted, but fortunately for all the riders and it started up basically where it left off. However, a bigger problem followed when Max was leading with confidence and the whole team was going for a virtual victory. At that moment, the game suddenly disconnected and Max was in seventeenth place after rejoining, a lap and a half behind the leading crew.
When it was successful Maxovi finished first again and competed for the lead in the race, the game disconnected again, which was Max he did not want to deal with it any further and withdrew from the race along with the team. Honestly Max He is in such a position that the organizers should kiss his hands and feet, that he is willing to run such a race and not cause him unnecessary problems. Max He subsequently commented on Twitch, where everything was streamed, as follows: "They can't even control their own game. I've been kicked out of the game three times while driving. This is the last time I'm going to do it. I'm quitting because what's the point of racing like this? We spent five months preparing to win the championship, a month preparing for this particular race, and the result is that we had two red flags, the rain was canceled because the game couldn't handle it, and everyone kept disconnecting. Honestly, this is a joke, this can't be called an official event, it's a clown show, and whatone"It was better to resign!"
He is right, Max...