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It’s a month until we get to see the new generation of F1 cars properly unveiled, but ahead of all that this weekend saw the competitive return of reigning champion Max Verstappen as he took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual – perhaps the biggest virtual race of them all, and a welcome fixture on the calendar ever since it was first ushered into life as a replacement for the real thing during the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic back in 2020. <\/p>\n

As ever the event attracted some considerable talent from the world of racing, with the likes of Juan Pablo Montoya, Felix Rosenqvist and Oliver Rowland joining Verstappen – as well as a return of sorts for Mercedes to Le Mans, the silver arrows taking to the Circuit de la Sarthe in an official capacity since its infamous real-life outing in 1999 when its cars had the unfortunate tendency to hurl themselves into the scenery in spectacular fashion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – eurogamer.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a month until we get to see the new generation of F1 cars properly unveiled, but ahead of all that this weekend saw the competitive return of reigning champion Max Verstappen as he took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual – perhaps the biggest virtual race of them all, and a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5567,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1569,180,315,776,1001],"class_list":["post-5566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pc","tag-cars","tag-generation","tag-its","tag-month","tag-until"],"yoast_head":"\nReigning F1 champ crashes out of the lead of the year's biggest virtual race | Xtreme Servers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"View Reigning F1 champ crashes out of the lead of the year's biggest virtual race for free, here on XtremeServers. 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