Imagine the scenes of a Formula 1 legend roaring down a NASCAR superspeedway and winning. It happened in 1967 when Mario Andretti jumped behind the wheel of a NASCAR Ford at Daytona and defeated NASCAR’s best drivers in a straight fight to win the Daytona 500. Likewise, F1 champion Nigel Mansell was famously courted by stock-car great Dale Earnhardt, who quipped during a 1993 meeting, “Why don’t you take another pay cut and come race with us next season?” But one such star, Max Verstappen, despite his dominance in F1, has shown a surprising spark of curiosity for stockcar racing, not as a career pivot, but as a bucket-list challenge.

The four-time Formula 1 World Champion has often spoken candidly about sim racing and even NASCAR through the lens of respect and realism. In a 2021 interv

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