Max Verstappen will not race at the Nurburgring on Sunday after the committee made the call to award him a DMSB Permit A, with the Dutchman reportedly flying home immediately after.

Verstappen made his racing debut at the ADAC Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS7), with the intention of splitting his time between two cars, the #89 and #980 entries, to gain the necessary mileage needed for a Permit A.

Mission accomplished for Max Verstappen

But after completing 14 laps behind the wheel of the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4, he wasn’t able to climb into the #89 entry as it had suffered damage during qualifying. As a result, he did not fully meet the requirements for a Permit A.

That meant Verstappen faced an anxious wait to see if his goal for the weekend, the permit required to race GT3 cars on

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