Max Verstappen will make his debut at an official race on the Nordschleife, but first must pass a test.

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    5 days ago

    Not often allowed by the teams these days due to the risk of them getting hurt. That started when Stefan Bellof died at Spa doing WEC in 85

    Look back to Jim Clark who raced pretty much everything at once. Alonso did daytona 24hr and Indy 500. Lance Stroll did Daytona in 2018. Hulk won Le Mans in 15. Lots of them do Race of Champions. Wehrlien hurt his neck bad flipping a car in ROC Kimi raced snowmobiles and trucks, didn’t often tell the team. Kubica’s F1 career was interrupted by his near fatal rally crash in 2011, 3 days after preseason F1 testing.