Watch here from Saturday at 4pm as Max Verstappen returns to the Nordschleife to continue his preparations for May's Nurburgring 24 Hours in a double-header weekend of races in the German track's endurance series this weekend.

With F1 off track in April due to the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix, Verstappen has added the NLS4 and NLS5 races - dubbed the 'qualifiers' - to his growing GT3 schedule.

He will team up with experienced endurance driver Lucas Auer, the nephew of former F1 driver Gerhard Berger, in the Red Bull-livered Mercedes-AMG GT3 car for Verstappen Racing in a 37-strong GT3 field at 'The Green Hell' in the latest rounds of the Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie.

Watch live streams of both four-hour races from across the weekend here on skysports.com and the Sky Sports app.

Saturday's stream is under way from 4pm (race start 4.30pm) and Sunday's race from 11.30am (race start 12pm). All UK times.

It will be the third and fourth time that four-time world champion Verstappen has raced in GT3 machinery in the NLS.

He won on his debut last September in a Ferrari 296 GT3 car he shared with Britain's Chris Lulham.

He and his team-mates, this time driving the Mercedes, again finished first again on Verstappen's return to NLS action last month but were later disqualified due to the team exceeding the permitted tyre allocation.

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