{"id":138850,"date":"2025-09-12T23:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138850\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:41:10","slug":"max-verstappen-makes-licence-pledge-ahead-of-gt-race-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/138850\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen makes licence pledge ahead of GT race debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen will take part in a GT race on the Nordschleife for the first time on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time F1 champion wants to obtain an A license to participate in the 24 Hours of N\u00fcrburgring in the future, meaning he will make his GT debut in a four-hour event.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen had to undergo a course on Friday to be allowed to drive. The Dutchman drove two reconnaissance laps behind a green Mercedes and took a theory exam.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to the race, and speaking to his own website, he said: &#8220;Racing is not only my profession, but also my hobby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This weekend I&#8217;ll be at the Nordschleife, with the goal of obtaining the mandatory racing licence needed to race here in a GT3 car, because I would love that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Nordschleife is at the top of my list of circuits I want to race on, because it is extremely challenging and demanding, with its enormous length and tight, historic layout. I can&#8217;t wait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>View photos of Verstappen below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen will take part in a GT race on the Nordschleife for the first time on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-138850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}