Wrapping up your weekend\u2019s F1 news, check out everything that made the headlines on Sunday as we head into another race week!<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, Max Verstappen still features heavily, following his successful race debut at the Nurburgring Nordschleife on Saturday.<\/p>\n
F1 news: Max Verstappen impresses in Nurburgring endurance event<\/p>\n
Verstappen and his teammate Chris Lulham finished seventh in the CUP3 class overall<\/a>\u00a0in the Dutch driver\u2019s maiden race outing at the Nurburgring, with the four-time F1 World Champion doing enough to earn the Permit \u2018A\u2019 licence which will allow him to take part in full-blooded GT3 racing at the circuit.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m happy it all went smooth, and I got my DMSB Permit Nordschleife,\u201d the 27-year-old told his website, verstappen.com.<\/p>\n \u201cI really enjoyed myself, but that\u2019s always the case around here. It was good to drive stints in the race with traffic, both with faster and slower cars,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was also a \u2018code 60\u2019 race neutralisation, double waved yellows and a standard yellow flag. I drove in the wet, the dry and in mixed conditions.<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019ve gained experience in where the grip is and isn\u2019t and completed a start procedure. It was really good to gain more experience on this circuit.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cIt\u2019s challenging and today we saw that some parts of the track were dry and other parts wet. The track surface also differs around the circuit, which makes it difficult to string a lap together, but it\u2019s also what makes it special.<\/p>\n \u201cTo contest a 24-hour race here, in a GT3 car, would be amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n Read next:\u00a0Max Verstappen\u2019s first words after Nordschleife permit ruling<\/a><\/p>\n Could Max Verstappen dream again of the F1 world title?<\/p>\n At 94 points behind championship leader Oscar Piastri, Verstappen faces a huge challenge to beat the Australian given that there are just eight race weekends left in F1 2025.<\/p>\n But, as he prepares to resume the day job this week after his Nurburgring fun, Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko believes the step forward made recently by the team could open up the possibility.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cBaku is a fast circuit, I\u2019m very optimistic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cHigh hopes for Singapore, the only race we didn\u2019t win so far, normally on slow circuits.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I believe now everything is possible with this period.\u201d<\/p>\n With Verstappen having whetted his appetite this year with non-F1 appearances, including a GT3 test at the Nurburgring and a race outing at the Nordschleife this weekend, Marko joked that his driver has even gone back to being quiet about his extra-curricular racing.<\/p>\n \u201cMax is motivated like I haven\u2019t seen him for a long time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, he\u2019s not even talking about GT!\u201d<\/p>\n Read next: Helmut Marko outlines major Red Bull difference in \u2018everything is possible\u2019 declaration<\/a><\/p>\n Nikolas Tombazis: 400km\/h speeds won\u2019t happen in F1 2026<\/p>\n Toto Wolff recently commented that 400km\/h speeds could be seen under certain conditions next year, when the new increased electrical power units are unleashed.<\/p>\n But, as part of an exclusive interview with PlanetF1.com, the FIA\u2019s Nikolas Tombazis has poured cold water on this suggestion.<\/p>\n \u201cI can assure you there won\u2019t be speeds of 400km\/h,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe could intervene if there was anything, but we are quite confident and quite sure that the regulations don\u2019t permit those sorts of speeds.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is the performance envelope of the car; if there were no regulations on any management, that would allow such speeds.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Read next: Why Toto Wolff\u2019s 400km\/h theory for F1 2026 won\u2019t happen<\/a><\/p>\n Luca di Montezemelo laments \u2018lack of leadership\u2019 at Ferrari<\/p>\n Former Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemelo, has hit out at what he deems as a lack of leadership at Ferrari, as the chances of a win in F1 2025 begin to fade.<\/p>\n \u201cI saw the beautiful images of the fans and then a team that, despite so many announcements on the eve of the race, has not won a single race to date,\u201d he told Sky Italia, \u201cand even if it had won a race, Ferrari after so many years must win the World Championship.<\/p>\n \u201cThe thing I regret today is seeing a Ferrari that has no leader, there is no leadership and above all I see that it lacks a strong, determined soul.<\/p>\n \u201cAnnouncements are made that often create excessive expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n Read next: Former Ferrari chief criticises \u2018lack of leadership\u2019 in winless 2025 campaign<\/a><\/p>\n Remembering Roger Hill<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Finally, for today, thank you to esteemed writer Richard Jenkins,\u00a0author of The Tyrrell Racing Organisation, for penning a lovely tribute to the late Roger Hill.<\/p>\n Hill was a beloved figure in F1 in the 1970s, as the chief mechanic to Tyrrell\u2019s Sir Jackie Stewart.<\/p>\n Read next: Obituary: Remembering Roger Hill, \u2018one of the greatest mechanics ever\u2019 in F1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrapping up your weekend\u2019s F1 news, check out everything that made the headlines on Sunday as we head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,4405,818,825,44,53374,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-143651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-helmut-marko","14":"tag-home-page","15":"tag-max-verstappen","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nikolas-tombazis","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143651","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=143651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}