{"id":166712,"date":"2025-09-24T22:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166712\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:02:10","slug":"max-verstappen-gt3-debut-confirmed-as-kimi-raikkonen-wins-title-racingnews365-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166712\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen GT3 debut confirmed as Kimi Raikkonen wins title \u2013 RacingNews365 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen&#8217;s long-awaited competitive GT3 debut has been confirmed, and will take place this weekend at the Nordschleife.<\/p>\n<p>After securing his Nordschleife racing license two weeks ago by taking part in a four-hour race with a scaled-back Porsche Cayman GT4 car, Verstappen will now put the official documentation use for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/max-verstappen-long-awaited-competitive-gt3-debut-confirmed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: Max Verstappen long-awaited competitive GT3 debut confirmed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tKimi Raikkonen tastes world championship success in post-F1 role<\/p>\n<p>Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s Kawasaki Racing Team&#8217;s Romain Febvre clinched the Motocross world championship in Australia last weekend, his first title as a team principal.<\/p>\n<p>Raikkonen retired from F1 after the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix following a long career in which he claimed the 2007 drivers&#8217; 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