Max Verstappen and team-mate Chris Lulham secured a stunning victory at the wheel of their Ferrari 296 GT3 machine at the Nurburgring.<\/p>\n
After qualifying third in a misty and rainy qualifying, Verstappen started the #31 machine for the four-hour race around the ‘Green Hell’ – and immediately earned the lead.<\/p>\n
Taking the rolling start, the F1 world champion roared into a lead he would never lose, gradually extending his advantage over the #6 Ford Mustang, whose crew included ‘ring ringer Frank Stippler.<\/p>\n
Verstappen stayed on-board the #31 for two hours, taking the first two stints, before handing over to Verstappen.com Racing team-mate Lulham for the final couple of hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Verstappen’s lead had ballooned to 1m:10 before he handed over to Lulham, who lost some time in his stint through a variety of yellow flag and slow zones.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the end, the 28-lap race was won by the Verstappen-Lulham entry by over 20 seconds, as Verstappen won on his GT3 debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In second place was the #9 Ford Mustang, including Briton Jann Mardenborough, racing at the Nurburgring for the first time since a 2015 accident, in which a spectator was killed after his car flipped over a catch-fencing barrier.<\/p>\n
Verstappen has made clear his desire to compete in the Nurburgring 24 Hours, with the race taking place in May 2026, between the Miami and Canadian F1 Grands Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen and team-mate Chris Lulham secured a stunning victory at the wheel of their Ferrari 296 GT3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173387,"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-173386","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\/173386","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=173386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}