Max Verstappen has signalled his intent to race in the Nurburgring 24 Hours following his stunning victory on debut in a GT3 race on the Nordschleife.<\/p>\n
Having qualified in third place, Verstappen roared into the lead at the rolling start and dominated during his two hours behind the wheel.<\/p>\n
Driving his Ferrari 296 GT3 machine, Verstappen pulled out a maximum lead of 70 seconds over the chasing pack around the 14.1-mile track before handing over to Chris Lulham at the two-hour mark.<\/p>\n
Lulham’s stint was punctuated with a number of yellow flags and slow zones, as his lead was gradually wiped out, but he still comfortably won by over 20 seconds to hand both drivers a win on their Nurburgring debuts.<\/p>\n
Reflecting, Verstappen was hopeful of a racing return to the Nordschleife.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Yes, it was great. The first two stints went really well,” Verstappen said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The car performs well on a dry track, I already knew that from qualifying, we didn’t make any big mistakes, and to win here on our first attempt is obviously fantastic.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t see the [first lap incident involving another car] at the time. I only saw it after my stints, but these things happen.<\/p>\n
“Of course, I would love to compete in the 24-hour race, whether that happens next year or later, but we still need more experience for that, of course.<\/p>\n
“That’s a given, so hopefully we can compete in more races next year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has signalled his intent to race in the Nurburgring 24 Hours following his stunning victory on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173572,"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-173571","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\/173571","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=173571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}