{"id":176222,"date":"2025-09-28T23:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176222\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:22:06","slug":"max-verstappen-nurburgring-success-followed-by-jos-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176222\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen Nurburgring success followed by Jos title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there has been no grand prix this Sunday, our F1 news selection comes after both Verstappens have been in racing action this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh from Red Bull driver Max winning on his GT3 debut at the Nurburgring alongside Chris Lulham, his father has been back behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Jos Verstappen wins rallying title<\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of Max Verstappen\u2019s win at the Nurburgring, Jos Verstappen took the Belgian Rally Championship to make it his first title success since 2008, in LMP2 machinery at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen Sr and co-driver Renaud Jamoul came home third in the East Belgian Rally, the penultimate round of the season, to put him out of reach of nearest challenger Cherain Cedric with one rally to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/jos-verstappen-rally-champion-max-verstappen-nurburgring-gt3-win\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jos Verstappen crowned champion after 17-year wait as Max takes Nurburgring win<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brown responds as McLaren valued at $5billion<\/p>\n<p>Zak Brown has backed Formula 1 teams to continue growing in value, after a recent stake sale that gives the team a value PlanetF1.com understands to be in the region of $5billion [\u00a33.74bn].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time there\u2019s a record deal, and whatever sport it is, everyone goes \u2018oh, that was crazy\u2019. And then you look back in five years, they\u2019ve still gone up,\u201d he told Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think our sport in particular has a lot of room for growth; 24 races, we have demand for probably 30 grands prix. The demand is strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/zak-brown-predicts-f1-teams-to-continue-record-breaking-rise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zak Brown predicts F1 teams to continue record-breaking rise<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tsunoda: Red Bull \u2018not giving up\u2019 on Verstappen title<\/p>\n<p>Despite the team playing down thoughts of a Max Verstappen fightback in the Drivers\u2019 Championship this season, Yuki Tsunoda is willing to play his part to help his teammate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think definitely, we are more confident in the coming races to perform better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m sure we\u2019re not giving up with this season, especially securing the Drivers\u2019 Championship for Max, so I\u2019ll try to extract performance as much as possible from the car that I have, and also at the same time for some races, if I can support him, that would be [good].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/yuki-tsunoda-red-bull-f1-2025-title-fight\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tsunoda: Red Bull and Verstappen \u2018not giving up\u2019 on F1 2025 title battle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only way Max Verstappen will leave Red Bull revealed<\/p>\n<p>Max Verstappen\u2019s manager, Raymond Vermeulen, has said the Dutch driver would love to see out his career with Red Bull, and while any move in the future would ultimately be at the behest of the reigning World Champion, access to race-winning machinery is the absolute key to his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything could change next year with the new regulations,\u201d Vermeulen noted in conversation with De Telegraaf. \u201cSo it\u2019s better to wait and see how things develop and who is where. Based on that, you can then look further ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be a fantastic story if he drove his entire Formula 1 career for Red Bull. But that will only happen if he has the equipment to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/max-verstappen-manager-winning-red-bull-car-only-condition-stay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen\u2019s manager details \u2018only\u2019 way he can complete F1 career with Red Bull<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso using maximum brain capacity in Newey talks<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso has opened informal talks with Adrian Newey as he looks to provide input into Aston Martin\u2019s 2026 design, which the famed \u2018design guru\u2019 of Formula 1 is fronting.<\/p>\n<p>Such is his brain power, however, the two-time World Champion joked he has to be on form to be able to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, he\u2019s an incredible person, the best designer in the history of our sport, and everyone in the team is learning a lot from him,\u201d said Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are moments when, to be able to understand him, you need to use all your brain capacity. Even if Adrian only uses five per cent, for us, for normal people, we need to use much more. [Laughs.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/fernando-alonso-adrian-newey-f1-2026-progress-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alonso\u2019s \u2018brain capacity\u2019 challenged in Adrian Newey F1 2026 progress update<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While there has been no grand prix this Sunday, our F1 news selection comes after both Verstappens have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[2074,2495,64,63,817,845,813,816,818,825,913,44,918,85,5077,9657],"class_list":{"0":"post-176222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-adrian-newey","9":"tag-aston-martin","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-f1","13":"tag-fernando-alonso","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-formula1","16":"tag-home-page","17":"tag-max-verstappen","18":"tag-mclaren","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-red-bull","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-yuki-tsunoda","23":"tag-zak-brown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176222","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=176222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}