{"id":542066,"date":"2026-03-15T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/542066\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T14:01:09","slug":"max-verstappen-suffers-shock-chinese-gp-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/542066\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen suffers shock Chinese GP retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen has suffered a shock late retirement from the Chinese Grand Prix, cementing a miserable weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The four-time world champion had been running in sixth following another poor launch off the grid, which saw Verstappen slip to 16th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, on lap 45, the Dutchman&#8217;s Red Bull suddenly slowed due to a possible electrical issue. As a result, the team called for Verstappen to retire from the race.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen became the third driver to retire from the race joining both Aston Martins, while four drivers failed to even start the second round of 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It left just 15 drivers on circuit with Kimi Antonelli comfortably leading ahead of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has suffered a shock late retirement from the Chinese Grand Prix, cementing a miserable weekend.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,830,828,831,829,826,813,43,823,825,824,44,822,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-542066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542066","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=542066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}