{"id":555618,"date":"2026-03-21T20:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555618\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:52:10","slug":"verstappen-swaps-red-bull-f1-car-for-mercedes-testing-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555618\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen swaps Red Bull F1 car for Mercedes: testing underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verstappen is set to drive the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo for the first time this weekend at the Nordschleife, also known as the &#8216;Green Hell&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Formula 1 world champion&#8217;s teammates will be Daniel Juncadella and Jules Gounon in the number 3 car.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen will take to the track for the first time today to test his new car. His team, Verstappen Racing, has also posted a video of him entering the track for the first time today. Watch the video below!<\/p>\n<p>NLS2&#8217;s qualifying and race will both take place tomorrow. Read about how to watch both sessions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/general\/max-verstappen-switches-f1-car-for-gt3-how-to-follow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Verstappen is set to drive the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo for the first time this weekend at the Nordschleife,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,35119,813,816,825,47804,85],"class_list":["post-555618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-max-verstappen","tag-nurburgring","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555618","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=555618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}