{"id":556241,"date":"2026-03-22T03:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556241\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:58:11","slug":"motorsport-news-2026-max-verstappen-stripped-of-trophy-over-tyre-mishap-in-gt3-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556241\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorsport news 2026 | Max Verstappen stripped of trophy over tyre mishap in GT3 race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Verstappen<\/a> has been stripped of his race win at the N\u00fcrburgring Nordschleife after his team were found to have breached tyre regulations.<\/p>\n

The Dutch F1 superstar was competing in the GT3 class with Winward on Sunday (AEDT) alongside teammates Dani Juncadella and Jules Gounon.<\/p>\n

The trio claimed a comfortable win in the four-hour event, although their celebrations came to an abrupt end as officials informed the team of a glaring error they had made.<\/p>\n

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As per the rules of the event, only six sets of tyres could be used. Winward used seven.<\/p>\n

The technical breach had not been identified during the race but was recognised when officials scanned the barcode logs post-race.<\/p>\n

“The disqualification is tough to take,” Winward boss Christian Hohenadel told Motorsport.com.<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen poses with his teammates.\u00a0Twitter<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, we made an internal error that left the stewards with no choice but to exclude the winning car.<\/p>\n

“It was our first outing as a full Mercedes-AMG Performance Team on the Nordschleife, and I want to apologise to all the fans who were cheering us on.<\/p>\n

“We’ll analyse every single process today, learn from it, and come back even stronger for the 24 hours.”<\/p>\n

Mercedes-AMG’s customer racing chief Stefan Wendl later confirmed via a statement that the tyre error had occurred during qualifying.<\/p>\n

“The error occurred during qualifying, when multiple driver and tyre changes were practised,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The disappointment is all the greater as a behind-the-scenes mistake led to disqualification, which hurts.”<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen of Oracle Red Bull Racing participates in Formula 1 Pre-Season Testing.\u00a0NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

With Winward disqualified from the race, Rowe Racing were awarded the victory.<\/p>\n

It is not the first time Verstappen has driven in a GT3 race, having made his debut in the sport last November driving a Ferrari 296.<\/p>\n

The Formula 1<\/a> star has a desire to drive in the 24-hour Le Mans race in June.<\/p>\n

Until then, he will focus on his season for Red Bull in F1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has been stripped of his race win at the N\u00fcrburgring Nordschleife after his team were found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-556241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556241","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=556241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}