Christopher Haase has labelled Max Verstappen as “very respectful” following their duel for the lead of the second qualifying race at the Nurburgring 24 Hours.<\/p>\n
Haase in the #16 Audi R8 LMS GT3 and Verstappen in the #3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 were engaged in a fierce battle for the lead in the opening stint of the race.<\/p>\n
It lasted only an hour until Haase pitted and stepped out of the car, whilst Verstappen’s race lasted another 30 minutes beyond that, owing to a splitter failure which all but ended his and Lucas Auer’s challenge<\/p>\n
In the end, Haase’s teammates, Ben Green and Alexander Sims, managed to secure victory, with Verstappen and Auer P39.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It was just grandiose again, our duel out there. Today it was a bit trickier, I must say. I didn’t feel completely comfortable because of my rear axle,” reflected Haase.<\/p>\n
“Last time that felt a little better. We still have to work on that a little bit. But he (Verstappen) was great again and drove very respectfully. Really handsome. Yes, I think it was another good show.”<\/p>\n
“Max just positioned himself perfectly each time. It always depends on which side you are on and how it works out in the end. And unfortunately, I was never in a position to take that little bit of momentum.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Haase has labelled Max Verstappen as “very respectful” following their duel for the lead of the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618051,"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":{"0":"post-618050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618050","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=618050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}