{"id":676369,"date":"2026-05-17T08:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676369\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:25:08","slug":"max-verstappen-grabs-nurburgring-24-hours-lead-during-stunning-night-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/676369\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen grabs Nurburgring 24 Hours lead during stunning night stint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen has put the #3 Mercedes into the lead of the 2026 N\u00fcrburgring 24 Hours, following an exceptional night stint.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman took over from Dani Juncadella at around 01:30 local time early Sunday morning, with Verstappen immediately in a battle with the #80 Mercedes.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen overtook Maro Engel for the lead, although it was far from a smooth overtake. Contact was made between the duo which saw Engel end up on the grass.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Verstappen escaped enscathed and with the lead, before handing the car over to Jules Gounon following a strong double stint.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Gounon maintained the lead before Lucas Auer was back behind the wheel, with a 15-second advantage over the #80 Mercedes.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>View the touch\u00e9 between Verstappen and Engel below!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has put the #3 Mercedes into the lead of the 2026 N\u00fcrburgring 24 Hours, following an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676370,"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":["post-676369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676369","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=676369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}