{"id":681075,"date":"2026-05-19T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681075\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:54:11","slug":"f1-news-2026-kimi-antonelli-blocked-by-mercedes-from-securing-nurburgring-nordschleife-permit-max-verstappen-debut-race-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681075\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 news 2026 | Kimi Antonelli blocked by Mercedes from securing Nurburgring Nordschleife permit; Max Verstappen debut race result"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kimi Antonelli<\/a> may have a desire to follow in the footsteps of Max Verstappen<\/a> and compete at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, but the surprise F1 championship leader will have to wait a little longer to fulfil that dream.<\/p>\n

Verstappen debuted in the Nurburgring 24-hour endurance race<\/a> in Germany over the weekend where his team led for most of the race, but a broken driveshaft forced the four-time world champion’s team off the track towards the end and they finished 38th.<\/p>\n

Verstappen’s involvement in the race drew the attention of those in the motorsport world and also inspired Mercedes<\/a>‘ teenage driver to look into competing in the future.<\/p>\n

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Antonelli was at the centre of speculation that he may compete in the event in the future after he revealed he wants to secure a Nordschleife permit – the mandatory racing licence needed to race on the Nurburgring Nordschleife – “by the end of the year”.<\/p>\n

\"Kimi<\/p>\n

Kimi Antonelli sits in the Mercedes garage with his race engineer Peter Bonnington.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old’s comments quickly gained attraction, given he is only in his second year as an F1 driver with Mercedes. He currently leads the world drivers championship.<\/p>\n

But Mercedes deputy team principal Bradley Lord has quickly shut down suggestions that Antonelli could be set to race outside F1 in the near future. <\/p>\n

Asked by Nitro if Mercedes would let Antonelli get a Nurburgring permit, Lord said “no.”<\/p>\n

“I’ve spoken to him about it. I think he meant it more as a joke,” he added.<\/p>\n

“Maybe he could give it a try once he’s won four world championships.”<\/p>\n

Verstappen had been exploring other motorsport ventures since voicing his concerns with the new regulations introduced in the F1 this season.<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen drives a Mercedes-AMG GT3 during the ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nurburgring.\u00a0NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He has labelled the regulations as being similar to playing Mario Kart, with his best finish being fifth at the Miami Grand Prix earlier this month.<\/p>\n

While he has not been the biggest fan of the new regulations, Antonelli has thrived.<\/p>\n

The Italian driver has won four races this season, with his teammate claiming the first win of the year at the Australian Grand Prix. Antonelli came second in that race.<\/p>\n

Verstappen and Antonelli will return to racing on May 25 (AEST) for the Canadian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli may have a desire to follow in the footsteps of Max Verstappen and compete at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-681075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681075","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=681075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}