{"id":142096,"date":"2025-09-13T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142096\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:30:07","slug":"verstappen-makes-nurburgring-debut-in-endurance-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/142096\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen makes Nurburgring debut in endurance racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N\u00dcRBURG, Germany (AP) \u2014 Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen made his debut at the N\u00fcrburgring Endurance Series on Saturday by finishing seventh in a field of 19 starters.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen used a gap in the F1 calendar after winning the Italian Grand Prix last weekend to dabble in endurance sportscar racing by completing the four-hour race in a Porsche Cayman GT4.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen said the N\u00fcrburgring Nordschleife topped the list of tracks he wanted to race on because of its length, layout and history.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Dutch driver&#8217;s presence stoked excitement in the race with fans surrounding his paddock and security ensuring there were no unauthorized visitors. Privacy screens also shielded the view from neighboring pit stops.<\/p>\n<p>The next F1 race is in Azerbaijan next weekend. <\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP auto racing: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"N\u00dcRBURG, Germany (AP) \u2014 Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen made his debut at the N\u00fcrburgring Endurance Series on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-142096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}