{"id":367070,"date":"2025-12-25T01:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/367070\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T01:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:15:10","slug":"verstappen-racing-seal-mercedes-gt3-deal-as-haas-address-future-speculation-racingnews365-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/367070\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen Racing seal Mercedes GT3 deal as Haas address future speculation \u2013 RacingNews365 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verstappen Racing has announced a multi-year partnership with Mercedes-AMG Motorsport ahead of the 2026 GT3 season, marking a significant new chapter for Max Verstappen\u2019s racing operation.<\/p>\n

As part of the agreement, Verstappen Racing will continue competing in the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS, switching to the Mercedes-AMG GT3 for both the Sprint Cup and Endurance Cup campaigns from 2026 onwards.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Verstappen Racing signs multi-year Mercedes deal<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tHaas issue response to future F1 speculation after major Toyota announcement<\/p>\n

Haas team principal has denied the final goal of the Toyota partnership is for the Japanese manufacturer to establish itself as a works team in F1<\/p>\n

Toyota joined forces with Haas in late 2024 as part of a multi-year technical partnership.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Haas issue response to future F1 speculation after major Toyota announcement<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMax Verstappen ‘demons’ pinned among factors behind F1 title defeat<\/p>\n

Former Alpine executive director Marcin Budkowski has pointed to Max Verstappen\u2019s “demons” as one of the factors behind him missing out on a fifth consecutive F1 drivers\u2019 title.<\/p>\n

Verstappen finished just two points short of beating Lando Norris to the championship, despite having fallen 104 points adrift after the Dutch Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Max Verstappen ‘demons’ pinned among factors behind F1 title defeat<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tGeorge Russell unable to answer question on key Mercedes failure<\/p>\n

George Russell is at a loss to explain what Mercedes has missed compared to Red Bull and McLaren over the contemporary ground effects era of F1.<\/p>\n

It has been a frustrating four seasons for the eight-time constructors’ champions, filled with false dawns, disproven concepts and a fundamental inability, like many teams, to get on top of the regulations.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: George Russell unable to answer question on key Mercedes failure<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tRed Bull boss addresses major exits from F1 team<\/p>\n

Red Bull CEO Oliver Mintzlaff has brushed off concerns over the major name exits that have occurred at his team in recent times.<\/p>\n

In late 2024, sporting director Jonathan Wheatley announced his exit from the squad to take on the team principal role at Audi.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Red Bull boss addresses major exits from F1 team<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tMajor Red Bull name to start Dakar Rally under an alias<\/p>\n

A striking new name will appear on the Dakar Rally entry list when the legendary event gets underway in January 2026 \u2014 although not immediately recognisable at first glance.<\/p>\n

Listed as Mark Mustermann, the entrant is in fact Mark Mateschitz, majority shareholder of Red Bull and son of the late co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Major Red Bull name to start Dakar Rally under an alias<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Verstappen Racing has announced a multi-year partnership with Mercedes-AMG Motorsport ahead of the 2026 GT3 season, marking a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-367070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367070","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=367070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}