{"id":676031,"date":"2026-05-17T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/676031\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:48:08","slug":"max-verstappen-nurburgring-24-hours-win-hopes-ended-by-mechanical-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/676031\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen Nurburgring 24 Hours win hopes ended by mechanical problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vertsappen, who is contracted with Red Bull until 2028, was racing in this year&#8217;s Nurburgring 24 Hours as it took place between the Miami and Canadian Grands Prix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The race features showroom-style cars taking on the famous 15.8-mile circuit in the Eifel mountains in Germany and the 28-year-old had said it had &#8220;been on my bucket list for a long time&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were 161 entries across 23 classes for the race in what was the largest grid in more than 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Verstappen&#8217;s involvement had created a lot of interest in the race, with weekend tickets selling out for the first time in the event&#8217;s history and organisers saying a record 352,000 attended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Mercedes of Maro Engel, Luca Stolz, Fabian Schiller and Maxime Martin claimed the overall victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had a good start, great stints, the decision for rain tyres at the right moment. We had a two-minute lead over everyone else,&#8221; said Juncadella.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Just a dream race, but unfortunately it was three hours too short and three hours too long for us. But that&#8217;s just the way it is in racing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Verstappen will now return to F1 and the Canadian Grand Prix, which takes place next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vertsappen, who is contracted with Red Bull until 2028, was racing in this year&#8217;s Nurburgring 24 Hours as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-676031","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\/676031","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=676031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}