{"id":340882,"date":"2026-03-21T14:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340882\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:58:14","slug":"f1-news-how-to-watch-max-verstappen-in-nls2-driving-mercedes-amg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340882\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 news: How to watch Max Verstappen in NLS2 driving Mercedes-AMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/650833433_1965238701041653_716186470263490596_n.jpg\" alt=\"How to watch Max Verstappen race Mercedes at Nordschleife\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Verstappen Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3.<\/p>\n<p>NLS2 is the second of 10 events this season in what is the 50th anniversary of the NLS.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch driver will compete under the Mercedes-AMG Team Verstappen Racing banner with co-drivers Daniel Juncadella and Jules Gounon. Lucas Auer will sit out NLS2.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all part of his preparation for the Nurburgring 24 on May 14-17, which the quartet have committed to contesting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFriday is for testing, also for me to get up to speed with the car there,\u201d said Verstappen ahead of Saturday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen it\u2019s about gaining race experience and trying to put the car in the best possible window for the 24-hour race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Qualifying gets underway on Saturday at 6:30pm AEDT before the four-hour race at 10:30pm AEDT. The race will conclude at 2:30am AEDT on Sunday morning. A total of 136 cars are entered for the race.<\/p>\n<p>Coverage of the race can be live-streamed below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.cfjump.com\/92797\/b\/294243\" rel=\"nofollow sponsored noopener\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/294243.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Verstappen Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3. NLS2 is the second of 10 events this season in what is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4960,3516,111,139,69,216,213],"class_list":["post-340882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-live","tag-max-verstappen","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot3","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}