{"id":134862,"date":"2025-09-13T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/134862\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:48:10","slug":"max-verstappen-annihilates-opposition-during-nordschleife-baptism-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/134862\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen annihilates opposition during Nordschleife baptism of fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen annihilated his opposition during qualifying for the NLS round at the Nurburgring in sodden conditions, ending 13 seconds faster than others in his class.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman is taking part in the event this weekend, in a toned-down Porsche Cayman CT4, and in rainy conditions, set an intial fastest lap for his class of 10m:39s, lowering it to a 10:34 next time by, nearly a minute faster than the next best ProAm driver.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Verstappen demolished the opposition, with a fastest time of 10:21.591, ending nearly 13 seconds faster than class rivals, setting the sixth fastest time of any Porsche Cayman and just 10 seconds behind the Cayman class leader.<\/p>\n<p>A whopping 69 seconds were put on the second fastest in the guest driver category, but it should be pointed out that Verstappen&#8217;s time is relative to those Porsche Caymans with the full allocation of 425bhp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As he is a rookie driver, his car is limited to 300bhp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The race begins at 12pm CET, 11am BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen annihilated his opposition during qualifying for the NLS round at the Nurburgring in sodden conditions, ending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3007,1687,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,6537,832,3006,3005,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-134862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}