{"id":646534,"date":"2026-05-16T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646534\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T10:46:08","slug":"verstappen-racing-completes-final-warm-up-24h-nurburgring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/646534\/","title":{"rendered":"Verstappen Racing completes final warm-up 24h Nurburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After not taking part in any of yesterday\u2019s Top Qualifying sessions &#8211; with Lucas Auer driving in Top Qualifying 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/max-verstappen\" title=\"Max Verstappen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a> in Top Qualifying 2, and Dani Juncadella in the final session &#8211; the Frenchman handled warm-up duties today.Gounon completed a total of two laps and set the ninth-fastest time with an 8:50.3. Fastest on track this morning was Verstappen Racing&#8217;s sister #80 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/mercedes\" title=\"Mercedes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mercedes<\/a>-AMG GT3 Evo car, with Maxime Martin behind the wheel setting an 8:32.2.After the conclusion of the one-hour warm-up this morning, the paddock begins to prepare for the key event of the weekend. Cars begin entering the starting grid at 12:45 local time (11:45 GMT). The formation lap will then get underway at 14:40 local time. The race itself is set to begin at 15:00 (14:00 GMT). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/general\/verstappens-teammate-handed-key-task-at-24h-nurburgring\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Juncadella will start<\/a> the race for Verstappen Racing later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After not taking part in any of yesterday\u2019s Top Qualifying sessions &#8211; with Lucas Auer driving in Top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,1707,451,7193,8914,3,258478,452,453],"class_list":["post-646534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-f1","tag-headlines","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mercedes","tag-news","tag-nurburgring","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}