{"id":648348,"date":"2026-05-17T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648348\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:40:07","slug":"lucas-auer-reacted-to-his-morning-stint-at-the-24h-nurburgring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648348\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Auer reacted to his morning stint at the 24H N\u00fcrburgring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/max-verstappen\" title=\"Max Verstappen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a>\u2019s teammate Lucas Auer has shared his thoughts after completing a double morning stint for Verstappen Racing at the N\u00fcrburgring 24 Hours.<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian driver, who took over from Jules Gounon shortly after sunrise, delivered two clean stints to keep the team firmly in control at the front. Auer maintained a lead of around five seconds before handing the car over to Verstappen. The 31-year-old reflected positively on his time behind the wheel at the demanding Nordschleife.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media after stepping out of the car, Auer praised the consistency of his run, while stressing his focus on staying out of trouble in tricky conditions, with the weather still a key factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the second double stint for me was actually quite clean, quite good. I tried to keep it safe, but overall it was all good, and the track is also in good condition. So let&#8217;s see what the weather does now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen extends lead after taking overWhile Auer kept the advantage steady between five and seven seconds over the #80 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/mercedes\" title=\"Mercedes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mercedes<\/a> during his stint, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/breaking-news\/verstappen-back-behind-the-wheel-after-commanding-nurburgring-night-run\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Verstappen has since pushed the pace further after taking over.<\/a>The four-time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> champion immediately stretched the gap to over nine seconds in the opening phase of his stint, before briefly seeing it reduced as Lucas Stolz in the #80 Mercedes mounted a push. However, Verstappen responded strongly, gradually rebuilding his advantage to more than 13 seconds by the end of his opening run.<\/p>\n<p>After both cars made their pit stops, Verstappen further extended the lead on the subsequent phase, opening up a gap of over 25 seconds to the sister Mercedes entry. With less than five hours remaining in the 24-hour race, the Red Bull driver remains firmly in control at the front.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/videos\/f1-live-watch-max-verstappen-take-on-the-famous-24h-nurburgring-here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow all the action from the N\u00fcrburgring 24 Hours here with GPBlog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen\u2019s teammate Lucas Auer has shared his thoughts after completing a double morning stint for Verstappen Racing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,1707,158849,1080,451,7193,8914,3,258478,452,453],"class_list":["post-648348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","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\/648348","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=648348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}