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Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours debut was li

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours debut was lining up as a statement win: the #3 Mercedes in control, the pace relentless, the crown within reach. Then endurance racing did what it always does. With under four hours to go, an ABS warning escalated into noises and vibrations, and Mercedes-AMG later confirmed a driveshaft issue that forced an unscheduled stop and ended any shot at victory. The car returned late, but finished a deflating 38th, 21 laps down.

Up front, Mercedes still took top honours as the #80 crew of Maro Engel, Luca Stolz, Fabian Schiller and Maxime Martin kept it clean for the win. Elsewhere, Timo Glock was disqualified and had his Nordschleife licence revoked after being clocked at 112km/h in a Code 60 zone, with the #69 McLaren continuing with its remaining drivers. Jules Gounon admitted he needed time to process it; Verstappen kept it simple: “We will be back mate.”

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #Nordschleife #EnduranceRacing #MercedesAMG #MaxVerstappen

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours debut was tu

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours debut was turning into the kind of disciplined, methodical endurance weekend that wins this race. In the #3 Verstappen Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Jules Gounon, Lucas Auer and Daniel Juncadella, he looked instantly at home in the traffic and the changing conditions, and by Sunday morning they weren’t just competitive — they were leading, building a margin that gave them control.

Then, with three hours to go, it ended the hard way: a driveshaft failure shortly after Juncadella got in. No drama, no driver error, just a component that didn’t make it to the finish. The #3 was classified 38th as the #80 Mercedes of Maro Engel, Luca Stolz, Fabian Schiller and Maxime Martin took the win. Gounon called it “heartbroken,” Juncadella said it was a dream race that was “three hours too short,” and Verstappen’s response was simple and pointed: “We will be back.”

#Nurburgring24 #N24 #GT3 #MaxVerstappen #MercedesAMG #EnduranceRacing

Max Verstappen and the #3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 crew lo

Max Verstappen and the #3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 crew looked in full control at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, nailing the changing conditions and the key rain-tyre call to build a rare two-minute lead with four hours still to run on the Nordschleife.

Then it unraveled fast. An ABS warning became vibrations, then a driveshaft failure that forced Daniel Juncadella to limp back in and triggered further damage. The “dream race” turned into a salvage mission, and the #3 car dropped to 38th at the flag. Mercedes still took the win with the #80 Engel/Stolz/Schiller/Martin lineup, but it was a brutal reminder that at the Nürburgring, you can do everything right and still lose it to one part.

#N24 #Nurburgring24h #GT3 #MercedesAMGGT3 #MaxVerstappen #EnduranceRacing

Winward Racing’s #80 Mercedes-AMG GT3 survived the

Winward Racing’s #80 Mercedes-AMG GT3 survived the Nürburgring 24 Hours’ late-race chaos to win the 2026 edition after 156 laps, with Maro Engel, Luca Stolz, Fabian Schiller and Maxime Martin keeping it clean while the Nordschleife punished almost everyone else. Red Bull Team ABT hauled its #84 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 home second (+46.311s), ahead of Walkenhorst Motorsport’s #34 Aston Martin in third (+2:28.750), with the #99 ROWE BMW and the eye-catching #81 BMW M3 Touring 24h rounding out the top five.

The brutal headline, though, was Max Verstappen’s #3 Mercedes ending up 38th on 135 laps in a race that turned “tumultuous” even by ‘Ring standards. From the new-gen HRT Ford Mustang GT3 EVO (2026) claiming seventh to the tight margins through the lower top 10, the final order read like a survival census: discipline rewarded, impatience punished, and reputations left at the mercy of the Green Hell.

#N24 #Nurburgring24h #Nordschleife #GT3 #EnduranceRacing #MercedesAMGGT3

Mercedes left the Nürburgring 24 Hours with the tr

Mercedes left the Nürburgring 24 Hours with the trophy, as Winward Racing’s #80 Mercedes-AMG kept its head through late drizzle and a shifting track to seal the win. Behind it, the podium fight flipped late: the #34 Aston Martin looked set for P2 until a late Code 60 helped the penalised #84 Lamborghini hang on to second by just 16 seconds.

But the weekend’s defining story was the collapse of the #3 Mercedes effort featuring Max Verstappen. After a hard-charging stint put the car in control and a tense 270km/h duel with Maro Engel avoided disaster, the #3 still led with around 90 minutes to go. Three laps after handing over to Daniel Juncadella, it came back with driveshaft damage and a missing right-rear wheel, turning a near-certain win into a painful, limping finish.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #GT3 #MercedesAMG #MaxVerstappen #EnduranceRacing

Verstappen Racing looked set to control the Nürbur

Verstappen Racing looked set to control the Nürburgring 24 Hours, with the #3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 leading and three hours left after Max Verstappen’s stint put them in a strong position. Daniel Juncadella took over and was ready to manage it home, until the car started throwing warnings.

An ABS alert came first, then noises and heavy vibrations, forcing an unscheduled stop after just two laps. Mercedes-AMG says drive shaft damage was the root cause, escalating quickly and sending the car into the garage for repairs as any victory hopes slipped away. With the #3 delayed, the lead swung to the #80 Mercedes in a late, brutal reshuffle at the front.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #GT3 #MercedesAMG #MaxVerstappen #EnduranceRacing

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours push turned

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours push turned into a late pitlane nightmare, with the Team Verstappen Mercedes-AMG GT3 going from looking like the car to beat to slipping down to 11th with three hours still to run. The #3 Winward Mercedes he shares with Lucas Auer, Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella was suddenly in damage-limitation mode in a race where control can vanish in a single lap.

At the 21-hour mark, Winward Racing’s #80 Mercedes led on lap 135, ahead of the #34 Walkenhorst Aston Martin (one lap down) and ROWE Racing’s #99 BMW, with Red Bull Team ABT’s #84 Lamborghini and BMW M Motorsport’s #81 rounding out the top five. It’s the usual Nordschleife reminder: reputations don’t matter, momentum doesn’t last, and the finish rarely matches the picture with hours to go.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #GT3 #EnduranceRacing #MaxVerstappen #MotorsportNews

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours was on cours

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours was on course for a calm, controlled run to the flag — until a late, sudden car issue blew it apart. After Verstappen built the lead and handed the #3 Verstappen Racing Mercedes over to Daniel Juncadella with just over three hours to go, an “unhealthy” sound appeared within a few laps and the car was nursed back to the pits.

The response was immediate and telling: straight into the garage, rear-right corner stripped, and frantic repairs underway as Juncadella stayed in the cockpit. On the timing screens the damage was brutal, with the #3 dropping out of the top three and continuing to fall as the minutes ticked away. Details on the failure — and what it means for their prospects — are expected to follow.

#N24h #Nuerburgring24 #GT3 #EnduranceRacing #MaxVerstappen #MotorsportNews

Timo Glock’s Nürburgring 24 Hours ended in the har

Timo Glock’s Nürburgring 24 Hours ended in the harshest way possible after a Code 60 infringement on the Nordschleife. Sharing Dörr Motorsport’s #69 McLaren with Ben Dörr, Marvin Kirchhöfer and Timo Scheider, Glock was recorded by the stewards at 112 km/h in a 60 km/h zone, triggering an 82-second stop-and-go plus two DMSB penalty points.

Those points took him to four in total after earlier points at the 24h Qualifiers, which automatically cost him his DMSB Permit Nordschleife and led to immediate disqualification from the event and withdrawal of the DPN licence. The #69 can continue with the remaining drivers, but losing a named driver mid-race is a major operational blow—and a blunt reminder that Code 60 compliance at the ‘Ring is non-negotiable, regardless of reputation.
#N24 #Nürburgring24h #Nordschleife #TimoGlock #EnduranceRacing #DorrMotorsport

The Nürburgring 24 Hours has entered that calm-loo

The Nürburgring 24 Hours has entered that calm-looking, high-risk phase where the timing screens say “under control” but the Nordschleife still demands perfection. As Sunday morning rolled into the final quarter, Verstappen Racing’s #3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 stayed out front on disciplined, double-stint execution — Jules Gounon through the last darkness, Lucas Auer into daylight — while the sister #80 Mercedes kept the pressure on.

That intra-Mercedes fight has tightened to a gap that can disappear in one messy traffic sequence, with the earlier flashpoint between Maro Engel and Max Verstappen giving way to smarter restraint. Behind, the fight for the next spots has been shaped more by pit timing than outright pace, with Lamborghini, Aston Martin, BMW and Porsche all trading blows as the leaders edge away. Six hours remain, and the endgame is simple: clean pits, clean traffic calls, and no unforced errors.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #Nordschleife #GT3 #MercedesAMG #EnduranceRacing

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Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours hasn’t been

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours hasn’t been a cameo so far. As the race moved into its final third, Team Verstappen’s #3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 has set the pace — and survived the kind of night where the Nordschleife turns the lead fight from numbers into nerve. Verstappen and Maro Engel ran nose-to-tail at the front before Engel’s high-speed off, but the #3 crew reset fast through Gounon and into Lucas Auer at dawn.

With eight hours to go, Auer held around 20 seconds over the sister #80 Mercedes, a margin that’s useful but never safe here with traffic and code 60s. An oil spill at Aremberg sparked chaos for others, while the podium scrap stayed live between the #34 Aston Martin and #99 BMW. And the SPX BMW M3 Touring continues to be one of the race’s most watchable stories in fifth.

#N24 #Nurburgring24h #Nordschleife #GT3 #MaxVerstappen #MercedesAMGGT3

Dawn has broken over the Eifel, and with eight hou

Dawn has broken over the Eifel, and with eight hours to go Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours cameo is still right where it needs to be: leading. Sixteen hours in, the #3 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 he shares with Lucas Auer, Jules Gounon and Dani Juncadella heads the field on lap 102, with the sister #80 Winward Mercedes 14.898s back keeping the pressure on.

Behind them it’s the classic Nordschleife chess match, with Walkenhorst’s #34 Aston Martin third and ROWE’s #99 BMW just 0.619s behind in fourth as traffic timing and slow zones shape the fight. BMW has another car in the top five, Red Bull Team ABT’s Lamborghinis remain in the mix, and Porsche is poised in seventh and eighth. The front is tight by Nürburgring standards, but the final third is where fatigue, brake wear and one wrong encounter with traffic can flip everything fast.

#N24 #Nurburgring24h #Nordschleife #GT3 #MercedesAMG #MaxVerstappen

Max Verstappen and Maro Engel nearly turned the Nü

Max Verstappen and Maro Engel nearly turned the Nürburgring 24 Hours into a 270km/h pinball match on Saturday night, when the two Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3s clashed on the Döttinger Höhe. Engel got spat onto the grass, somehow kept it out of the barriers, and rejoined with only seconds lost after a door-to-door fight squeezed by slower traffic.

With the usual SP9 contenders fading early, the race had distilled into the kind of endurance-racing rarity teams dread: matching cars, same colours, genuinely racing each other in the dark on the Nordschleife. After driver changes, Verstappen’s #3 (now Jules Gounon) led the #80 (now Maxime Martin) by 15.5s at 13.5 hours, with the #34 Aston Martin almost four minutes back. Engel sounded more amused than angry afterward, while Verstappen’s pace continued to underline just how quickly he’s adapted to the Green Hell’s night shift.

#N24 #Nurburgring24h #Nordschleife #GT3 #AMGGT3 #EnduranceRacing

Halfway through the Nürburgring 24 Hours, Max Vers

Halfway through the Nürburgring 24 Hours, Max Verstappen is right where endurance racing gets real: in the lead, in traffic, in the dark, managing the kind of chaos the Nordschleife demands. At the 12-hour mark, the #3 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 he shares with Lucas Auer, Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella led on Lap 75 after a hard, elbows-out fight with Maro Engel in the sister #80 car, just 5.175s behind.

Only Walkenhorst’s #34 Aston Martin remained on the lead lap in third, with ROWE’s #99 BMW already over two and a half minutes back. The rest of the top 10 stacked up with Lamborghini, Porsche and the HRT Ford Mustang in the mix, but the message at halfway was clear: pace matters, survival matters more. Winward has the Green Hell under control for now, but this race still has 12 hours left to take it back.

#N24 #Nurburgring24h #Nordschleife #GT3 #MaxVerstappen #EnduranceRacing

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours cameo delive

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours cameo delivered an instant highlight, but it came with a serious warning label. Just past the 11-hour mark, the #3 Winward Racing Mercedes went door-to-door with sister car #80 on the Döttinger Höhe run to Hohenrain, in the dark and in traffic. After trading the lead, a split-second mismatch at around 270km/h caused contact and bounced Maro Engel onto the grass, but he somehow kept it together and rejoined still P2, with Verstappen escaping damage and holding the lead into hour 12.

The night stayed unforgiving elsewhere too, with the #17 Porsche’s heavy Bergwerk crash ending its race and triggering a slow zone. At halfway, Winward still had the race in its hands: #3 led #80 by 5.175s after 12 hours, with the chasing pack already stretched and the Nordschleife waiting to punish any next mistake.

#N24 #Nurburgring24h #Nordschleife #GT3 #EnduranceRacing #MaxVerstappen

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours debut is alr

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 Hours debut is already full Nordschleife: relentless traffic, shifting grip and favourites vanishing in minutes. Taking over the #3 Mercedes-AMG GT3 early on Saturday, Verstappen cut through the multi-class chaos and jumped from third to first as the #16 Audi’s race imploded after contact and damage that ultimately ruled it out.

There was a reminder of how quickly it can bite, too, as the Mercedes briefly went airborne and brushed the Armco — Verstappen calling it simply turning in too early before getting back to work. The trouble kept coming for others as the #911 Porsche hit the barriers and stopped later, then the #64 Ford crashed at the same spot. Up front the lead changed hands again, with the #67 Ford (Dennis Olsen) edging clear after the #3 lost time in tricky conditions. With night and more weather looming, Verstappen’s focus turns from early attack to keeping it clean and staying in the fight.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #Nordschleife #GT3 #MaxVerstappen #EnduranceRacing

The 2026 Nürburgring 24 Hours wasted no time deliv

The 2026 Nürburgring 24 Hours wasted no time delivering classic Nordschleife chaos. A cold, greasy track punished early optimism, with spins for the #16 Audi and #99 BMW setting the tone. Up front, the #130 Lamborghini initially led as Daniel Juncadella launched the #3 Verstappen Racing Mercedes (run by Winward) into the leading group, briefly inheriting second after a puncture for Mirko Bortolotti.

Traffic then bit, Juncadella’s dirt-kick moment cost positions, and the big blow landed on the early leader: a 32-second jump-start penalty for the #130. The front fight tightened, the #7 Lamborghini emerged as the car to beat after the first pit cycle, and Max Verstappen climbed in for his first Nürburgring 24 race stint — thrown straight into a compressed field in P10 with rain looming and survival the first priority.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #Nordschleife #MaxVerstappen #GT3 #EnduranceRacing

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 debut is deliverin

Max Verstappen’s Nürburgring 24 debut is delivering an instant reality check: a four-time F1 champion learning the Nordschleife’s night rules the hard way. Sharing the #3 Mercedes for Verstappen Racing with Lucas Auer, Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella, Verstappen described a wet, foggy night run where he could barely see — forcing him to back off because he had to, not because he wanted to.

For Verstappen, it’s less drama than homework: adjusting his eyes, building references, and adapting to a track where spray, vapour and even the famous night crowd can distort what you think you’re seeing. Teammate Gounon isn’t worried, calling it a worst-case introduction and backing Max to settle in fast — but the message is clear: at the Ring, reputation doesn’t buy visibility.

#N24 #Nurburgring24 #Nordschleife #MaxVerstappen #GT3 #EnduranceRacing

Max Verstappen arrives at the Nürburgring 24 Hours

Max Verstappen arrives at the Nürburgring 24 Hours as the rookie for once, stepping into the Green Hell alongside endurance specialists Daniel Juncadella, Lucas Auer and Jules Gounon in a Mercedes-AMG GT3. It’s a serious entry, and they’ve put themselves where they wanted to be: fourth on the grid after Juncadella’s Top Qualifying 3 lap, with the opening stint also in his hands.

The team’s message is simple: they’re here to win, but the Nordschleife demands humility. Early track position matters in instant multi-class traffic, night and weather can turn the race in seconds, and preparation hasn’t been perfect after a cancelled NLS night run. Still, confidence is high in Verstappen’s adaptability and in an AMG package praised for having no obvious vices. From here, it’s the Nürburgring bargain: stay clean, stay close, and hope the place chooses you.

#N24h #Nurburgring24 #Nordschleife #GT3 #MaxVerstappen #EnduranceRacing

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