24h Nurburgring, now it gets serious: the fight for pole position live – LIVE STREAMING

24h Nurburgring, the report of Q1 and Q2 A typical day, and it couldn’t be more typical at least from a meteorological point of view, greeted the start of operations at the 24 Hours of Nurburgring on Thursday. The best time between Q1 and Q2 – but for the crews of the SP9 class (the one with the highest performing GT3 cars and professional drivers) these were only free practice sessions in which there were no grid positions at stake – went to the Mercedes-AMG GT3 number 80, in the hands of Maro Engel, Luca Stolz, Fabian Schiller and Maxime Martin. “Only” third was Max Verstappen, behind the number 1 BMW M4 of the reigning champion Rowe team, which fields Jordan Pepper, Augusto Farfus, Raffaele Marciello and Kelvin Van Der Linde. Click here to add Formula Passion as your favorite source on Google Discover: you will find our content more easily! However, the best times were achieved in Q1, in the daytime session held with slightly more stable weather conditions, while in the three and a half hour Q2 in the evening there was little running due to the pouring rain which at times flooded the track, preventing the crews from improving the times of the first test session. Not bad especially for the top teams, who will compete on Friday for the first 49 positions on the grid in the sessions called “Top Qualifying” 1, 2 and 3, which work like elimination exactly as happens in Formula 1. The qualifying format: Max Verstappen’s team is immediately there. With a small but substantial exception: the five crews who obtained the best results in 2026 have right to access TQ3, thus avoiding “getting their hands dirty” already in the first preliminary sessions. However, this is not the case of the Mercedes-AMG GT3 number 3 of the Verstappen.com Racing team: Max and his teammates – Lucas Auer, Daniel Juncadella and Jules Gounon – have not achieved any particularly notable results in their previous seasonal outings at the Nurburgring Nordschleife (between disqualifications and retirements), and therefore are forced to compete for the best time already in TQ1 and TQ2. With one warning: whoever drives in the first session is obliged to leave the wheel to a crewmate in the subsequent ones, and therefore Verstappen will have to choose carefully when to take to the track. The live streaming of the qualifying of the 24h Nurburgring It is therefore another day of great spectacle at the Green Hell, with the sessions that will decide the starting grid: in addition to the three Top Qualifiers for the first 49 positions on the grid, there is also Q3 scheduled to define the highest positions of the “rest of the group” fighting between 161st and 50th position. It starts at 10.15am with TQ1, while the fight for pole position in TQ3 will take place for an hour, from 1.35pm to 2.35pm: here is the complete program with the times of all the sessions. The entire Friday of testing is then, as always, available live on the official YouTube channel of the Nurburgring 24 Hours, with traditional streaming with commentary in English and television direction, but also with various on-board channels from the cars. The advice is the usual: to stay on this article to simultaneously enjoy the live classic “TV” and the live footage from Max Verstappen’s Mercedes number 3.

Automobile Magazine – F1 English News , 2026-05-15 16:15:00