Hot track, very hot, with a temperature close to 55 degrees. Unruly cars. The only free practice of the Miami GP, the sixth round of Formula 1, was difficult for drivers and teams. The bug flirted with everyone during session time. There was Lewis Hamilton, with his seven titles in tow, trying to take his Mercedes around the limits of the track. And he wasn’t the only one. Oscar Piastri, Checo Pérez… Signatures accumulated in the streets of Florida. Even Max Verstappen went too far when braking and was on the verge of losing his Red Bull on several occasions. But at the end, when everyone put on the softest tire, the three-time champion accelerated and took the best, as always.
The Dutchman clocked 1m28s595 and beat Piastri, the second, by 105 thousandths. And the distance could have been even greater, but in the last sector he made a slight mistake with his RB19. Carlos Sainz closed the leading trio in the test, the only one because the Miami race, like the previous one in China, is a weekend format with a sprint.
The one who didn’t have a good time at all was Charles Leclerc. Barely six minutes had passed after 60 when the Monegasque man spun alone and was left with his Ferrari pointing the other way.. He was lucky, because he didn’t hit any wall, he passed very thinly, but he escaped. Of course, when he tried to apply the whip to put the trunk back to the correct side, he did nothing more than leave it crossed in the middle of the line and stopped. Red flag and end of the session for Leclerc. A mistake that could be very costly for the immediate future of the Scuderia driver, because you will have to go to the sprint classification without having developed even 10% of the work stipulated for the test. She barely turned three times.
MIAMI TRAINING RESULTS
