MIAMI – The Formulation 1 race weekend continues in Miami with Dash qualifying that noticed Max Verstappen take pole place for tomorrow afternoon’s Dash race. Charles Leclerc in his Ferrari traces up alongside him, as this session went a lot better than free observe that noticed him spin his blue SF-24. Behind them, Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo make up the second row.
Ricciardo was undoubtedly the shock of the session, scoring his greatest qualifying place of the season and placing his Racing Bulls automotive someplace we haven’t seen it but. It might simply be sufficient to quiet these doubting that Ricciardo is the one for the job, as he outdid drivers which have outperformed him because the begin of the season, together with teammate Yuki Tsunoda. That mentioned, he’ll must execute within the Dash tomorrow if he intends to deliver house factors and never get handed by these behind him.
McLaren appeared to have nice tempo in qualifying’s first two periods, however each Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri noticed large efficiency drop-offs when it got here time to set their beginning positions with Norris in ninth and Piastri in sixth. Most groups blamed the poor comfortable tire efficiency for some unpredictability within the remaining qualifying session, nevertheless it’s a disappointing end result for McLaren contemplating the hyped upgrades it dropped at this weekend. We’ll see if there’s any extra tempo within the automotive come race time tomorrow.
Sadly for Mercedes, its two drivers had been the frustration of the Dash qualifying. Lewis Hamilton solely managed twelfth after clipping a wall on his final try and George Russell was proper with him in eleventh.
The South Florida native Logan Sargeant put his Williams in nineteenth for the Dash a few hours after his Crew Principal James Vowles spoke positively about him within the face of rumors that he is likely to be changed by younger Kimi Antonelli earlier than the top of the yr. As disappointing of a beginning place that could be for his house race, he’ll line up forward of his teammate Alex Albon for the primary time this yr as a consequence of Albon having his lap time deleted, dropping him to useless final on the grid.
This weekend is notably the primary time Miami has hosted a Dash race, and it’s doing so with the brand new order of occasions that places qualifying for Sunday’s Grand Prix after the Dash concludes as a substitute of earlier than it. Per typical, tomorrow’s Dash can be one-third the gap of a normal grand prix. It begins at midday Japanese time, and climate predictions are much like what we noticed immediately with scorching temperatures and no rain in anyway.