2025 Miami Grand Prix - Miami USA, May 02-04 Sportsbook Motor Sport

[Tom]

Friday 2 May
Practice 5.30pm
Sprint Qualifying 9.30pm

Saturday 3 May
Sprint Race 5.00pm
Qualifying 9.00pm

Sunday 4 May
Race 9.00pm



This thread is for the general discussion of the event 2025 Miami Grand Prix - Miami USA, May 02-04. Please add to the discussion here.

 

[Tom]

One of my least favourite tracks. I'll never understand why F1 skipped all the great tracks in the US, including multiple tracks in Florida, to race in Miami, and not on a street circuit, but in the fecking parking lot of the Dolphins stadium

 

[Franco Pinion]

Lando Norris beat McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri to win a chaotic wet-dry Miami Grand Prix sprint race with help from the safety car.

Piastri led from lap one after passing pole-sitter Kimi Antonelli's Mercedes at the first corner of the race but the safety car cost the Australian the race win.

The championship leader pitted one lap before Norris as the track dried out but the safety car was sent out while Norris was pitting for his slick tyres.

That slowed the cars on track and gave Norris enough time to rejoin in the lead.

The safety car was caused by a crash between Fernando Alonso's Aston Martin and Liam Lawson's Racing Bull at Turn Two but that was not the only drama in the race.

Max Verstappen finished fourth on the road behind Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton, who benefited from an early pit stop for dry-weather slick tyres, but was penalised 10 seconds for an unsafe release from his pit stop, which caused him to collide with Antonelli.

Verstappen, whose front wing was damaged in the collision, was demoted to 17th and last by the penalty.

Lando was so lucky, but then someone was eventually going to get lucky today. Hamilton did the right call, it would be a travesty if they didn't gamble, and it was still his call by the looks of it, not the team.

Also good to see him happy and smiling after the race, he's done well in two sprints so far.

Also:

Today was the first time Max Verstappen has finished a race in any format outside of the points since the 2016.

And it was his team that cost him.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Max Verstappen secured his third F1 pole of the 2025 season in qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix, edging out Lando Norris

Max Verstappen delivered a commanding yet gritty performance to snatch pole position for the 2025 Miami Grand Prix, reaffirming his champion's credentials in a tightly contested qualifying session. Despite a small moment of drama at Turn 1 on his final Q3 run, the reigning World Champion kept his foot in and still managed to post a 1m26.204s – enough to secure top spot by just 0.061s over a hard-charging Lando Norris.

• Verstappen back on top: A late lap, despite a Turn 1 error, earned the reigning champ pole for Sunday's race.
• Rising stars shine: Antonelli took P3, building on his Sprint form, while Piastri and Norris stayed in the hunt.
• Hamilton shock exit: The seven-time champ was eliminated in Q2 and would start only 12th for Ferrari.

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Max Verstappen	Oracle Red Bull Racing	1m26.870s	1m26.643s	1m26.204s
2	Lando Norris	McLaren F1 Team	1m26.955s	1m26.499s	1m26.269s
3	Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	1m27.077s	1m26.606s	1m26.271s
4	Oscar Piastri	McLaren F1 Team	1m27.006s	1m26.269s	1m26.375s
5	George Russell	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	1m27.014s	1m26.575s	1m26.385s
6	Carlos Sainz	Atlassian Williams Racing	1m27.098s	1m26.847s	1m26.569s
7	Alex Albon	Atlassian Williams Racing	1m27.042s	1m26.855s	1m26.682s
8	Charles Leclerc	Scuderia Ferrari HP	1m27.417s	1m26.948s	1m26,754s
9	Esteban Ocon	MoneyGram Haas F1 Team	1m27.450s	1m26.967s	1m26.824s
10	Yuki Tsunoda	Oracle Red Bull Racing	1m27.298s	1m26.959s	1m26.843s
11	Isack Hadjar	Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team	1m27.301s	1m26.987s
12	Lewis Hamilton	Scuderia Ferrari HP	1m27.279s	1m27.006s
13	Gabriel Bortoleto	Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber	1m27.343s	1m27.151s
14	Jack Doohan	BWT Alpine F1 Team	1m27.422s	1m27.186s
15	Liam Lawson	Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team	1m27.444s	1m27.363s
16	Nico Hulkenberg	Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber	1m27.473s
17	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team	1m27.604s
18	Pierre Gasly	BWT Alpine F1 Team	1m27.710s
19	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team	1m27.830s
20	Oliver Bearman	MoneyGram Haas F1 Team	1m27.999s

 

[Franco Pinion]

Will we get a clean start from Verstappen and Norris?

 

[Son Of Jack]

Norris goes off the track and complains that Verstappen pushed him off.

We have a virtual safety car for Jack Doohan.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Will Max get a penalty for that?

 

[Son Of Jack]

That's not a penalty for Max. If he gets a penalty for that, just end the sport.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Possible rain in 20 laps - possible heavy rain!!

 

[Son Of Jack]

Apparently if the rain hits it will be "heavy"

They'll probably red flag it!