Miami F1 : In This Article WINNERS AND LOSERS FROM AN ODD MIAMI F1 SPRINT QUALIFYING and Williams wants F1 reunion with Adrian Newey news Cover.
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F1 Miami: A Red Bull – Ferrari – Red Bull top three on a Formula 1 grid may feel routine at a glance but Miami Grand Prix sprint qualifying contained plenty of oddities – such as that Ferrari on the front row having missed almost all of practice due to a clumsy error and the polesitter describing his Red Bull as “pretty terrible”.
And that’s before considering the fact a McLaren driver looked a strong favourite for pole before blowing it and a driver who three races ago looked at risk of losing his seat put an RB on row two.
Here’s our pick of the winners and losers from an odd Friday in Miami.
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LOSER: LANDO NORRIS (Miami F1)
The worrying pattern of Norris chucking away big qualifying results continues.
He looked so hooked up in SQ1 and SQ2 in that upgraded McLaren – featuring so many new parts Zak Brown called it “almost a B-spec” – and yet when it really mattered Norris let the lap get away from him, again.
Yes it was tough for everyone in SQ3 – the track was hot, the C4 Pirellis were not working really for anyone.
But eight other drivers did a better job than Norris in that session, including his own team-mate Oscar Piastri – who was driving a less-upgraded car with a baked-in two-tenths of a second per lap disadvantage (according to Brown).
These “silly mistakes” are just coming a bit too frequently from a driver who otherwise seems to be operating at an incredibly high level.
Like Andrea Stella said late last year, Norris just needs to dial it back a few percent and clean his driving up on the limit.
Pole was there for the taking and Norris didn’t take it. – Ben Anderson
WINNER: CHARLES LECLERC
A fairly sensational turnaround from an FP1 blunder curtailing most of his preparation to blowing Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz out of the water in SQ3 and usurping McLaren as Max Verstappen’s closest challenger.
It’s exactly the kind of evidence used to prove Leclerc is one of F1’s best drivers over a single lap and far more in keeping with Leclerc’s single lap CV so far than most of 2024’s qualifying sessions so far.
There are just so few other drivers you’d bank on to deliver a solid lap in really tricky conditions in the pole position shootout.
Sainz was 0.354s slower, the largest Leclerc-Sainz qualifying gap of the season so far.
It was a margin exaggerated by the tyre warm-up issues and a Sainz mistake at Turn 17 in SQ3, but Leclerc was a clear step ahead throughout all of qualifying and that’s seldom been the case this year. – Josh Suttill
LOSER: MERCEDES
The team with the second biggest updates to its car for this race behind McLaren, and yet the way Mercedes performed on track on Friday you wouldn’t have thought there were any new parts on the car at all.
George Russell and Lewis Hamilton were both eliminated in SQ2, scalped by Daniel Ricciardo’s RB and Nico Hulkenberg’s Haas, but more than the clearly evident lack of pace the W15 just looked absolutely evil to drive.
Hamilton was all over the road in the low-speed section leading onto the back straight – missing apexes and clouting the wall. His car had no front end grip and no traction either.
The car seems generally a bit better at high speed compared to 2023, but a lurid slide for Russell through Turn 5 suggests that knife edge remains and these updates don’t appear to have given the team an immediate step forward in that regard.
Once again, Mercedes was relatively stronger on a lower-grip track in FP1. As the circuit got faster, Mercedes went backwards. – BA
WINNER: LANCE STROLL
A rare intra-team victory is exactly what Lance Stroll needed to start kicking his mini-slump that let F1’s Class B pick up a point at Suzuka and Shanghai.
Aston Martin team-mate Fernando Alonso was left lamenting how the sprint “means nothing” to him anyway and that “we receive penalties for whatever we do, so tomorrow is just a day for fun”.
That’s in clear reference to Alonso’s hefty penalty in the last sprint race but perhaps also fuelled by Stroll unusually getting the better of him.
His seventh place and intra-Aston Martin win didn’t prevent the usual word-sparse post-session interview but it might just get Stroll back in the points for the first time in over a month. – JS
Williams wants F1 reunion with Adrian Newey
“He is an icon of our sport. There is no doubt about it,” Vowles told Autosport. “Every team he’s been to since Williams has been championship material. And that’s not a coincidence, that is just simply the effect he has on the sport.
“It would be remiss of me to not be talking to him. It is as simple as that.”
At Williams, Newey-built cars won with Nigel Mansell in 1992 and Damon Hill in 1996. Newey then moved to McLaren, where his cars won titles in 1998 and 1999.
His move to Red Bull in 2006 helped turn the small Austrian team into one of F1’s leading teams, with four titles at the start of the 2010s and a handful of championships over the last three years.
While Red Bull has risen up the order over the past decade and a half, in the same time Williams has slipped to the back end of the field and is a shadow of its former self. Vowles wants to turn the British squad into a competitive outfit again and said the success of that will not just rest on whether it can sign Newey.
“I think we as Williams have a huge amount of work to do,” he said. “Adrian or not, our task is enormous — and Adrian wouldn’t make it easier, but that’s the whole point.
“I think we also have to be sensible about it. Our conversations with him have been very light. But even so, are we in discussions? Yes. Very light discussions. “But to answer your question, would it be a dream team? Yes.”
