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Formula 1 has moved the Miami Grand Prix start thr

Formula 1 has moved the Miami Grand Prix start three hours earlier, with Sunday’s race now set for 13:00 local time instead of 16:00, after forecasts flagged heavier rain and thunderstorms later in the afternoon.

The FIA, FOM and the Miami promoter agreed the change after qualifying to maximise the window to run the full race with minimal disruption, prioritising safety for drivers, fans, teams and staff. The earlier start effectively buys daylight and flexibility if red flags or weather delays hit, with more operational details expected to follow.

#F1 #MiamiGP #Formula1 #FIA #Motorsport #RaceDay

Kimi Antonelli will start Sunday’s Miami Grand Pri

Kimi Antonelli will start Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix from pole after another late-decided qualifying, making it three straight poles for the Mercedes teenager who’s already leading the championship. Max Verstappen pushed him closest but had to settle for P2, setting up a front-row duel with real title-fight weight.

The grid behind is stacked and beautifully mixed: Charles Leclerc is third for Ferrari with Lando Norris fourth for McLaren, giving four different manufacturers in the top four and hinting at a strategic, track-position-heavy race. George Russell and Lewis Hamilton line up fifth and sixth, with Oscar Piastri seventh, while Alpine puts both cars in the top 10 (Franco Colapinto eighth, Pierre Gasly 10th) split by Isack Hadjar in ninth. With the midfield tightly packed and Miami’s Turn 1 always a flashpoint, Sunday looks set for pressure from lights out rather than one team dictating terms.

#MiamiGP #F1 #KimiAntonelli #MercedesF1 #MaxVerstappen #Qualifying

Kimi Antonelli is turning Saturdays into his terri

Kimi Antonelli is turning Saturdays into his territory. The Mercedes rookie sealed a third straight pole in Miami with a 1:27.798, holding off a late Max Verstappen charge by 0.166s as Red Bull finally looked sharper in qualifying. Charles Leclerc slotted into P3, while Lando Norris salvaged P4 despite McLaren lacking its usual one-lap polish after a Sprint win earlier in the day.

Behind the headline, qualifying was messy and volatile: Gabriel Bortoleto’s Audi weekend worsened with a brake fire after Q1, Lewis Hamilton briefly looked in the hunt in Q2, and Norris battled a confirmed boost issue. The top four featured four different manufacturers, underlining how tight 2026 has become. Further back, Franco Colapinto put Alpine eighth ahead of Isack Hadjar and Pierre Gasly, setting up a Miami GP where Sunday pace could reshuffle everything — but Antonelli starts in front again.

#F1 #MiamiGP #KimiAntonelli #MercedesF1 #MaxVerstappen #Qualifying

Kimi Antonelli lit up Miami qualifying with a stat

Kimi Antonelli lit up Miami qualifying with a statement Q1: the Mercedes rookie punched in a 1:28.653 and ended the segment three tenths clear of Charles Leclerc, with Max Verstappen and Lando Norris close behind. The midfield stayed razor-tight too, with Isack Hadjar P5 and Oliver Bearman P6, while Williams again looked sharp as Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon both made it through. Oscar Piastri had a scruffy escape, only sneaking into Q2 in 16th.

The chaos came at Audi. A frantic pre-session rush delayed both cars, Hulkenberg still clawing through in 12th, but Gabriel Bortoleto’s Q1 ended in a brake fire as the flag fell, delaying Q2 and leaving him 22nd. Further back, Aston Martin and Cadillac endured a brutal opening segment, with Alonso, Stroll, Bottas and Perez all knocked out.

#F1 #MiamiGP #Qualifying #Mercedes #Audi #MotorsportNews

Miami’s biggest Sunday decision isn’t setup or str

Miami’s biggest Sunday decision isn’t setup or strategy, it’s the clock. With a high chance of rain and thunderstorms in the current 4pm window, the FIA has issued a Rain Hazard and talks with F1 are set to conclude Saturday night after qualifying on whether to keep the planned start or bring the race forward.

In Florida, lightning rules can force everyone off exposed areas, turning a wet race into stop-start delays that threaten getting a full distance run before daylight fades. Teams want clarity early because any change ripples through staffing, transport, support series and crowd safety plans. A Monday race is already off the table, and while some believe the worst weather may drift away, officials are weighing the risk of acting too soon against the risk of chaos if they don’t.

#F1 #MiamiGP #Formula1 #FIA #Motorsport #RaceDay

Audi’s Miami Sprint went from bad to worse after t

Audi’s Miami Sprint went from bad to worse after the FIA flagged a potential technical breach on Gabriel Bortoleto’s Audi R26 in post-race checks. Bortoleto finished 11th in the 19-lap Sprint, but the result is now provisional after Jo Bauer reported the engine intake air pressure appeared to exceed the 4.8 barA limit, sending the case to the stewards.

It’s brutal timing for a weekend already sliding into damage control. Nico Hulkenberg didn’t even start the Sprint after smoke and then flames ended his run on the way to the grid, leaving Bortoleto as Audi’s only car circulating. P11 at least offered clean mileage, but now even that small positive is on hold pending the stewards’ decision.

#F1 #MiamiGP #AudiF1 #GabrielBortoleto #NicoHulkenberg #FIA

Mick Schumacher isn’t pretending Formula 1 is out

Mick Schumacher isn’t pretending Formula 1 is out of his system — he’s just stopped living like it’s the only thing that matters. Now with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in IndyCar, he’s been blunt about the obvious: if F1 came calling again, he’d take it. No slogans, no begging — just an honest admission that the door is still open in his head, even if the sport’s timing once slammed it shut.

After two tough Haas seasons and a late-season exit that effectively locked him out of the seat market, Schumacher spent two years as Mercedes reserve before choosing the only real antidote to waiting: racing. IndyCar is a fresh environment, and the early results reflect the learning curve (best so far: 17th at Long Beach), but the shift in tone is clear — this is the job now, and the mileage is real. Next comes the moment that changes everything: his first oval, the Indianapolis 500 on May 24, after running the Indy road course in early May.

#IndyCar #MickSchumacher #RLLRacing #Indy500 #Formula1 #MotorsportNews

Red Bull has confirmed Gianpiero Lambiase will lea

Red Bull has confirmed Gianpiero Lambiase will leave when his contract ends in 2028, with McLaren already naming him Chief Racing Officer reporting to Andrea Stella. No immediate move, no gardening leave — just a clear two-year runway that lets both teams plan properly.

McLaren is framing this as structure, not succession: easing Stella’s workload by putting a senior specialist in charge of race operations so the team can keep its sharp end professional as results rise. Red Bull, meanwhile, gets certainty and time to manage the handover without constant week-to-week speculation. The paddock will talk up “future team principal” narratives, but the paperwork says continuity — and a long-term play for pit wall performance.

#F1 #McLaren #RedBullRacing #GianpieroLambiase #AndreaStella #ZakBrown

Red Bull’s big Miami upgrade hasn’t turned the RB2

Red Bull’s big Miami upgrade hasn’t turned the RB22 into a title-winning machine overnight, but it has finally delivered something Verstappen’s been missing in 2026: a car he can trust. With seven new parts on the car, he put it fifth in Sprint qualifying, his best grid result of the season, and ahead of Russell. The raw gap to Norris was still 0.592s, yet Verstappen says it feels like Red Bull has almost halved the deficit from recent weekends where they’d been more than a second back.

The Dutchman called the upgraded RB22 “more normal” and “more together” — while admitting they’re still weak in the high-speed first sector. It’s a step away from damage limitation and toward a clearer development path, even with Verstappen only ninth in the standings on 12 points. On the other side of the garage, rookie Isack Hadjar made SQ3 but was nearly a second slower and couldn’t explain why, underlining how tricky this new package is to access.

#F1 #MiamiGP #MaxVerstappen #RedBullRacing #SprintQualifying #F1News

Cadillac’s first three grands prix as F1’s newest

Cadillac’s first three grands prix as F1’s newest team have already changed the way it can recruit. After a long, scrutinised path to joining the 2026 grid, boss Graeme Lowdon says the pitch to new hires is no longer a leap of faith — candidates can now see the operation up close, and judge how the garage and pit wall function in real time.

The response has been huge: 143,000 applicants, more than 9,000 shortlisted and around 6,500 interviews so far. Lowdon says the team still has plenty of vacancies and must grow at the right rate under the cost cap, while building cohesion across its UK base in Silverstone and an expanding US operation — with the next major wave of hiring set to be stateside.

#F1 #CadillacF1 #Formula1 #F1News #Motorsport #F1Jobs

Alex Zanardi has died aged 59, his family confirme

Alex Zanardi has died aged 59, his family confirmed on Saturday, closing the chapter on one of motorsport’s most extraordinary lives. He raced in Formula 1 through the 1990s with Jordan, Minardi, Lotus and Williams, but found his greatest stage in CART—winning back-to-back titles with Chip Ganassi in 1997 and 1998 and becoming the kind of driver who could turn a race into an event.

After the 2001 Lausitz crash that cost him both legs, Zanardi refused to let the story end. He returned to competition with hand controls, then built a second elite career in handcycling and triathlon, winning multiple Paralympic medals and golds at London 2012 and Rio 2016. In a sport that measures legacy in wins and contracts, Zanardi’s impact was bigger than any results sheet: a benchmark for resilience, reinvention, and the relentless will to compete.

#AlexZanardi #Motorsport #CART #F1 #Paralympics #RacingLegends

Ferrari rolled into Miami talking up a major step:

Ferrari rolled into Miami talking up a major step: 11 updates for the SF-26 and a practice session that briefly backed it up, with Leclerc fastest and Hamilton in the mix. But Sprint qualifying snapped the mirage. Hamilton could only manage P7, over a tenth behind Leclerc and seven tenths off Norris on pole, admitting the car “didn’t feel particularly great” and that Ferrari needs answers overnight.

The new floor, diffuser and revised rear wing weren’t the problem on paper; the issue was how they landed when the soft tyre mattered most. Leclerc salvaged P4 again, pointing out that everyone else upgraded too, with McLaren finally stitching their speed into a clean lap. Ferrari still believes its race pace can rescue the weekend, but Miami has exposed the same hard truth: parts are easy to bring, performance is harder to unlock.

#F1 #Ferrari #MiamiGP #LewisHamilton #CharlesLeclerc #SprintQualifying

Carlos Sainz didn’t hide his frustration after Fri

Carlos Sainz didn’t hide his frustration after Friday in Miami, dragging the Williams into SQ2 in 15th before venting over the radio that the team was “three steps behind” where it should be. The raw numbers underlined the gap, with Sainz still 15th in SQ2 and almost two seconds off the benchmark, before Alex Albon’s deleted lap for track limits bumped Sainz up to start the Sprint 14th.

Once the helmet came off, the message softened into a clearer diagnosis: energy management and deployment control left Williams unable to optimise the session, especially on the out-lap and push lap. Even so, Sainz called the SQ2 appearance a small but real step forward compared to earlier rounds where perfect execution still meant an SQ1 exit, while noting Miami wasn’t the place to expect much impact from F1’s recent energy tweaks.

#F1 #MiamiGP #CarlosSainz #WilliamsRacing #SprintQualifying #MotorsportNews

Aston Martin arrived in Miami with a stark entry o

Aston Martin arrived in Miami with a stark entry on the upgrades list: nothing. In a paddock that brought a “massive” wave of new parts, the absence didn’t look like confidence — it looked like a team still stuck solving basics, with the AMR26’s Honda-linked vibration issues reportedly consuming time, set-up freedom and development focus.

On Sky, Jenson Button suggested the thinking is deliberate: Adrian Newey isn’t interested in small, incremental packages, and Aston Martin may be holding back for a bigger, more decisive update later in the year. It’s a high-stakes trade-off — sacrificing races now while rivals learn fast — and it puts real weight on the next package to deliver not just new parts, but a clear change of direction and proof the Honda partnership is helping rather than distracting.

#F1 #AstonMartinF1 #MiamiGP #AdrianNewey #HondaF1 #AMR26

Oscar Piastri’s Miami week detoured through McLare

Oscar Piastri’s Miami week detoured through McLaren’s past, with a few laps in the 2008 title-winning MP4/23. The takeaway wasn’t nostalgia for its own sake, but how instantly “readable” the old V8 felt: loud, responsive and direct, with less management and more driving.

That contrast lands right in the middle of F1’s 2026 debate. The FIA is already weighing tweaks as battery management becomes a growing frustration, while the headline weight loss for the new cars (around 30kg) doesn’t sound like the kind of reset drivers are craving. Piastri suggested you’d need 50–100kg to feel a real shift, even if he accepts the reality: a hybrid-heavy roadmap is locked in and the simple, lightweight ideal comes with big trade-offs. His point was simpler than any graph — “better” needs to feel alive from the cockpit.

#F1 #OscarPiastri #McLaren #MiamiGP #F12026 #MotorsportNews

Alex Albon’s Miami Friday ended with a stewards’ s

Alex Albon’s Miami Friday ended with a stewards’ sting: after progressing into SQ2 and posting the 14th-fastest time, the Williams driver was hit with a late track-limits call from SQ1 that blew up his Sprint qualifying.

The breach at Turn 6 on his final SQ1 run wasn’t flagged until SQ2 had already started, creating what the stewards called an “unusual situation.” Using the Sporting Code’s discretionary powers, they deleted the SQ1 lap that put him through and then wiped all his SQ2 laps on the basis he shouldn’t have been there, dropping him to 19th on the Sprint grid. It reshuffles the order without reopening chances for those behind, leaving Albon with a tough recovery job in Saturday’s Sprint.

#F1 #MiamiGP #SprintQualifying #AlexAlbon #WilliamsRacing #TrackLimits

Valtteri Bottas has officially done Coachella once

Valtteri Bottas has officially done Coachella once and filed it away for good. After the viral snap with Daniel Ricciardo during April’s break, Bottas didn’t sugar-coat the review as the paddock arrived in Miami: too many people, not his thing, and he’s not going back.

Miami, though, is where things get serious. Cadillac roll out their first major upgrade package of the season at their home race, focused on new aero and weight reduction, with Bottas hopeful it can deliver a bigger step than rivals. With his best result so far only 13th in China and the midfield ultra-tight, this weekend is the first real test of whether Cadillac’s early-2026 direction is gaining lap time, not just attention.

#F1 #MiamiGP #CadillacF1 #ValtteriBottas #F1News #Formula1

Alex Albon’s Friday in Miami isn’t over yet. The W

Alex Albon’s Friday in Miami isn’t over yet. The Williams driver has been placed under FIA investigation for a potential track limits breach in SQ1, after he scraped through to SQ2 in P16.

Liam Lawson missed the cut in P17, and Racing Bulls briefly looked like they’d spotted a lifeline if Albon’s lap was deleted. But no call came before SQ2 started, Albon took his place, and Lawson stayed out. The twist is the investigation was only confirmed after SQ2 had already begun, leaving Racing Bulls with the frustration of lost track time and knock-on prep if the decision ultimately goes against Albon. In the sprint format, the delay is the story as much as the ruling.

#F1 #MiamiGP #SprintQualifying #AlexAlbon #LiamLawson #TrackLimits

Lando Norris has broken Mercedes’ grip on 2026 spr

Lando Norris has broken Mercedes’ grip on 2026 sprint poles, putting McLaren P1 in Miami with a 1:27.869. It may be “only” sprint qualifying, but the message is loud: McLaren’s upgrades have real bite, and the front of the grid is finally moving.

Kimi Antonelli kept Mercedes on the front row in second, with Oscar Piastri third for a two-car McLaren statement. Charles Leclerc starts fourth after an error on his key lap, while Max Verstappen could only manage fifth ahead of George Russell. Lewis Hamilton lines up seventh alongside Franco Colapinto in eighth, with Hadjar and Gasly completing the top 10. Further back, Alonso is 21st and Stroll failed to set a lap, with a possible track-limits review hovering over Albon’s result.

#F1 #MiamiGP #SprintQualifying #LandoNorris #McLaren #MercedesAMG

McLaren flirted with disaster in Miami Sprint Qual

McLaren flirted with disaster in Miami Sprint Qualifying, leaving their runs late and hovering around the cut line, but still delivered when it mattered. Lando Norris vaulted from the drop zone to P1 with a 1:28.723, just 0.010s ahead of Charles Leclerc, with Oscar Piastri third after a scruffy opening that suddenly looked like confidence. Lewis Hamilton took fourth, Kimi Antonelli impressed in fifth ahead of George Russell, while Max Verstappen ended SQ1 in seventh behind the Mercedes pair.

The session turned messy as track evolution and timing games tightened the margins, and Aston Martin paid the price. Lance Stroll’s mistake brought brief yellows and ended his running, while Fernando Alonso’s deleted lap left him stranded as both cars fell out in SQ1. Eliminations also caught Liam Lawson, Esteban Ocon, Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas in a brutal first segment on a sprint weekend.

#F1 #MiamiGP #SprintQualifying #McLaren #Ferrari #AstonMartin

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