ROUND 6: 🇺🇸 Miami

FORMULA 1 CRYPTO.COM MIAMI GRAND PRIX 2026

Weekend Schedule

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  • Practice 1: Friday, 18:30 CEST | 16:30 UTC
  • Sprint Qualifying: Friday, 22:30 CEST | 20:30 UTC
  • Sprint: Saturday, 18:00 CEST | 16:00 UTC
  • Qualifying: Saturday, 22:00 CEST | 20:00 UTC
  • Race: Sunday, 22:00 CEST | 20:00 UTC

Circuit stats & Tyres

  • First Grand Prix: 2022
  • Number of laps: 57
  • Circuit Length: 5.412 km
  • Race Distance: 308.326 km
  • Lap record: 1:29.708 Max Verstappen (2023)
  • 2025 Pole: Max Verstappen (1:26.204)
  • 2025 Fastest Lap: Lando Norris (1:29.746)
  • 2025 winner: Oscar Piastri
  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    101·
    27 days ago

    Pretty good race all in all. Miami is a solid track for racing. If you haven’t already then I recommend both F2 races as well, great entertainment in both.

    Once again McLaren’s conservative strategy team gets caught out and Kimi and Merc were able to capitalise. Apart from the start (which Kimi really needs to work on) he didn’t really put a foot wrong and made the overtake when he had to. Norris in fairness didn’t really do anything wrong either, he was just let down by his pit wall.

    Mixed weekend for Red Bull, on the one hand their upgrades are working and they made a huge step, on the other they seemed to have been in the classic vein of making Max faster and the 2nd driver slower. Hadjar seems increasingly lost and while it’s not time to start worrying quite yet it’s a first question mark. Max had a great race all things considered, Hannah gambled on a strategy and I think it was worth a shot but didn’t come off this time.

    Shout-out to Colapinto who had his best F1 weekend yet, but I want to highlight something else: double points for Williams. Is this the beginning of the light at the end of the tunnel? Have they finally started to shed some weight?

    • Goodeye8@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      27 days ago

      The thing with Max is that he’s such a godlike driver that you have to build the car around him. RBR will actually lose points if they make a car that’s drivable by both drivers but neither can get 100% out of the car. If they make a car for both they’re Ferrari in 2025 and Max outscored the entire Ferrari team.

      They have nothing to lose by making the car for Max. If they make a car both Max and Isaac can drive then they’re going to fight to be the 4th best team and risk losing it to Alpine or Haas. But if they make a car in which Max can fight for podiums they’re effectively guaranteed to be the 4th best team with a very small hope of getting 3rd. Max finishing 4th and Hadjar scoring no points is better than Hadjar and Max finishing 7th and 8th.

      In short, if they can’t make a car that can beat Ferrari they’re better off making a car in which Max can beat Ferrari and go toe to toe with Merc and McLaren. Sucks for Hadjar but that’s the math.