Formula 1 2023 Miami Grand Prix results

The Enstone-based squad found itself in the firing line from Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi over the Miami GP weekend, as he lashed out at its lack of results this year.
“I'm noting not only an obvious lack of performance and rigour in the delivery, but also potentially a state of mind that is not up to this team's past standards,” Rossi told Canal+.
Rossi also said he was far from impressed ...

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Leclerc started only seventh after his crash in qualifying, and in a race not impacted by safety cars, he finished in the same position 52.9 seconds behind winner Red Bull's Max Verstappen.
His Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz fared little better on his run to fifth, having overcome a five-second penalty for speeding in the pitlane.
Leclerc said it was hard to predict the behaviour of the car ...

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Lando Norris lost an estimated 0.2 seconds per lap in Florida following a Turn 1 hit from Nyck de Vries that damaged his floor. He finished 17th as Oscar Piastri classified in 19th.
The team had considered retiring Piastri altogether as the rookie worked to manage spiking brake temperatures while a fix for a brake-by-wire hydraulic system fault was sought.
With that misfortune arriving ...

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With five successive wins at the start of the 2023 Formula 1 season, there was little to be learned in Max Verstappen’s Miami Grand Prix triumph for his Red Bull squad – bar the team nailing the tricky demands of the track’s new surface around the home of the Miami Dolphins NFL team.
But for the Dutchman, his recovery from a wrecked Q3 to win ahead of pole-sitting team-mate Sergio Perez ...

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The asphalt at the Hard Rock Stadium track was re-laid by circuit specialists Tilke for this year’s Miami Grand Prix, following problems in the inaugural 2022 event. 
However, the surface still posed issues for drivers with a lack of grip – especially off the racing line – which triggered a number of incidents throughout the weekend. 
One of the factors that limited the grip ...

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The Spaniard took his fourth third-place finish in five races at the Miami Grand Prix, as he admitted that there is now a hunger to start delivering better results. 
But rather than start setting unrealistic expectations for the battle ahead, Alonso said Aston Martin needed to accept that Red Bull remained a clear step ahead. 
However, he believed that at some point a ...

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The German car manufacturer endured another difficult weekend in Miami as struggles in practice and qualifying were followed by more encouraging pace in the race. 
The team has admitted, however, that this rollercoaster of form that the W14 has demonstrated has left it unable to understand exactly what has gone wrong. 
For the next race at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Mercedes is ...

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The two drivers both had the option to run either a medium/hard or hard/medium one-stopper combination.
From pole, Perez was in effect obliged to start on the medium as he couldn't risk losing out off the line to those around him, while starting ninth after a mistake in qualifying Verstappen had more freedom and opted for the hard.
Red Bull's simulation numbers suggested that Perez's ...

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A temporary gantry that faced away from the grid was erected on the main straight where American rapper LL Cool J presented each driver to the fans ahead of the US national anthem.
Meanwhile, Will.i.am led an orchestra that performed his and Lil Wayne’s new F1-inspired song ‘The Formula’, which was released on the Saturday of the Miami GP weekend.
Owing to the revised format, drivers ...

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Starting on the front row alongside polesitter Sergio Perez, Alonso was unable to follow the Mexican in the dominant Red Bull and had to concede another spot to eventual winner Max Verstappen in the sister RB19.
After taking his fourth podium in five grands prix, Alonso conceded his team's perspective on success is starting to shift.
But he is aware that it would take severe Red Bull ...

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Perez started from pole with Verstappen down in ninth after the Dutchman failed to set a time in Saturday's Q3 qualifying shootout.
But starting on the hard compound, Verstappen effortlessly carved through the field on Sunday and kept his tyres alive until lap 45 of 57.
Verstappen's enduring hard tyre pace allowed him to almost lead by a pitstop when he finally came in for ...

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His team-mate Sergio Perez led from pole position, running medium tyres like the majority of the field, while Verstappen started ninth on hards after his qualifying woes restricted him to ninth on the grid.
As expected, Verstappen worked his way through the field, and led the middle stages of the race after Perez pitted. After Verstappen stopped, he rejoined just behind Perez, but quickly ...

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The Dutchman won from ninth on the grid, after losing out on a shot to set a qualifying time on Saturday after botching his first run, and was denied a further chance by Charles Leclerc's late-session crash.
He was equipped with the hard tyre on a contra-strategy to Perez, who began the race from pole position on the medium compound, and the Mexican made sure to stay ahead of fellow front-row ...

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Alpine has endured a torrid run since the Australian GP, with both Gasly and team-mate Esteban Ocon colliding in Melbourne, while neither could crack the points-scoring positions in the sprint or the main race in Azerbaijan.
Gasly qualified a season-best fifth in Miami, with Ocon three spots behind, and is determined to use this as a springboard to build on Alpine's meagre eight-point haul for ...

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As F1 races look to innovate and keep themselves fresh, one idea being considered is for Miami to follow Las Vegas and run at night.
Speaking on Sunday morning, Miami GP managing partner Tom Garfinkel said that a night race was something being evaluated amid talks with F1.
"We've had some discussions about potentially doing that," Garfinkel told selected media, including ...

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Such was the determination to get things sorted for this year that Miami F1 chiefs brought in famed track design company Tilke to resurface the Hard Rock Stadium venue.
However, as F1 made its return to the American track, the same complaints returned as drivers bemoaned the unique nature of the surface.
Sergio Perez said that grip had been so low on Friday that it was almost intermediate ...

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The Monegasque driver has twice crashed at Turn 7 this weekend, first losing the car in second practice on Friday before the rear snapped and he spun into the barrier in Q3.
The resulting red flag left Sergio Perez on pole ahead of Fernando Alonso, while Leclerc's banker lap placed him seventh, with 2022 championship rival Max Verstappen in ninth.
The team has subsequently changed the rear ...

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Helped by problems for Max Verstappen and a red flag that curtailed track action, Alonso qualified second behind Sergio Perez in Florida, matching his previous best performance of the year in Jeddah.
Asked about the prospects for a victory, Alonso was keen to downplay his chances.
"I don't think that we have to target a win, especially after how the weekend went," he said.
"I think even ...

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Mistakes by other drivers, notably Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen, left Magnussen in a surprise fourth place after the first runs in the last segment of qualifying.
A crash for Leclerc brought out the red flag and ensured that nobody could improve their times on their second runs and demote Magnussen.
He then survived an impeding investigation after an incident with Lewis Hamilton early ...

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The Frenchman made a last-minute stop after running hard tyres for most of the race in an attempt to gain from the handy timing from a safety car that never materialised for him.
When he finally came into the pits at the end of the penultimate lap, he found a group of people in the pit entry as the procedure for setting up parc ferme had started, as the FIA officials involved didn't realise ...

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The matter was discussed in Friday’s drivers’ briefing in Miami as part of the ongoing fallout over the chaotic final restart in Melbourne, when there were several accidents.
Many drivers feel that marbles on the grid in the closing laps create a disparity between the two sides of the grid, generating extra potential for incidents at the first corner.
One of the issues is that in ...

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Following the winter departure of team principal Andreas Seidl, who is now CEO of Sauber, his replacement Andrea Stella led a full review of the operation in conjunction with boss Zak Brown.
This resulted in an overhaul of the technical department, with director James Key jettisoned in favour of a new three-pronged leadership structure featuring Ferrari head of vehicle concept David ...

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After a difficult weekend in Miami, which saw Lewis Hamillton fail to make it out of Q2, Mercedes is now counting down the days until it unleashes a major upgrade at Imola. 
But as well as the performance of the car being far from what the team hoped for, Wolff has said there are various characteristics from it that have triggered his squad’s competitive struggles. 
“I think ...

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Leclerc endured an error-strewn Q3 session in his bid for a second successive pole position, stunting his first lap in the final part of qualifying with a lock-up at Turn 17 that only yielded the seventh-fastest time following the first set of runs.
Attempting to find more laptime, Leclerc lost control of the rear of his car at the sweeping Turn 6/7 and spun into the wall, almost repeating his ...

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With the squad having faced a challenging first part to the campaign, having scored just eight points and lying sixth in the constructors’ championship, Rossi has been far from impressed at the job he thinks the team has done.
Speaking to French channel Canal+ before qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix, where its driver Pierre Gasly delivered a season-best fifth place on the grid, Rossi ...

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Red Bull's Sergio Perez will start the race from pole position after a qualifying cut short by a crash for Ferrari rival Charles Leclerc.
Fernando Alonso was one of several drivers to benefit from the incident as he gained a spot on the front row alongside Perez, with Carlos Sainz next up in third as the leading Ferrari.
Perez's team-mate and reigning F1 chmapion Max Verstappen was unable to ...

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Having sailed through Q1 and Q2 at the head of the times, Verstappen made an error on his first run in Q3 and had to abort it.
That left him in ninth and at risk of remaining in that position should a red flag interrupt his second attempt, and that’s exactly what happened after Charles Leclerc crashed his Ferrari.
Despite his obvious frustration – exacerbated by the fact that Red Bull ...

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Perez will start ahead of Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) in Sunday’s race after the one-hour qualifying session on Saturday, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc crashed out of Q3, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen didn’t complete a lap in the session ...

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Aston Martin's pace was an unknown factor heading into qualifying after Alonso and team-mate Lance Stroll finished 12th and 14th respectively in final practice.
Alonso also barely scraped by in Q1, with Stroll even eliminated in 18th. But in Q2 the two-time world champion came to the fore with third, under three tenths shy of pacesetter Max Verstappen.
In a disrupted Q3 shootout the Spaniard ...

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Perez nabbed pole on his first Q3 run as team-mate Max Verstappen made a mistake and aborted his lap, with Perez leading Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz.
Leclerc then crashed on the second run, bringing out a red flag that ended the session without anyone getting a second lap on the board, locking Perez in for pole.
The result came as a surprise to the Mexican ...

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Perez logged a 1m26.841s amid the first flying runs in Q3 to take the early advantage on the timing board, as Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen went wide through Turn 5 and aborted his initial run - retreating to the pitlane.
Leclerc, meanwhile, tapped the wall on the exit of Turn 16 and then suffered a lock-up at the following corner, which proved only enough for seventh after the initial set ...

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Casa Tua first opened as an Italian restaurant on Miami Beach’s James Avenue but has since grown into a fabulous boutique hotel and private members club – such was the demand for its cozy upstairs lounge at the turn of the millennium.
Its co-owners are husband and wife Micky and Leticia Grendene, who moved to Miami in late 1980s. Renowned for hosting guests at their home, the ...

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Mekies has agreed to leave Ferrari and join AlphaTauri as its new team principal to replace Franz Tost, who is stepping down at the end of the year.
But no date has been set for Mekies' arrival as he remains under a long-term contract with Ferrari, so his release needs to be agreed.
Tost himself said the matter would likely be one for Red Bull and Ferrari to resolve.
"First of all, it's ...

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Esteban Ocon was first on track and first to set a lap, posting a 1m31.125s on the medium compound which proved to be enough for an early edge over Lewis Hamilton on softs.
The Ferrari duo then set their first laps of the session on softs and, of the two, Carlos Sainz posted the faster time with a 1m30.748s, three tenths clear of Charles Leclerc's first lap as the Monegasque recovered from his ...

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The 2023 FIA sporting regulations theoretically permit as many as three new teams to enter to take the grid up to 26 cars. The extended deadline for interested parties to apply for the 2025-27 seasons is 15 May.
Andretti - in conjunction with General Motors firm Cadillac - Panthera Team Asia, and Hitech GP are viewed as the more credible candidates, while the LKY SUNZ party has recently stated ...

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Maffei suggests that all parties will benefit from the early conclusion of a new contract while the series is in a strong position and interest is growing worldwide.
The current deal, which covers the years 2021-25, was signed on the watch of former F1 CEO Chase Carey and the next one will be the responsibility of his successor Stefano Domenicali.
"We have several years left to run on the ...

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McLaren introduced a new package in Baku which represented the car it felt it should have started the season with, adhering to a different floor philosophy that tried to address the lack of efficiency of the Woking team's launch spec MCL35.
But while the new floor delivered a small boost once it was put on the car in last week's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the car's continued inefficiency was still ...

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Tost caused a stir when at an FIA press conference at the Saudi Arabian GP he criticised his engineers.
Fellow team bosses were surprised that the Austrian would chastise his employees in public, even given his plain-speaking reputation.
Asked on that occasion about the team’s early-season form, he made it clear that he’d been led to believe over the winter that the AT04 would be much ...

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Red Bull Racing RB19 technical detail
Photo by: Uncredited

As Red Bull Racing prepares the RB19 for action in Miami we are treated to a glimpse at what goes on under the brake drum, with the caliper left exposed we can see the tube fins used to help keep things cool and that have allowed the team to take out some weight. Also note the brake disc fairing, which has been enlarged ...

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