Miami GP: Verstappen beats Leclerc in Saturday Sprint.
Max Verstappen didn't have the best of starts to Saturday's Sprint race in Miami, but he rebuffed any ideas that Charles Leclerc might have had of taking the lead into turn 1 and from there went on to maintain a firm grip on proceedings.
04/05/2024 at 17:46
Andrew Lewin
F1i.com

The race saw an early safety car after a four-wide incident sparked by a move down the inside into turn 1 by Lewis Hamilton caused the Aston Martin cars to make contact with Lando Norris coming to a halt by the trackside. Hamilton had made a move down the inside of turn 1 after a flying start in the Mercedes but escaped unscathed despite being the primary instigator.

However Alonso needed to pit for a new front wing as Stroll also headed to pit lane - to retire. Meanwhile Ocon cheekily pitted to serve his ten-second penalty under the safety car. Some fantastic driving enabled Ricciardo to narrowly secure fourth and pick up his first points of the season ahead of Sainz and Piastri. Hulkenberg crossed the line in seventh ahead of Hamilton who had managed to get the jump on Tsunoda on the final lap.

However instead of picking up a point, Hamilton was subsequently handed a drive-thru penalty for speeding in pit lane during the race. That restored Tsunoda to eighth in the final classifications as Hamilton dropped to P16.

‘He rebuffed any ideas that Charles Leclerc might have had’;

https://f1i.com/news/506964-miami-gp...ay-sprint.html


Miami Grand Prix 2024 – F1 Sprint Race Results
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen continues to reign supreme in Miami and took victory in the Sprint Race at the 2024 Miami Grand Prix. Full Sprint Race results
4 May 2024
By John Smith
Total Motorsport

F1 Miami GP 2024 – Sprint Race Results
Pos Driver Team Time
1 Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing 19 Laps
2 Charles Leclerc Ferrari +3.371
3 Sergio Perez Red Bull Racing +5.095
4 Daniel Ricciardo RB +14.971
5 Carlos Sainz Ferrari +15.222
6 Oscar Piastri McLaren +15.750
7 Nico Hulkenberg Haas F1 Team +22.054
8 Yuki Tsunoda RB +29.347
9 Pierre Gasly Alpine +29.816
10 Logan Sargeant Williams +31.303

‘Red Bull driver Max Verstappen continues to reign supreme’;

https://www.total-motorsport.com/f1-...-race-results/


Verstappen collects sprint race win from pole as Norris crashes out at start
4th May 2024, 17:5
Written by Will Wood
RaceFans

Max Verstappen converted sprint race pole into victory in the sprint race of the Miami Grand Prix ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. The championship leader extended his advantage at the top of the table with eight points for victory in the sprint race, three seconds ahead of Leclerc.

Sergio Perez completed the top three behind the Ferrari driver after overtaking Daniel Ricciardo, who had got ahead of him at the start. Carlos Sainz Jnr was fourth after being unable to pass the RB driver, with Oscar Piastri sixth for McLaren, Nico Hulkenberg in seventh for Haas.

Lewis Hamilton originally claimed the final point in eighth after passing Yuki Tsunoda on the final lap. But the Mercedes driver was hit with a post-race drive-through penalty for speeding in the pit lane during a Safety Car period. That was converted to a 20-second penalty which That dropped Hamilton to 16th place and promoted Tsunoda to the final point in eighth.

‘Verstappen collects sprint race win’;

https://www.racefans.net/2024/05/04/...-out-at-start/


Lewis Hamilton shrugs off scrappy driving standards in Miami GP Sprint
The Mercedes driver was involved in contact with four different cars throughout the race
4 May 2024
By Brandon Sutton

Lewis Hamilton went through the wars at the Miami International Autodrome as he survived Lap 1 contact with Fernando Alonso, before facing Kevin Magnussen’s extreme defence in the 2024 Miami GP Sprint Race, but he parried it away by saying he enjoyed the racing.

“Yeah, I did,” Hamilton said after being asked if he gave it everything on the track. “I feel okay. I mean it’s obviously tough battling out there and Turn 1 wasn’t intentional to be touching with anyone. But everyone’s pushing as much as possible and I went for a gap, but then I think those guys went wide and then came back across. So that’s kind of where we connected.”

‘In contact with four different cars’;

https://www.total-motorsport.com/f1-...ami-gp-sprint/


Zak Brown not impressed by Lewis Hamilton driving after Lando Norris DNF at Miami Grand Prix
Sat 4 May 2024 19:00
David Comerford
F1 Oversteer

At one stage, Lando Norris looked the favourite to qualify on pole for the sprint race in Miami. But he ended up walking away without a single point. Norris was electric in SQ1 and SQ2 in his heavily-upgraded McLaren car on Friday. In fact, the lap time he set in the second segment would have been good enough for pole position.

The McLaren Racing CEO said: “It looked like Lewis got overly aggressive, couldn’t get it slowed down for the first corner and drove into a couple of cars that were already driving into themselves already.” McLaren did at least salvage something from the 19-lap race. Oscar Piastri came home in sixth, which earns him three points heading into the main race on Sunday.

‘Not impressed’;

https://www.f1oversteer.com/news/zak...mi-grand-prix/


Max Verstappen ‘not entirely happy’ and wants Red Bull answers despite Miami GP Sprint victory
The Dutchman converted his pole into a victory in the 2024 Miami GP F1 Sprint but still wasn't entirely happy with his Red Bull car
4 May 2024
By Joe Krishnan
Total Motorsport

Max Verstappen has admitted he is still not satisfied with the balance of his Red Bull car despite winning the F1 Sprint race at the Formula 1 2024 Miami Grand Prix on Saturday.

“I’m still not entirely happy with the balance of the car, so we need to look into that,” Verstappen told the written press in Miami, including Total-Motorsport.com. “A bit too much oversteer, I would say, so we’ll try to fine tune that before qualifying, because I had the same problem yesterday in [sprint] qualifying.”

“So it definitely highlights that what we have at the moment is probably not the best for quali and race. Nevertheless, we won the [sprint] race, which I think is the most important thing and we’ll try to just make it a bit more solid.”

‘Not entirely happy’;

https://www.total-motorsport.com/f1-...print-victory/


Ricciardo's heroics and Hamilton's misery: Miami GP sprint takeaways
May 4, 2024
by Ben Anderson
The Race

Max Verstappen took his almost inevitable victory in Formula 1’s 2024 Miami sprint race but, like in sprint qualifying, he seemed not to enjoy driving his Red Bull all that much in the process.

Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari survived a pre-race pitlane collision with Esteban Ocon’s Alpine to give Verstappen’s Red Bull some genuine hassle through the opening lap. But the safety car neutralised any momentum Leclerc built up.

And after the restart the Ferrari driver was never able to get within DRS range so ended up driving the remaining 16 of the 19 laps in effective stalemate with Verstappen. Even with Verstappen complaining his Red Bull felt “terrible, zero rear grip, like quali yesterday”, there was just no opening for Leclerc.

‘RICCIARDO HANGS WITH THE BIG DOGS, NORRIS’S MESSY WEEKEND CONTINUES, HAMILTON'S FRUSTRATING RACE’;

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/m...ton-magnussen/