After qualifying, seven different teams are slated to start in the top 10 in Miami. Mix in the forecast of rain, and Sunday’s Grand Prix could be a thriller. LukeSmithF1 and mwc13_3 have questions that could decide the race winners:
To have a starting grid where Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton — three of F1’s greatest qualifiers — do not feature inside the top five is strange. But all three will be plotting fightbacks today with varying expectations.Despite his qualifying crash at the end of Q3, Leclerc starts seventh as he already had a time on the board, one second off Perez’s pole lap.
Hamilton and Mercedes won’t be thinking that high up the order. Unlike Leclerc and Verstappen, Hamilton couldn’t pin qualifying 13th on a mistake, it simply being where the Mercedes car is at for pace in Miami this weekend. “I’ve set the car up in a pretty decent place,” said Hamilton. “It’s not going to be easy to overtake the cars ahead of me, but maybe on strategy I can progress, try and get in the top 10 and get some points.
Just to increase the difficulty, drivers will have to grapple with shortened DRS zones compared to last year’s. The FIA has favored making the zones shorter at the opening races of this season, believing it was too easy to pass last year. But because the cars are less easily able to follow each other this season, the DRS actually needs to be longer to have the desired effect.
“Ups and downs, good days, bad days, to be expected,” Sargeant said when asked to summarize his season to date. “I’m learning every weekend and I feel like it’s coming more and more towards me. But yeah, I have to be more consistently at the top of my game, driving better each and every day.”
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