No surprises as to our lead winner from the Miami Grand Prix qualifying session, but who else makes our list of Winners and Losers?
Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo feature on our list of Winners and Losers from the 2024 Miami Grand Prix qualifying session.
While his post-session radio wasn’t quite as memorable as his “LOL” message after Sprint Qualifying, the Dutch driver explained after qualifying that, for once, Red Bull haven’t been enjoying the Pirelli tyres.“For some reason, it’s just extremely difficult to make the tyres work around the whole lap. Yeah, sometimes you have little moments here and there and it’s just not very consistent, let’s say it like that. And that makes it very difficult to, let’s say, try and hit a perfect lap.
Bemoaning the tyres as the reason he couldn’t improve on his second run and try finding the tenth he needed to challenge Verstappen, the Monegasque driver pointed to the fact both he and Sainz are lining up behind Verstappen as being able to take a two-pronged attack into the race. Mercedes ran out of fresh soft tyres for their final runs in Q3, but seventh and eighth on the grid isn’t a disaster. Sure, it’s very far from the standards Mercedes were once used to but, once again, Hamilton showed the flashes of speed that hint at the potential inherent in the W15. If only Mercedes could figure out how to unlock it on a consistent basis.
With a three-place grid penalty a sword of Damocles hanging over him coming into qualifying, Ricciardo struggled for grip and was knocked out at the first hurdle and is now facing a tough Sunday. Having had to go from the high of the Sprint to the low of qualifying, Ricciardo said he felt it was like what had happened for Norris in Sprint Qualifying.
“The lap time’s there in the car, I simply just don’t really know what happened with that second set of tyres. It’s kind of a thing to say because there are no facts behind it, but you feel it when it doesn’t give you what you want, so that’s where the frustration lies.”Magnussen is falling into the role of becoming a rear gunner for Nico Hulkenberg, given his willingness to absolutely throw all semblance of pretence out the window when he needs to defend against the cars behind him.
His contact with Stroll at Turn 1 in the Sprint might have been problematic for intra-team relations, but he was saved by the harder hit from Hamilton that passed the blame over to the Mercedes driver.
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