Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00That was where he went off in qualifying, wasn't it?
00:02Last year.
00:03Yeah. Let's see.
00:05So he gets quite deep in there
00:08and up against the kerb and the painted lines,
00:11so he'll not be wanting to do that again.
00:13No.
00:15We'll try and clean off the dust on those tyres and go again.
00:17Stroll and Max Verstappen in the middle sector,
00:20going pretty rapidly with Charles Leclerc now fifth fastest.
00:23Verstappen to cross the line.
00:24Is this the quickest time we've seen so far?
00:27Yes, it is, but not by much. Only 8.1 seconds.
00:29Gradually wean drivers and teams off brand-new tyres.
00:33Did Fernando Alonso hit the wall?
00:36Ooh, that looked more severe that time than before, didn't it?
00:40This is your money at stake, Martin,
00:42and we're still not quite sure, but it did look like it.
00:44This will tell us.
00:47Rear. Yeah.
00:49Yeah, quite hard there, wasn't it?
00:51Imagine if he's coming in,
00:52they might want to give that car the once over there.
00:54There's plenty of sensors that'll tell them if there's any damage or not,
00:57but they want to have a look with the naked eye.
00:59Kevin Magnussen behind the salvo.
01:01...the way 13, 14, 15.
01:07It did seem to be planted right where Kevin Magnussen wanted to head to.
01:11...to see that as Charles Leclerc tries to pick up a little toe,
01:15a slipstream behind Logan Sargent
01:17to help his top speed down that back straight.
01:19There's a tailwind into the braking section there,
01:22which has been catching a few drivers out.
01:24He just touched 337 kilometres per hour.
01:27Down into the braking zone there, and it's rather a cul-de-sac.
01:31Now, I've mentioned Oskar Piastry behind the salvo in the turn one.
01:35Oh, really? Oh!
01:37That's not a penalty there. I don't know what it is.
01:40Copy. We saw that.
01:41That might have been Valtteri Bottas.
01:44It was Valtteri Bottas.
01:47Wow. I think that's going to have to be looked at.
01:50It's been noted by the race director that the stewards need to look at that.
01:53I don't know if he was snoring, but he was definitely asleep.
01:58BEEP
01:59That's too late, man. I've no idea.
02:02Logan Sargent now into the hairpin.
02:06George Russell goes fourth fastest.
02:08Fernando Alonso is going nicely through the first and second sectors,
02:12but he's the man of the danger zone,
02:13as Logan Sargent, despite getting the best final sector,
02:16stays in that bottom five,
02:17and his teammate Alex Albon out-qualifies him,
02:20as he has done for every qualifying session as teammates,
02:23but he's also in that bottom five.
02:24So three out of the five spaces are filled.
02:26Albon, Joe and Sargent.
02:28Only Bottas and Gasly can try and get out of the relegation zone.
02:32Stroll goes 12th fastest.
02:33Alonso would like to put some distance between himself and the relegation zone.
02:37He does that. Second fastest overall for him.
02:40Bottas is out. Couldn't improve in the Sauber.
02:43Both of those cars in the top ten in qualifying in Shanghai for the sprint.
02:47Both out in Q1 here.
02:48Oskar Piastri goes second quickest.
02:51The McLaren's first and second fastest.
02:53And we're just looking at Pierre Gasly, who's now into the pits.
02:56That is it. First part of qualifying is done.
02:59As we look at Alex Albon
03:03and why he got his lap deleted,
03:05because he...
03:06Fair enough.
03:07Yeah, at the bailout, got a chicane.
03:09That was all four wheels over the white line, wasn't it?
03:13Sixth, and we're on board with the Ferrari of Charles McLaren.
03:17Danny Ricciardo will be very happy to be ahead of the Aston Martins
03:20at this stage.
03:21Again, easing into the pit straight
03:25and straight out of the throttle.
03:27Leclerc popping into P2.
03:29He's in the groove now, isn't he?
03:31He lost all the session this morning,
03:33but he's now in the groove.
03:35Unfortunately for Lewis Hamilton,
03:37that's not a particularly groovy time.
03:39Oskar Piastri goes up into the top four.
03:41And Lando Norris, meanwhile,
03:43who is making rather a habit of some brilliant laps in sprint qualifying,
03:47goes fastest overall with a 1.27.5.
03:50Fable.
03:52What a driver line-up they've got there now, haven't they?
03:55Superb.
03:56Great, because obviously we've got 24 of them a year now.
03:58It used to take you about eight or nine years to do that,
04:01as Ricciardo becomes the latest driver to hit the wall.
04:03And do you know what? There might be something in what George Russell's saying there.
04:06Because I can't remember...
04:07Yeah, I hit the wall as well on a 10.16, but it seems OK.
04:12This might be a very disappointing qualifying session for him.
04:18George Russell is outside the time he needs.
04:22Lewis Hamilton says he's hit the wall,
04:25which is bad news, because he's in that mod of five.
04:27Signs crosses the line, he's OK.
04:29Hamilton's 12th front row in Shanghai two weeks ago
04:32in the sprint, down in 12th for the sprint here in Miami.
04:36And George Russell might be about to make it a double miserable day
04:39for Mercedes and not make it into the top ten here.
04:42He doesn't. Only 11th fastest for George Russell.
04:45This has been a really poor qualifying session for Mercedes.
04:49So that's it for sprint Q2.
04:52No, I got nothing, man.
04:54Yeah, copy, Lewis. Yeah, so, yeah, we've been bumped.
05:00Tall order on used tyres to find any time out there this afternoon,
05:06especially if your car's not really performing that well either.
05:10And this is the moment where Lewis Hamilton hit the wall.
05:14Yeah, he had a bit of oversteer approaching the corner.
05:18And that's a little brush on the wall there.
05:20Well, he could...
05:22He made more mistakes in that little sector
05:24than he used to in a season.
05:26The car, he was really fighting the car hard.
05:29We've got some no-riders at the moment,
05:31because this SQ3 session is nearly halfway through
05:34and no-one's come out of the track yet,
05:36which I suppose answers our question
05:38as to whether you can get two flying laps
05:40out of a set of soft compound tyres.
05:43Before that moment, Verstappen was at least two tenths up
05:46on his teammate, Sergio Perez.
05:48It might be a little bit closer now.
05:50They both set exactly the same times in the middle sector.
05:53Perez with a 1.27.8, then, ahead of Hülkenberg with a 1.28.4.
05:58They're the two that have crossed the line.
06:00Verstappen will be next to cross the line.
06:03Has he? Is he going to pay for that mistake?
06:06Or is it going to be pole?
06:07It is provisional pole, then, for Max Verstappen.
06:09It's Red Bull 1 and 2,
06:11and Verstappen just ahead of his teammate.
06:13Alonso, fifth-fastest out, qualified by Stroll here in Miami.
06:16Crossing the line now, Lando Norris.
06:18Pole in the last two sprints, only sixth on the grid.
06:20Maybe his tyres weren't quite in the working window.
06:23They were by the end of the lap.
06:24Charles Leclerc just misses out as he goes second-fastest,
06:28and onto the front row.
06:29Win of Max Verstappen.
06:31Carlos Sainz will be next to cross the line.
06:33Takes it, and only fifth-fastest for him,
06:35which leaves Oskar Piastri out on the track.
06:39He's got three tenths to make up from the first sector alone.
06:42Where's Piastri going to put his McLaren?
06:45Crosses the line now.
06:46He goes on to row three.
06:47It's Max Verstappen on pole for the sprints here in Miami.
06:51...over luncheon.
06:52Is this what happened to Lando Norris?
06:53Sliding around there, wasn't he?
06:55Yeah, he's really struggling with the car, wasn't he?
06:57It's just running wide everywhere.
07:01Yeah.
07:01Even more dramatic off-board.
07:03They just didn't fire up those tyres.
07:07Maybe they were too cautious on the way out.
07:10Oskar Piastri did improve his time
07:13by about two one-thousandths of a second,
07:15but that was all on the soft tyre.
07:18This is Matt.
07:19He's going to get a big oversteer in the middle of that chicane,
07:22and then you'd be slightly out of position then
07:24for that tricky final left onto the back straight.
07:28Car bouncing around because these cars are so stiff now
07:32to get the ground effect,
07:34to get the underbodies close to the racetrack.
07:37I think that's it.
07:38Yeah, that's P1, Matt.
07:40Lol.
07:41What happened to the others?
07:42This was terrible.
07:44Slightly worse changes than you, maybe.
07:47I mean, I'll take it, but, yeah.