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00:00 And it rolls down the pit lane for his start.
00:02 We've got a green flag.
00:04 Time for the sprints here in Miami.
00:07 19 laps, it's lights out.
00:09 Away we go. Verstappen and Leclerc getting away pretty equally.
00:13 And they're trying to force each other towards the inside.
00:15 Verstappen in the lead. Perez trying to get around the outside.
00:18 And Leclerc who slips through. Perez has lost places.
00:20 And there's a couple of cars that come together in the mid pack.
00:24 And it might have been one of the McLaren.
00:25 The safety car is out and the cars will be led through the pit lane
00:29 to avoid any potential debris on the track.
00:33 As the marshals now come out to recover that debris
00:36 and to clear away Lando Norris's McLaren yesterday
00:41 for two qualifying sessions, it looked brilliant for Lando Norris.
00:44 And it's all started to unravel from there on in.
00:46 And this is the trouble when you start in the middle of the pack,
00:49 when you're kind of out of position, your chances of this kind of incident
00:53 contact are so much higher.
00:55 Let's have a look then at the start and the front two
00:59 getting away well, but watch Sergio Perez, who gets caught out a little bit
01:03 and then watch behind us the two Aston Martins coming together.
01:06 Alonso into Stroll and then Norris out.
01:09 Lewis joined that party as well.
01:11 Norris was on the outside minding his own business,
01:14 and eventually they clattered into him.
01:16 We'll see what happened here.
01:18 Lance Stroll on the left hand side of your picture as we ride on board
01:22 with Fernando Alonso.
01:25 Yeah, Lewis, Lewis.
01:26 I'm going to arrive like a bull.
01:29 I think you'll find that was your teammate who arrived
01:33 most like a bull first and then Hamilton steamed in and doubled the trouble.
01:38 So let's just look at what's Fernando Alonso trying to get out of the way
01:43 of Lewis Hamilton, who was charging down the inside,
01:45 but then he's got nowhere to go as Stroll turns right.
01:48 And that is quite a bit of debris on the track that's come off
01:52 the two Astons and maybe Hamilton's Mercedes.
01:56 Yeah, Hamilton loses this.
01:57 I'm telling you about how tight it is down here and your brakes are cold.
02:00 Yeah, Lewis can't slow it down.
02:03 He turns the steering wheel, but he's still got his foot on the brake.
02:06 There's a gap on the inside, so I went for it.
02:08 And he used the two Aston Martins
02:13 as skittles, really, to help him slow down.
02:16 I do wonder if the stewards are going to take a look at this one, Martin,
02:19 and I wonder what they might say about it as well.
02:21 I know it's the first corner.
02:23 Lando Norris minding his own business.
02:25 And then that happened.
02:26 Safety cars coming in then.
02:28 Fernando Alonso, we saw, limping around at the back
02:33 and his team monitoring any potential damage.
02:36 It is a bit of a test session for him.
02:38 His teammate Lance Stroll is out.
02:40 Lando Norris is out.
02:42 The two Astons coming together.
02:43 Lewis Hamilton steaming down the inside.
02:45 Norris a passenger and out of this race.
02:47 And it's lap three and we can get going again.
02:50 Max Verstappen leading them away from Charles Le Guin
02:54 down that long back straight today.
02:55 It was a tailwind yesterday.
02:57 That might help with some overtaking once DRS gets enabled.
03:02 And it has been enabled now.
03:03 Now we're on lap five of this race.
03:05 Verstappen's out of DRS threat from McLaren.
03:07 Norris out. First time this season that a McLaren has failed to score
03:11 in a sprint or a Grand Prix.
03:12 They've had double points finishes everywhere we have been.
03:16 We are riding on board with Oscar Piastri now in that sixth place
03:21 behind Carlos Sainz as Sergio Perez gets past Danny Ricciardo.
03:25 Goes a bit deep, Martin, but he's up in the third place.
03:28 And he needs to be careful that he doesn't give
03:31 a breeze past.
03:33 I'm talking about Perez.
03:34 So this is how he did it.
03:35 This is where the dust came up.
03:37 Ricciardo went left to defend and Perez went even further left.
03:42 Out of turn 16 as well, gathering top speed up to about 205 miles an hour.
03:47 Who's going to be latest on the brakes here?
03:49 Ricciardo or Carlos Sainz?
03:51 Ricciardo just stays ahead.
03:54 Carlos pinched into the corner a little bit,
03:56 but he'll get another dose of rear wing open down the pit straight now.
04:00 And that should make a difference.
04:02 But Ricciardo has got the same service still from the back of Perez.
04:06 And that enables him to keep the position.
04:08 On board with Lewis Hamilton.
04:10 That is how close he's getting to Kevin Magnussen chasing one point.
04:14 This time two weeks ago in Shanghai, he was in the lead of the race
04:19 up until lap eight where Max Verstappen passed him.
04:22 But he finished second and scored seven of his 19 points this season
04:27 in that one race.
04:28 Very slow on the straight.
04:29 OK, copy.
04:31 Now Hamilton has got DRS.
04:33 He is that much closer to Kevin Magnussen.
04:36 Magnussen hasn't got the DRS.
04:37 Look at the dust that's being kicked up.
04:39 Hamilton is going to try round the outside into the left hander.
04:43 And Kevin Magnussen just squeezes him out.
04:45 Good defensive driving there from the Danish driver.
04:48 Vladnar Norris is going to be investigated after this sprint race
04:52 for entering the track on foot.
04:54 The stewards are going to have a look at that.
04:55 Sadly, didn't want to have a look at the incident
04:57 that caused him to get out of the car in the first place.
04:59 Has Ricciardo got some energy boost from his car to try and keep that place?
05:04 Is Sainz picking up a slipstream?
05:05 And now with DRS getting that helping hand of extra speed,
05:09 you can see how he's now catching, catching, catching Daniel Ricciardo.
05:13 But he's not close enough going into the left hander
05:16 at the end of the straight to try and squeeze by on the inside.
05:19 Maybe he was just minding his tyres a bit in the early phases.
05:22 A balance and deck update, please, Max.
05:24 Oh, terrible.
05:25 Zero grip.
05:27 Like Wally.
05:28 It wasn't as if he failed to lose that place exactly.
05:34 Is Lewis going to get him here, though?
05:35 He's pulling alongside, going wheel to wheel.
05:38 And he is pulling past the Haasen up into the points as Magnussen goes deep
05:42 and tries to fight that back again and going round the long right hander.
05:46 Did they make contact? I think they did.
05:48 But nonetheless, he's ahead of him now.
05:51 This was the view from the rear wing of Kevin Magnussen.
05:55 Hamilton wasn't there.
05:55 There was a small thing.
05:57 Copy, yeah, we've got that on video.
05:59 Yeah, we saw it.
06:03 Here we go off board. That'll show us the contact.
06:06 And he went off the track as well, Kevin Magnussen.
06:08 And I wonder how many penalties he wants to try and pick up today.
06:11 Oh, it's too far back to make a move.
06:13 Hamilton's a lot closer, though.
06:14 Magnussen's under pressure again.
06:16 This time, Lewis Hamilton might get it done, but he goes so late on the brakes.
06:20 Kevin Magnussen.
06:21 Hamilton had to go wide and off the track, too.
06:24 And now Yuki Tsunoda joining the party.
06:27 Yuki Tsunoda gets past Hamilton.
06:29 Brilliant opportunist move there from the RB driver.
06:32 Let's have a look at this again.
06:35 So he forces Hamilton down the outside.
06:38 Magnussen then gets off the brake.
06:41 And then didn't stay on the racetrack, didn't manage to stay.
06:48 What the drivers are saying is, look, it can't keep...
06:50 Out of turn 16 to keep Carlos Sainz at bay once again.
06:54 See him looking in his mirrors to the left all the time.
06:57 Where's that Ferrari? Where's that Ferrari?
06:59 It's coming at you with DRS Daniel.
07:02 It's getting a bit closer with DRS Daniel.
07:04 But as he looks in his mirrors, you'll see that Carlos Sainz isn't close enough
07:08 to try and make a lunge down the inside.
07:11 Ricciardo can save his battery in a defensive way there.
07:15 And this will be a great result for Daniel Ricciardo to split a Red Bull
07:19 and a Ferrari and be ahead of a McLaren.
07:22 I tell you, it has happened.
07:24 Down the back straight we come.
07:25 Ricciardo ahead of Sainz of Piastri.
07:27 Down the main straight.
07:28 Here comes Max Verstappen, takes the chequered flag,
07:31 wins the Miami sprint, keeps up his 100% record in Miami.
07:35 And Charles Leclerc gets second ahead of Sergio Perez.
07:38 Carlos Sainz does make that lunge to try and get past Daniel Ricciardo,
07:42 but he's not made it stick.
07:43 And Daniel Ricciardo comes home to finish fourth ahead of Sainz of Piastri.
07:47 Hülkenberg will take seventh.
07:49 And Lewis Hamilton, ahead of Yuki Tsunoda, comes home to finish in eighth place
07:55 and take the final points in an exhilarating sprint.
07:58 Well done, Max. First bit of the weekend done. Well done. Good result.
08:01 Yeah, good win.
08:04 See to a fancy medal at the end of the race tomorrow.
08:09 But good points.
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