When things really got down to business, the sprint race in Miami was almost over. But what a turbulent half hour offered the 100-kilometer tour on Saturday afternoon (local time) over the parking lot of the local football stadium, the McLaren pilot Lando Norris won in front of his team-mate Oscar Piatri and Ferrari star Lewis Hamilton. “Great work, well done, guys,” said Norris, who was able to tour leisurely after 18 rounds. After an accident in the final phase between Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls), the race ended, behind the safety car. Much to the dismay of the World Cup leading Oscar Piatri, which was previously on victory course. “I don’t think,” said the Australian, “that we should buy lottery pins at this place.” Hamilton, on the other hand, rejoiced: “I am so happy. It was a hard year so far,” said Formula 1 record world champion. “I never thought it would rain in Miami. But he gave us a lot of fun.” Leclerc Crasht should see his teammate Charles Leclerc differently on the way to the start of the start. The Monegasse is crashed, the short racing hadn’t started. On the way to the starting line -up, he lost control of the Ferrari. On the wet lane, Leclerc slides into the barrier with the right side of his racer. Hadn’t the Scuderia out of the window? It wasn’t raining just since, but almost an hour. Grande Casino! In any case, Leclerc drove through a light left sheet, when he got aquaplaning, with his red speedster on the water film, which had stayed over the asphalt. Front tire flat, rear bike suspension crooked. Continue? Impossible. Get out, signore. “No, no, no,” Leclerc groaned into the radio. During the warm -up round, the Safety Car drove the field ahead. The water splashed everywhere, the pilots reported zero view. Piatri, for example, defends the “worst view that I have ever had in a racing car for his colleagues. The race management was on the safe side: she had red flags swiveled, postponed the start indefinitely. That should have had another reason in addition to security concerns: a total damage suffered in the sprint threatened to torpedo participation in the starting place race for the Grand Prix, which was to take place only three hours later. Thirty minutes passed, it stopped raining and the sun south floridas turned the parking space out of the parking space with only a few puddles: engines-not with Slicks Mind you, but on the intermediate tires for mixed conditions. After two exploring tours behind the security vehicle, the Hatz started in a classic way: Start from the stand, 16 of the originally planned 18 rounds remained. Surprisingly, the 18-year-old had raced to pole position the day earlier. Now the Italian, pushed far to the outside world, did not get the first curve. He was passed on to fourth place on the radio: “He pushed me off!” The referees saw it differently: Hard but fair, Piatris maneuver, no study against the Australian.antonelli and Verstappen crashes in pit assassination and vision, Piastri had to let Norris and world champion Max Verstappen (Red Bull) tear down. “It dries very quickly,” reported Piatri at the top and soon the courage was asked: Who would be the first car to let Slicks open? Again the demand at Piatri: “How is the route?” – “She dries off, but not as quickly as I thought.” Carlos Sainz saw it similarly: “At the moment, the intermediate tire is even faster than the slick,” said the Williams pilot. “But just a little bit.” And not long. For half -time Piatri circled two seconds in front of Norris, who again held four seconds before Verstappen. Then, seven tours in front of Ultimo, the interplay started and thus the drama: first Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull), then Hamilton came to the service. Everything went smoothly, especially for Hamilton: the tire change washed it from six to four. The McLaren pilots and Verstappen were still in front of him, but in the case of the world champion that soon changed, because it crashed between Verstappen and Antonelli shortly afterwards. But Antonelli was rushing there for the service, his crew was waiting right in front of the Red Bull team. Verstappen shook, Antonelli turned: Crash. The Mercedes rumbled over the front wing of the Red Bull. Antonelli tried to avoid and missed his parking lot. He had to do another round and come to the box again. So he stayed at the finish line without dots. “Coming, people,” said Verstappen about the fatal mistake of his team. The fact that he left the box with a destroyed front wing no longer played a role. Verstappen paid the mistake of his team with a time penalty of ten seconds: in the end made the last place for the world champion, who had become the father of a daughter this week. The Rhinelander Nico Hülkenberg (clean) also remained twelfth without points. More on the topic of the top McLaren hesitated the pit stop. Four laps before the end came Piatri and another circulation later Norris. To prefer the leading person as usual and to make it earlier proved to be misfortune as a Piatris. In the meantime, Alonso collided with Lawson. The Aston Martin of the two -time champion remained destroyed near the ideal line. While Norris just left the box at 80 km / h, the Safety Car was alerted and the ramming piastri was braked. So he saw the chance robbed of overtaking the teammate ceasing from the pit lane. “I think I did pretty much everything right,” said Piatri at the finish line, “but it sometimes works in racing.” The recovery of the accident car, so Norris, who won his first Grand Prix in Miami last year, was allowed to cheer the first small triumph of the weekend. “I would have preferred it,” said the Brit, “all of this would have happened tomorrow.” But also the Grand Prix this Sunday (10 p.m. CEST in the F.A.Z.-Liveticker for Formula 1 and at Sky) promises to be turbulent due to announced shower.
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