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F1 Miami GP Live Commentary and Updates – Race
Minute-by-minute updates for the 2023 Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix.
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Sergio Perez starts from pole position in Miami on a shaken-up grid triggered by Charles Leclerc’s crash which denied the top 10 a final lap run in Q3.
Perez is joined by Fernando Alonso on the front row, with Leclerc in seventh and Max Verstappen ninth. Lewis Hamilton also endured a tough qualifying and was dumped out in Q2, meaning he starts in 13th.
The Miami GP starts at 8:30pm BST.
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And yep, Sainz is in trouble. He's been given a five-second penalty for speeding in the pitlane. That'll wreck his race.
Perez, on his fresh hards, makes light work of taking third place at Turn 11 off Ocon who is yet to pit.
Nice fight for ninth between Albon and Stroll, with the Williams holding the position on his medium tyres.
Sainz dives by Hulkenberg for fifth at Turn 1, but bad news might be coming for the Spaniard. He is noted for potentially speeding in the pitlane. He locked up horribly coming into the pitlane, so where there is (tyre) smoke, there's fire...
Russell is closing on Stroll, who is yet to stop, for 10th, with Zhou, Gasly, Magnussen, Leclerc and Bottas behind.
Pit stop
At the end of lap 20 Perez pits from the lead. It is a decent stop, 2.2s, and he comes out in fourth place.
Verstappen takes another half a second out of Perez's lead, whose medium tyres are really starting to cry enough.
Sainz managed to get out just in front of Albon, which is a crucial element in Ferrari's hopes of undercutting Alonso and Aston Martin.
Stroll has moved up to 10th after passing Zhou into Turn 1. Those two, Tsunoda and Albon ahead have yet to stop.
Pit stop
Sainz has a huge lock-up diving into the pits, swapping his mediums for hards, and comes out in seventh.
After his stop, Russell is 12th from Gasly, Magnussen, Leclerc and Bottas.
Verstappen is reeling in Perez with the gap down to 2.2s.
Pit stop
Russell pits from fifth place on lap 18 having been tucked up behind Sainz.
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"My front right tyre is starting to give up a bit," Perez reports on his radio. The pit window for the medium starters is open, but Perez is trying to go long to cover off Verstappen who is on the hards.
Magnussen has found himself with a good opportunity here. He's just over a second behind Gasly after their respective stops. Both sitting 15th and 14th at the moment on lap 17.
So, Red Bull vs Red Bull at the front. 3.0s is the gap at the end of lap 16.
Hamilton's overtake on Albon was a straightforward draft past on the straights before he got to the braking zone for Turn 11.
Pit stop
Gasly and Bottas have pitted. De Vries has also been in. All onto the hard tyres now.
Hamilton now passes Albon for 11th.
On lap 15 Verstappen darts by Alonso to take second place at Turn 11, in a carbon copy of his move on Sainz the lap before. That Red Bull is rapid.
Pit stop
A pitstop for Magnussen for hard tyres finally sees Hamilton gain a place, but only to 12th.
Not a lot of movement going on outside of the top 10. Hamilton is still stuck in 13th. He's well within DRS range of Albon, but that Williams is very slippery on the straights.
Verstappen sets another new fastest lap and having sized up Sainz he makes his move at Turn 11 to take third place.
Magnussen defended well at Turn 11 to keep Leclerc at bay, but this feels like a matter of when not if.
Leclerc tried to take seventh from Magnussen at the first turn, but ran deep and let the Haas back through. Ocon looks menacing behind this pair.
Perez and Verstappen are trading fastest lap times, with the Mexican's lead over Alonso up to 2.7s, while the Dutch driver is closing up on Sainz in third.
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"My gut tells me it's going to be a Plan A race," Russell says on his radio. Plan A is probably the one-stopper, ditching his mediums for hards. Who needs strategists, Mercedes has got Russell's gut.
A quick look behind the top six, Magnussen is now within DRS range of Leclerc, with Ocon also in this mix. Bottas is a couple of seconds back in 10th.
So, 10 laps in and Verstappen has gone from ninth to fourth, but more importantly, he is only 4.8s off Perez in the lead.
A lap later, Verstappen repeats the trick on Gasly to take fourth place at Turn 17, showing the French driver the outside wall as he does it. Russell joins the action, taking the opportunity to charge into the inside of Gasly at Turn 1.
Verstappen dives by Russell into Turn 17 and takes fifth place. Good move, that.
Hulkenberg tried an overtake on Bottas for 10th at Turn 1 at the start of lap eight, but locked up and ran wide, keeping Bottas in position.
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Verstappen is still the fastest driver on track, last time around putting in a 1m32.555s, which is three-tenths faster than Perez leading the race.
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"OK, feels Plan A minus 12," Alonso reports over team radio. That sounds like he wants to pit 12 laps earlier than planned. That's a big jump.
Ocon had a moment at the Turn 14/15 chicane, running through the corner. He's 0.5s behind Leclerc in their battle for eighth on lap seven.
Hamilton tells his team that he feels something isn't right with the "front right" of his car. He is still mired in 13th. Next highest hard runner to him is Hulkenberg in 11th, then Ocon in ninth.
Verstappen is in DRS range of Russell now - he's a comin' and comin' fast.
Pit stop
Norris' McLaren team-mate Piastri has also come in for hard tyres at the end of lap five.
Perez will know he needs to get as far up the road as possible from his team-mate, with four drivers between the Red Bull pair. The Mexican leads by 2s from Alonso six laps in.
Pit stop
Norris has been into the pits to ditch his soft rubber for hards. Not the quickest of stops for the McLaren.
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