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Formula 1 Miami GP

F1 Miami GP Live Commentary and Updates – Sprint race & Qualifying

Saturday's action from the sixth round of the 2024 Formula 1 season.

Carlos Sainz, Ferrari SF-24

F1 runs its second sprint race event of the season, with Max Verstappen taking pole during Friday’s sprint race qualifying ahead of Charles Leclerc. Lando Norris led the opening two segments of sprint race qualifying but faded to ninth in SQ3.

The Miami GP sprint race starts at 5pm BST (12pm local time) followed by grand prix qualifying at 9pm BST (4pm local time).

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Stroll is on the bubble now as Gasly goes fifth... but the Canadian goes up to 10th. Those two laps push Bottas and Sargeant out.
Alonso was on the bubble at the end of it all and escapes by just 0.010s.
Both RBs are in the bottom five but Tsunoda sets a great lap to go ninth, but Ricciardo is OUT! A poor lap for the Australian, what a difference a few hours makes.
Albon goes eighth as the chequered flag flies, as Ocon now improves.
Magnussen has had a howler of a final sector and sets an identical lap to Sargeant's previous best lap. He is out.
The American, however, goes 12th for now.
Sargeant is up on his best effort in Sector 1 but it's still slower than Ricciardo's best. Can he find the improvement he needs?
Leclerc is unhappy with a Williams that was in the way at T17. Either way, a whole host of drivers are off back out to secure their positions in Q2.
Sargeant is just 0.002s away from Ricciardo and safety and has suggested Tsunoda 'ruined' his lap.
Gasly, Magnussen, Zhou and Albon are also fighting elimination with just under four minutes to go.
Ricciardo gets away with a tap on the wall out of T16 and continues. He sits on the elimination line.
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Sainz improves to go fastest, but only just - by 0.086s.
Hamilton improves to split the Ferrari's in third, 0.144s off Verstappen's best effort. Russell can only go eighth.
A decent lap from Sargeant sees him go fastest in the final sector and 12th overall.
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There goes Verstappen to the top of the times with a 1m28.023.
Verstappen can't match Sainz's best Sector 1 time, what is the Red Bull like through the middle of the lap? Much faster...
Verstappen has left the pits for his first tour of the track in this session. Will he go straight to the top?
Sergio Perez slots into third ahead of George Russell and Oscar Piastri to round out the top five.
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The times are coming in thick and fast and the fastest of all so are is Carlos Sainz, with Charles Leclerc narrowly slower.
That leaves Kevin Magnussen as the first driver to cross the line but he is instantly beaten by teammate Nico Hulkenberg and Esteban Ocon.
Logan Sargeant proves this is a mini-test session at the start of Q1 as he pulls straight into the pits.
Already a close call in the pits as Zhou Guanyu pulls into the path of Daniel Ricciardo.
Lights green
Here we go! The Haas duo lead the train out of the pits.
There is already a queue at the end of the pit lane with set-up changes having been made between the sprint and quali. Who has made the right changes?
Now the parish notices are out of the way, full focus is on qualifying, which is just three minutes away!
The stewards have also explained why Hamilton wasn't punished for his part in the same incident. Here's why!
News from the stewards' room as Norris picks up a reprimand for crossing the track after retiring in that crash.
Damage was caused to Lance Stroll and Lando Norris in a first-corner melee earlier. Stroll's car still has work being done to it ahead of Q1.
Max Verstappen emerged victorious in a dramatic sprint that saw a number of drivers penalised, including Lewis Hamilton. Will the Red Bull take pole again?
Welcome back to our coverage of the Miami Grand Prix weekend. The sprint has been and gone and all eyes now turn to qualifying for tomorrow's main event!
With that we will take a breather until grand prix qualifying which starts at 9pm BST/4pm local time. Go well!
Sprints still split opinion it seems, but what I can say about that one was it kept me very busy typing away with lots of action up and down the pack.
So, what was your take on that latest sprint race? A success or a stinker?
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Here's the full race report on the Miami GP sprint race.
Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB20, Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-24, Daniel Ricciardo, RB F1 Team VCARB 01

Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB20, Charles Leclerc, Ferrari SF-24, Daniel Ricciardo, RB F1 Team VCARB 01

Photo by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Images

The top three are presented their sprint race medals by football legend and headbutt enthusiast Zinedine Zidane.
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Perez on third place: "It was really hard to get through Daniel in the beginning and once I got through I was three seconds off Charles and with the short race it was pretty tricky. I was getting within two seconds but then it was quite hard to get closer."
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Leclerc on battling Verstappen for the lead at the start: "I had quite a good start and then I was in the inside of Turn 1 but I didn't want to take too many risks as we have got also qualifying later on so if you have a crash in the sprint then you probably don't participate later on. We both brakes very, very late but he got to keep the position."
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Verstappen on his sprint win: "My engagement wasn't good at the start so I had to squeeze him [Leclerc] a bit but luckily everything worked out at Turn 1. We had the safety car to calm things down and after that we could steadily increase the gap but it wasn't entirely perfect."

Final order after all the penalties: P1 Verstappen, P2 Leclerc, P3 Perez, P4 Ricciardo, P5 Sainz, P6 Piastri, P7 Hulkenberg, P8 Tsunoda, P9 Gasly, P10 Sargeant, P11 Zhou, P12 Russell, P13 Albon, P14 Bottas, P15 Ocon, P16 Hamilton, P17 Alonso, P18 Magnussen. DNF: Stroll and Norris.

Penalty
Hamilton gets a drive through penalty for speeding in the pitlane, so that means 20s will be added to his race time. That pushes Tsunoda back up to eighth and the final points place.
Hamilton is under investigation for speeding in the pitlane during the safety car period though. While Magnussen gets another 5s penalty to take his total up to 25s for the sprint race.

By: Autosport Staff

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