The silver lining of Ferrari’s Miami GP defeat

OPINION: Much was made of Formula 1’s first Miami Grand Prix – what turned out to be a very ‘marmite’ event for both those in attendance and everyone following on TV. But even as the on-track battle between Red Bull and Ferrari it produced continued the negative run of results for the red team, it contained a glimmer it must hope continues to shine

Updated May 11, 2022, 10:12 AM

So, what did you make of Formula 1’s first Miami Grand Prix? Was it an unrivalled triumph of mass-market, glitzy, celebrity entertainment manifesting itself through sport? Or was it a soulless, over-hyped, very expensive and actually not that interesting race in the car parks around a stadium built to host another sport entirely?

The truth, inevitably, is in between the totally polarising positions F1 fans currently seem determined to adopt and then vitriolically defend on just about any subject.

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Author Alex Kalinauckas

Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.