{"id":641578,"date":"2026-05-01T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641578\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:08:08","slug":"watch-the-action-from-fp1-in-miami-as-charles-leclerc-sets-the-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641578\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the action from FP1 in Miami as Charles Leclerc sets the pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Charles Leclerc topped the timesheets during an extended sole practice session ahead of the Miami Grand Prix, the Ferrari driver leading the way from Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">In a session that ran for 90 minutes rather than the usual 60 \u2013 a decision <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiYW5ub3VuY2VkX2J5X3RoZV9maWFfbGlua19jbGlja2VkIiwiY2xpY2tUZXh0Ijp0cnVlLCJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZm9ybXVsYTEuY29tL2VuL2xhdGVzdC9hcnRpY2xlL21pYW1pLWdyYW5kLXByaXgtZnAxLXNlc3Npb24tZXh0ZW5kZWQtdG8tOTAtbWludXRlcy4yeDZOS1F6Rm5vOEY3RkFQUElOc2JvIiwicGF0aFR5cGUiOiJpbnRlcm5hbCJ9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/miami-grand-prix-fp1-session-extended-to-90-minutes.2x6NKQzFno8F7FAPPINsbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced by the FIA<\/a> in advance of the weekend \u2013 Leclerc posted a fastest time of 1m 29.310s, putting him 0.297s ahead of Verstappen in the Red Bull while McLaren\u2019s Oscar Piastri followed in third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The other Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton was fourth, with Mercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli \u2013 who did not get a run on the soft tyre following a small power unit issue in the latter stages \u2013 and team mate George Russell in fifth and sixth respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">To watch all the highlights from Free Practice 1 in Miami, click on the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc topped the timesheets during an extended sole practice session ahead of the Miami Grand Prix, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-641578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}