Following the sole practice session around the Miami International Autodrome, it’s time to qualify for the sprint race!<\/p>\n
It was a successful 90-minute outing for Ferrari as Charles Leclerc ended the session at the top of the times, three-tenths ahead of Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n
Ferrari will be hoping to continue that strong pace in the upcoming sprint qualifying session and keep Mercedes at bay, after the championship leaders endured a challenging session.<\/p>\n
A scrappy lap for George Russell could only put him sixth, while Kimi Antonelli was denied a final push lap due to a power unit issue.<\/p>\n
Following a late study of the data, teams are now locked in to send their cars out to qualify for Saturday’s shorter race.<\/p>\n
Who will come out on top? It’s time to find out!<\/p>\n
Follow our dedicated live updates from sprint qualifying below, which also features live timing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the sole practice session around the Miami International Autodrome, it’s time to qualify for the sprint race!…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-407337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}