Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll will compete in the Miami Sprint despite Aston Martin hitting rock bottom this year in qualifying for the event.<\/p>\n
The Silverstone-based squad has suffered one ignominy after another following the introduction of new rules and the partnership with new power unit supplier Honda, whose system has been beset by issues.<\/p>\n
At the Miami International Autodrome, Lance Stroll failed to set a time after suffering a severe lock-up at one point on his only hot lap.<\/p>\n
Team-mate Fernando Alonso, meanwhile, set a time of 1:41.311s, almost 13 seconds adrift of the leading SQ1 time posted by Lando Norris in his McLaren. The F1 champion went on to claim pole position.<\/p>\n
Alonso’s lap was a staggering 6.4s adrift of the required 107% time, and so was not classified on the provisional sprint qualifying classification timing sheet, leaving him at the mercy of the stewards.<\/p>\n
However, as both drivers were quick enough in the single 90-minute practice session earlier in the day, even though Stroll was the slowest, 3.649s adrift of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, they have been granted dispensation to take part in Saturday’s sprint.<\/p>\n
The stewards confirmed that \u201cin accordance with Article B2.2.3b of the FIA F1 Regulations, the Stewards grant permission\u201d for both cars to start the race \u201cas the driver[s] set satisfactory times in practice at this competition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll will compete in the Miami Sprint despite Aston Martin hitting rock bottom this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407897,"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-407896","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\/407896","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=407896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}