{"id":409346,"date":"2026-05-03T04:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:54:11","slug":"lawson-to-start-12th-for-miami-grand-prix-antonelli-takes-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409346\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawson to start 12th for Miami Grand Prix, Antonelli takes pole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiwi Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson will start 12th for tomorrow\u2019s Miami Grand Prix after being eliminated in the second round of qualifying.<\/p>\n

The Racing Bulls driver narrowly missed a place in the top-10 shootout for pole, posting a fastest lap of 1m 29.499s on his final run in Q2.<\/p>\n

Lawson safely advanced from Q1 after finishing the opening session 12th fastest but fell just 0.429 seconds short of a Q3 berth, ending the session behind Audi’s Nico Hulkenberg.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, that felt like pretty much everything,\u201d Lawson told his engineer over team radio after the session. <\/p>\n

\u201cI made a small mistake in the chicane. I think P11 was maybe there.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was still an encouraging result for the Kiwi, who qualified comfortably ahead of his rookie teammate Arvid Lindblad. Lindblad was knocked out in Q1 and will start from 17th.<\/p>\n

Championship leader Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes claimed pole position for tomorrow’s race, outpacing his experienced teammate George Russell who finished the session in fifth. <\/p>\n

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen will line up alongside Antonelli in second, with Charles Leclerc third for Ferrari.<\/p>\n

Lawson currently sits 10th in the World Drivers Standings, so a points scoring finish will be crucial for the Kiwi to maintain his current momentum.<\/p>\n

The Miami Grand Prix gets underway Monday at 8am NZT.<\/p>\n

\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam Lawson of New Zealand and Visa Cash App Racing Bulls prepares to drive in the garage during Sprint Qualifying ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Miami (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

‘We definitely still have work to do’ <\/p>\n

The result comes after Lawson finished 15th in the earlier sprint race<\/a> around the Miami International Autodrome. <\/p>\n

Speaking to media after the race, the Kiwi revealed he had been battling a power issue with his VCARB 03. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe first probably six or seven laps we had an issue with power, so I kept getting overtaken and I would lose a place every lap,\u201d Lawson said. <\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we fixed it, it wasn\u2019t actually too bad, but we definitely still have work to do to get towards the guys in the top 10.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lando Norris led a McLaren one-two in the sprint, finishing ahead of teammate Oscar Piastri, while Leclerc was third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwi Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson will start 12th for tomorrow\u2019s Miami Grand Prix after being eliminated in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,64,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-409346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409346","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=409346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}