{"id":255104,"date":"2026-05-02T08:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255104\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T08:09:20","slug":"maini-beats-camara-and-stenshorne-to-pole-in-close-miami-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255104\/","title":{"rendered":"Maini beats C\u00e2mara and Stenshorne to pole in close Miami contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformula2.com\/Latest\/Tag\/5liXlFLseiVrpvAmSwYyqR\/ART-GRAND-PRIX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ART Grand Prix <\/a>driver <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformula2.com\/Latest\/Tag\/3JIcJxvJbqOmFF8uJ3bWB6\/kush-maini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kush Maini<\/a> came out on top of a tightly fought Miami Qualifying, taking the Aramco Pole Position Award ahead of Rafael C\u00e2mara and Martinius Stenshorne.<\/p>\n<p>Maini completed a 1:39.888 with his final lap of the day to beat C\u00e2mara to the top spot by just 0.033s, with Rodin Motorsport\u2019s Martinius Stenshorne in P3.<\/p>\n<p>It was C\u00e2mara that set the pace early with a 1:40.411, the Invicta Racing driver over a tenth ahead the Rodin\u2019s Alexander Dunne and Stenshorne in P2 and P3 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Several drivers were able to push on and improve on their second laps with the supersoft tyres, including Rafael Villag\u00f3mez, who went from eighth to fourth ahead of Maini in fifth.<\/p>\n<p>While the majority of the field pushed on for a third attempt, many chose to return to the pitlane for a new set of tyres ahead of their final laps of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers returned to the track with just over 11 minutes to go, and once the flying laps begun, the fastest time changed several times.<\/p>\n<p>But it was ultimately Maini that was quickest on a 1:39.888, with the top three, including C\u00e2mara and Stenshorne covered by just 0.050s.<\/p>\n<p>ART opted to bring Maini back into the pitlane as the rest of the field continued looking to improve their times.<\/p>\n<p>But those runs were curtailed by a yellow flag at Turn 16, with Stenshorne having pulled over to with an issue, leaving Maini on pole ahead of C\u00e2mara.<\/p>\n<p>Dunne wound up in P4 for Rodin behind Stenshorne, with Gabriele Min\u00ec in fifth for MP Motorsport, and Van Amersfoort Racing\u2019s Nico Varrone in sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Duerksen was seventh for Invicta, ahead of Oliver Goethe, with TRIDENT\u2019s Laurens van Hoepen in P9, while Nikola Tsolov sealed reverse grid pole for the Sprint Race in P10 for Campos Racing.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s Sprint Race is set to take place at 10:00 local time, with all 22 drivers looking to become Formula 2\u2019s first winner at the Miami International Autodrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ART Grand Prix driver Kush Maini came out on top of a tightly fought Miami Qualifying, taking the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-255104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}