The F1 grid for the Miami sprint race has been reduced to 21 cars after Nico Hulkenberg suffered a dramatic failure in the build-up to the race.<\/p>\n
En route to the grid, Hulkenberg’s car started emitting smoke before the situation turned more drastic when flames started billowing from the rear.<\/p>\n
Hulkenberg was quickly forced to park up and jump out of the car, ending his race before it even got underway.<\/p>\n
The German was due to start from 12th on the grid, but now is in danger of missing qualifying altogether if the repairs are deemed to extensive.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Sky Sports F1, Audi racing director Allan McNish revealed the team first spotted an anomaly before the car had even left the garage.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had something in the garage which we thought was sorted out, but clearly there was a problem going to the grid,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to get the car back to have a look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked if there are fears Hulkenberg could miss qualifying, McNish replied: \u201cWe need to get it back before we can really see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The F1 grid for the Miami sprint race has been reduced to 21 cars after Nico Hulkenberg suffered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[67510,67513,67511,67514,67512,67509,31514,49464,67508,123,125,124,67507,4974],"class_list":["post-255587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","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-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-motorsport","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255587","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=255587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}