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<\/p>\nThe start time of Sunday\u2019s Miami Grand Prix has been moved up by three hours to 13:00 (1:00 p.m. ET) local time due to the threat of inclement weather.<\/p>\n
Miami has been enduring record heat \u2013 along with sustained dry weather \u2013 for late April\/early May through the course of the week, with temperatures peaking at 93 degrees (F) during qualifying.<\/p>\n
But thunderstorms are forecast in South Florida on Sunday, with intense rainfall anticipated to worsen through the course of the afternoon.<\/p>\n
In the event of storms there is also the additional threat of thunder and lightning, with mandatory evacuations of grandstands and exposed areas if sustained lightning is detected within an eight-mile radius. <\/p>\n
In that situation there would be no option but to suspend on-track proceedings for at least half an hour until the lightning has cleared. <\/p>\n
As a consequence, the planned start time of 16:00 (4:00 p.m. ET) has been moved to 13:00 (1:00 p.m. ET). <\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing discussions between FIA, F1 and the Miami promoter, the decision has been taken to move the start of Sunday\u2019s Miami Grand Prix to 13:00 local time in Miami due to the weather forecast that is expected to bring heavier rainstorms later in the afternoon close to the original planned race start time,\u201d read a joint statement from the FIA, Formula 1 and the Miami Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis decision has been taken to ensure the least amount of disruption to the race, and to ensure the maximum possible window to complete the Grand Prix in the best conditions and to prioritise the safety of drivers, fans, teams and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli is due to start from pole position, his third in succession, ahead of Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen, with Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc third.<\/p>\n
Formula 1 rarely moves a race time forward to anticipate forecast severe rainfall but did so at the 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix, shifting up the start time by 90 minutes.<\/p>\n
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U.K.-based Phillip Horton started covering Grands Prix while still at university and swiftly deemed that writing about Formula 1 and the behind-the-scenes machinations was much more engaging than reading centuries-old novels. Degree gained, he went on to cover the sport full-time from 2014 and is as intrigued and excited by the destinations Formula 1 visits during its lengthy annual world tour as the racing itself. Phillip joined Autoweek in 2021 and while he has just about learned to spell in American English he has yet to find anywhere in America that makes a proper cup of tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start time of Sunday\u2019s Miami Grand Prix has been moved up by three hours to 13:00 (1:00…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31514,123,108650,125,124],"class_list":["post-256033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-formula-1","tag-miami","tag-miami-grand-prix","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256033","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=256033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}