Summary and results of Sunday F1 in Miami: race

Verstappen , who started third, moved up to second at the first corner after overtaking Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari. From then on, his target was Leclerc , whom he also managed to pass on lap 9.

Despite a safety car period late in the race, which put the Monegasque driver back into the DRS zone, Verstappen wound up pulling away to win by 3.7sec.

F1 Miami Grand Prix 2022 Race Results

Cla	Pilot		laps	Weather	Interval	Points
1	Max Verstappen		57	1:34’24.258		26
2	Charles Leclerc		57	1:34’28.044	3.786	18
3	Carlos Sainz Jr.		57	1:34’32.487	4,443	fifteen
4	Sergio Perez		57	1:34’34.896	2,409	12
5	George Russell		57	1:34’42.840	7.944	10
6	Lewis Hamilton		57	1:34’45.626	2.786	8
7	Valtteri Bottas		57	1:34’49.331	3.705	6
8	Esteban Ocon		57	1:34’52.644	3.313	4
9	Fernando Alonso		57	1:34’56.386	3.742	2
10	Alexander Albon		57	1:34’56.623	0.237	1
11	Daniel Ricciardo		57	1:35’00.160	3.537
12	Lance Stroll		57	1:35’01.284	1.124
13	Yuki Tsunoda		57 57	1: 35’04.404	3.120
14	Nicholas Latifi		57	1:35’14.194	9.790
15	Mick Schumacher		57	1:35’37.563	23.369
16	Kevin Magnussen		56
17	Sebastian Vettel		54
	Pierre Gasly		45
	Lando Norris		39
	Guanyu Zhou		6
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What happened at the 2022 F1 Miami Grand Prix?

With a dry track, but with a 40% chance of rain, Leclerc held the lead in the race after Turn 1, ahead of Sainz , but Verstappen overtook the Spaniard on the outside at the exit of that same lap to get second place.

Pérez followed fourth, ahead of Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo), Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri), Fernando Alonso (Alpine) and Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), who lost two positions after blocking in the first corner and receiving a touch from the Asturian Alpine .

Hamilton regained a position when he passed Alonso at Turn 11 with the help of DRS, after the Spaniard had gone wide at Turn 5, and then also passed Gasly at Turn 1 on Lap 6 to return to his sixth exit position.

As soon as he entered the DRS zone with Leclerc , Verstappen carried out a passing maneuver at turn 1 on lap 9. The Ferrari driver stayed in the DRS zone with Verstappen for a couple of laps, but then went out and lost quite a bit of time. after making a mistake at turn 17 on lap 12.

Pérez also caught up with Sainz in the fight for the final step of the podium, but suffered a loss of power that cost him 7 seconds while changing some settings on his steering wheel.

Leclerc was 4.5 seconds behind Verstappen when he pitted on lap 25 and rejoined fourth. The Dutchman did the same two laps later, after the Monegasque driver painted the second sector purple. Sainz led for one lap, before making his pit stop, a slow 5.4-second pit stop .

Verstappen ‘s lead increased to 7.7 seconds during the pit stop cycle. And Sainz was left in a distant third place, five seconds ahead of Pérez .

Alonso suffered a slower than normal pit stop due to a problem with the rear right of his car, but then caught up with Gasly and hit him at turn 1 on lap 39, which ended up costing him a 5 penalty. seconds.

The Frenchman, who went wide at Turn 7 a few meters later, took Lando Norris ahead, catapulting the McLaren into the wall and causing the Safety Car.

George Russell, who started on hard tires and had not yet made his stop, took the opportunity to pit. Pérez also mounted a new midfield game, but none of the top three stopped.

The race restarted with Verstappen leading Leclerc, Sainz and Pérez, who was on new tires with 10 laps to go in the race.

The Monegasque stayed in the Dutchman’s DRS zone, while Bottas overshot and hit the Turn 17 wall on lap 50, giving the position away to the Mercedes of Hamilton and Russell , who swapped places on the following lap. .

Pérez overtook Sainz, but also went wide and wide at Turn 1 with six laps to go, returning the position to the Spaniard, while Verstappen and Leclerc continued to lead. With three laps to go, the Dutchman slipped out of Leclerc’s DRS range and sealed his third win of the course.

Sainz managed to fend off attacks from Pérez to finish third, while Russell ‘s fifth had a lot to do with the timing of the safety car. His Mercedes teammate finished sixth, ahead of Bottas , Esteban Ocon and Alex Albon’s Williams. Alonso ultimately finished 11th after receiving two five-second penalties, one of them post-race.

Mick Schumacher’s Haas crashed into Sebastian Vettel’s Aston Martin at Turn 1 in the closing laps and the German veteran had to retire with damage to his car. Guanyu Zhou was the first driver to leave the race when his Alfa Romeo broke down.

Fastest laps of the 2022 Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix

Cla	Pilot	Chassis	laps	Weather	Difference	Interval	Km/h
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	54	1’31.361			213.255
2	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	53	1’31.488	0.127	0.127	212.959
3	Carlos Sainz Jr.	ferrari	56	1’31,790	0.429	0.302	212,258
4	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	54	1,31,819	0.458	0.029	212,191
5	George Russell	Mercedes	56	1’32.195	0.834	0.376	211.325
6	Mick Schumacher	Haas	57	1’32.528	1.167	0.333	210.565
7	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	55	1’32.941	1.580	0.413	209.629
8	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	55 55	1’33.035	1.674	0.094	209.417
9	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	56	1’33.163	1.802	0.128	209.130
10	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	56	1’33.184	1.823	0.021	209.083
eleven	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	56	1’33,265	1904	0.081	208,901
12	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	52	1’33.312	1.951	0.047	208.796
13	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	53	1’33.331	1.970	0.019	208.753
14	Lando Norris	McLaren	37	1’33.411	2.050	0.080	208.575
15	Alexander Albon	williams	57	1’33.447	2.086	0.036	208.494
16	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	50	1’33.479	2.118	0.032	208.423
17	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	52	1’33.511	2,150 th most common	0.032	208,351
18	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	53	1’34.169	2.808	0.658	206.896
19	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	38	1’34,487	3,126	0.318	206.199
20	Guanyu Zhou	Alfa Romeo	4	1’35.731	4.370	1.244	203.520
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2022 F1 Miami Grand Prix pit stops

Cla	Pilot	Chassis	1		two		3
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	M	26	H	31
2	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	M	24	H	33
3	Carlos Sainz Jr.	ferrari	M	27	H	30
4	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	M	27	H	14	M	16
5	George Russell	Mercedes	H	40	M	17
6	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	M	22	H	35
7	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	M	26	H	31
8	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	H	41	S	16
9	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	M	15	H	43
10	Alexander Albon	williams	M	16	H	41
eleven	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	M	30	H	eleven	yes	16
12	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	H	42	M	19
13	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	M	11 11	H	30	S	19 19
14	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	H	34	M	23
15	Mick Schumacher	Haas	M	14	H	40	M	3
16	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	M	12	H	30	M	14
17	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	H	43	M	15
	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	M	16	H	24	S	8
	Lando Norris	McLaren	M	18	H	21
	Guanyu Zhou	Alfa Romeo	M	6
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