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Formula 1 races in incredible places. Miami is unique. Home of two-time Superbowl champions the Miami Dolphins, the Miami Open tennis, other world-class sporting events and concerts, the Hard Rock Stadium is transformed into a Grand Prix track where hundreds of thousands of fans will enjoy the action both on and off the circuit this weekend.



Live coverage of Friday's Sprint Qualifying session at the 2025 Miami Grand Prix.

GRAMMY Award-winning international icon Tiësto will make F1 history at this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix when, on Sunday, he becomes the first artist to deliver electrifying headline performances from the bridge over the grid moments before the formation lap begins and from the podium after the race.

Miami Grand Prix practice ended prematurely when Ollie Bearman found the wall towards the end of the hour long session.

Championship leader Oscar Piastri picked up from where he left off in Saudi Arabia by topping the only practice session at the Miami Grand Prix.

Mercedes Formula 1 rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli claimed his maiden sprint pole at the Miami Grand Prix, defeating both McLarens.
Antonelli had looked rapid throughout Friday afternoon's sprint qualifying session and his late run of 1m26.482s was enough to withstand a last-ditch run by McLaren duo Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, who qualified 0.045s and 0.100s behind respectively.
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Andrea Kimi Antonelli takes his first Formula 1 pole position for the sprint race at the Miami Grand Prix.

After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport.com publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate battles.
This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.
When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.
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For five consecutive seasons between 2018 and 2022, Chase Elliott won multiple races every year and racked up 18 Cup Series wins. But in the three years since, NASCAR's Most Popular Driver has only added a single win to that total
Despite this, it's hard to say Elliott has fallen off as he ended the 2024 season with the best average finish of any full-time driver in the field. He's started 2025 ...Keep reading

Alpine Formula 1 team boss Oliver Oakes denied rumours that Franco Colapinto would replace Jack Doohan at the next round in Imola, stating "today, that's the case" that Doohan would continue.
Colapinto signed as Alpine's reserve driver last January following his nine-grand-prix stint as a regular driver for Williams last year, and there has been much speculation ever since about the possibility ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says he has "no doubt" that his former driver Lewis Hamilton will recapture his "stellar" old form while racing for his new Ferrari squad.
Hamilton moved to Ferrari for this season after 12 years at Mercedes, with a brilliant pole-to-flag sprint win in China punctuating a much more difficult start to the season. Hamilton has been adrift compared to team-mate ...Keep reading

Yuki Tsunoda has brought a "positive energy" to Red Bull, as team principal Christian Horner has praised the job that the Japanese Formula 1 driver has done at the team so far.
Tsunoda was given a test at Silverstone in Red Bull's RB19, although faced what he described as "classic British weather" as he struggled to get much in the way of mileage in the run.
It nonetheless gave him time to ...Keep reading

Texas Motor Speedway is an enigma among intermediate tracks. Video of the races from a decade ago looks like a completely different race track. Most of the track surface can't even be utilized in current races for various reasons, but how did we get here?
Flashback to 2016: Drivers and teams were dissatisfied with the weepers at TMS, making it impossible to dry the track in a reasonable amount ...Keep reading

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believes a proposal to change the energy deployment of Formula 1's 2026 powertrains is "worth consideration", warning of excessive lift and coast at certain races next year.
Horner's comments follow the F1 Commission meeting, where the teams met with the FIA and FOM last week to help plot the future direction of the championship, with discussions on how ...Keep reading

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri topped the timesheets during Friday’s sole practice session for the Miami Grand Prix, leading the way from Ferrari rival Charles Leclerc and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen after a late crash for Ollie Bearman brought out the red flags.

Live coverage of Friday's first practice session for the 2025 Miami Grand Prix.

Formula 1 has announced that the Miami Grand Prix will remain on the calendar through 2041, following a 10-year extension to its existing agreement with the promoter South Florida Motorsports – a new deal that will make Miami the longest contracted event on the F1 calendar.

Red Bull has commenced its incremental upgrade push to try and close the gap with the leading McLaren cars, starting with a revised floor design for the Miami sprint weekend, which Verstappen will trial.
Teams are generally reluctant to bring substantial floor changes to a sprint weekend, with just one practice session to calibrate any new parts. But according to chief engineer Paul Monaghan ...Keep reading

Austin may have hosted Formula 1 since 2012, but the real test for if the championship could finally break into American culture came a decade later when the decision was taken to race in Miami.
The Circuit of the Americas stages the de facto United States Grand Prix and is often seen as the home for ‘traditional’ F1 race fans, but to truly make an impact in the US, F1 knew it needed to ...Keep reading

Our F1 correspondent Andrew Benson will do a weekly Q&A this season, so get your questions in now.