Many certainties but as many doubts a few hours after the start of the weekend in Florida, with the Minigara format on Saturday
The logic and predictions suggest that for Ferrari the Miami GP should be interlocutory. The updates and the coveted, consequent, progress are expected more to Imola than here, where substantial news should not be there. If we add that in the first five season matches everything that has been achieved is a podium, with the third place of Charles Leclerc in Jeddah, it becomes automatic to think in defense, do not get too many expectations or illusions and look at what will happen among the glories, the VIPs and all the glamor of the circuit around the NFL Dolphins stadium.
Sprint factor in Miami
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The beauty of Formula 1 of these years, however, is that there is always a crack in the certainties and predictions drawn up according to logic. In Miami it will be a Sprint Weekend, and this is the security exit of the hopes of those who cheer for the reds. Not so much or not only that the Sprint race will run, but just that the whole weekend will be conditioned by the Saturday races, with a single free session on Friday. The only precedent of the season, in Shanghai, has arisen what so far has been the most significant, and exciting satisfaction for Ferrari and for its people: the success of Lewis Hamilton precisely on Saturday, the first for the stable in red in the short history of the sprint races. A question of structures found more quickly than rivals, perhaps. Or of brevity that allowed Azzardi not recommended on the distance of the 300 kilometers and brokens of the actual Grand Prix. A specificity, relating to the sprint race, then unfortunately already confirmed the next day by the disappointment of the Chinese GP. We will see if the second clue will arrive in Florida on Saturday in that sense.
Hamilton’s moment
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It is true, however, it has since since been the difficulties of Hamilton. In the latest releases he has never found the set -up he has in mind, he has struggled with the engine brake and even more with what for his tastes is a sort of instability of the retrotre. Instead of seeing progress he expressed doubts. Unlike Charles Leclerc who instead remains there, despite himself acknowledges that with the McLaren there is not much to do, but also the last time in Saudi Arabia he managed to be the best behind them, even giving-and not for the first time-the feeling of having gone beyond the current limits of the SF-25. Those that in Lewis for now seem insurmountable. All in sight of going to a circuit that has so far been warm with Ferrari. Leclerc himself made us two podiums, he took a pole in 2022, but then of victories in the three editions played so far they have never arrived. Moreover, in races that have not exactly thrilled. Selling here is hard, so the trend will be to go to one stop, as already in the past, although Pirelli, with the intention of moving things a little, has brought the three softest comparisons of its range: C3, C4 and C5, as already in Jeddah.
McLaren and the tires
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It will therefore be all to understand the incidence of degradation. If overheating, especially that of the rear tires, it will be a difficult problem to manage. If this were the case, the usual McLaren will be likely to come out. Which has already shown several times that we get better than others with that type of problems. Just the ability to preserve the tires was one of the keys of his unquestionable superiority so far. A year ago right here Lando Norris won the career for the first time. Event already historical. Which becomes even more if you go to see the trend of the entire 2025 season. Just a look at the placements, or to the points curve, to understand that the ribbone began here. Max Verstappen, in defense, limiting the losses and capitalizing every occasion, managed to set up the defense – in his heroic way – of the pilot title. The team, the Red Bull, ended up being dominated by the impetuous comeback of the two Papaya. A year later inside the Woking team, the situation is at the same time exhilarating and delicate. Superiority is a fact. Guaranteeing it is not obvious: it was Woking’s men who showed a year ago that the certainties in formula 1 today can have shorter horizons than once.
piatri-norris
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And above all, compared to then, overpowering, Oscar Piastri came out. What a no, it is not a real surprise. Formula 3 and Formula 2 are not won in sequence if you don’t have much more than the others. And above all his silent and anti-emotional security is not only more striking if compared to the up and down moods and performances of his partner Norris. And just as far as the silent security of Oscar is granitic ends up further incrubating Lando’s already lavable trust. Translated: it is not said that that of McLaren will be a domain as long as all the 2025 GPs, on the contrary, it is likely that it will not be. Or that in any case it will not be such as to strictly deny satisfaction to others. But even if it should persist a challenge to see should be there and it will be: at home. Not a little considering that for years before Valtteri Bottas and then Sergio Perez represented an alternative to the phenomenal champions-compagni only in the very first seasonal GPs, and as a hypothesis, almost a hope for having a little more uncertainty. Now every GP, starting with this in Miami, gives the idea of being a derby between Lando and Oscar, and not only among them.
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