Never two without three: the Monegasque Charles Leclerc, current leader of the world championship offered himself, Saturday at the wheel of his Ferrari, the pole position of the Grand Prix of Miami, the third in five races, in front of his teammate, the Spaniard Carlos Sainz.
If the Scuderia has managed to place its two drivers at the forefront, the prancing horse team will have to be wary of the second row, occupied by the Red Bulls of the Dutchman Max Verstappen, third ahead of the Mexican Sergio Pérez.
The start will be given at 3:30 p.m. Sunday (9:30 p.m. French time) in front of an expected audience of stars on the Miami International Autodrome, again under temperatures exceeding 30 degrees in the air and 50 degrees on the track.
Behind the leading quartet, the Finn Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo), the Briton Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), the Frenchman Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri), the Briton Lando Norris (MCLaren), the Japanese Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri) and the Canadian Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) complete the top 10 of these qualifications.
Performing the day before during the first tests, George Russell and his Mercedes will only start 12th in the GP. The reigning world champion team is still trying to fill the gaps in its single-seaters, which have been in difficulty since the start of the season.
The manufacturer has made a series of changes to the wing levels of its single-seaters in Miami in order to gain in velocity but also to limit the effects of “porpoising”, which makes the single-seaters bounce on the straights after the change in the aerodynamics of F1 cars. this season.