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00:00No pit stops unless it gets too dry for those intermediate tyres and Kimi Antonelli on pole.
00:06It's lights out, away we go and I think Oscar Piastri had a better reaction time and Piastri
00:11is coming at Kimi Antonelli and has the inside line into the first corner and Antonelli has
00:16to back out of it and he's going to lose places now as through goes Piastri, through goes Norris
00:21and through goes Max Verstappen. Pole down to fourth now and George Russell all over the rear
00:27wing of his team mate's Mercedes. Slightly better reaction time from Oscar Piastri.
00:31It wouldn't be on.
00:34There are no mandatory pit stops in the sprint but of course you can make a pit stop as Carlos
00:40Sainz then up the inside, nicely done. Yeah Carlos Sainz nicely done, Jack Doohan almost,
00:46sorry Pierre Gasly almost taking Esteban Ocon too. Ocon struggling out there a touch but he's back ahead.
00:52Oh it won't turn.
00:53Lewis Hamilton struggling once again with the handling of his Ferrari. It's a different sprint
00:59today than it was in Shanghai for him last month. Let's have a look and see who got to the apex
01:05first down in that first corner and uh that's Piastri's corner on the inside. Touch and go,
01:15really touch and go there as to where you you need to stop the car really and decide where the apex is
01:20exactly uh and whether uh Piastri was far enough or he's got to be alongside the mirror of the Mercedes
01:28of Antonelli his front wheel so as you get to the apex it does look like it was Piastri's corner
01:36doesn't it? Yeah. Lando Norris neat and tidy behind just mining his own business. It looked like a carbon
01:42coffee of Jeddah when Piastri had the right to the corner. But Piastri was considerably further ahead in
01:49Jeddah. Whoa, that's a bit of Brian overtaking isn't it? On the track. Ah Max Verstappen has been noted
01:57for being out of position at the start as we see how Carlos Sainz got past Esteban Ocon and Esteban
02:05Ocon said thank you. I'll take it back again. The stewards have said no further action. Let's have a
02:09quick look. Yeah, gonna fire up the rear tyres a little bit and there's the yellow reference line.
02:19Surely that's too far forward. It looks very similar to Norris doesn't it? Lewis Hamilton ahead then of
02:25Alex Albon. Albon looked to be a little closer to Hamilton. Meanwhile Albon's teammate Carlos Sainz is
02:31having a go here at Esteban Ocon who's been using that inside line to get better traction. He might
02:36just do it again because Sainz has outbraked himself. The old switcheroo there helped by Carlos Sainz and
02:43that must be getting very frustrating indeed now for the Spanish driver. Trying to keep tabs from Albon.
02:50My visor is just absolutely s***. I have no visibility. I don't know if he's holding on something scary.
02:59How's the track? Trying, but not as quick as I thought.
03:03Alex has just been on the team radio to say I can come in for tries. It'll be fine for me and he's
03:09running intent at the moment. Albon behind Lewis Hamilton all over the Ferrari which is really
03:15struggling for grip as you can see and to the extent that that's slowing Alex Albon down. I've got
03:21a lot more face here guys. Yeah, copy that George. Ted Kravitz, Yuki Tsunoda's coming in. Yeah, yeah,
03:28I thought that was the the right thing to do if you're Max Verstappen you're already P3. You don't
03:32want to throw away those solid points but Yuki Tsunoda this is absolutely worth it. It's the medium
03:37tire for what it's worth Crofty. Let's watch Yuki go. He was Yuki Tsunoda 37 seconds behind the lead when he
03:44made his pit stop. This is Oli Behrman down the inside on Pierre Gasly. Behrman with more passes
03:52on track this season than any other driver and there's another one to add to the locker book
03:58for the young man from Chelmsford. Final corner now. He was the first one to pit four slick tires.
04:04Hamilton will come out just ahead of Gabriel Bortoleto on the track. Bortoleto goes around the outside.
04:12Who is brave enough to put the slicks on? Who might want to hang it out? Verstappen's coming in
04:17to the pits and there is a double yellow flag being waved as well out on the track. Antonelli
04:24is also in the pits. Ted, oh there's contact in the pit lane between Verstappen and Antonelli Ted.
04:30The Atlas crash that was always going to happen when Red Bull released Verstappen into the park of
04:35Antonelli. He's wiped out his front wing. It's not enough to end Verstappen's race. Antonelli
04:40continued through. That's the first time. That's the definition of unsafe release.
04:44What were Red Bull thinking? Carlos Sainz going very slowly on the track. I think that was the cause.
04:50That is the cause of that double waved yellow I mentioned. He's hit the wall after changing
04:55tires and going onto the slicks and that's another car being driven in an unsafe condition that maybe
05:01should have stopped before now. Will we get a safety car? Is there debris coming off? And there's a
05:05battle for the lead going on and there's debris all over the track. Hamilton all over the track.
05:10A lot of debris. A lot of debris in the chicane. There's a lot. You can't avoid it. It's all over the
05:15track. That's what he's up to there calling for that. There's Lewis Hamilton making another move this
05:23time on Max Verstappen. He is up into third. Verstappen with damage on his car. You can see
05:28front wing end plate on the left hand side. It's completely gone. Double waved yellow is uh being
05:32waved for and that is why Fernando Alonso has now hit the wall and that might be safety car or
05:39definite safety car or even a red flag in this race. Norris is coming out. Piastri's making his way
05:45round the final corner uh now but the safety car has reduced the speed and that has given Lando Norris
05:52the lead of this race. Second year running in Miami. Safety car at just the right time for Lando Norris.
05:58We're on board with Carlos Sainz. This was the first of the double waved yellows uh that we saw
06:03and we know that Carlos Sainz is going to hit the wall. Just where is he going to hit the wall?
06:08Oh clips it on the inside. Oh that was clumsy.
06:13Just have a another look off board. Just fraction misjudgment and he's clips it on the inside and the
06:22left rear taking the punishment. So that's that's where a lot of the debris that Lando was talking
06:28about has come from that Carlos Sainz incident. It's raining confetti carbon fiber up there
06:34and um yeah but then what's so that's the Sainz recovering and you're not really allowed to do
06:41that as we saw earlier on it's like a polo mint and the rear tire heading off so 10 second time
06:47penalty for Max Verstappen for what we're about to see here which is piling straight into the side
06:54of the Mercedes and that meant then that Antonelli couldn't get in his pit. Absolutely
07:04so he couldn't take the change of tires so he don't
07:11what Red Bull's pit stops in Bahrain and here sadly lacking in coordination
07:20you did young man you did a brilliant job to avoid that because that would have spun him into
07:26a load of mechanics and he had to stay at the intermediate tires that's how Fernando Alonso got
07:31punted around by the racing bull of Liam Lawson yeah and I would imagine Alonso and Aston Martin
07:37will want to say a few things about that as well yeah I think Liam Lawson might have some problems
07:43there when their stewards get hold of that one because he was off the racing track well that's
07:49that's a front wing that's mangled let alone damaged so there's Lawson on the outside
07:55Alonso's got the corner so to me Lawson's obliged to back out of that a little bit because he's off
08:03the he's off the track anyway and Alonso's ahead of restarting I don't know what to say
08:07don't swear to me don't swear I think it's unlikely but the hard rock stadium is a hard luck story for the
08:16the likes of Piastri and the likes of Antonelli it's a good news story for Lando Norris safety car
08:24peels away and Lando Norris will lead the drivers over the line as they come into view to win the
08:31Miami sprints in 2025 it's Norris it's Piastri it's Hamilton the top three they want for them yeah lovely job
08:40well done boys
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