00:00Fernando needs a great lap here, if he's going to take any further part in this qualifying.
00:06Alex Albon is out of qualifying, only 18th fastest for Alex Albon, the chequered flag is flying.
00:13Here comes Lando Norris to cross the line, doesn't improve on his time, stays 11th fastest.
00:19Is he going to be slightly in danger from those behind him?
00:23Fernando Alonso we can pick up now, Max Verstappen also out on the road too
00:27and Lance Stroll goes 6th fastest for Aston Martin.
00:31His teammate Sebastian Vettel, who's out on the track and currently setting a personal best in the middle sector.
00:36Only 14th fastest as it stands. Alonso, tentative wasn't he?
00:40Coming out of turn 16 and 17, round the final corner he goes 6th fastest, pushes Kevin Magnussen into the bottom 5.
00:49Magnussen out on the track but not setting best sector times, Vettel now puts himself out of danger.
00:55Nicholas Latifi would love to get out of Q1, he's not going to make it this time around.
00:59Slowest driver on the track for the Canadian driver in his first Q1 session here in Miami.
01:05There's so many that can't block me in the last sector, we need to report but it's dangerous, I'm flying up.
01:12But with Esteban Ocon not taking part in Q1, we've lost both Williams, Latifi and Albon, Joe Guanyu and Kevin Magnussen in the Haas.
01:21Sebastian Vettel now rounding the final couple of corners to try and get himself out of the bottom 5 and he does so.
01:318th fastest for Sebastian Vettel, will that be enough? He's only got in by about 6 hundredths of a second.
01:37And look at the nervous excitement in the Aston Martin garage. Here comes Lance Stroll, he goes 6th fastest, he could be safe with that.
01:43And Russell's pitted so he's dropped down to 8th, made that 9th. Bottas, Greylab in 5th.
01:49So, George Russell 9th, Sebastian Vettel 10th at the moment. Who behind him could do something about it?
01:54Mick Schumacher? Not him on this occasion. Lando Norris could and also Yuki Tsunoda.
01:59We're on board now with Lando Norris, reaches the line, goes 3rd fastest, pushes Sebastian Vettel out of the top 10.
02:07Is George Russell hanging on there? No, he's not!
02:09Yuki Tsunoda pushes Russell out of qualifying. Pierre Gasly, the driver at risk as his teammate goes into the top 9.
02:16And crossing the line, Fernando Alonso misses out by about 3 one-hundredths of a second.
02:23This has got to be a great chance then for Ricciardo to recover from 15th to only 14th.
02:30And it is so, so tight in the race into the top 10. He's less than 2 tenths of a second down on the cars in front.
02:39But the cars in front separated by merely 100.
02:42Yeah, sorry for that. I don't think that was good enough. Just don't have the confidence in the car today.
02:47The top 10 can still shuffle around in Q3, but Daniel Ricciardo will be thoroughly disappointed with that.
02:54So will McLaren. George Russell out as well in 12th.
02:59Now a little bit of pulpit, you can see the car bouncing.
03:02And cranks the steering wheel on, picks up the throttle.
03:06Back end of the car, just dancing gently on the way out of turn 17.
03:10A bump now through 19. Keeps right for the shortest run to the line.
03:15And Leclerc can't quite get in the 28, but it's a 29 flat.
03:19And his teammate Carlos Sainz, just a couple of hundredths of a second outside of Charles Leclerc's time.
03:26Leclerc, only driver to have been on the front row in every single race this season, has provisional pole.
03:31Valtteri Bottas, nine tenths down on the two Ferraris in his Ferrari-powered Alfa Romeo.
03:37Verstappen was a tenth up on Charles Leclerc through the middle sector, matched him in the first sector.
03:43Can Verstappen put it on pole? We are into the 128s now.
03:47It's provisional pole for Max Verstappen by two one-hundredths of a second.
03:51Here comes Sergio Perez, blitzed the final sector, but didn't push it hard enough in the first two sectors.
03:57He's half a second down on the second row.
03:59Wow, we've got to fight on for pole position there. Can't wait for the second runs now, because look at that.
04:050.08 of a second covering the top three.
04:09Sainz has gone a quarter of a second faster through that first sector.
04:14145 previous appearances without taking pole.
04:17It will be the second longest wait in F1 history if he were to do it, Carlos Sainz.
04:22And he's up on his teammate at the moment.
04:24Hamilton, two tenths up on Valtteri Bottas through the first sector.
04:27Lando Norris, one tenth up on Bottas, two.
04:31Verstappen making his way through the first sector as Charles Leclerc.
04:34Now heads down that back straight.
04:36The 33-8 for him through the middle part of the lap.
04:39Sergio Perez, four tenths down on Carlos Sainz through that first sector.
04:44It looks like Max Verstappen is doing a warm-up lap, but that's why he's got a slow first sector.
04:50Sainz, though, still a couple of tenths up.
04:52Well, has Verstappen taken the flag? Let's feature that in a couple of seconds.
04:57Leclerc making his way around the final corner, goes on to provisional pole.
05:02Couldn't improve in the final sector, but did enough to get that Ferrari on pole.
05:07And it's his teammate Carlos Sainz alongside him, second on the grid.
05:11Ferrari, one and two here. And Verstappen in trouble.
05:16Verstappen not putting in the first sector time.
05:19And I wonder if something's gone wrong with the car or he just wasn't in the right position or not.
05:24We'll focus on that in a couple of moments.
05:26Bottas, fourth fastest.
05:28Lando Norris goes seventh fastest.
05:30Lewis Hamilton, six on the grid.
05:33Sergio Perez will start fifth. No, he won't.
05:36He'll start fourth on the grid, Sergio Perez, as he moves ahead then of Valtteri Bottas.
05:41But Verstappen just didn't get that final flying lap in.
05:44Yeah, he goes off the racetrack.
05:46Oh, f*** it.
05:49So, V1, V1.
05:51Let's go. Come on, yeah.
05:53Good. The levels are great, but it's enough, so cannot complain.
05:59And for Ferrari, looking to bounce back after the disappointments at Imola.
06:04Well, this is the perfect way to start the next race.
06:07A one-two on the grid.
06:09Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Leclerc takes his third pole position of the season.
06:18Yes, okay.
06:19Well, sorry, you crazy.
06:21You can see it on the entire road, what er's standing from all ambulances.
06:24No, fail.
06:25No, fail.
06:28You can close up the forty mark of the multitude.
06:37And the runs off the Kopظ.
06:38You can keep themselves in scoring.
06:39You can address it, you can put them in scoring.
06:40You can clean up the lid of your teammates.
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