F1 sprint qualifying LIVE: Miami Grand Prix 2025 times, results, radio and updates
Summary
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Miami Grand Prix sprint qualifying
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Out in SQ1: Stroll, Doohan, Tsunoda, Bortoleto, Bearman
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Max Verstappen driving after partner Kelly gave birth to their daughter Lily
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Miami GP to continue until 2041 after contract extended
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Live Reporting
Lorraine McKenna
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Out in SQ1published at 21:45 British Summer Time
16. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)
17. Jack Doohan (Alpine)
18. Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull)
19. Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber)
20. Oliver Bearman (Haas)
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Postpublished at 21:43 British Summer Time
George Russell goes quickest in the Mercedes as Alex Albon moves to third on the timesheets. Kimi Antonelli splits the two drivers in second.
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Tsunoda and Bearman outpublished at 21:43 British Summer Time
Yuki Tsunoda and Oliver Bearman have failed to get out in time and the pair are eliminated from AQ1.
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Postpublished at 21:42 British Summer Time
Final runs incoming and the traffic is starting to bite on track. Lance Stroll begins his lap but the Aston Martin kicks out and sends the Canadian into a small slide. Stroll completes his attempt but can’t move higher than 15th.
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Drop zonepublished at 21:40 British Summer Time
16. Jack Doohan
17. Yuki Tsunoda
18. Gabriel Bortoleto
19. Oliver Bearman
20. Isack Hadjar
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Postpublished at 21:39 British Summer Time
The walls are enticing drivers to give them a kiss in Miami. Charles Leclerc has taken up the offer, so has Gabriel Bortoleto, who tells his Sauber pit wall to check the right hand side of his car after a brush at the exit of Turn 16.
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Antonelli goes toppublished at 21:37 British Summer Time
Lando Norris and his sparkly race helmet is on the hunt for a sprint pole and puts his McLaren top in SQ1 ahead of Max Verstappen. Here comes one of the rookies – it’s Kimi Antonelli, who beats Norris’ time by 0.032 seconds.
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Postpublished at 21:35 British Summer Time
Second becomes third for Carlos Sainz as he’s beaten by his Williams team-mate Alex Albon. World champion Max Verstappen is clear at the front, however, leading the pack by 0.476 seconds.
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Postpublished at 21:34 British Summer Time
Yuki Tsunoda has race helmet issues, so while the Red Bull driver sorts that out, his team-mate Max Verstappen goes quickest with a 1:27.953. Carlos Sainz is next to cross the line and slips into second in the Williams.
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Postpublished at 21:32 British Summer Time
Jack Doohan is waiting to get out of the pit lane but the Australian has spotted an unsafe release by Racing Bulls as Liam Lawson tries to join the queue.
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Piastri ‘the coolest, calmest Formula 1 driver I think I’ve ever seen’published at 21:31 British Summer Time
Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent in Miami
Image source, ReutersOscar Piastri has stepped it up this year. He has worked really hard over the winter on what his weaknesses were, and that was mainly qualifying. And he’s nailed it so far this season and he’s such a cool customer. He’s not out to make friends but he’s not out to make enemies either. Nobody has a problem with Oscar Piastri. He’s the coolest, calmest Formula 1 driver I think I’ve ever seen.
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Go! Go! Go!published at 21:30 British Summer Time
Well done, Haas. Oliver Bearman’s car is ready to go for SQ1.
Put 12 minutes on the clock and medium tyres only for this session, please.
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Touchdown!published at 21:27 British Summer Time
Image source, Getty ImagesThe Miami Grand Prix is still a rookie on the F1 calendar, as it only made its debut during the 2022 season.
It’s held on a 5.412-km track around the Hard Rock Stadium (the car park has come in handy for this one), home to the Miami Dolphins NFL team and the host of an impressive six Super Bowls.
The circuit was designed to blend the high-speed excitement of a permanent track with the unique challenges of a street circuit. The layout, after 36 drafts, features 19 corners, three straights, three DRS zones and top speeds of over 350km/h.
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Postpublished at 21:26 British Summer Time
Damon Hill
1996 world champion on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra in MiamiIt is such a long season and you have to pace yourself. Any world championship is a long slog. We have a lot of points and a lot of to-ing and fro-ing over the rest of this championship. Don’t count Max Verstappen out but it looks like it’s a battle of wills for these two drivers at McLaren.
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Hill joins BBC commentary teampublished at 21:24 British Summer Time
We’ll have a new member of the BBC Radio 5 Live commentary team this weekend, with 1996 world champion Damon Hill joining Harry Benjamin and Andrew Benson in the commentary box tomorrow and Sunday. Before that, Damon has been speaking to our reporter Jennie Gow…
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Who took Miami sprint pole last year?published at 21:22 British Summer Time
Image source, Getty ImagesIt was Max Verstappen versus Charles Leclerc for Miami sprint pole last year as the Red Bull beat the Ferrari by 0.108 seconds. Sergio Perez and Daniel Ricciardo, two drivers we said goodbye to at the end of 2024, were third and fourth respectively.
This was the race weekend McLaren had a major upgrade on their car and while Lando Norris had all of it on his, a couple of mistakes cost the Briton a shot at pole and he ended up in ninth place.
It was a bit of a stinker for Mercedes, too, as they could only manage 11th and 12th on the grid.
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How does the F1 sprint race work?published at 21:19 British Summer Time
Image source, Getty ImagesLiam Lawson and Isack Hadjar should enjoy that sit down, as the schedule now is full-on until the chequered flag on Sunday.
Sprint qualifying has three sessions, where the five slowest cars are eliminated from the first two – like normal qualifying.
These sessions, known as SQ1, SQ2 and SQ3, last 12, 10 and eight minutes respectively.
This will make up the grid for the sprint race, which is 100km, or 19 laps.
The top eight finishers score points, from eight for first place to one for eighth spot, which will get added to the overall drivers’ championship standings.
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Hamilton ‘working hard to adjust’ to Ferraripublished at 21:17 British Summer Time
Image source, Getty ImagesSince his maiden sprint win for Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton has found it difficult to muscle his way in to the podium places; the closest he’s come is fifth spot at the Bahrain Grand Prix last month.
Hamilton has spoken candidly about how there are “lots of different things” preventing him from replicating his performance of round two in China, adding: “When I joined Mercedes, the first six months were tough, getting attuned to working with new people.”
The 40-year-old said he is “definitely working hard to adjust” to life with the Italian team.
It’s a big week for Hamilton, as he is also dashing across to New York after the race in Miami to be co-chair of this year’s Met Gala.
When asked if he had his outfit sorted, he replied: “I don’t even know. I’ve not really put much thought into it.”
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Hamilton wins first sprint in Chinapublished at 21:14 British Summer Time
Image source, Getty ImagesMiami is the second sprint event of the season – Belgium, Austin, Sao Paulo and Qatar are the others – but what happened in the first?
The opening 100km race of 2025 took place at the Chinese Grand Prix in March when Lewis Hamilton sealed his first victory for new team Ferrari from pole position.
Seven-time world champion Hamilton fended off a challenge from Max Verstappen early on and controlled the race from there. His engineer Riccardo Adami called his performance a “masterclass in tyre management”.
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Warning for McLarenpublished at 21:11 British Summer Time
Image source, Getty ImagesIn the very early stages of first practice, Lando Norris came on the radio to flag there were some loose tools knocking around his cockpit, so he headed back to the pits straight away and the offending items were cleared.
The stewards noted the team for releasing the car in an “unsafe condition”. Turns out it was two flashlights that had accidentally been left behind.
Following an investigation after the session, McLaren were issued with just a warning on this occasion.
