Qualifying Highlights | 2026 Miami Grand Prix

Piastri completing the lap and Piastri finds himself in 11th.No improvement, sector 2, sector 3.And there are others not too far away.Lawson improves, but was already, I think, ahead of Piastri.Lindblad not too far away from Esteban Ocon, but not too far away.In touching distance of Oscar Piastri, who's tumbling down.

Ocon improves.Good time for him.Yeah, Albon's jumped up as well.So this is now really, really sweaty for Piastri.Sainz is ahead.Big lap for Carlos Sainz.

Piastri.on the brink here, and Lindblad was in touching distance of Ocon.He's the danger man for Oskar Piastri, and he comes over the line, and he misses out by nine hundredths of a second.How close was that for Oskar Piastri as Fernando Alonso fighting it, but fighting it all the way back to the pits.The Aston Martin does not have the pace.

Yeah, look, he was just burning rubber in acceleration off last corner, then flat -spotting the tyres into the pit lane.Not a happy bunny.

And Oskar Piastri forced to concede.continue there.The checkered flag waves and Piastri has scraped through.Would have been an almighty shock.Last year's winner of the Miami Grand Prix is through to the next part of qualifying, but by fine margins.Bottas out qualifies his teammate Sergio Perez.

My brakes are on fire, man.Cool the brakes.I'm trying.

They patched that car up really quickly, didn't they?Managed to get him out.Were happy down in the garage, but he wasn't happy at all in that lap.Tried to fire it up for it, but the performance was never coming.Obviously realised something wasn't right.

Out in the first part of qualifying, Lindblad, Alonso, Stroll, Bottas, Perez, and what remains of Gabriel Bortoletto's car.Lawson, Ocon, Hülkenberg, Behrmann and Alvin and Sainz, the drivers currently in the drop zone.

So Gasly improves but doesn't get ahead of Norris.So I was thinking Norris might end up in 10th and at the long range of being knocked intothe drop zone by Williams, who almost does it.Well, it's still half a second, but he gets to the front of the pack.

Verstappen here on a hot lap, just finishing it out.So finding some performance as the track continues to evolve.

Four -time world champion over the line with that rotating rear wing element.And that is a very tidy lap time as we get to the business end of this qualifying hour.Charles Leclerc next over the line, goes into third, two -tenths of a second away from Verstappen.And Hülkenberg has been fighting it out of that final real corner of the circuit time and time again throughout this weekend.He gets to 11th now, but the margin was just too great to threaten the Alpine driver of Pierre Gasly out front.Lawson was originally 11th, but he can't find any improvement.

He goes into P12.So Hülkenberg -Lawson signs done as well.Piastri two tenths of a second away.Hamilton not improving Sector 1 or Sector 2.And he'll be coming out of the corner now.Improvement in sector three, but no improvement in terms of time.

Lawson was first to get the chequered flag in this session, as he was in Q1 as well.So their positioning on track is not allowing him to be one of the last to cross the line, which could make the difference.Oliver Behrmann in the Haas.

Young British driver goes to 13th.He's the lead Haas on the grid.But again, this gaggle of Hülkenberg, Lawson, Behrmann, Sainz, Ocon and Albon unable to challenge the Alpines.And Albon has gone over the line in 16th position.And it will be the Alpines, the Red Bulls, the McLarens, the Mercedes and the Ferraris battling for pole position.Oskar Piastri, the Australian driver, round the hairpin at 17.

The Grand Prix winner here last year.And over the line we go with Oskar Piastri 128 .6 to beat.

Yeah, and looking like he had a good opening to the lap is Leclerc on the Ferrari.He did, what, two and a half tenths quicker than Verstappen.

And Norris goes half a second quicker than Oskar Piastri.McLaren won, too, like it was in the sprint race, but there are other contenders here.And we're riding on board with one, fastest in the middle sector, applying the power, hanging on to the car.Max Verstappen, does he go past the McLarens?You bet he does by two thousandths of a second.

Leclerc's flying, though.This is a really good lap.Antonelli's behind him, going really fast.really quickly too.

Ferrari across the line with Charles Leclerc.Ferrari to provisional pole with Charles Leclerc.What can Lewis Hamilton do now?He's a few metres back, tight to the line.He goes into P4, wide open, but it's Antonelli who's looking good.He's still got that final sector to get right, including the crucial braking zone of Turn 17, the hairpin.

Looks a little wide, but tidy on acceleration.The driver chasing his third Grand Prix pole position in a row.is three tenths of a second ahead of Charles Leclerc.George Russell fighting the car around this circuit.Not his favorite on the calendar, but can he make it?A Mercedes front row?

No.It's P5 for Russell and Tonelli taking a big step forward.That's a big margin at this stage of the weekend.

Big shot this one for Russell, really could do with clearing a few spots and minimizing what seems to be damage impending for George through the first sector.Now he's carrying a deficit there and he's made that up fairly well.So this is a good improvement for Russell so far.

Yeah, and he's getting that feedback.He's getting it from his seat of the pants, his hands, and of course, the data, the lap time that's being updated constantly.So he'll know exactly where he is relative to his own lap time and of course, his teammates.

threading it around George Russell moving on 14 and 15 looks like there's good compliance from the midfield.

And Antonelli's not going to improve.He's not going to have a chance.So that 27 .7 will stay there in case anyone fancies sorting themselves out on a final lap and putting something together.And Russell's not miles away in this final sector.

Antonelli not with the first sector that he needed at all.He is out of contention for improving.George Russell is improving.High -pressured braking zone, slightly wide through the hairpin at 17.Can George Russell climb that Mercedes to the front row.He comes over the line and it fades at the end for Russell.

who seem to be close two -thirds of the way through, but it fades.Fastest middle sector of anyone so far.Can Oscar Piastri unlock the pace of that McLaren at the end of Q3?The winner of the Grand Prix here last year, seven -tenths of a second off.Where you deploy the energy is absolutely crucial.Lando Norris, can the World Champion get to the front row now?

No improvement for him.He's seven -tenths off the original benchmark that Kimi Antonelli set on run number one.Next up, Here's Charles Leclerc, currently provisionally in for it.No improvement again.Can anyone find a best time at the end of the session?Lewis Hamilton now cuts the beam.

He can't improve his position.Max Verstappen is our remaining contender.One braking zone to go.Verstappen trying to climb from third to provisional pole to actual pole to the front row.What's it going to be?He gets to the front row.

He's the one who could improve at the end.And Max Verstappen takes the red ball from the doldrums to the front row after a five week break.

Let's go, man.Feels good, man.Feels good.Thank you.

Yeah, well done, mate.

When it comes to Grand Prix qualifying, Kimi Antonelli is showing the Formula 1 field the way at the moment.Sprint pole last year, Grand Prix pole this.Can he win tomorrow?We'll see you when Formula 1 returns.