F1: Miami promises drama | OPINION

At first it seemed that it was too neon for the sobriety of Formula 1. The previous one had been impregnated with an unusual noise product of the jokes generated by the artificial marina, Vettel’s underwear and the chimento for Hamilton’s jewels. Thus, the Miami GP began looking more like an MTV reality show than a Star+ race. However, it has been when facing the asphalt river that the riders have not disappointed the fans. With two generous straights and a notable deceleration (from 341 km/h to 90 km/h), Miami has left us a preview that shows that the only sure thing is that there will be a show today.

Since Friday’s practices, the Red Bull and Ferrari drivers were seen risking everything to find the exact point on an unprecedented track. They ran into the walls and had some spins looking for braking, but it was in Saturday’s qualifying where they shone, making clear the lessons learned in the previous one. The bulls and the cavalinhos have really been beasts of attack while Mercedes, which decided to face the circuit with a flat rear wing, did not stop being a trotting car on the straights and a clumsy kangaroo in the curves.

Ferrari has managed to capture the front row for today with the peace of mind of having the Red Bulls in the rear-view mirrors. Leclerc closed out Q3 with a perfect lap, which gave him pole position, while Sainz found the emotional exorcism he had dreamed of capturing second after Friday’s blowout. This is a very complicated race where the Red Bulls have been very fast on the straights while Ferrari has cut the curves better than anyone else. All this in the middle of an asphalt that punishes, with little grip, the pilots who leave the race line. It is certain that today there will be drama as in any respected Latin reality show.