El Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), leader of the Formula One World Championship, will start first this Sunday in the rookie Miami Grand Prix (USA), the fifth in the championship, which takes place on the circuit built around the Hard Rock Stadium of the aforementioned town of Florida, and in which his Spanish partner Carlos Sainz will start from second place on the grid.
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Leclerc24, signed his twelfth ‘pole’ in F1 -the third of the season- by covering the 5,412 meters of the new Miami track in one minute, 28 seconds and 796 thousandths, 190 less than Sainz: in a qualification that the Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull), last world champion, finished third; and his Mexican partner Sergio Pérez, fourth. Everyone set their best lap on the soft tire
finn Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo) will start fifth, from the third row, in which he will be accompanied by his former teammate, the seven-time English world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), sixth in qualifying.
Behind them, from the fourth, will come the French Pierre Gasly (Alpha Hardship) -seventh in the time trial- and the Englishman Lando Norris (McLaren).
And from the fifth row the Japanese will face the race Yuki Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri) and the Canadian Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), who finished tenth in the main qualifying session.
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The double Asturian world champion Fernando Alonso (Alpine), eliminated in Q2, will start eleventh in the fifth race of the year, scheduled for 57 laps to complete a route of 308.3 kilometers.
This Saturday, hours before qualifying, it was the Mexican from Red Bull the one who dominated the third and last training. ‘Czech’ improved by 194 thousandths to Leclerc in the last free session, in which the other Red Bullthe one of Verstappen, scored the third time -at 345 thousandths his partner-; and Alonso the fourth: seven tenths of the Mexican.
With information from EFE
