Following a two-week break, Formulation One drivers shall be again in motion with Miami internet hosting Spherical 6 of the 2025 F1 season earlier than the sphere heads to the primary European race in Imola in two weeks’ time.
The Miami Worldwide Autodrome is 5.412 kilometres lengthy, the race being run over 57 laps. The structure incorporates parking tons, service roads and a few public roads with a complete of 19 corners, seven to the suitable and 12 to the left.
The location is mostly flat however some elevation adjustments have been in-built, particularly between turns 13 and 16, the place the observe runs beneath overpasses, together with on and off-ramps for the Florida Turnpike, with an uneven floor.
As at Jeddah two weeks in the past, there are three DRS zones right here, the ends of which offer the observe’s greatest overtaking alternatives, at turns 1, 11 and 17. The mixed impact of slipstreaming and DRS produces very excessive speeds: final 12 months, Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) hit 355 km/h within the race.
As for the tyres, Formulation One’s sole tyre provider Pirelli will go a step comfortable this 12 months, bringing the C3, C4 and C5 compunds.
Closely restricted apply time
The Miami Grand Prix is the second of six Dash format occasions on the calendar. Final 12 months, a big rule change was launched, to not the precise format, however to the parc ferme laws for these races.
Up till 2024, automobile set-up couldn’t be altered as from the beginning of Dash Qualifying, whereas since final 12 months, parc ferme guidelines are suspended from the tip of the Dash Race to the beginning of qualifying for Sunday’s Grand Prix.
This implies automobile set-up might be modified based mostly on information the groups purchase in the course of the Dash race, which is basically the primary true alternative for a simulation run beneath Grand Prix situations, particularly when it comes to assessing automobile behaviour, significantly the behaviour of the tyre compound chosen for the brief race.
The one key distinction is the gasoline load, as Dash races solely require one third of the gasoline wanted for the primary occasion. Nonetheless, groups all have simulation instruments that permit them to successfully calculate how gasoline weight impacts tyre efficiency.
