Andrea Kimi Antonelli made historical past in Miami. The Mercedes driver extremely secured pole place for the Dash Race on the Miami Grand Prix, the sixth spherical of the 2025 System 1 World Championship.
The Italian driver made historical past by turning into the primary Italian to say pole place in a System 1 Dash Race. It was a rare lap, not resulting from anybody specific part, however due to the general efficiency. In the long run, he beat everybody—together with the spectacular McLarens of Oscar Piastri (by 45 thousandths) and Lando Norris (+55 thousandths). Antonelli’s pole turns into much more vital when contemplating that George Russell, his teammate, ended up fifth—behind Max Verstappen—and greater than three tenths off.
Whereas Italy celebrates Kimi Antonelli’s feat, there’s little to cheer about for Ferrari. Charles Leclerc completed sixth, three tenths behind, whereas his Maranello teammate Lewis Hamilton was seventh, over half a second down on the automotive he drove till the tip of 2024.
Rounding out the highest ten are Alexander Albon’s Williams in eighth, Isack Hadjar’s Racing Bulls in a superb ninth, and Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin in tenth.
Simply exterior the highest ten was a powerful efficiency from Nico Hulkenberg, who managed to extract essentially the most from a Sauber workforce that, with out him, can be struggling on the backside of the sphere. Carlos Sainz had a way more tough session, making a mistake on his decisive lap in SQ2, which is able to drive him to start out from fifteenth place. In the meantime, Albon simply superior to SQ3 and secured a spot within the prime ten.
A shock got here in SQ1 with the elimination of Yuki Tsunoda. The Japanese driver had saved his last try for the final second, however was caught out by visitors from his teammate Max Verstappen and took the checkered flag earlier than beginning his flying lap. Because of this, he’ll begin the Dash Race from third-last on the grid.
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