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The Guardian
04-05-2025
- Automotive
- The Guardian
Miami Grand Prix 2025: Formula One
Beau will be here shortly, in the meantime here's Giles Richards on the Miami GP's rise: With a sellout once more expected, this weekend's Miami Grand Prix is building on an appeal to a younger, diverse audience that is a key part of Formula One's burgeoning success in the US. Making its mark on the calendar with a grand, spectacular party in the Florida sunshine since the inaugural race in 2022, Miami is considered something of a showcase. The opening blast of the three meetings now held in the US is a shop window for the sport with three teams, Racing Bulls, Sauber and Ferrari boasting special liveries for the event this weekend. The flamingo pink of the RB is very much making a splash but the clunky corporate blue addition to the Scuderia's scarlet has fallen very flat with fans. Naysayers may have disliked Miami's emphasis on being a show, of presenting a weekend of entertainment where the food and beverages (or F&B as it is bafflingly, for the uninitiated, referred to here) were as fundamental as the racing. Where the atmosphere went hand in hand with the competition. It was perhaps the first of the 'event' races F1 wanted to promote and like it or not, it has succeeded with numbers around this race telling their own story. The atmosphere in the general admission – campus – area of the increasingly popular and affordable tickets away from the high-end hospitality which dominates all the media, is one of unadulterated enjoyment, shot through with the glorious absence of world-weary cynicism. There is an air of, whisper it, hedonism; not all racing must be accompanied by sombre beard-scratching from a grassy bank in the rain. You can read the full article below: Share
The Guardian
15-03-2025
- Automotive
- The Guardian
Formula One: Australian Grand Prix qualifying
Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Giles Richards is in Melbourne for this year's race and his piece on the unapologetically dominant world champion is well worth a read. Share Born in Melbourne and growing up in the suburb of Brighton – meaning he would have been able to hear the F1 cars rolling around Albert Park from his house – Piastri logged the fastest time of any driver in FP3 earlier today, logging a time of 1:15.921. That was 0.039 seconds clear of next best George Russell in his Mercedes, while Verstappen was 0.081 back. The Maclaren's widely recognised across the grid of coming into the season with some great speed, Lando Norris also looked on pace to set one of the quickest laps but ran into some traffic, holding up what was being projected as one of the quickest times. Share Hello everyone and welcome to the Guardian's live coverage of the first qualifying session of the 2025 Formula One World Championship season, coming your way from the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne, Australia. My name is Joey Lynch and I'll be taking you through all the action from Down Under as we look to see who has the pace to place themselves atop the grid for the season's first race tomorrow. Yet again, Max Verstappen is the hunted; the Dutchman guiding his Red Bull to a fourth world title last season to vault himself further into the pantheon of the sport's all-time greats. Will be the season in which the crown begins to weigh heavy on his shoulders? Or tyres, perhaps? There's a hungry pack chasing him and eager to send a strong message in the first race of the season in Melbourne, led by local-hope Oscar Piastri in his McLaren. Share
