The fickle finger of fate and over enthusiasm of Charles Leclerc, serves up a grid for the Miami Grand Prix that the likes of Ross Brawn and Stefano Domenicali can only dream of.
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Though its 'business as usual' for the leading four, some of the other names that made it into the Top Ten in FP3 will have Stefano and the boys purring as Miami continues to throw up surprises.
As the 2023 title fight shapes up to be a straightforward battle between the Red Bull drivers, team boss, Christian Horner admits that it is vital that driver paranoia doesn't creep in.
Liberty Media CEO and President, Greg Maffei has said the sport's stakeholders should agree to extend the current Concorde agreement, and "strike while the iron is hot". Clearly, some are keener than others.
Fernando Alonso has warned that overtaking will be difficult on Sunday due to the new track surface in Miami.
Second quickest in the opening session, it was only in FP2 that Lewis Hamilton became aware of the disappointing true pace of the Mercedes in Miami.
Today's press conference with Franz Tost, Christian Horner, Toto Wolff, Otmar Szafnauer, Zak Brown and Guenther Steiner.
The new asphalt is very smooth and slippery, offering little mechanical grip but at the same time good adhesion, which increasingly improved as conditions got better.
It's going to be difficult to overtake here so we must improve our single lap balance this evening, otherwise we will face a frustrating Sunday.
We'll have to see what the weather will do tomorrow, but overall it's been a positive day.
In terms of race pace, we are still lacking compared to our competitors and are focused on closing that gap. Let's see what is possible tomorrow.
The next two days could be heavily influenced by the weather, but we did enough running today to be in a good position to adapt to whatever happens.