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The Haas F1 team made gains from its eighth-row lockout in qualifying as both Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen crept into points contention late in the Formula 1 Miami GP Sunday.
Schumacher took a late restart from ninth while Magnussen was 13th and on fresh tires. But Schumacher’s race unraveled after he clashed with Sebastian Vettel while Magnussen had two separate incidents following the restart with Vettel’s Aston Martin team-mate Lance Stroll. The outcome was that Schumacher came home 15th while Magnussen pulled into retirement on the last lap but was formally classified 16th.
“The car was really good, so I’m gutted that we didn’t get to stay in position – I think it was our best race so far this year,” said Schumacher. “We’re all racers, we’re all trying, and it was always going to be tough to keep new tires behind us and it was very unfortunate to end the race in that way. We were on the road to getting points, but we’ll have to wait some more.”
Guenther Steiner lamented the late drama as Haas’ wait for a point on home soil continues.
“Clearly not the day we wanted – especially this being one of our home events,” he said. “The pace in the car was there and it was demonstrated by both drivers, but once again we got unlucky with some events on track. It’s disappointing to look like you were going to come away with points and then not – Mick’s incident with Sebastian took care of that unfortunately. We then had to retire Kevin’s car on the second to last lap with damage he’d sustained earlier while he was fighting to get back into the top 10.”
Magnussen sought to look on the bright side of the situation by quipping “we have another [home race]”, referring to Austin’s grand prix in October.
F1 Miami Grand Prix results
- Max Verstappen, Red Bull, 57 laps
- Charles Leclerc, Ferrari, +3.7 seconds
- Carlos Sainz Jr., Ferrari, +8.2
- Sergio Perez, Red Bull, +10.6
- George Russell, Mercedes, +18.5
- Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, +21.3
- Valtteri Bottas, Alfa Romeo, +25.0
- Esteban Ocon, Alpine, +28.3
- Fernando Alonso, Alpine, +32.1
- Alexander Albon, Williams, +32.3
- Lance Stroll, Aston Martin, +37.0
- Yuki Tsunoda, AlphaTauri, +40.1
- Daniel Ricciardo, McLaren, +40.9
- Nicholas Latifi, Williams, +49.9
- Mick Schumacher, Haas, +1:13.3
- Kevin Magnussen, Haas, +1 lap
- Sebastian Vettel, Aston Martin, +3 laps
- Pierre Gasly, AlphaTauri, +12 laps
- Lando Norris, McLaren, +18 laps
- Zhou Guanyu, Alfa Romeo, +51 laps
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