Ferrari doesn’t take advantage of the opportunity, Norris does
(Daniele Sparisci) It was the great opportunity but the others took advantage of it, not her Ferrari went from triumphalist intentions to Leclerc’s small podium. The differently orange ones win. The Miami heat melts Verstappen, hearing him curse “I can’t turn the car, it’s a disaster” it is a very rare event. Or maybe not anymore, who knows.
It happened in Florida in front of an army of VIPs (from LeBron James to Shakira, to Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, to Tom Brady and Zidane) and the former US president Trumpvisiting the pits before the start McLaren. Creating quite a few embarrassments with the fist gesture, so much so that the English team felt obliged to point out that it is “an apolitical organisation”. But then everything melted into the bubbles of Norris, Max’s padel and prank partner, at the first center after six seasons in F1 and a considerable amount of wasted chances. The influencer pilot who chats with fans at night and challenges them online to virtual races. There were those who made fun of him, calling him “a brilliant loser”, who himself grew up in England in legend of Valentino Rossi. Now it won’t happen again. «It’s about time, I waited a long time but I finally succeeded and I’m very happy. I’m over the moon, we didn’t do anything wrong.”
He went very fast, he seized the moment when changing tires at the entrance to the safety cars entered due to contact between Magnussen and Sargeant, then imposed a furious pace. As she has always seen his friend Max do, second and almost eight seconds away. This time he didn’t lose due to a breakdown like in Melbourne but due to a lack of competitiveness. Ferrari had to take advantage of it, Charles started in the second row but he never had the pace to go to the top. Sainz he was penalized by the safety car, then fought for a long time with Piastri.
Andrea Stella, ex of Maranello, is there to celebrate Lando: he won it all as Michael Schumacher’s race engineer. He is one of the most serious and prepared in F1, even in McLaren he arrived in the same role alongside Alonso then climbed all the steps to become team principal. The Woking team hadn’t won for three years (Monza 2021, Ricciardo-Norris double): in Miami the massive technical updates introduced made the difference. Ferrari didn’t touch the car and the feeling is that it paid for exactly that.
The first big news will arrive in Imola, and at this point they become very important to defend the role of second force. Because McLaren looks like a serious threat. No worries for VerstappenHowever, he has the World Championship in his grasp, but something is wobbly in the Red Bull squad and their rivals are taking advantage of this to fan the flames. Very poisonous Zak Brown, the owner of McLaren: «Newey it’s the first domino, I see many CVs being passed around, I’m in a moment of instability.”
The order in Milton Keynes is to minimize the loss of the designer, headed to Ferrari. His absence will be felt later, on the final choices of the 2026 single-seater to be combined with the engine that Red Bull is building itself with the collaboration of Ford. The CEO Mintzlaff who first wanted to fire Horner now he praises him and preaches calm. In words it seems easy…
