Sergio Perez was fastest in FP3 for the Miami Grand Prix, pipping Charles Leclerc to top spot as his team-mate Max Verstappen made up for a lack of Friday running to go third quickest.
Several other teams showed a turn of pace too with Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso, both Haas drivers, Williams’ Alex Albon and McLaren’s Lando Norris making it seven teams represented in the top 10.
But curiously absent were both Mercedes drivers. After showing promise on Friday, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell ranked P15 and P17 as they struggled to get their tyres into the right temperature window and the apparent return of ‘porpoising’ on Russell’s car.
After managing only 15 laps on a “horrible” Friday – only five of which were flying laps – it was unsurprising to see Verstappen straight out of the garage to pound around the Miami International Autodrome and make the most of the time available to him.
The drivers looked to make up for lost time after several red flags in Friday’s sessions had hampered their long-run practice. A total of 12 cars managed to get laps under their belts before the red flags came out again, however.
🔴 Another practice session, another red flag.
Esteban Ocon has hit the wall at the entry of Turn 14, in the same manner as Carlos Sainz yesterday.
That might be a tricky fix before qualifying…#F1 #MiamiGP
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Esteban Ocon followed the example set by Carlos Sainz on Friday by dropping it on the exit of Turn 13, leaving his Alpine sliding backwards into the wall at Turn 14 and giving his crew work to do to get his car ready in time for qualifying.
Ten minutes passed before the cars could get going again and there was understandable clamour to get out on track to derive as much from the remainder of the session as possible – with all 19 remaining drivers heading out of the pit lane within two minutes of the lights going green again.
Verstappen’s early benchmark of a 1:31.355 remained the…
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