We moved to Turn 3 for the latter part of the session, with a view of Turn 1 and 2. The cooldown lap thus becomes even more important in that realm of heat, as thermal degradation poses as very real threat.Įach F1 team's car handling characteristics were exposed in Miami Temperatures are expected to be similar to Friday’s peak of 30 degrees Celsius, which could tip the track temperatures beyond the 50C mark. But that’s conjecture at this stage, largely because it remains to be seen how hot the track will get on Saturday. It’s usually the case in F1 that the soft tyre struggles to be useful for anything more than one all-out lap and, if this behaviour carries over into qualifying, this could slightly change how the teams approach the end of each stage. On the quicker runs during FP2 with the soft tyre, there have been instances of the tyre keeping enough life about it for multiple runs provided the driver is able to manage its performance during a cooldown lap between push laps. This has caused the tyres to behave slightly inconsistently, and wear profiles around the Miami circuit remain an unknown.
If last year’s track surface had remained in place, the teams would be able to lean on models produced with last season’s data and try to extrapolate from incomplete data, but that variable has also changed during the off-season.
One can make a very good guess which team is most likely to secure a victory, given the advantage 2023’s standout team has over the rest of the field, but the absence of data ensures that it might not be a Red Bull walkover. Photo by: Alexander Trienitz / Motorsport Images Leclerc's ill-timed red flag leaves all F1 teams without a healthy bank of long run data
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