The Red Bull driver saw off McLaren’s Oscar Piastri by 0.105 seconds.
Max Verstappen finished fastest in practice for the Miami Grand Prix despite complaining that he was driving on “egg shells”.
However, the Dutch driver spent the one-hour running ahead of qualifying for Saturday’s sprint race occupying the bottom places of the leaderboard.But in the closing moments, Verstappen put his Red Bull at the top of the order, seeing off McLaren’s Oscar Piastri by 0.105 seconds. For the majority of the opening session of the weekend, Verstappen appeared to be struggling with the handling of his Red Bull.
But despite his complaints, the 26-year-old hauled his machine to the practice summit ahead of qualifying which takes place at 4:00pm .The running was suspended for eight minutes after Charles Leclerc spun out in the opening moments.Leclerc lost control of his Ferrari at slow speed through Turn 16. With his scarlet machine blocking the temporary track, the red flags were deployed.
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