Formula One heads over to North America for the first time in 2024 for one of the season’s most over-hyped race weekends. It’ll be full of celebrities, an awkward grid walk, and hopefully a decent race. That last one is not guaranteed. Talking of no guarantee our 2024 Miami F1 Grand Prix Preview will give you a bit of everything without promising anything ahead of the upcoming big weekend of F1.
The Gurgler’s 2024 Miami F1 Grand Prix Preview brings some thoughts on the race itself, a few bold predictions here and there, a more than a few barely interesting stats.
Essentially a quick summary of what a casual F1 fan needs in the shortest possible time for your convenience.
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The track map seems appropriate enough as it looks a badly drawn Alligator head, and Florida is kind of famous for their alligators.
It’s a track set in the carpark around a Football Stadium in Miami, with a back straight running almost under a highway.
The fake marina is always a talking point. The race rarely is.
2024 Miami F1 Grand Prix Preview – Race Rating
The Gurgler does like to use some obscure drivers in our Race previews and report, so who better to use than Teo Fabi to determine a race rating system.
So before each race we give a rating out of ten for four key category that are loosely based on each letter of Teo Fabi’s surname. Don’t know who Teo Fabi is, you should.
FAST? 3/10 – It’s got some long straights, and a few fast sweeps, but it’s no….most other circuits.
ACTION? 5/10 – It’s a street circuit so anything could happen. There’s not been many DNFs here in the past, but with walls nearby and loads of ambition there’s always a chance. And there’s a sprint race where the drivers will be too scared to wreck thie car for the race.
BIG HISTORY? – 1/10 The US Grand Prix has a long and storied history. USA also has a history of uninspiring tracks in carparks like Las Vegas, or tired street layouts like Dallas or Phoenix. This Miami GP is in it’s third year and if it wasn’t for Max Verstappen winning everything we couldn’t tell who’d won the races.
INCLEMENT WEATHER? – 2/10 Anywhere between 8% and 24% for rain for Friday to Sunday is currently being forecast for Miami according to The Weather Channel. That’s not enough for our liking.
RACE RATING 28% – It’s Meh-ami Grand Prix.
2024 Miami F1 Grand Prix Preview – Stats
Want to know if your favourite driver for this weekend is a master of the track or the track is a master of them? Here then are some barely interesting facts and stats.
- Pole sitter has finished second in both races here. 2nd on the grid has finished third in both races. The winner, aka Max Verstappen has won from third and ninth on the grid.
- Max Verstappen has the same average qualifying grid slot in Miami as Pierre Gasly.
DRIVER GRID POSITION vs RACE RESULT – CURRENT DRIVERS
TEAM GRID POSITION vs RACE RESULT
HISTORIC DRIVER RESULTS
99 = a DNF. Grid position 20 is overstated as that was also used for cars starting in pitlane.
HISTORIC TEAM RESULTS
GRID POSITION INTO RACE RESULT
99 = a DNF. Grid position 20 is overstated as that was also used for cars starting in pitlane. Results from 2001.
- Ferrari 1-2 in Qualifying. And one Ferrari driver will win the Sprint race.
- Back to Max Verstappen to win the proper race.
- Points for Kevin Magnussen
- Sergio Perez to find the wall or another car in either the Sprint or Main Race.
- Lewis Hamilton to be slow in the Mercedes and the TV Coverage spending way too much time broadcasting the moans.
ALL RACE RESULTS – MIAMI F1 GRAND PRIX
ALL TIME RESULTS
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