If the end of the Miami Grand Prix was mainly occupied by strategic procrastination at Ferrari, it is also because the two scuderia pilots were under the constant threat of the Williams of Carlos Sainz behind them. Once Lewis Hamilton has let Charles Leclerc go back to the 52nd round, the Briton was quickly faced when the Spaniard returns, then armed with more efficient tires in front of his worn medium gums.
In the last moments of the race, Sainz even found himself in a position to try his luck on the seven -time world champion. In the last round, in fact, returned within reach of the DRS of the Ferrari, the Williams pilot took the suction of the SF-25 in the straight line of return before shift to the left. From there, when he was clearly behind Hamilton, he plunged to try to do the interior at the British who started his turn.
The contact between a sainz who had just brought his front axle to the rear wheels of his rival and a Hamilton who closed the trajectory to take the turn was then inevitable. Despite it, the two pilots were able to finish the race in the order before the attempt, namely eighth and ninth row. On the radio, the former Scuderia pilot, however, believed that his successor had “A little moved to braking”.
Faced with this collision, the two pilots were summoned after the race by the commissioners. The latter, after analysis, estimated that it was a simple race incident, judging that none of the two pilots was only responsible for contact.
Here is their justification: “The car 55 tried an overtaking inside the car 44 in turn 17 and the two cars came into contact with the rope. The commissioners determine that the two pilots contributed to the incident because the car 55 did not clearly put themselves in a position to have the right to the race trajectory according to the directives on the piloting standards and, at the same time, the car 4 And therefore struck the car pilot 55 during his attempt to go beyond.
