F1 Miami Grand Prix: What are the strategy options?

Miami, Florida – Welcome to the day of the race at the Miami Grand Prix of Formula 1.

A fascinating afternoon awaits fans both here in Miami and around the world. Max Verstappen found the “bits” he needed to capture the pole position of Lando Norris, which means we could see another real battle in turn 1.

A stalking behind those two are the duo of Kimi Antonelli and Oscar Piasstri, who had their own scrap in curve 1 in the Sprint F1 race yesterday.

But as always in F1, tires can tell the story. What are the possible tire strategies for the Miami 2025 Grand Prix? We are going to immerse ourselves.

What happened at the Miami 2024 Grand Prix?

The last season’s race was mostly a unique matter. Most of the field began in the middle complex, which last year was the C3, before changing to the hard compound C2.

The wear of the tires was in a minimum a year ago, which created a large window for boxes. Sergio Pérez was the first of the main drivers to make his stop, entering the wells of the Vuelta 17. Norris, however, he was still on the track of Tour 29 in his set of C3 tires, and took advantage of a security car to make a stop stop under those conditions and emerged as the leader of the race in a new set of hard tires.

Only three drivers used the C4 tire a year ago, which was the soft complex. But as we will see in a moment, with Pirelli a softer step this year, that is the average complex for today’s career.

What are the strategy options for 2025?

This year, Pirelli has chosen to go a step with the tires, with the C3 as hard, the C4 as a medium and the C5 as soft.

But with the tire test to be more durable this year, the question of the descent of the tires remains an open debate. According to Pirelli, based on the available data from Miami, the only one still seems to be the fastest strategy.

“If the races are executed in the dry, the small amount of data collected yesterday and today, with only a free practice session and the Sprint is almost completely executed in the law, it only serves to consolidate the strategy predicts that the softer trop the movement in the movement in motion in the movement in the movement in the movement in the movement in the movement in the movement in the movement in the movement in the movement in the movement in the movement in the movement in the medium Medium in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle in the middle.

Until that time, Pirelli’s favorites, the hard average strategy, stopping anywhere from Tour 19 on Vuelta 25. But the teams could also for a half hard approach, remaining on the track a little more and making the change around Tour 32 on Vuelta 38:

Even so, there are some unfulfilled strategies for which the equipment could opt, such as starting with a set of C5 soft tires to try to collect some positions on the track, and then face around Tour 14 to do a switch. That might require an approach of two stops and soft.

As we will see in a moment, all teams save Visah Cash App Racing Bulls have saved two hard tires series. This could be insurance in the case of a security car, but you could also give the teams a compensated option.

What tires have each controller available?

Here are the tires that each driver has Avia, for the Miami 2025 Grand Prix:

As noted above, each team, except VCARB, has two sets of tire tires. The majority have two fresh sets of C3 tires, while Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll have a fresh set and a washed set.

Only a handful of drivers: Lewis Hamilton, Liam Lawson, Alonso, Stroll, Nico Hülkenberg, Pierre Gasly and Oliver Bearman, have new sets of soft tires available.

What about the weather?

Well, here is the proverbial x factor.

As we saw yesterday, the conditions in the Miami Grand Prix can be quite complicated in wet weather. While the rain we saw before the F1 Sprint ran when the lights went out, the conditions, and when the drivers explained the aerosol of the meteorological tires that expelled the water behind the reduced visibility to zero.

But like most of the track three portions, such as the Chicane to the curves from 11 to 16, they continued to see water swimming pools.

That could mean that if we see the rain today, and current forecasts are asking for thunderstorms around the race time, drivers may need to endure an extended period in the intermediate compound. However, as we saw in the Sprint F1 race, the right front intermediate tire tends to use quickly in drying conditions.

“The track was drying, but the return times were not improving because the high wear on the front right was generating subviros,” Isola added.

“This happened after 10-12 turns in the Sprint, which is an important indicator for the race: if we have a drying track with the possibility of more rain, they have to look for water [wetter patches on track]. If they cannot, then the Inter will be used too fast, and they will have to consider another well. “

Just one more element to consider in today’s career.