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The start of the Miami Grand Prix has been brought forward by three hours.
The race will start at 19 p.m. © DPPI
Attention, program change! Due to very pessimistic weather forecasts for Sunday in the Miami (Florida) area, the International Automobile Federation (FIA), The Formula 1 The local promoter and organizers have decided to move the start time of the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix forward by three hours. This means the lights will go out at 19 p.m. Central European Time, instead of the originally scheduled 22 p.m.
The decision was made due to weather forecasts predicting torrential rain in the afternoon. American regulations stipulate that all motorsport competitions must be suspended in the event of a thunderstorm in the area surrounding a circuit, and F1 would not have received an exemption. Rather than start a race in this risky scenario, not to mention the potentially unusable condition of the Miami track, it was deemed wiser to start the race at 13 p.m. (local time), before the rain arrived.
Following discussions between FIA, F1 and the Miami promoter, the decision has been taken to move the start of Sunday's Miami Grand Prix to 13:00 local time in Miami due to the weather forecast that is expected to bring heavier rainstorms later in the afternoon, close to the… pic.twitter.com/hasIGbJSgV
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This Sunday, for the third consecutive time, Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes Benzwill start from pole position in a Grand Prix, this time in Miami. The championship leader will have the four-time world champion alongside him on the front row. Max Verstappen, at the wheel of a Red Bull which seems to have recovered with several changes for this fourth meeting of the season. Charles Leclerc will start in the second row alongside Lando Norriswho won the Sprint this Saturday.
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Alain Féguenne (🇱🇺 Luxembourg)
03/05/2026 at 01:53 a.m.
It was a good decision to anticipate the start of the GP; I anticipated it yesterday and confirmed it this morning… Unfortunately, I deleted it…!!!! Curious to see this race… 😎👀👍 alainkf1@pt.lu
Joel Gaboriaud
03/05/2026 at 09:56 a.m.
I hope this time it's the right time because yesterday for the sprint many of your collaborators announced in their articles the sprint at 18pm when in fact it was at 16pm.
Cyprien Juilhard
03/05/2026 at 10:38 a.m.
However, it was indeed at 18 p.m. CET, as written in our TV program, available on our website.
Paul Lucas
03/05/2026 at 09:17 a.m.
Finally, an "intelligent" measure from the FIA... But don't be surprised, it's mainly to keep the large number of paying spectators... they don't care about the race itself :):):)