Hamilton Says Miami Circuit Reminds Him Of A B&Q Car Park

We’ve had our first taste of racing in Miami, and the drivers haven’t been shy of saying what they think. The spin is made up of 19 corners and reaches virtually 5.4km in length but is still not perfect, equal to seven-time winner Lewis Hamilton.

Speaking well-nigh the Miami International Autodrome, Hamilton was quick to summarise his Friday running as “bumpy”.

“It’s kind of crazy when you think that people in this day and age should be worldly-wise to make a unappetizing road relatively easily,” Lewis joked when talking to media, including The Race.

“But there are big big big bumps in so many places where the track joins up somewhere else. So I don’t know if they will be worldly-wise to grind that at night and modernize it, but otherwise, the track’s quite nice to momentum – except for the chicane.

“That might be the…I don’t want to put that quote out there, unquestionably so I’ll hold onto that.

“But it’s so tight. It reminds me of stuff in a B&Q car park when I was six years old, seven years old, in the go-kart going between cars. It’s a corner that maybe in future they can remove that one and it will modernize the track.”

Hamilton finished FP2 in fourth, with his Mercedes team bringing some upgrades to Miami that will hopefully make the car much increasingly competitive!

The track surface in Miami is rather unusual this weekend, stuff made up of local limestone, with repairs stuff completed surpassing any on-track whoopee has plane occurred at the start of the weekend.

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