Mclaren's Piastri Fastest In Miami Practice

Miami Grand Prix

Venue: Miami International Autodrome Dates: 2-4 May Race start: 21:00 BST connected Sunday

Coverage: Live commentary of believe and qualifying online and BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra; title connected BBC Radio 5 Live and unrecorded matter updates connected BBC Sport website and app

McLaren's Oscar Piastri group nan gait successful believe astatine nan Miami Grand Prix arsenic a clang for Briton Oliver Bearman ended nan convention early.

Piastri was 0.356 seconds quicker than Ferrari's Charles Leclerc successful 2nd spot pinch Red Bull's Max Verstappen 3rd arsenic nan teams prepared for sprint qualifying later connected Friday.

Bearman mislaid power astatine Turns 11 and 12, spinning his Haas into nan wall 4 minutes earlier nan extremity of nan session.

That prevented nan 2nd McLaren driver Lando Norris from doing a thigh connected nan soft tyres, and he ended up 12th arsenic a result.

Williams drivers Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon were 4th and fifth, up of Racing Bulls' Isack Hadjar.

Mercedes driver George Russell, who had led nan times until nan soft-tyre runs started, was different to miss retired connected a faster thigh arsenic a consequence of Bearman's clang and slipped down to seventh place.

Red Bull's Yuki Tsunoda was eighth, up of Russell's team-mate Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso.

Lewis Hamilton, different not to tally connected nan sot tyres astatine nan extremity of nan session, was down successful 13th.

Verstappen is driving aft his partner Kelly Piquet gave commencement to their first child, girl Lily. The world champion missed Thursday's media day.

Miami is nan first sprint arena of nan season, and nan circuit marked it by announcing a caller statement that will support nan title connected nan almanac until 2041.

Sprint qualifying starts astatine 21:30 BST.