- Charles Leclerc crashed into the wall before the training round of the sprint race
- Several drivers were worried about poor visibility due to torrential rains in Miami
- Ferrari star missed the chance to score up to eight precious points
Charles Leclerc collapsed from the Miami GP sprint race before the Training Tour and will not participate in the rest of the event.
Ferrari’s star broke the wall on the long right in the middle of the knees.
Subsequently, the training lap started behind a safety car, but the drivers fought, with a lot of spraying.
Max Verstappen went directly to the turn 17 but managed to avoid hitting the wall. However, a red flag was called and the session was delayed in the middle of torrential rains and drivers causing poor visibility.
Leclerc had undergone serious damage to the right side of his car.
“Not the way we wanted to start the day,” Ferrari posted on social networks.
Charles Leclerc crashed while he was heading for the grid for the Miami GP sprint race

The Ferrari star was the victim of poor visibility while the torrential rain fell on the American track
“A soaking track attracted Charles Leclerc on the way to the grid, and (it) slides into the wall.
Leclerc had not taken a corner but had derived towards the right side of the track before rushing into the wall and continuing for a while before stopping.
He was not close to any other vehicle at the time of his accident. However, the director of Oscar Piastri’s director Mark Webber feared that his accusation would have suffered certain damage.
Leclerc qualified in sixth place for the Sprint race, a place in front of his teammate Lewis Hamilton.
Eight world championship points are awarded to the Sprint race winner, one to finish eighth, and each point is important in the manufacturers’ classification.
“Extraordinarily, even the pilots at the front of the peloton complained about visibility,” said Martin Brundle on Sky Sports.
“‘, Large fat tires raise water in the sky at high speed. Can you imagine this for the drivers at the back?
“In the 1980s and 1990s, we wouldn’t even have thought of not running in this area, but we had a lot of big accidents.”