Miami Grand Prix: Lando Norris says drivers ‘thrown in deep end’ for expected wet race
Teammate Oscar Piastri added: “Obviously it’s going to be a journey into the unknown for everyone. When it rains here it’s normally quite pouring so it could be an interesting day.”
“What happens in the power unit, how you get the power, where you get the power will be in the hands of the computer.
“I just want to make sure that it does more or less what we expect. Obviously, in the wet the margin of error is significantly less.”
It is estimated that the weather will be rainy throughout the day with occasional thunderstorms. Commercial rights holder F1 and governing body the FIA will meet on Saturday evening to decide whether to change the racing calendar to give better chances to the race, which is scheduled to start at 16:00 local time (21:00 BST) on Sunday.
There will be a tendency to leave things as they are, disrupting television schedules by moving the start of the race.
However, the race may be postponed as the cars will not be able to start in case of heavy rain and US laws will prevent the race from being held in the event of a storm.
There is an added complication that officials will not allow crowds in the stands to remain exposed if there is an electrical storm near the venue.
While Verstappen and Ferrari pilots Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, who took third and sixth places, were driving on wet surfaces in pre-season testing, Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar crashed.
The remaining drivers of the leading teams have no experience with the new cars in the rain.
