2022 Miami Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres

The Miami Grand Prix was a largely straightforward affair until a collision between Lando Norris and Pierre Gasly triggered the only Safety Car appearance of the race.

The collision initially prompted a Virtual Safety Car period, then the Safety Car was summoned. The leading trio all decided to stay out.

Sergio Perez, running fourth, was the first driver to take advantage of the opportunity to make a pit stop while the Safety Car was out. He was able to do so and maintain his position in front of George Russell.

The Safety Car was an absolute godsend for the Mercedes driver. Russell had started the race from 12th place on hard tyres while the majority of his rivals chose mediums. He lost three places immediately notwithstanding the fact the two Aston Martin drivers had to start from the pit lane. But over the course of a long opening stint on hard tyres the race gradually came to him.

Had the Safety Car not being deployed it’s likely he and Esteban Ocon, running eighth on the same strategy, might have continued on the same set of tyres before making their mandatory pit stop on the final lap as Alexander Albon did in Australia.

Russell therefore restarted the race on a set of medium tyres. Ocon was even more aggressive, picking a set of softs, but even then it took him several laps to clear Mick Schumacher’s has.

Over the course of the opening stint on the medium tyres Verstappen had a clear pace advantage compared to Leclerc. But once they switched to hards the pair were evenly matched, Leclerc perhaps a fraction quicker. Once the Safety Car brought them together he was briefly able to pressure the Red Bull driver.

Before the race Pirelli said there was a strong chance drivers would have to make two pit stops. However the very hot track conditions seen earlier in the week eased on race day when a few brief showers fell in the build up to the start.

What remains unclear is how easily some of the earliest drivers to pit would have reached the end had the race been green throughout. The likes of Albon and Fernando Alonso made the switch to hard tyres much earlier than the front runners.

Red Bull demonstrated clear superiority in the pits. The three tyre changes they made yielded the quickest overall pit stop times of the race. In comparison Ferrari had a slow pitstop for Sainz and a less than competitive one for Leclerc.

Red Bull’s reliability may remain uncertain, as Perez’s sensor problem demonstrated, but in tactics and pit work they have Ferrari well handled at present.

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2022 Miami Grand Prix lap chart

The positions of each driver on every lap. Click name to highlight, right-click to reset. Toggle drivers using controls below:

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2022 Miami Grand Prix race chart

The gaps between each driver on every lap compared to the leader’s average lap time. Very large gaps omitted. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan and right-click to reset. Toggle drivers using controls below:

2022 Miami Grand Prix lap times

All the lap times by the drivers (in seconds, very slow laps excluded). Scroll to zoom, drag to pan and toggle drivers using the control below:

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2022 Miami Grand Prix fastest laps

Each driver’s fastest lap:

Rank	Driver	Car	Fastest lap	Gap	On lap
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	1’31.361		54
2	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1’31.488	0.127	53
3	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Ferrari	1’31.790	0.429	56
4	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	1’31.819	0.458	54
5	George Russell	Mercedes	1’32.195	0.834	56
6	Mick Schumacher	Haas-Ferrari	1’32.528	1.167	57
7	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1’32.941	1.580	55
8	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri-Red Bull	1’33.035	1.674	55
9	Esteban Ocon	Alpine-Renault	1’33.163	1.802	56
10	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1’33.184	1.823	56
11	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren-Mercedes	1’33.265	1.904	56
12	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin-Mercedes	1’33.312	1.951	52
13	Fernando Alonso	Alpine-Renault	1’33.331	1.970	53
14	Lando Norris	McLaren-Mercedes	1’33.411	2.050	37
15	Alexander Albon	Williams-Mercedes	1’33.447	2.086	57
16	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin-Mercedes	1’33.479	2.118	50
17	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1’33.511	2.150	52
18	Nicholas Latifi	Williams-Mercedes	1’34.169	2.808	53
19	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri-Red Bull	1’34.487	3.126	38
20	Zhou Guanyu	Alfa Romeo-Ferrari	1’35.731	4.370	4

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2022 Miami Grand Prix tyre strategies

The tyre strategies for each driver:

	Stint 1	Stint 2	Stint 3
Max Verstappen	C3 (26)	C2 (31)
Charles Leclerc	C3 (24)	C2 (33)
Carlos Sainz Jnr	C3 (27)	C2 (30)
Sergio Perez	C3 (27)	C2 (14)	C3 (16)
George Russell	C2 (40)	C3 (17)
Lewis Hamilton	C3 (22)	C2 (35)
Valtteri Bottas	C3 (26)	C2 (31)
Fernando Alonso	C3 (15)	C2 (42)
Esteban Ocon	C2 (41)	C4 (16)
Alexander Albon	C3 (16)	C2 (41)
Daniel Ricciardo	C3 (30)	C2 (11)	C4 (16)
Lance Stroll	C2 (40)	C3 (17)
Yuki Tsunoda	C3 (11)	C2 (30)	C4 (16)
Nicholas Latifi	C2 (34)	C3 (23)
Mick Schumacher	C3 (14)	C2 (40)	C3 (3)
Kevin Magnussen	C3 (12)	C2 (30)	C3 (14)
Sebastian Vettel	C2 (41)	C3 (13)
Pierre Gasly	C3 (16)	C2 (24)	C4 (5)
Lando Norris	C3 (18)	C2 (21)
Zhou Guanyu	C3 (6)

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2022 Miami Grand Prix pit stop times

How long each driver’s pit stops took:

	Driver	Team	Pit stop time	Gap	On lap
1	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	18.433		41
2	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	18.519	0.086	27
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	18.798	0.365	26
4	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	18.820	0.387	22
5	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	18.870	0.437	11
6	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	19.007	0.574	40
7	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	19.019	0.586	41
8	George Russell	Mercedes	19.035	0.602	40
9	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	19.074	0.641	40
10	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	19.185	0.752	34
11	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	19.280	0.847	41
12	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	19.484	1.051	30
13	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	19.543	1.110	16
14	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	19.614	1.181	26
15	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	19.618	1.185	41
16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	19.697	1.264	24
17	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	19.760	1.327	12
18	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	19.861	1.428	41
19	Lando Norris	McLaren	19.986	1.553	18
20	Alexander Albon	Williams	20.059	1.626	16
21	Mick Schumacher	Haas	20.413	1.980	14
22	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	20.673	2.240	42
23	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	21.638	3.205	15
24	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Ferrari	22.063	3.630	27
25	Mick Schumacher	Haas	32.381	13.948	54

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