After McLaren’s Miami Grand Prix sprint pole and a 1-2 finish in Saturday’s race, that Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri fell back in qualifying for the main event was a bit of a mystery.And it wasn’t just the drop of positions that stood out, it was that McLaren had actually got slower over 24 hours.Main rivals Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes all made jumps of 0.3-0.5 seconds from sprint qualifying to main qualifying, but McLaren’s cars ended up losing a similar amount of time.It left Norris down in fourth place for Sunday’s race, with Piastri three places further back.The shifting patterns of form owed almost everything to deployment tactics and push lap preparation, especially with the other teams having shifted their management strategies closer to what McLaren had done on Friday.McLaren had un …
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Author: Jon Noble
