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Rain is falling in Miami, and a track that is already a little wet through the humidity, may cause problems, making the road a bit greasier than the drivers would like. It’s hot out there, and the track may not be the easiest even in the dry. There were a couple of heavy crashes in practice sessions and a couple of drivers have been complaining, and concerned about their safety.
“I’m sorry to be critical but I told the FIA yesterday that my crash in second gear shouldn’t feel that hard, but today my neck was a bit in pain,” Carlos Sainz said on Saturday. “I told them *Let*s put Tecpro there* because it*s a very hard concrete wall.”
Andretti’s opinion rightly still carries weight. He won the F1 championship with Lotus in 1978 but his career was long and successful across so many disciplines. He remains the only driver to have won the F1 title, the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500. He was named US driver of the year in three separate decades: 1967, 1978 and 1984.
