Antonelli annoyed at Turn 1 incident, but not Verstappen clash

Kimi Antonelli says the Turn 1 incident that saw him lose the lead in the Miami Grand Prix Sprint was “over the limit” from Oscar Piastri, but did not blame Max Verstappen for a later collision between the pair. Piastri got a better launch than polesitter Antonelli in wet conditions, and was able to get down the inside into the first corner. Antonelli tried to hang on around the outside but was run wide and lost three spots, before later being hit by Verstappen in the pit lane and being prevented from stopping for slick tires in an incident that ruined his race. “Yes, it was very disappointing,” Antonelli said. “I think lap one, Turn 1, was a bit over the limit … but it’s good to know for the future, honestly. “And then about the pit lane — it was very important. Nothing to blame on Max, because he just got released, so he respected the order. What I did was, as soon as I saw him coming out, I just tried to avoid the crash, because definitely it could have been a really bad accident for the mechanics. Happy nothing went wrong there. Now we focus on to qualifying.” Toto Wolff backed up his driver speaking to Sky Sports, as he believes the current driving guidelines allow the car on the outside to be run out of road too easily. “ setting good precedents,” Wolff said. “You are just releasing the brake and then you are just pushing the other guy off. It’s for the junior formulas also. I think you need to leave a car’s space. “It’s kind of crept in. Turn 1, you push them out. It’s Kimi’s sixth race and he’s learnt a lesson that this is what you need to do. I don’t entirely agree with that, but that’s how we’ve allowed it for a few years now.” On the collision with Verstappen in the pits, Wolff added: “If it was the main race that would have been seriously annoying. “I’m surprised the total lack of judgment there. It wasn’t even close with releasing without any security concerns. Somebody panicked there.” Verstappen was given a 10s time penalty due to the unsafe release from Red Bull, demoting him from fourth on the road to finish outside the points and lose ground to both McLaren drivers. “The race itself was pretty boring,” Verstappen said. “There was not much going on for me, just doing my own thing, seeing the McLaren disappear, and just keeping the gap to the cars behind. “I think the call to pit was pretty good, of course. We could have maybe risked it a bit more, but in my position at that time and in P3 you don’t really need to do that in a Sprint. “In the pits it was super clear, I don’t even need to really explain it. It’s super clear. It’s not what you want to see.”