Miami Grand Prix to have elongated practice after rule tweaks and extended break

[p]The May 3rd race, round four ‌of the season, gets the championship going again after a month without ‌racing due to grands prix ⁠in ‌Bahrain and Saudi Arabia being called off ​due to the Iran war.[/p][p]Tweaks to the technical rules have ​been made during the break to address concerns from the first ⁠three races ​about driver safety and the racing.[/p][p]The International Automobile Federation said that after consultation with all stakeholders, the hour-long ‌Friday practice session would be increased to 90 minutes from 12:00 to 13:30 local time.[/p][embed guid="d6651989-53ad-449f-8288-fd553cc93526" url="https://x.com/F1/status/2046955180571193478" social-type="twitter" /][p]It said this was due to the gap since the last grand prix, the tweaks and the Miami weekend being run under the sprint ‌format, with only one practice before ​sprint qualifying on Friday and ‌then a 100km sprint race on Saturday before qualifying for Sunday's main event.[/p][p]Mercedes have won all three races so far with Italian ⁠teenager [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/antonelli-andrea-kimi/ptGu0mT1/"]Kimi ⁠Antonelli[/a] leading ‌the standings.[/p]