Lewis Hamilton has compared the “bumpy” Turns 14 and 15 chicane at Miami to being “like a B&Q car park”, such is its elevation change.

The chicane is the slowest part of the Miami International Autodrome layout, which sees the cars rise up for the apex and quickly plunge down again to Turn 16.

This comes as a result of the circuit’s natural topography, combined with that area of the track being at the “limitations” of FIA regulations, concering the gap between the track and the overpass above it needing to be wide enough.

The Mercedes driver was surprised to see the rest of the track so bumpy considering its construction has only been completed in the past few weeks, but the slow chicane in particular led him to recall a particular childhood memory.

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