Janne Stiak shook up the Porsche Carrera Cup North America field, taking his first Race Brew pole at the Miami Formula 1 Grand Prix.

German young star Janne Stiak shook up the Porsche Carrera Cup North America field, taking Race Brew pole at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix.

In his first season competing in the United States, Sitak had a best finish of eighth during the series’ first outing at Sebring International Raceway in March.

Yet the ACI Motorsports driver ran one minute, 55.721 seconds on a third set of Pirelli P Zero DHG tires – beating the previous track record to start first in Race 1 on Saturday.

“I’m super happy, for the team and for myself,” said Stiak.

“We worked really hard after Sebring and after Long Beach, it was not the result we wanted. Finally in Miami, and the team was also strong last year with two race wins and the goal is to repeat it.”

Aaron Jeansonne (Kellymoss) also used three sets of tires, and was just shy of Stiak’s time by .244 seconds. Callum Hedge (JDX Racing) placed third after leading a late into the 30-minute qualifying session.

In the Solairus Aviation Pro-Am Class, Patrick Mulcahy also placed first in qualifying with ACI Motorsports. Mulcahy has been victorious in each Pro-Am class race thus far in 2026, and ran top-10 overall during both practice sessions at Miami.

“It always feels good to put down a fast lap during qualy when it counts,” said Mulcahy, whose quickest time on Friday was 1:57.037.

“It was nice to do it in the sunset here at the F1 weekend, so it felt good.

“I’m looking forward to being able to chop it up with the Pros again tomorrow, so we’ll see how it goes.”

Kellymoss driver, Josh Conley, followed in second place.

Meanwhile, the battle between Solairus Aviation Masters Class drivers Marco Cirone (ACI Motorsports) and Scott Blind continues, as the latter starts up front for Saturday’s opening race at Miami.

Blind – a longtime Porsche single-make driver and champion – finished second to Cirone during the series’ last outing at Long Beach and is eager to reclaim first place.

“I needed this to get back on top,” said Blind with his Ruckus Racing team.

“We were concerned after Practice 2, and (coach) Andrew Davis made a few changes to the car. He said, ‘Don’t ask questions, drive the hell out of it.’ That’s what I did.

“Here we are. He did a great job, the team did a great job, and whatever the changes were, they really helped. The car felt great, it feels so good.”

Blind’s time of 1:57.841 was just .123 marks ahead of Cirone in second place, with Chris Bellomo (Kellymoss) in third.

A pair of races remain for Porsche Carrera Cup North America at the Formula One Miami Grand Prix. Saturday’s green flag waves at 2:50pm ET, followed by Race 2 on Sunday at 11:10am before the Formula One race later in the day.

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