McLaren driver Oscar Piastri gained his fourth race of 2025, beating teammate Lando Norris in an action-packed Miami Grand Prix.
Oscar Piastri made it a hat-trick of wins with victory within the Miami Grand Prix as McLaren loved a one-two on the rostrum to proceed their dominant Formulation One season.
The Australian driver completed 4.6 seconds forward of British teammate Lando Norris, with George Russell of Mercedes ending third however 37.6 seconds behind.
The victory on Sunday was the third in a row for Piastri after his wins in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and his fourth within the six races to date this season.
4-time world champion Max Verstappen, who began on pole, completed in fourth place with Alex Albon of Williams fifth and 18-year-old Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes in sixth.
“I used to be conscious sufficient to keep away from Max in flip one, and from then I knew I had a superb tempo benefit,” Piastri stated. “The automotive was unbelievable at the moment.
“The arduous stint I used to be struggling somewhat bit, so there are some issues to work on. Bought to continue learning, however very completely satisfied to be leaving Miami on high.
“Two years in the past right here, we had been the slowest workforce, I feel we acquired lapped twice. Right here, we simply gained the race by 35 seconds,” he added.
Piastri, who began at fourth on the grid, grabbed the lead on lap 14 when Verstappen took the within line however was too late on the brakes and went vast.
“Brakes man, truthfully, ineffective,” the Dutchman instructed his workforce radio and the Purple Bull driver, a two-time winner at Miami, was to not get a sniff of the lead once more.
Norris went on the hunt for Verstappen however by the point he acquired forward, after some jousting on lap 17, Piastri had opened up a 9-second lead.
“It’s by no means the most effective feeling [to be second] however the workforce has executed an incredible job, so I can’t fault them in any respect,” stated Norris.
“We had been up the street so it’s a good feeling. Oscar drove properly, Max put up a superb combat as all the time so it’s what it’s. I paid the value for not doing a ok job at the moment, however nonetheless completely satisfied to be second,” he stated.
Russell had completed behind his teammate Antonelli in qualifying however after some frustration within the dash race as properly, he was glad to be on the rostrum.
“Actually completely satisfied to return away with P3 as I’ve been struggling this weekend personally. Nicely executed to the McLaren, they had been simply too far down the street,” he stated.
It was one other disappointing day for Ferrari, with Charles Leclerc ending seventh and Lewis Hamilton a spot behind.
Hamilton, in his first season with the Italian workforce, expressed frustration along with his workforce’s techniques a number of instances through the race, particularly after he was instructed to let Leclerc cross him.
Williams driver Carlos Sainz confronted a steward investigation after his aggressive try and overtake Hamilton on the ultimate nook resulted in a conflict of wheels.
