McLaren’s Oscar Piastri won for the fourth time in six races this year as he beat team-mate Lando Norris in an action-packed Miami Grand Prix.
Both McLaren drivers fought intense battles with early leader Max Verstappen’s Red Bull as they moved up to the front of the field.
Piastri, who started fourth, drove a race of clinical excellence to pass both Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli and then Verstappen to assume the lead, before managing his gap to his pursuers to the end.
Norris, who dropped back to sixth on the first lap after running wide while battling for the lead with Verstappen, was also decisive in making up for his earlier misfortune.
Norris ate into Piastri’s lead through the second half of the race but the Australian kept him at arm’s length. Piastri’s win extends his championship lead over Norris to 16 points, with Verstappen the same margin behind in third place.
Mercedes’ George Russell benefited from one of three virtual safety-car periods to vault ahead of Verstappen and take the final podium place, similarly keeping the Dutchman at bay over the closing laps.
Antonelli held off the Ferrari challenge, whether from Leclerc or Hamilton, to take sixth, and the debrief at Ferrari may be interesting after shenanigans over the radio.
Sainz challenged Hamilton on the closing lap but had to settle for ninth, while Red Bull’s Yuki Tsunoda took the final point in 10th despite a five-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane.
