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Our verdict on McLaren's Miami dominance + messy Ferrari team orders
McLaren's 2025 Formula 1 car flexed its muscles more than ever before with a dominant performance at the Miami Grand Prix. But should Lando Norris have won the race? And how about Ferrari's messy team orders row? Our team give their verdict on the biggest topics of the race. Groundhog Day for Norris and FerrariScott Mitchell-MalmTwo things felt like Groundhog Day in this race. The first was watchi...
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Piastri leads McLaren 1-2: F1 2025 Miami Grand Prix results
Oscar Piastri extended his Formula 1 championship lead by leading home a McLaren one-two in the Miami Grand Prix.Below you'll find the full race results. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) Lando Norris (McLaren) +4.6sGeorge Russell (Mercedes) +37.6sMax Verstappen (Red Bull) +39.9sAlex Albon (Williams) +48.0sKimi Antonelli (Mercedes) +55.5sCharles Leclerc (Ferrari) +57.0sLewis Hamilton (Ferrari) +60.1sCarlos ...
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McLaren destroys F1 rivals in Miami GP as Piastri wins again
McLaren utterly dominated Formula 1's 2025 Miami Grand Prix, with both Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris working their way past poleman Max Verstappen.Heavy threatened - and was even expected - but never materialised, so the two drivers' early battles with Verstappen proved decisive in Piastri romping away to a third successive grand prix win.Piastri now leads Norris by 16 points in the standings, wi...
Sainz summoned twice by F1 stewards after Miami GP
Williams driver Carlos Sainz faces two post-race stewards investigations that threaten to take away his points finish at Formula 1's Miami Grand Prix.Sainz had a hard-fought run to ninth place at the chequered flag that included a last-lap dart to the inside of his Ferrari replacement Lewis Hamilton at the final proper braking zone of the layout - into the Turn 17 right-hander. Hamilton turned in ...
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Obituary: F1 and Le Mans winner Jochen Mass, 1946-2025
Jochen Mass, 1970s F1 star and winner of the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix for McLaren, has died, aged 78. Mass enjoyed a long sportscar career during and after his F1 stint (which spanned 1973-1982) and was an early mentor of Michael Schumacher when they raced together at the Sauber-Mercedes team in the late-80s. Mass partnered Stanley Dickens and Manuel Reuter in winning the 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours for ...
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Lightning threat could disrupt F1's Miami Grand Prix
Formula 1’s Miami Grand Prix is at risk of immediate stoppage – and potentially even being unable to run – if forecast lightning and thunderstorms hit the race.Current official forecasts predict that thundery showers are due to hit the Hard Rock stadium area around 4pm local time – which is exactly when the race is scheduled to begin.And while the rain itself could be a headache alone for allowing...
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Cadillac's F1 'launch' - Everything you need to know
Cadillac's Formula 1 team held its first ‘launch' at the Miami Grand Prix, where a large contingent from the General Motors-backed entry is in attendance.The presence of F1's new 11th team in Miami is significant in scale, but also symbolically.There is a substantial contingent from the team's TWG Motorsport and General Motors ownership camps at this race, which marks the first time since the entr...
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The mechanical 'numbness' behind McLaren's problems
While the consensus remains that McLaren has the best car in Formula 1 right now, Max Verstappen's third pole position of the season for Red Bull in Miami has exposed that it is not the benchmark in all situations.In fact, the manner in which Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri lost out in the battle for the top spot in qualifying – with both having scrappy second qualifying laps in Q3 – shows that the...
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Has Ferrari-beater Williams put its 'eggs in the 2026 basket' too soon?
With a Williams car underneath him that is just three tenths of a second off pole position, Carlos Sainz has confessed to wondering just what could be possible this season if his team threw more effort at developing the FW47.Sainz thinks there is potential in what it has right now to make a "very big step" that could help it properly close in on the front of the grid.Williams is believed to have b...
Red Bull must up its game to match Verstappen
If Max Verstappen wins the Miami Grand Prix, it will complete a grand turnaround that also acts as a warning for how much the Red Bull Formula 1 team must up its game.Verstappen would have finished in the top three of the sprint in Miami, likely splitting the two McLarens, but for Red Bull inexplicably releasing him from his pit into the Mercedes of the incoming Kimi Antonelli.The mix of the delay...
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Mark Hughes: McLaren needs to learn from ruthless Verstappen execution
Another Max Verstappen super pole lap to add to those of Suzuka and Jeddah, again after Red Bull found a lot of improvement from the original set-up. But just as with Friday and Kimi Antonelli’s sprint pole, it was made possible by a McLaren driver – in this case Sprint race winner Lando Norris – losing the top spot at the final corner.So of the eight qualifying sessions we’ve had so far this seas...
Beaten by Williams on 'pure pace' - Ferrari's F1 season hits new low
Defeated by Williams on pure pace, unable to unlock more speed whatever the drivers try, and what used to be a major strength now appears to be the car's main weakness - Miami Grand Prix qualifying was undoubtedly a new low in what has so far been a fairly low-key 2025 Formula 1 season for Ferrari.Charles Leclerc qualifying eighth fastest and Lewis Hamilton only 12th represents Ferrari's worst com...
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'Just not the level of exeuction I needed' - Piastri on his poor qualifying
Formula 1 world championship leader Oscar Piastri blamed a pure lack of execution on his part for a disappointing fourth on the Miami Grand Prix grid.The McLaren driver was well in contention in the fight for pole position after the first runs in Q3, but failed to make an improvement on his final effort as Max Verstappen took the top spot ahead of Lando Norris.Having lost out on the win in the ear...
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Verstappen's blunt dismissal of 'silly' fatherhood impact talk
Max Verstappen has dismissed “silly” speculation that becoming a father could slow him down as a Formula 1 driver, as his Miami Grand Prix pole means “we can throw that out of the window”.Verstappen’s partner Kelly Piquet gave birth to their daughter Lily earlier this week. Staying at home to be present meant Verstappen missed the first day of media activities in Miami but arrived in time to be at...
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Miami Grand Prix F1 qualifying results 2025
Max Verstappen denied Lando Norris pole position for the Miami Grand Prix, as Kimi Antonelli starred again with third ahead of championship leader Oscar PiastriProvisional starting grid1 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)2 Lando Norris (McLaren)3 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)4 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)5 George Russell (Mercedes)6 Carlos Sainz (Williams)7 Alex Albon (Williams)8 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)9 Esteban ...
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Verstappen beats Norris to pole, both McLarens under investigation
Max Vestappen claimed a stunning pole position for the 2025 Miami Grand Prix, as McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri both faltered in Q3.Piastri was three tenths clear of the first non-McLaren in Q2, but Verstappen plonked his Red Bull on provisional pole after the first runs in Q3, just 0.003 seconds ahead of Norris - as 0.017s covered the top three (with Piastri third).Verstappen suff...
Penalties for points scorers Albon, Lawson and Bearman after Miami sprint
Alex Albon, Liam Lawson and Ollie Bearman have lost his points finish in Formula 1’s Miami Grand Prix sprint race.Albon scored his and Williams's best sprint result in fourth but have been stripped of that owing to exceeding the minimum speed under the safety car in three consecutive sectors. He's now classified 11th.Lawson initially finished seventh but has lost that result - now 13th - owing to ...
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Hamilton thought he'd replicate Leclerc's pre-race crash
Lewis Hamilton has revealed he nearly crashed on the Miami sprint race reconnaissance lap at exactly the same point as his Ferrari Formula 1 team-mate Charles Leclerc.Leclerc had to sit out the sprint having slewed into the wall at Turn 10 in the very wet conditions before the race start.Hamilton made the most of a perfectly timed switch from intermediate to slick tyres to take third place in the ...
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'Not again!' The data behind Piastri's painful Miami sprint loss
Lando Norris's triumph in Formula 1's Miami Grand Prix sprint race was undoubtedly helped by the late safety car period – but just how much did it swing things?The critical phase in deciding the outcome of the race came as the track rapidly dried up in the closing stages after the pre-event rain.It was clear that slicks were the tyre to be on, as Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton had surged up the order fr...
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Winners and losers from F1's 2025 Miami sprint race
Any Formula 1 race that starts with a top driver crashing on a reconnaissance lap and ends with a winner decided by the timing of a safety car is always likely to have an above average number of flops and stars.Here's who we put in each category after the 2025 Miami Grand Prix sprint.Winner: Lando NorrisStarted third, won the race - something about Miami agrees with Lando Norris.Just as a safety c...
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Miami Grand Prix F1 sprint race results
Lando Norris won a highly eventful Miami Grand Prix Formula 1 sprint race as a safety car for Fernando Alonso being sent into the wall by Liam Lawson gave him enough time to change from intermediate to slick tyres without losing the lead to McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri.Results1 Lando Norris (McLaren)2 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)3 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)4 Alex Albon (Williams)5 George Russell (Merc...
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Norris wins Miami F1 sprint thanks to safety car
Lando Norris won a spectacular delayed and wet Miami sprint race via a perfectly timed safety car, while a pit crash between shock polesitter Kimi Antonelli and Max Verstappen ruined both their races.Any hope of getting the race started on time were futile after a downpour in the build-up. Verstappen showed how treacherous the track was, unable to even turn in to the Turn 17 corner at the end of t...
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