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 Getty Images Oscar Piastri wins the 2025 Miami Grand Prix for his third consecutive race in a row. Lando Norris completes the McLaren one-two, with George Russell taking third. In a race that was dominated by the McLaren drivers who finished over 30 seconds in front of the rest of the drivers. Oscar Piastri stays ahead in the constructors championship. Race Facts
 Getty Images/ Red Bull Content Pool Max Verstappen started on pole position at the Miami Grand Prix. All drivers started on medium tyres except for Russell, Hamilton, Lawson, Alonso, Bearman and Gasly, who started in the pit lane. Max Verstappen started on pole and stayed ahead into Turn 1, but goes deep and Norris attacks for the lead but is pushed wide and drops back to sixth. Liam Lawson and Jack Doohan collide on lap one, with Lawson picking up damage and Doohan receiving a puncture. Doohan tries to make it back into the pits but has to stop on the side of the track and is out of the race, bringing out a virtual safety car. As the race gets started again Verstappen leads from Antonelli and Piastri. The virtual safety car ended, and Piastri quickly cleared Antonelli using DRS as Norris went down the inside of Albon for fifth. Rain is threatening to arrive with a flurry of radio messages with different forecasts.  Getty Images/ Red Bull Content Pool The Norris and Verstappen Turn 1 incident was investigated, but no further action was ruled. Norris gets past Russell easily into Turn 4 and moves up into fourth quickly, behind Antonelli, Piastri and Verstappen. Piastri puts pressure on Verstappen multiple times, and Verstappen does a great job of defending. Norris passes Antonelli into Turn 11 and moves into third, where he started chasing down Piastri just 4.1s off the top two. As Piastri and Verstappen battle out in front, Norris closes into just 2.2s. Piastri finally takes the lead after Verstappen ran wide into Turn 1 after trying to hold the inside line. Norris was already up into DRS range of Verstappen and closing in. Norris attacked Verstappen around the outside at Turn 1 but didn't manage to get past as Piastri headed down the track quickly, making a gap of over three seconds. Norris gets past Verstappen at Turn 11 down the inside, but Piastri was already nearly nine seconds ahead. Further behind, Verstappen is being closed down by Antonelli, Russell and Albon, who were all covered by just 4.5s. Oliver Bearman slows down after a power unit issue and manages to get his car onto the side of the track, bringing out the virtual safety car and starting a steam of pit stops. Verstappen, who had pitted earlier, was unlucky with Russell pitting during the virtual safety car and went back out onto the track ahead of Verstappen; Antonelli and Albon were further behind, and Leclerc jumped Sainz during the virtual safety car, too.  Getty Images/ Red Bull Content Pool Albon overtook Antonelli at Turn 1 for fifth just as Sainz passed Leclerc. Bortoleto also stops on track with a power unit issue and brings out another virtual safety car. As the track goes green again, Norris tries to chase down Piastri with a gap of 6.8s. The two Ferrari drivers are closing in together for seventh and eighth. Hamilton was on the radio to Ferrari asking about swapping positions, with Hamilton behind Leclerc on the medium compound tyres and Leclerc on the hard compound. Ferrari tells Hamilton to stay behind to defend from Sainz, who is behind in DRS range. They swap positions after three laps so Hamilton could chase down Antonelli for sixth. Hamilton moved into sixth but couldn't pull away from Leclerc enough to not give him dirty air. Sainz was just 1.7s behind.  Getty Images/ Red Bull Content Pool Verstappen tried to close the 1.8s gap to Russell, as Norris was within six seconds of Piastri with 15 laps to go. Hamilton started closing down the gap to Antonelli, but Leclerc was still close behind him. Ferrari was told their drivers to swap positions once again with a 2.4s gap to Antonelli. Piastri had to overtake a lot of back markers, allowing Norris to close the gap to within 3.6s. Tsunoda was running in tenth but received a five-second time penalty for speeding in the pit lane, so started speeding up to create a gap from Hadjar behind. The gap was up to 4.8s.  Getty Images On the final lap, Piastri pulled to over four seconds on Norris. Meanwhile, further back, Sainz closed the gap to Hamilton and made a very late lunge at Turn 17, but Hamilton managed to stay ahead. Oscar Piastri wins the Miami Grand Prix, with Lando Norris in P2 and Russell in P3.  McLaren X Full Race Classification1) Oscar Piastri 2) Lando Norris +4.630 3) George Russell +37.644 4) Max Verstappen +39.956 5) Alex Albon +48.067 6) Kimi Antonelli +55.502 7) Charles Leclerc +57.036 8) Lewis Hamilton +60.186 9) Carlos Sainz +60.577 10) Yuki Tsunoda +74.434 11) Isack Hadjar +74.602 12) Esteban Ocon +82.006 13) Pierre Gasly +90.445 14) Nico Hulkenberg +1 Lap 15) Fernando Alonso 16) Lance Stroll DNF) Liam Lawson DNF) Gabriel Bortoleto DNF) Oliver Bearman DNF) Jack Doohan McLaren’s Oscar Piastri wins in Miami after starting in fourth, he said: "I won the race that I really wanted to. Yesterday was a tricky day, qualifying was probably one of my trickiest for the year and to come away with a win still on Sunday is an impressive result. "Obviously there was a bit of argy-bargy at Turn One that helped me out a little bit. I was aware enough to avoid Max [Verstappen] coming through and from that point onwards I knew I had a good pace advantage and the car was unbelievable. On controlling the race: "The first sting was really really strong and on the hard stint I was obviously struggling a little bit so it was a good thing that I built that gap in the first stint. "Towards the end I started to get things a bit more back under control but there’s still definitely some things to work on, but I’m very happy with the win and the points and leave Miami on top."  Getty Images Written by Anny Wooldridge
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