Lando Norris lucked in to end McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri’s winning run in a chaotic wet-dry Miami GP Sprint which also saw Lewis Hamilton finish third and Max Verstappen demoted out of the points for a pit-lane collision with polesitter Kimi Antonelli.
After the start of the short-form race had been delayed by 30 minutes after several unexpected big rain showers at the Miami International Autodrome, what turned into a reduced 16-lap Sprint proved a cracker from start to finish.
Norris ended up victorious after benefitting from the timing of a late Safety Car for a crash for Fernando Alonso.
Piastri had ceded the lead to Norris after pitting for dry tyres at the end of the previous lap but, with the Australian back on track and having to run to a controlled speed due to Alonso’s accident, Norris lost less time than he would have otherwise done in the pits and was able to make his stop and re-emerge back on track ahead of the sister car.
Watch the moment Lando Norris won the Miami GP Sprint in a chaotic conclusion after Fernando Alonso crashed into the wall, causing a safety car
It comes a year after another fortuitous Safety Car helped him to jump Max Verstappen and win his maiden Grand Prix at the circuit.
Hamilton had been one of the first drivers to switch to slicks and his race was transformed by the strategy, jumping from a struggling sixth to what became third for his second Sprint podium of his Ferrari career.
Max Verstappen was given a 10-second penalty for an unsafe release into the path of Kimi Antonelli, resulting in them both coming together in the pits
But Max Verstappen’s race fell apart and eventually saw him classified 17th and last following a 10-second penalty after he was released by Red Bull’s crew into the path of Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes exiting his own pit stop for slicks.
The incident capped a nightmare 16 laps for Antonelli, who had already dropped from first to fourth after running wide in a battle with Piastri at the first corner. He eventually finished 10th.
Charles Leclerc was caught in heavy rain and crashed into the wall before the Sprint started at the Miami Grand Prix
Charles Leclerc, though, did not even take the start after crashing when the heavens opened on his lap to the original grid.
More to follow…
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Saturday May 3
- 6.30pm: Ted’s Sprint Notebook
- 7.50pm: F1 Academy Race 1
- 8.35pm: Miami GP Qualifying build-up*
- 9pm: MIAMI GP QUALIFYING*
- 11pm: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook*
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Sunday May 4
- 6pm: F1 Academy Race 2
- 7.30pm: Grand Prix Sunday: Miami GP build-up*
- 9pm: THE MIAMI GRAND PRIX*
- 11pm: Chequered Flag: Miami GP reaction*
- Midnight: Ted’s Notebook
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