Overview
- Kimi Antonelli sealed Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix, his third win in a row, and moved 20 points clear in the standings after converting strategy and late defense into victory.
- Oscar Piastri kept third as stewards later gave Charles Leclerc a 20-second penalty for repeatedly leaving the track, while Max Verstappen received five seconds for a pit-exit line breach.
- The revised results lifted Lewis Hamilton to sixth and handed Alpine’s Franco Colapinto a career-best seventh, reflecting how reviews after the flag can shift points and paydays.
- Early chaos set the tone with Verstappen spinning on lap one and a Safety Car after Isack Hadjar hit the wall and Pierre Gasly’s car flipped in a separate clash with Liam Lawson.
- Rule and reliability themes loomed large as Audi’s Gabriel Bortoleto was disqualified from the Sprint for an intake-pressure breach and Nico Hülkenberg’s car failed before the Sprint, while debate over new battery-use limits continued ahead of Montreal upgrades.