Overview
- Lando Norris won the Miami sprint on Saturday in a McLaren one‑two with Oscar Piastri, handing Mercedes its first defeat of 2026.
- Kimi Antonelli finished fourth on the road but a five‑second track‑limits penalty dropped him to sixth and cut his title lead over George Russell to seven points.
- Antonelli rebounded hours later by taking pole for Sunday’s grand prix, with Max Verstappen second and Charles Leclerc third as Norris qualified fourth.
- The FIA trialed revised energy‑deployment rules this weekend to reduce hazardous closing speeds caused when one car harvests battery power while another deploys full electric boost.
- Teams used a five‑week gap to unleash major upgrades, with McLaren rolling out an “entirely new MCL40” and Aston Martin cautioning its power‑unit fixes would not show clear gains yet.