Oscar Piastri wins 4th race of season, taking Miami Grand Prix
Could 05, 2025 03:38 AM IST
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. McLaren Racing’s Oscar Piastri claimed his series-best and career-high fourth victory of the season in Sunday’s Method One CRYPTO.com Miami Grand Prix, the Australian surging ahead from a fourth-place begin to the lead by lap 15 and holding off his teammate, 2024 Miami race winner Lando Norris by 4.630 seconds.
Overcast skies and a perennial risk of rain in a usually sunny month of Could in South Florida by no means dampened the competitors or the temper from the followers. Piastri made his race-winning transfer round pole-winner and two-time Miami winner Max Verstappen on Lap 15 of the 57-lap race on the Miami Worldwide Autodrome. After exchanging positions thrice in three laps, Norris lastly received round Verstappen too and raced off to chase his teammate, in the end claiming second.
Mercedes AMG driver George Russell completed third to finish the Miami podium, passing Verstappen throughout a pit cease alternate on Lap 27 and holding off the four-time and reigning F1 champion within the remaining laps.
“On the finish of the race when it’s a must to preserve Max behind you, it is by no means simple,” Russell conceded.
Piastri’s victory the sixth of his profession marks the primary time in 28 years {that a} McLaren Racing driver has gained three consecutive races two-time world champion Mika Hakkinen final doing so for the crew again in 1997-98. Most significantly, Piastri prolonged his championship result in 16 factors over Norris heading into the following race, -18 on the Grand Prix of Emilia-Romagna in Italy.
“To come back away with a win Sunday is a formidable end result,” Piastri mentioned, noting his runner-up in Saturday’s dash race. “As soon as I knew we had an excellent tempo and benefit, the automobile’s tempo was unbelievable immediately.”
McLaren turns into the primary crew to complete 1-2 in a dash and grand prix doubleheader weekend and crew principal American Zak Brown celebrated the work of his two 24-year-old drivers with a selfie on pit street after they climbed out of their vehicles.
The race was spirited from inexperienced to checkered flag at occasions together with fierce racing amongst teammates. Ferrari drivers Charles LeClerc and Lewis Hamilton exchanged positions all through the closing laps, in the end ending seventh and eighth. The Williams Racing crew with drivers Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz scored 17 factors Sunday after the crew earned solely a complete of 14 factors in the complete 2024 season. Albon completed a season-best fifth and Sainz was ninth.
Holly Cain, Subject Stage Media
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