Piastri scores a three-peat with Miami GP victory

Oscar Piasstri directed a dominant end of McLaren One-Two ahead of Lando Norris in the Miami Grand Prix, exceeding the field for more than half a minute.

Piasstri capitalized a chaotic first round that saw the poleositist Max Verstappen and the initiator of the Lando Norris row to reach return 2, sending the British outside the track.

Norris had the beginning fractionally better, and a Verstappen block allowed him to lower the interior of the Red Bull Racing car in the first turn. The movement left Norris hanging outside Curve 2, where a blow of Verstappen pushed him out of the track. The Dutchman continued to the head, but Norris fell to the sixth when he joined the track.

Kimi Antonelli was the following to test a movement in Verstappen, but the teenager’s challenge lasted only the end of the return, when a blockade in the first corner opened to Piastri, who pissed the second place in explosion 11.

For Vuelta Nine, the Australian was at a surprising distance, but Verstappen was not willing to facilitate it.

“Stay inside, Max. Make me work for it,” said Dutchman Gianpiero Lambiase.

He removed the attempts in the first round and again in curve 10, Piasstri took the Red Bull Racing gearbox through the lap until a smaller blockade in curve 1 dropped it fractionally of the rhythm.

For Vuelta 13 he was in the Dutch tail again, and a strong output of the final fork attracted him to the first turn.

Verstappen tried to depend deeply on the brakes, but an confinement sent him to navigate out of the road. Piastri saw him come, remove and then sweep comfortably inside to take the lead.

Verstappen kept the McLarens at Raya for a while, but Piastri played it perfectly. Rudy Carezzzevoli/Getty Images

“Brakes, man,” Verspappen was ventilated on the radio of the team. “Useless.”

Norris was making an equally strong progress after his beginning committed to a series of decisive movements in Alex Albon, George Russell and Antonelli until he was third in Tour Nine. The British benefited from the long waste of Piastri and Verstappen for leadership, bringing him closer, and for Vuelta 15 he also challenged the Dutchman for the position.

Verstappen threw the same defensive movements, discovered Norris from the road in the first turn and holding the internal line. Hi, he arrived briefly on Vuelta 17, but a late movement inside the shift 11 put both cars out of the track, and returned the place in the final fork to avoid a penalty.

In the next lap, do not make the same mistake, nailing the braking area to deprive Verstappen or second place permanently, its complete recovery.

Piastri, meanwhile, took full advantage of his time at Clear Air, and the long battle of his teammate, to expand his advantage. When Norris moved to second place, the Australian was 9 years old.

Both caused their exclusive to turn a virtual security car for Haas stopped by Oliver Bearman in Tour 29, neutralizing any possible strategic battle. He thought that Norris made small advances in the second period in the hard tire, particularly while sailing for laundering traffic, the gap was finally unsurpassed.

Piastri took the checkered flag in the 4.6s, claiming its third successive and fourth victory in five rounds to stretch its leadership in 16 points.

“Obviously there was a bit of Argy-Bargy in curve 1, which helped me a bit,” he said. “I knew I had a good advantage of rhythm. The car was incredible today.

“I think the first season was very, very strong. The difficult [second] Destiny, I was honestly fighting a little, so it was good to build that gap in the first period. Very, very happy to leave Miami at the top. “

Norris regretted his first round battle with Verstappen leaving him out of the containment of victory, but praised the team to build a car capable of taking out the field in the 33 years, his margin back to third place.

“The team has done incredible job,” he said. “I can’t blame them at all: good stops in boxes, a great rhythm, we were on the road. It was a good feeling. Max launched a good fight as usual, and I pay the price, but it is so.”

Russell retained a fast rapid completion of completion after being promoted to third with a cheap boxes stop during Bearman’s virtual security car. After having started strongly, the British finished the race in the fastest media, but in the last 10 laps, the impulse turned to the hard tires of Verstappen, which allowed him about 1.5 of the Mercedes. He was never close enough to launch a movement, and Russell claimed his fourth stage of the year with an advantage of 2.3s.

“I was quite calm and I felt very good inside the car to keep it behind me, so it was good,” Russell said. “Really happy to go out with P3, because I have been fighting this weekend and always on the back foot, but ultimately, when it matters I had a good result today.”

Alex Albon was an excellent fifth, dividing Antonelli of the leaders after the well stops. The Mercedes driver had a slow stop that left him out of the battle of the stage, but the pressure of the Williams driver forced an error to the Italian towards the first turn to take the place. Then Albon had the rhythm to keep the place for merit.

Antonelli finished sixth thanks to the mismanagement of Ferrari by Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton in seventh and eighth, changing twice the pilots only in the second period, since each one argued that they are faster on the radio of the team. Neinder had the rhythm of catching Antonelli with any vigor, Monegase and the British who ended with frustrated races in the seventh and Ecigth respectively.

Carlos Sainz finished ninth after being double in the team for Ferrari’s drivers after the well stops. He tried to recover Hamilton’s eighth in the final fork in the last round ended up awkwardly T-Boney The Ferrari, thought he became unscathed and his order without changes.

Yuki Tsunoda ended tenth for the end point with a shock absorber large enough to absorb a penalty of 5S per speed in the box lane.

Isack Hadjar finished 11th ahead of Esteban Ocon, Pierre Gasly, Nico Hulkenberg and Aston Martin teammates, Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll, the last of the finalists.

Liam Lawson retired after 36 laps after strong contact with Jack Doohan in the first round that took the Australian from the race. Gabriel Bortoleto joined Bearman on the retirement list with motor problems.