Oscar Piastri clinched a third straight win in Miami, matching McLaren legend Mika Häkkinen and extending his impressive points streak.
As always after a Grand Prix weekend, it’s time to dive into the key numbers, records, and trends that defined the action. Here’s what Miami delivered:
Qualifying Highlights
Max Verstappen claimed his third pole of the season (after Japan and Saudi Arabia), with his largest margin yet, just 0.065 seconds. That also marked his second consecutive pole in Miami, but history repeated itself: no front-row starter has ever won this race. Oscar Piastri, who started fourth, kept that streak alive with his win.
Verstappen’s pole was Red Bull’s 106th in F1 history, putting them just one behind Lotus.
Lando Norris secured P2, his first front-row appearance since Japan and his first-ever top-4 qualifying in Miami. That result leveled the intra-team qualifying battle between him and Piastri at 3-3.
Rookie Kimi Antonelli impressed with his career-best qualifying in third, beating teammate George Russell for the first time. He missed the front row by only 0.002 seconds. It was also the first time both Mercedes cars qualified in the top 6 in Miami.
Oscar Piastri qualified fourth, his first miss from the front row in 2025.
Carlos Sainz qualified sixth, matching his best result of the year from Saudi Arabia.
Alex Albon delivered big for Williams in seventh, marking the first time the team placed both cars in the top seven this season.
Charles Leclerc’s eighth-place start was his worst of the year. For the first time in 2025, neither Ferrari made the top 7 on the grid.
Esteban Ocon reached Q3 for the first time with Haas, while Yuki Tsunoda repeated his exact qualifying position from 2024 with Racing Bulls.
Lewis Hamilton missed Q3 for the first time since joining Ferrari, despite being just 0.058 seconds behind Leclerc in Q2.
Gabriel Bortoleto qualified 13th, his best result yet for Kick Sauber.
Jack Doohan outqualified Pierre Gasly for the first time, and Liam Lawson continued to improve, averaging better than his previous 16.0 grid position.
Nico Hülkenberg lined up 16th for the third time in four races.
Fernando Alonso, eliminated in Q1, had previously reached Q2 in every race this season, though never Q3.
Lance Stroll suffered his fourth consecutive Q1 exit.
Oliver Bearman ended both the Sprint and Grand Prix qualifying sessions in last place, his toughest weekend so far.
Race Day Recap
Oscar Piastri won his third Grand Prix in a row for McLaren, something no McLaren driver had done since Mika Häkkinen in 1997–1998. It was his sixth career win and his fourth this season, moving him ahead of Norris in career victories.
McLaren also made it two Miami wins in a row, and the curse of the Miami front row continued: still no race winner has ever started from there.
Piastri has now scored points in 32 straight Grands Prix, only three streaks in history are longer.
With Norris finishing second, McLaren became the first team to secure a Sprint and Grand Prix 1-2 on the same weekend. It was only the team’s fourth race-day 1-2 in the past 15 years.
The last time McLaren finished 1-2 with more than a 30-second gap to the rest of the field? Monaco 2007, Alonso ahead of Hamilton, with Massa over a minute behind.
George Russell rounded out the podium in third, his fourth of the season, matching his entire 2024 tally, and gave Mercedes their first-ever podium in Miami.
Max Verstappen finished fourth, his first time off the podium in Miami and his third non-top-3 finish in six races this season.
Alex Albon grabbed fifth, equaling his Melbourne result, his only other top-6 finish with Williams since 2022.
Carlos Sainz took ninth, helping Williams score double points for the second race in a row.
Kimi Antonelli claimed sixth, his fourth top-6 result in five races.
For the first time in Miami, Ferrari didn’t place a car in the top 5.
Lewis Hamilton came home eighth, his only non-Sprint top-5 this season remains Bahrain.
Yuki Tsunoda took the final point in 10th, scoring in both the Sprint and main race. Despite a five-second pit lane speeding penalty, he edged out Isack Hadjar by just 0.168 seconds.
Only five teams scored points: McLaren, Red Bull, Mercedes, Williams, and Ferrari, the bare minimum.
Aston Martin’s struggles deepened, with Alonso (15th) and Stroll (16th) the last classified finishers, both nearly 20 seconds behind the next car.
Jack Doohan retired on lap one, his second first-lap DNF this season after Melbourne.
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