Miami Grand Prix 2025 Highlights: Piastri Leads McLaren 1-2 With Norris; Russell Clinches P3

The Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix 2025 will be live streamed on the FanCode app and website in India.

The race will start from 1:30 AM IST.

1. Max Verstappen

2. Lando Norris

3. Kimi Antonelli

4. Oscar Piastri

5. George Russell

6. Carlos Sainz

7. Alex Albon

8. Charles Leclerc

9. Esteban Ocon

10. Yuki Tsunoda

The weather during the Miami Grand Prix race is going to be extremely bad. According to Accu weather, thunderstorm is expected and if not, the sky is going to be mostly cloudy with temperature rating from 23 to 24 degree celcius.

The Miami Sprint saw it all - 18-year-old starting from pole to Lando Norris' joy in Miami, the track where he won his first ever F1 Grand Prix win in 2024. It was chaotic wet-dry sprint race on Saturday.

Norris started third on the grid, but he found an edge over McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri, who finished second, thanks to the safety car.

Lewis Hamilton, who won the sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix earlier this season, continued his impressive form in the format by finishing third. Read full wrap HERE.

At the 2025 Miami Grand Prix, LEGO surprised everyone with life-sized, drivable LEGO F1 cars!

These cool cars, made from 400,000 LEGO bricks, could even drive around the track at 20 km/h. It took 26 designers over 22,000 hours to build each one, and they looked just like the real F1 cars, complete with logos and tires!

Ahead of the Miami Grand Prix, all the 20 drivers took a lap around the Miami International Autodrome in custom-built LEGO replicas of their 2025 race cars.

Now, you can see the sunlight in the pit lanes. Meaning, there is no sign of rain as of now.

However, the weather was so bad earlier that the F1 Academy race was cancelled.

The formation lap is done and now the drivers lineup for the race!

Lap 1 is underway! Something happened with Jack Doohan. Yellow flag!!!

Doohan made contact with Liam Lawson’s Racing Bulls car, leaving his Alpine with a puncture and forcing him to retire, which brought out an early Virtual Safety Car.

Earlier, Lando Norris got a lightning launch off the line, but Max Verstappen went deep into Turn 1, and the two went wheel-to-wheel through the first few corners before Verstappen muscled his way ahead, pushing Norris off track -- dropping the McLaren star to P6.

Lap 6/57 | Seems like Rain is on its way to shake things up -- team radios predict a heavy downpour in about 15–28 laps.

Lap 9/57 | There goes Lando Norris. He overtakes Antonelli to gran the P3. Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton makes a slick move on Isack Hadjar to slide into 11th.

What's impressive is that Sainz and Albon is battling hard at P5 and P6! Williams are doing so strong!

Piastri and Vertsappen is really going fierce in battle for the lead. But, Norris is chasing both of them.

On Lap 13, Verstappen on radio - "It's super slippery to drive".

Dark clouds are all around.

Now Piastri concedes the lead of the race! Max goes into the corner, wheels to wheels in a fierce battle, and the drivers' championship leader comes out on top -- one Mclaren is now leading and one is chasing Verstappen.

Okay, so Miami is really serving up some serious thrills! Verstappen and Norris have been going wheel to wheel in an intense fight --- and oh my, now Verstappen’s back down to P3 as Norris wins the battle for P2. This race is heating up fast! It's lap 18 at the moment.

Don’t get your hopes up for rain just yet -- even though George Russell's spotting drizzles, McLaren boss Zak Brown isn’t expecting anything. Meanwhile, Oscar Piastri pulled off a magic act and built a whopping nine-second lead!

while Norris and Verstappen were locking horns for second.

It's lap 30/57, and we've seen pit stops from Piastri, Norris, Verstappen, and now Russell.

Carlos Sainz has made a strong move from 11th to 7th, ahead of Charles Leclerc while Lewis Hamilton is currently running in 10th. The race is still wide open!

After a pit stop, Oscar Piastri holds a 7-second lead, while Lando Norris is 10 seconds ahead of George Russell who is on P3. Max Verstappen is struggling to make progress, currently in 4th. But the real surprise is Alexander Albon, who's up in 5th.

In lap 33, Yuki Tsunoda speeds up in the pit lane and he gets a 5 second penalty.

First Jack Doohan with a puncture, then Oliver Bearman following a 'lost everything' incident, and now Gabriel Bortoleto -- all are out of the race.

"THIS IS NOT A GOOD TEAM WORK, that's all I gotta say," Says Hamilton.

Lap 39/57 - Leclerc's radio buzzes soon after - 'Swap positions'.

Now, Hamilton is on P7 on medium tyres and Leclerc on eight on hard.

Earlier Radio conversation:

Hamilton: “You want me to just sit here the whole race?”

Engineer: “I can come back to you.”

Given that George Russell is around 24 seconds clear of Max Verstappen in P4, the Red Bull driver hops on the radio to question if the Mercedes man might have benefited from the Virtual Safety Car.

Sorry. Not 24 seconds. I exaggerated. But that is how far Lando is from Russell.

Only 7 laps remains but this race is setting up for a dramatic finale.

Max Verstappen is now just 1.5 seconds behind George Russell, and Red Bull is sniffing a late push for the podium.

Meanwhile at the front, Oscar Piastri still leads -- but Lando Norris is closing in, shaving off time lap by lap, with the gap now down to 4.5 seconds after being 0.7s quicker last time around.

Speaking of the back of track, it’s a bleak day for Aston Martin. Fernando Alonso sits in P15 and has been lapped, as has teammate Lance Stroll. It looks like another race without points for the veteran Spaniard, while the other three drivers yet to score this season have already retired.

Lap 53/57 | “We’ll try again next lap,” Ferrari tells Leclerc, urging him to make a move.

But in a rare moment of calm, Leclerc replies, “It’s OK.” Hamilton then obliges and lets him through for P6, though he’s clearly not thrilled. Moments later, he’s told Carlos Sainz is just 1.4s behind - and fires back: “You want me to let him through as well?” A little sarcasm, a little frustration -- classic late-race Hamilton.

Oscar Piastri starting from fourth on the grid win the Miami Grand Prix ahead of his teammate Lando Norris by 4.6s and George Russell who claims the third place on the podium. Verstappen could not make it past the Mercedes ace and settled for P4 behind 2.3s.

This marks Oscar Piastri's third straight win having won in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. It doesn't end there, the Australian also becomes the first McLaren driver to do so in more than 27 years. The last time someone did was in the 1997 when Mika Hakkinen won the finale and first two races of the next season.

Also, Piastri's third win in a row is the second time an Australian driver has achieved it. Alan Jones was the first to do so in 1981.

Piastri: “Two years ago in Miami, we were the slowest team – I think we got lapped twice.”

"Yesterday (the sprint) was a tricky day, and qualifying was one of my trickiest sessions of the year. … There was a bit argy-bargy at the beginning, and I was lucky enough to get away from Max."

Norris: “I paid the price, but that’s the way it is.” He’s still happy for second.

1. Piastri (McLaren)
2. Norris (McLaren), +4.630 seconds
3. Russell (Mercedes), +37.644
4. Verstappen (Red Bull), +39.956
5. Albon (Williams), +48.067
6. Antonelli (Mercedes), +55.502
7. Leclerc (Ferrari), +57.036
8. Hamilton (Ferrari), +60.186
9. Sainz (Williams), +60.577
10. Tsunoda (Red Bull), +74.434

1. Piastri, 131
2. Norris, 115
3. Verstappen, 99
4. Russell, 93
5. Leclerc, 53
6. Antonelli, 48
7. Hamilton, 41
8. Albon, 30
9. Ocon, 14
10. Stroll, 14
11. Tsunoda, 9
12. Gasly, 7
13. Sainz, 7 (for now)
14. Hulkenberg, 6
15. Bearman, 6
16. Hadjar, 5
No points: Alonso, Lawson, Doohan, Bartoleto

After the Australian national anthem echoed around the Miami circuit and Norris celebrated with a champagne shower over Piastri and Russell, the 2025 Miami Grand Prix wrapped up under bright, dry skies -- with NO rain in sight. So turns out, Zak Brown might just be a better weather forecaster than most of us!

Now, time for a goodbye! That's all from our end from the Miami Grand Prix 2025. Come, join us again for the live coverage of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix - Ferrari's very special. Good Night! Take Care!