As the race in Miami got underway, Lando Norris lost five places almost immediately. He tried to overtake Max Verstappen at the second corner, but after Verstappen locked up at the first turn, he pushed Norris off the track. Norris ran wide and dropped down the order. The stewards looked into the incident but later decided not to take any further action.

Meanwhile, Jack Doohan’s race ended very quickly. On the first lap, he collided with Liam Lawson in the first corner, which ripped the front-left tyre off his car. This brought out the Virtual Safety Car before even two full laps were completed.

The race restarted on lap four with Verstappen leading, followed by Andrea Kimi Antonelli in second and Oscar Piastri in third. George Russell was in fourth, just behind his teammate Antonelli. Albon, Norris and Sainz followed behind. Lewis Hamilton was running in eleventh place after Isack Hadjar tried to out-brake him into the first turn but went too deep and lost a position.

Soon after the restart, Piastri overtook Antonelli and moved into second place. He then started to close in on Verstappen in the lead. Norris also recovered well after his early setback. He passed Russell with a strong move through the first sector and later overtook Antonelli to get into third place.

Piastri got within half a second of Verstappen as he continued to chase him down. Meanwhile, Fernando Alonso spun in Turn 12 after his own mistake.

As the race reached Lap 12, Oscar Piastri was right behind Max Verstappen and pushing hard for the lead. He had a chance at Turn 11 but Verstappen defended well on the inside. Piastri stayed in the DRS zone and tried again, but Verstappen continued to block his every move.

At Turn 1 on Lap 12, Piastri locked up slightly and lost some time, but he stayed close. A few laps later, on Lap 14, he finally got his move done. Going side by side into Turn 1, Verstappen braked late to try and hold the inside line but went too deep. That allowed Piastri to sweep through and take the lead of the race.

Verstappen kept defending strongly but Piastri looked faster. Once in front, Piastri started to pull away. By Lap 17, he was already five seconds ahead. As Verstappen began to struggle, Lando Norris caught up and made a move into Turn 11, barging past to take second place. However, the stewards asked Norris to give the place back, and he let Verstappen through again at Turn 17.

The battle did not end there. Norris came back a lap later, this time making a clean move at Turn 11 to reclaim second. Verstappen, under pressure, had a big lock-up and made light contact with Norris earlier but both drivers carried on without damage.

While all this was happening, Piastri took full advantage. By Lap 20, he was nearly nine seconds ahead of the chasing pack. Norris now had clean air and began to focus on closing the gap to the leader.

The first round of pit stops began on Lap 25 when Bortoleto made his way into the pits. It was the first stop of the race, and he dropped to 18th after rejoining.

Just after that, Andrea Kimi Antonelli came in from fourth place on Lap 26, hoping to undercut Max Verstappen. However, his plan was affected when he had to wait in the pit lane because Carlos Sainz was already being serviced. That delay cost him valuable time.

Verstappen responded on the following lap, pitting for hard tyres. He came back out well ahead of Antonelli, who had lost his chance to gain any advantage. Antonelli rejoined just in front of Albon, keeping himself in the fight but visibly frustrated with the lost time.

The race was then interrupted when Ollie Bearman slowed down and came to a stop at Turn 8, prompting a Virtual Safety Car. Shortly after, Hamilton, running in the points, took the opportunity to pit under VSC conditions. He switched to medium tyres but had a slightly slow stop. Still, he rejoined in 10th place, which became ninth as others ahead had not yet pitted.

As the VSC continued, Bortoleto also stopped on the back straight, triggering another VSC period. On the restart, Albon made a clean move on Antonelli for fifth place and Sainz overtook Leclerc for seventh. The Williams team was looking strong, now running fifth and seventh. Tsunoda picked up a five-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane.

Hamilton then pulled off a clever move into Turn 1. As Sainz and Leclerc were fighting each other, Hamilton cut back underneath both of them. He nearly passed the pair in one move, but Leclerc held on. Sainz lost out, dropping two places.

Tensions started to rise at Ferrari. Hamilton, stuck behind Leclerc and on faster tyres, got on the radio to complain. He told the team he was wearing out his mediums and asked to be let through. The team hesitated, explaining they wanted to keep the DRS train. Hamilton wasn’t impressed and replied with frustration, saying: “This is not good teamwork, that is all I am going to say.”

Eventually, Hamilton was allowed through on Lap 39 into Turn 17 and quickly pulled away. By the first corner he was nearly a second ahead, showing how much pace he had been holding back.

As all of this was happening, Norris was closing in on Piastri at the front. With ten laps to go, the gap had dropped to just 4.3 seconds. Norris was gaining by half a second per lap, and if he kept it up, he would be right on Piastri’s tail for the final lap.

As the race neared its end, Ferrari’s internal troubles were far from over. On lap 52, Lewis Hamilton was told to give back the position he had taken from Charles Leclerc. It was a frustrating moment, especially after all the effort Hamilton had put into working his way forward. It appeared that his radio had failed and he never received the original message to hold position.

Leclerc eventually moved back ahead for seventh place, but the confusion caused some heated exchanges over the team radio. Hamilton voiced his frustration, asking sarcastically if he should also move aside for Sainz, who was still behind and not in the fight at that point.

At the front, things were much calmer. Lando Norris had passed Max Verstappen earlier and was now hunting down Oscar Piastri for the win. But Piastri had built a strong lead during the previous phase of the race and was managing the gap well. With just three laps to go, he still held a lead of 3.7 seconds over Norris.

No positions changed in the final laps as Oscar Piastri crossed the line to lead a McLaren one-two, taking his third win in a row and extending his championship lead by seven points over teammate Lando Norris. George Russell finished a distant third, with Max Verstappen just missing out on the podium in fourth.

Alex Albon claimed an impressive fifth for Williams ahead of Antonelli in sixth. The Ferrari pair of Leclerc and Hamilton came home seventh and eighth after a tense battle, while Sainz and Tsunoda completed the top ten, despite late contact between Sainz and Hamilton.

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