Briton Lando Norris (McLaren) won a spectacular Miami GP Miami Sprint 1 race in front of his Australian teammate Oscar Piastri on Saturday on Miami International Autodrome.
The world’s vice-champion took advantage of the intervention of the security car after the accident of the Spanish veteran Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) to steal first place at his neighbor’s neighbor at the end of the end and keep it since the race ended for the last four laps at reduced speed under security car diet.
A year after his first success in the Grand Prix on the Florida route, Norris still benefited from a safety car to pocket the bet and reduce the gap with Piastri, which is now ahead of nine points in the world championship.
The race, which had been delayed by 30 minutes due to the pouring rain that fell around the hard rock Stadium, the lair of the Miami Dolphins (NFL), began on a soggy track but which dried quickly, forcing the single -seaters to change tires at the end of the race.
The first to go back to the stands to put on smooth gums, the seven -time British world champion Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari), who had rushed to seventh row, made a superb ascent thanks to the good strategy of the Scuderia to finish on the third step of the podium.
The sprint is therefore better finished that he had started for Ferrari since the Monegasque Charles Leclerc had had an accident on the wet track by joining the grid and could not take the start of the race.
-The quadruple world champion Max Verstappen (Red Bull) is the big loser of this sprint since he finished 17th after having received a ten -second penalty to be left of his garage in a dangerous manner after his change of tires.
Indeed, the Dutchman had not seen Andrea Kimi Antonelli arrive and struck the Mercedes of Italian rookie, which could not even change gums because of this hanging.
The 18 -year -old prodigy, who won the pole position on Friday, was unlucky on Saturday during the sprint.
At the first turn, Piastri closed the door to him in a muscular way and forced her to come out very wide, which made him go back to fourth row. Then he was struck by Verstappen in the path of the stands and lost all chance of scoring points, finally ending 10th.
The French have not been able to get out of the game since Pierre Gasly (Alpine), Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) and Esteban Ocon (Haas) took the 11th, 13th and 14th places respectively.
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