Formula 1: new double McLaren at the Miami Grand Prix

McLaren was untouchable in Miami with the victories of Lando Norris on Saturday during the Sprint race and Oscar Piastri on Sunday during the Grand Prix. The British stable thus confirms its current superiority in Formula 1.

A year after his return to the front of the stage on the Floridian layout where Lando Norris had won the first GP of his career, the Woking -based team crushed competition and has escaped a little more in the classification of manufacturers.

Piastri, who has garnered his third consecutive victory, the fourth of the season after China, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, has increased his lead at the head of the championship on Norris, bringing it to 16 lengths, and is increasingly posing in favorite for the world crown.

The Australian, who left third Sunday, took advantage of the fight between his teammate and Max Verstappen (Red Bull) In the first two turns to seize second place. Despite a good resistance of the reigning four -time world champion, the native of Melbourne made the superiority of his car speak to take the lead at 14^e turn and never leave it again.

Max Verstappen 4^e

Relegated to sixth row, Norris also took advantage of the velocity of his car to quickly go up to the classification. At the end of a bitter duel, the Englishman then took his revenge on Verstappen, who had closed the door to him in a muscular way at the start of the race.

“Mad Max”, fourth behind the British George Russell (Mercedes) on Sunday, was the big loser of the weekend since he had not scored any point on Saturday during the sprint and conceded it again on Sunday. However, he will console himself with the birth of his first child, a little girl named Lily, who was born just before the Floridian weekend.

One of the striking facts of the race was the tension that broke out in the Ferrari stable. The seven -time world champion Lewis Hamilton has indeed criticized his team’s strategy on the radio when he believed that he was the fastest of the two Scuderia pilots. “It’s not a good teamwork, that’s all I have to say,” he said to his race engineer.

If his teammate Charles Leclerc finally let him pass, the Briton had to resolve to give him the same laps later because he was driving less quickly than the Monegasque. The two men finally finished seventh and eighth, about a minute from McLaren.

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