Oscar Piatri won the Miami Grand Prix in an impressive manner, his team -mate Lando Norris only drove after. Formula 1 expert Christian Danner and RTL data analyst Steffen Kosuch in their analysis at the Grand Prix of Miami not only look at the two McLaren pilots. Because especially with Ferrari, the tree burns.
McLaren not only won Miami’s Grand Prix with Oscar Piatri. The competition was destroyed.
The start of the world champion Max Verstappen from pole position was able to win, but the young Australian worked directly to the front from starting place. Mercedes pilot Kimi Antonelli (starting place three) was not a big obstacle and Verstappen could only defend himself until round 14.
From then on, Piatri checked the race at the latest, expanded the lead on the first non-McLaren with about one second per round and still seemed to have reserves.
Legend (sec) About racing rounds of the individual cars on racing winner Piatri
Team colleague Lando Norris meanwhile made life difficult for itself again. At the start, he tried to overtake Verstappen, but had to go next to the route and was thrown back to sixth place. He had already reached third place in round nine, but he first pulled the shorter against Verstappen.
When the Briton had also cracked this nut in round 18, his teammate was just under nine seconds. Norris was able to reduce this lead to about four seconds until the end of the race, but there was no longer an attack. Ranked second was the perfect weekend from a team – and from Norris’ point of view the maximum.
Verstappen defends himself – Williams duo impressed
The fight for the title “Best of the Rest” became a fight between Max Verstappen and the two Mercedes drivers. The Red Bull Pilot was able to stay in front of Antonelli in the first half of the race, with George Russell in the lurking behind it.
While Antonelli was increasingly losing the connection after a change on the hard tire, Russell used a virtual safety car phase to make the pit stop due to a time (Verstappen had stopped three laps under normal racing pace). This brought the British in front of the Dutch.
The idea of the two Williams pilots was again sensational – and not for happy circumstances, but of their own strength. Alex Albon was in the middle of the chaser field and Carlos Sainz (P9) also scored solid points.
The team leadership is now in demand at Ferrari
Ferrari was not able to keep up with the other top teams from the performance, the third place from Lewis Hamilton in the sprint on Saturday was rather happy circumstances. On Sunday even Williams was in front of the Italians.
But not only the car is too slow, the radio sayings reveal a lack of will to make decisions, not to mention the negative mood. Obviously nobody dares to decide anything, according to the motto: it could be the wrong one. Under these circumstances, however, it is impossible to turn the ship and get back on track. The team leadership is now asked to bring order back to the Grande Casino so that everyone pulls together and in the same direction.
The idea of Yuki Tsunoda in the second Red Bull was also more right than bad. Despite five-second penalty, rights are still in tenth and thus to one point, but the big announcements should slowly follow acts.