{"id":263175,"date":"2026-05-08T08:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263175\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:26:09","slug":"f1-wins-chaotic-grand-prix-in-miami-the-lafayette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263175\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 wins chaotic Grand Prix in Miami \u2013 The Lafayette"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At 19 years old, Kimi Antonelli became the youngest Miami Grand Prix winner since it started in 2022. (Photo courtesy of NBC News)<\/p>\n

Formula 1 held its annual Miami Grand Prix in Miami Gardens, Florida, this past week. Here are some of the biggest stories coming out of Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n

Norris takes sprint race<\/p>\n

In six of 22 locations this season, F1 runs sprint races the day before the Grand Prix itself. The races are a third of the length of a normal Grand Prix and offer eight world drivers\u2019 championship points to the winner. McLaren\u2019s number one driver and defending drivers\u2019 champion, Lando Norris, took pole position in Friday\u2019s sprint with the second fastest qualifying time of the weekend, then held off teammate Oscar Piastri early Saturday afternoon by almost four seconds to take the victory.<\/p>\n

Antonelli dominates qualifying, wins pole<\/p>\n

Qualifying for the race itself took place late Saturday afternoon. Mercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli, winner of two of the season\u2019s first three races and now the youngest drivers\u2019 championship leader in F1 history, cruised through qualifying races to become one of the top 10 vying for pole position. Antonelli put up the weekend\u2019s fastest time in the third and final qualifying session, winning the lead position for the Grand Prix the next day.<\/p>\n

Chaotic start to race leads to crash<\/p>\n

Turn one of the Grand Prix set the tone for the craziness to come. Both Antonelli and star racer Max Verstappen\u2019s brakes locked up on the race\u2019s first corner, allowing Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc, who started third, to pass both and take the race lead. Trying to make up time going into the second turn, Verstappen got too aggressive with his car, causing him to lose control of the vehicle\u2019s rear. Verstappen managed to pull his car into a 360-degree spin<\/a>, miraculously preventing a crash and keeping him in the race, though having to fight back from a fall to ninth position.<\/p>\n

In the sixth lap, Racing Bulls\u2019 Liam Lawson\u2019s gearbox malfunctioned and caught the back wheel of Alpine\u2019s Pierre Gasly, causing Gasly\u2019s car to fly into a barrier<\/a>. Fortunately, Gasly was unharmed, but both he and Lawson were unable to continue the race. When the lap six incident triggered a caution and a safety car, Verstappen opted to pit for hard tires, pushing him all the way back to 16th place but allowing him to avoid pitting again in the race.<\/p>\n

Antonelli tops Norris to win Grand Prix<\/p>\n

Leclerc was passed by both Antonelli and Norris relatively quickly, setting up a two-way battle for the race win. Norris held the lead for 15 laps, but eventually succumbed to Antonelli, who led the race\u2019s final 29 laps to win the Miami Grand Prix and the 25 championship points accompanying it, with Norris finishing second and Norris\u2019s teammate Oscar Piastri rounding out the podium after a last-lap spinout<\/a> pushed Leclerc from third to sixth. Things then got worse for Leclerc post-race when he was handed a 20-second penalty for exceeding track limits and dropped to eighth.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Verstappen put in a classic performance of his own. Sitting in 16th place after his pit stop under caution, Verstappen utilized his fresh tires, world-class driving ability and others\u2019 pit stops to climb all the way to third place. Toward the end of the race, Verstappen was passed by Piastri, Mercedes\u2019 George Russell and Leclerc, but after Leclerc\u2019s last-lap spinout, Verstappen passed him once again to finish fifth place in comeback fashion.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next in F1<\/p>\n

After three wins in the series\u2019 first four races, Antonelli holds a strong lead in the drivers\u2019 championship, with his closest competitor being his teammate George Russell, who won the first race of the season in Australia. Having won all four Grand Prix races this season, the Mercedes team now has a commanding lead in the World Constructors\u2019 Championship, 70 points ahead of Ferrari. Formula 1 will next race the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal starting on May 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 19 years old, Kimi Antonelli became the youngest Miami Grand Prix winner since it started in 2022.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-263175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}