Lando Norris benefited from a late Safety Car to jump ahead of McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri and his first Sprint win of 2025 ahead of McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri at the end of an incident packed wet-dry Sprint in Miami that saw Lewis Hamilton take third place for Ferrari after an early switch to slick tyres. 

Steady rain in the hours before the race, led to a delayed start but when the lights at last went out on a drying track, Piastri reacted quickest, and he was able to attack pole sitter Kimi Antonelli on the inside into Turn 1. The teenage Mercedes driver tried to fight for position, but with Piastri holding a robust line, Antonelli was forced to go off track and he was passed by both Norris and Verstappen. The Mercedes driver dropped to fourth. 

With a clear road ahead, Piastri began to pull away and after five laps the Australian had eked out a two-second gap back to Norris who was 1.8s ahead of Verstappen, whose start had briefly been examined for possibly being out of position but was soon deemed legal.

As the race headed towards the halfway mark, the track began to dry out more quickly and a number of teams began to consider a switch to slicks. 

It was Red Bull Racing who made the first move, with Tsunoda pitting for Medium tyres at the end of lap 11. He rejoined in P19. Hamilton then pitted at the end of the following lap, for Softs. 

At the front, Norris began to close on Piastri as DRS was enabled, but with Tsunoda going two seconds quicker than the field through the first sector it became clear that it was time for slick tyres and the field began to make the switch. 

Verstappen was one of the first in at the end of lap 13, but after fitting a set of Softs the Dutchman was released into the pit lane too quickly and he collided with the incoming Antonelli. The Italian was forced to back out of his own stop and continue, while Verstappen lost his left front wing endplate. The Dutchman was quickly hit with a 10-second penalty for the unsafe release, dropping him all the way to P17 at the flag. 

At the front, as the leading McLaren, Piastri had the opportunity to pit ahead of his team-mate and he switched to Softs at the end of lap 14. Norris, on worn inters should have been disadvantaged ahead of his lap 15 stop, but when Williams’ Carlos Sainz hit the wall and Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso was spun into the barriers by Racing Bulls’ Liam Lawson the Safety Car was deployed and Norris lucked in. He was already in the pit lane, and with the on-track pace slowed massively he was able to get back on track in first place.

With debris strewn across the track in several places, the SC stayed on track until the final lap and Norris took his first Sprint victory of the season ahead of his team-mate. Hamilton’s early stop for slicks also paid off and the Ferrari passed Verstappen ahead of the SC to take third place at the flag. 

Fourth place went to Alex Albon, but after the flag the Williams driver was place under investigation for a possible infringement of Safety Car procedure. Russell took fifth for Mercedes ahead of Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll, with Liam Lawson seventh, though the New Zealander was also under investigation for the collision with Alonso. 

At the flag, the final point went to Haas’ Oliver Bearman, with Tsunoda just missing out in P9, but with plenty for the Race Stewards to unpick after the race, the final classification was likely to change. 

2025 FIA Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix – Sprint 
1 Lando Norris McLaren/Mercedes 18 36'37.647 
2 Oscar Piastri McLaren/Mercedes 18 36'38.319 0.672
3 Lewis Hamilton Ferrari 18 36'38.720 1.073
4 Alexander Albon Williams/Mercedes 18 36'40.169 2.522
5 George Russell Mercedes 18 36'40.774 3.127
6 Lance Stroll Aston Martin/Mercedes 18 36'41.059 3.412
7 Liam Lawson Racing Bulls/Honda RBPT 18 36'41.671 4.024
8 Oliver Bearman Haas/Ferrari 18 36'41.865 4.218
9 Yuki Tsunoda Red Bull/Honda RBPT 18 36'42.800 5.153
10 Kimi Antonelli Mercedes 18 36'43.282 5.635
11 Pierre Gasly Alpine/Renault 18 36'43.620 5.973
12 Nico Hülkenberg Sauber/Ferrari 18 36'43.800 6.153
13 Isack Hadjar Racing Bulls/Honda RBPT 18 36'45.149 7.502
14 Esteban Ocon Haas/Ferrari 18 36'46.645 8.998
15 Gabriel Bortoleto Sauber/Ferrari 18 36'47.322 9.675
16 Jack Doohan Alpine/Renault 18 36'47.556 9.909
17 Max Verstappen Red Bull/Honda RBPT 18 36'49.706 12.059
     Fernando Alonso Aston Martin/Mercedes 13 25'21.904 Acciden
     Carlos Sainz Williams/Mercedes 12 24'55.152 Accident damage
     Charles Leclerc Ferrari 0 - Not started