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Piatri achieved a three-goal with Miami GP victory

Oscar Piatri performed a dominant McLaren-Finish in the Miami Grand Prix in front of Lando Norris and defeated the field by more than half a minute.

Piatri used a chaotic first round in which Polesitter Max Verstappen and Lando Norris came to strokes in round 2 and sent the British off the track.

Norris had the fractionally better start, and a Verstappen-Lock-up enabled him to get the interior of the Red Bull Racing Car down into the first curve. The movement left Norris on the outside of turn 2, where a stappen pushed him off the trail. The Dutch held the lead, but Norris fell to sixth place when he returned to the route.

Kimi Antonelli was next to try one step on Verstappen, but the challenge of the teenager only lasted until the end of the lap when a lock-up opened the door to Piastri, who came up to 11th place in round four in round four.

In round nine the Australian was at a striking distance from the tour, but Verstappen didn't make it easy for him.

“Stay inside, Max. Let him work for it,” said the Dutchman Gianpiero Lambiase.

He showed experiments in the first curve and back in curve 10.

In round 13 he was back on the Dutch tail, and a strong exit from the last hairpin pulled him into the first round.

Verstappen tried to defend deep on the brakes, but a block let him sail from the street. Piatri saw it coming, stayed wide and then swept comfortably down from the inside to take the lead.

“Brakes, man”, Lüste Verstappen in the Radio team. “Useless.”

After his endangered start, Norris made a number of crucial movements on Alex Albon, George Russell and Antonelli until he was nine third in round. The Briton benefited from Piatri and Verstappen's long junk for the lead and attracted him in round 15, and in round 15 he also asked the Dutch for a position.

Verstappen pulled the same defensive movements, took Norris off the street in the first curve and held the inner line. In round 17 he came through briefly, but a late brake movement moved both cars from the route on the inside of the 11th round and returned the place on the last hairpin to avoid a punishment.

In the next round, he did not make the same mistake by nailing the brake zone to permanently withdraw from Verstappen in second place.

In the meantime, Piatri made the best of his time in Clear Air and the long fight of his team -mate to expand his advantage. When Norris drawn second place, the Australian 9er was up the street.

Both made their only stops during a virtual security car for Oliver Bearman Stop Haas in round 29 and neutralized every potential strategic struggle. Although Norris made little penetration in the second stint on the hard tire, especially while they navigated the attractive traffic, the gap ultimately proved to be insurmountable.

Piatri took the checkered flag by 4.6 years and demanded his third victory successor and fourth place in five rounds to stretch his title to 16 points.

“Obviously there was a bit of Aisch-Bargy in curve 1, which helped me a little,” he said. “I knew I had a good lead. The car was incredible today.

“I think the first stay was really very, very strong. The hard stint, which I honestly had to fight a bit, was good that I built this gap in the first stint. Very, very happy to leave Miami at the top.”

Norris complained about his fight against Verstappen, praised the team, praised the team to build a car that fell on the field for 33 years and third place.

“The team did a great job,” he said. “I can't blame them at all – good pit stops, great pace, we were up the street. It was a good feeling. Max took a good fight as always, and I paid the price, but that's how it is.”

Russell kept a quickly enemy Verstappen after being transported to third place with a cheap pit stop during the virtual security car. After the Briton started hard, he ended the race on the faster media, but in the last 10 rounds dynamics fluctuated back to hard tires, so that it was close to 1.5 seconds within 1.5 seconds before the Mercedes. He never came close enough to start a step, and Russell claimed his fourth podium of the year with an advantage of 2.3 seconds.

“I was pretty quiet and felt really good in the car to keep him behind me, so it was good,” said Russell. “Really glad to get P3 away because I have to fight this weekend and always on the back of the foot, but in the end I was a good result today.”

Alex Albon was an excellent fifth and shared Antonelli from the leaders after the stops of the boxes. The Mercedes driver had a slow stop that turned him out of the podium, but the pressure from William's driver forced the Italian to make a mistake in the first application. Albon then had the pace to consider the space for merits.

Antonelli partly took sixth place in Seventh and eighth place in seventh and eighth place. Neither the pace of catching Antonelli with some strength, the Monegasque and the Brit, who frustrated the race in seventh or eighth place.

Carlos Sainz ended ninth after he worked twice after the pit stops from the Ferrari drivers. He tried to take back the eighth eighth of Hamilton in the last round, but finally he closed the Ferrari, although both were unscathed and their order were unchanged.

Yuki Tsunoda took the 10th place for the last point with a sufficiently large buffer to absorb a 5S penalty for acceleration in the pit lane.

Isack Hadjar took 11th place ahead of Esteban Ocon, Pierre Gasly, Nico Hulkenberg and Aston Martin teammate Fernando Alonso and Lance Walk, the last of the finishers.

Liam Lawson withdrew after 36 laps after publishing a strong contact with Jack Doohan in the Australian in the first round. Gabriel Bortoleto joined Bearman with engine problems on the pension list.

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