McLaren has achieved the greatest victory since Silverstone 2008 · Racefans

The McLaren rule looks like Oscar Piatri rule when he achieved his fourth victory in the last five Grands Prix in Miami.

If it hadn't been for a unfortunately prescribed virtual security car, he would also have won the sprint race.

Piatri's Grand Prix victory was his third in a row. He is the only driver alongside Max Verstappen, who has won three consecutive Grand Prix since 2021.

With Lando Norris, who followed him in second place, this was McLaren's second one-two degree of the year. It is also the first time that a team took a Twos in both the sprint race and in the same event. This was the 20th sprint event since the introduction of the format four years ago.

The Mercedes, which was closest to Piatri at the end of the race on Sunday at the end of the race on Sunday, was 37,644 seconds behind third place. McLaren therefore achieved his most emphatic victory since Lewis Hamilton's crushing triumph in the British Grand Prix 2008, where the second -placed Nick Heidfeld ended 68.577 in his BMW.

Piatris sixth Grand Prix victory of his career means that he now has more victories than Norris and as many as Sergio Perez. Other drivers with half a dozen victories are the world champions John Surtees and Jochen Rindt as well as Tony Brooks, Gilles Villeneuve, Jacques Laffite, Riccardo Patrese and Ralf Schumacher.

It was a frustrating event for Verstappen that lost not only against both McLaren drivers in both races, but also against Russell. He liked 32 points from the tour and will therefore not lead the overall ranking after the next race. That was not the case since the first Miami Grand Prix three years ago.

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Verstappen claimed the 43rd pole position of his career with the fastest round that was ever seen in the Miami International Autodrome. The record was broken 24 hours earlier by Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who claimed his first sprint racing police position.

However, Verstappen's impressive record for converting the pole position into the Grand Prix is ​​under pressure. He won 29 times from his first 34 Pole position, but he only has two victories of his last six pole positions. His results in Miami underline change: Verstappen won the first two Miami Grands Prix, without taking the pole position, but did not win from Pole in the last two.

Russell scored his fourth podium of the season and gave him more than Verstappen. Alexander Albon corresponded to his best result as Williams driver with fifth place, just as he was achieved in Australia.

Despite the punishment that Albon cost fourth in the sprint race, Williams took its biggest point at a Grand Prix since the Grand Prix of Azerbaijan 2017. You have now have 37 points and have been doing this for your best season when you scored 83 points in the season, the goal in view of your current evaluation rate (and the additional points and additional rounds and sprint -Races are available compared to eight years), looks completely realistic.

After all, Jack Doohan's far -awaited repression of Alpine leaves him with one of the shortest career in history, provided that he does not return to the net. Just how far back you have to depend on a comparable example of how you look at the different substitutes and one -time appearances over the years.

Pietro Fittipaldi started only two races at the end of 2020 as a replacement for Romain Grosjean near Haas. On the first of Jack Aitken, instead of Russell in Williams (even in Mercedes), there was a unique appearance on the grid on the net).

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But these were both substitutes that, in contrast to Doohan, were not charged as a full-time seat holder. The same applies to other youngest drivers with short careers like Andre Lotterer, who started a race for Caterham in the spa in 2014.

Alexander Rossi could still apply to a driver in Doohan's situation. He completed the 2015 season for Marussie and only started five races, but was not retained for the following year.

For a driver who was dropped in the middle of the season, you have to return to Franck Montagny, who started six races for Super Aguri in 2006. He was dropped to make room for Sakon Yamamoto.

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