Miami - Lando Norris won a chaotic sprint match in Miami McLaren teammates Oscar Piastri and Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton.
Norris appeared in front of his teammates as he left the pit with his wet tires swapped to wet after an accidental safety car turned right. This means that Piastri has had to slow down at crucial moments since muscular Andrea Kimi Antonelli led from the No. 1 turn as he approached the starting line with four laps left.
The victory will be Norris' morale boost after losing to Piastri's champion lead at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix two weeks ago.
“I don’t think I’m going to buy any lottery tickets in this place,” Piastri told McLaren after the game, summing up what he thought was the end of the game.
Piastri will be comforted by this fact: under the rules of the sprint format, he lost only one point because of the British's 10-point championship lead.
Hamilton also claimed that Hamilton had returned to the podium after the early stop of dry tires. Hamilton teammate Charles Leclerc caught on his way to the grid, meaning he failed to start the game.
Hamilton started in seventh and stopped on lap 12 for soft tires as the track started drying. As a result, Hamilton made the same call as Aston Martin's Lance Stroll. "You guys, it's done a great job in the pit," Hamilton told Ferrari on the radio. "Giant job."
Changing conditions sparked chaos, and the feeling about the Mercedes teenager Antonelli was no longer the case, who became the youngest to compete in F1 on Friday night.
Piastri started strongly and fell to fourth place, with Antonelli running in the first leg. "He pushed me away," the Italian complained after the move, but the housekeeper felt there was no further action. Antonley racing engineer Peter Bonnington then told him: "A normal first round."
Antonelli's game will be further unveiled as the pit starts. Red Bull released Max Verstappen from his pit box (located at Antonelli's location) as he approached Mercedes' pit box from wet to dry.
Verstappen leaves contact with Antonelli's car, forcing the teenager to miss the box, essentially turn around again, and then stop to wet tires.
As a result, he quit the key point. When Anthony vented his frustration at the broadcast, owner Toto Wolff told him: "Jimi, mini game, it doesn't matter."
Verstappen was fined 10 seconds for the collision, which was deemed unsafe by the housekeeper and placed him in 17th place.
Shortly thereafter, the safety car triggered when Liam Lawson drove onto the road to Fernando Alonso, which spinned and entered the wall.
Lawson is ranked seventh but may be fined for the collision.
Alex Albon won the title for Williams before George Russell and Stroll of Mercedes.
Haas's Oliver Bearman continued to do a great job in the eighth place - possibly seventh - while Yuki Tsunoda puts himself in the ideal place for Lawson's punishment in ninth place.
Unlike Sunday’s Grand Prix, points were awarded only the top eight.
The Miami Grand Prix continues to qualify on Saturday afternoon.