Norris achieves the feat in the Miami GP, beat Verstappen and first victory in Formula 1: Leclerc on the podium

Lando Norris surprisingly wins the 2024 Formula 1 Miami GP: a providential safety car and a less than perfect Verstappen allow the British driver from McLaren to achieve the first F1 success of his career. The Ferraris finished in third and fourth place with Leclerc and Sainz.

Lando Norris wins the Miami GP, taking his first victory in Formula 1. The British driver from McLaren, who started from sixth place on the starting grid, he took advantage of a safety car that came onto the track halfway through the race for an accident between Magnussen and Sargeant when he was the only one who had not yet stopped for the pit stop, to take the lead and then to reach the checkered flag also taking advantage of the large package of updates brought to his single-seater by the English team for this US weekend.

Behind him was Max Verstappen who this time was not perfect and also hit the pole in the chicane, damaging his Red Bull. salt Charles Leclerc on the podium with Ferrari. In fact, the Monegasque finished in third position at the end of a fluctuating performance also conditioned by a stop much earlier than his opponents.

The other standard bearer of the Maranello team, Carlos Sainz, finished in fourth place, conditioned first by a crazy maneuver by Sergio Perez at the start and then, towards the end, by a very tough and prolonged duel with Oscar Piastri (which will be investigated after the race) also caused a problem for the Australian’s McLaren. However, the performance of the Mexican from Red Bull was disappointing who, after also risking hitting Verstappen at the start, finished in fifth position but never able to worry the riders ahead of him. However, Lewis Hamilton put in a good performance as he beat his teammate George Russell. Between the two Mercedes, Yuki Tsunoda with the Racing Bulls closes in seventh place. First points of the year for Alpine with Esteban Ocon who finished the race in Miami in tenth position after being the protagonist of a very close battle with his former teammate Fernando Alonso who emerged victorious and finished in 9th place.

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