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Miami’s F1 hangover came in millimetres and moment

Miami’s F1 hangover came in millimetres and moments off the world feed. Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies called Isack Hadjar’s qualifying disqualification “painful” after the rookie’s floor failed scrutineering by just two millimetres, admitting the team should’ve caught it. From there, Hadjar’s weekend spiralled into a race crash-out, a brutal reminder that reputations don’t save you when the margins are that fine.

Unseen footage also added fuel to Miami’s first-lap flashpoint: Lewis Hamilton’s Turn 11 clash with Franco Colapinto left Hamilton’s Ferrari damaged and costing pace, and his later middle-finger gesture made the frustration impossible to miss. Hamilton still hauled it to sixth as Colapinto took a best-ever seventh. Around the paddock, Zak Brown’s “good chat” with Mekies landed in a cooler political climate after McLaren’s move for Max Verstappen’s engineer Gianpiero Lambiase, while FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem warned against multi-team ownership amid Mercedes interest in an Alpine stake. At Aston Martin, Fernando Alonso pointed to the gearbox as priority one after a sobering first two-car finish of 2026, P15 and P17.

#F1 #MiamiGP #RedBullRacing #Ferrari #McLaren #AstonMartin

Oscar Piastri left Miami with a podium, but little

Oscar Piastri left Miami with a podium, but little faith that F1’s first 2026 energy-management tweaks have made racing any calmer. The FIA’s early adjustment aimed to reduce aggressive harvesting and “super clipping,” plus address safety concerns after Oliver Bearman’s Japan crash. Changes included a lower qualifying recharge limit (8MJ to 7MJ) and reduced race deployment in key areas, with boost capped at 150kW and MGU-K limited to 250kW in parts of the lap.

Piastri says only the qualifying change has helped, while Sundays feel “basically exactly the same.” His clearest example was George Russell appearing a second behind and still blasting past by the end of the straight, with Straight Line Mode and Boost Mode creating huge, hard-to-read closing speeds. The result, he argues, is racing that can feel random for both attacker and defender — and a rule set that may be training drivers into riskier lunges. With the engine formula locked in for years, Piastri’s verdict is blunt: there’s only so much number-tweaking can do without bigger changes.

#F1 #OscarPiastri #McLaren #2026Regulations #ERS #MiamiGP

Liam Lawson left Miami more confused than angry af

Liam Lawson left Miami more confused than angry after Racing Bulls told him to hand a place back to Max Verstappen moments after they banged wheels and ran wide at Turn 11 on lap one. Lawson’s radio reply said it all: “Drove into the side of me. I don’t understand.” He complied anyway, the kind of conservative call teams make when the downside is steward trouble and a race-ruining penalty.

The wider backdrop was familiar: Verstappen, recovering from an early spin, cutting through traffic with moves that split opinion, with Carlos Sainz among those complaining he’d been pushed off. Lawson’s day then unravelled completely with a lap-six gearbox failure and contact with Pierre Gasly, but the early order still lingered as a reminder of F1’s grey areas — and how reputation can quietly shape split-second decisions.

#F1 #MiamiGP #LiamLawson #MaxVerstappen #RacingBulls #Formula1

Toto Wolff isn’t shutting down F1’s growing V8 tal

Toto Wolff isn’t shutting down F1’s growing V8 talk, but his message in Miami was a clear warning: nostalgia can’t come at the expense of relevance. With FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem floating a return to V8s around 2030 — potentially with only “very minor” electrification — Wolff said Mercedes is open to new engine rules, yet believes going too far back toward pure combustion could make F1 look “ridiculous” in the early 2030s and risk losing the manufacturers the sport depends on.

Instead, Wolff argued any reset should be bold, not backwards: a “mega-engine” that keeps the visceral appeal while staying connected to real-world tech, plus structured timelines that respect OEM budgets. He also dismissed short-term upheaval, pointing to Miami’s strong racing as proof F1 doesn’t need a panic fix, and suggested the sport can boost the show now by making energy deployment modes more impactful rather than ripping up the rulebook.

#F1 #MercedesF1 #TotoWolff #F1Engines #V8 #MotorsportNews

Red Bull’s Miami weekend teased a turning point, t

Red Bull’s Miami weekend teased a turning point, then instantly turned into damage control. After their updated RB22 helped Max Verstappen deliver his best qualifying of 2026 and start on the front row just 0.166s off Lando Norris, the opening lap undid it all: a Turn 2 slide into a full 360 while fighting Charles Leclerc. Verstappen joked about rallying afterwards, but the message was sharper — when you’re chasing pace instead of controlling races, you’re living on the edge.

The spin sparked the usual debate: genius recovery or pure luck. Either way, it wiped out track position, forced an early stop, and turned Sunday into a long recovery shaped by tyre life and strategy, with the hard stint a particular struggle. Verstappen still fought back to fifth on the road, before a post-race pit-exit penalty added another avoidable hit. The Saturday speed is real; the Sundays still aren’t clean enough.

#F1 #MiamiGP #MaxVerstappen #RedBullRacing #Formula1 #Motorsport

Damon Hill has called out Max Verstappen’s Miami r

Damon Hill has called out Max Verstappen’s Miami radio outburst as a double standard, saying it’s hard to sympathise with complaints about being squeezed when Verstappen has built his reputation on applying the same kind of pressure in wheel-to-wheel fights.

Verstappen’s weekend turned early when a first-lap lunge for the lead against Charles Leclerc ended in a 360 spin, dropping him down the order and forcing an aggressive early stop. Charging back through the pack, he ran into a stubborn Alex Albon, who defended hard for P9 and left Verstappen fuming on the radio. Hill’s point wasn’t just about where the line is — it was the optics, especially after Saturday’s Sprint clash with Lewis Hamilton, where Verstappen’s own edge-of-the-road style again sat at the centre of the debate. Verstappen recovered to P5 on Sunday and moved up to seventh in the standings, but the talking point was the etiquette he expects versus the one he enforces.

#F1 #MiamiGP #MaxVerstappen #DamonHill #AlexAlbon #RedBullRacing

Miami’s brief “ping-pong” over Gianpiero “GP” Lamb

Miami’s brief “ping-pong” over Gianpiero “GP” Lambiase’s future didn’t turn into the usual week-long F1 briefing war. Laurent Mekies and Zak Brown picked up the phone, had a quiet chat, and moved to shut the noise down.

The flashpoint was Mekies implying GP’s planned move to McLaren as chief racing officer (no later than 2028) puts him on a path to team principal — something Brown has firmly played down as any threat to Andrea Stella. With Red Bull insisting Lambiase will see out his contract, the real story is the politics of timing, optics, and succession: McLaren’s statement-of-intent hire versus Red Bull’s insistence they can absorb departures through internal promotions and targeted recruitment, not panic moves.

#F1 #McLaren #RedBullRacing #MiamiGP #SillySeason #Formula1

Aston Martin finally got both cars to the flag in

Aston Martin finally got both cars to the flag in Miami — a small win in a season where even the basics have been hard work. Fernando Alonso turned P17 on the grid into his best result of 2026 in P15, but he made it clear it was survival, not speed. The Honda power-unit vibrations that hit the first races eased, yet a new headache dominated the weekend: a gearbox Alonso called “very weird” on both upshifts and downshifts.

Now the focus is Canada, where heavy braking and stop-start traction punish any transmission instability. Alonso wants the gearbox fixed as priority one, while warning there’s no performance jump coming and no upgrades until after summer. With Aston still pointless and the gap ahead too big for marginal gains to matter, the message is blunt: fix what’s broken, protect the budget, and keep delivering clean weekends until the reset arrives.

#F1 #AstonMartinF1 #FernandoAlonso #CanadianGP #MontrealGP #F1News

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has fired a cle

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has fired a clear warning over multi-team ownership in F1, saying it may be possible on paper but risks undermining the “sporting spirit” if it’s used to gain leverage, block rivals, or stack regulatory voting power. His comments land as Mercedes is reportedly exploring a purchase of Otro Capital’s 24% stake in Alpine, a rare slice of a constructor coming to market in an era of soaring valuations.

Alpine boss Flavio Briatore insists the talks are with Mercedes the company, not Toto Wolff, and says there are “three or four” potential buyers for the private equity holding. The FIA admits it’s a complicated area and is assessing both permissibility and appropriateness, with inevitable scrutiny over consistency given Red Bull’s two-team model. Ben Sulayem also offered warm words for Christian Horner, underlining he’s fine with big names and big money—just not blurred lines between competitors.

#F1 #Mercedes #AlpineF1Team #FIA #Formula1 #MotorsportNews

Kimi Antonelli made it three wins in a row in Miam

Kimi Antonelli made it three wins in a row in Miami, turning a slightly untidy Sunday into another statement and stretching his championship lead over George Russell to 20 points. He’s now converted his first three pole positions into wins, while Mercedes’ overall picture stays strong with a 70-point Constructors’ cushion.

Russell could only manage fourth and didn’t sugar-coat it, admitting his pace was “really poor” and treating the final stint as a live test session with drastic cockpit and driving changes to claw back feel. A late pass on Charles Leclerc salvaged points, but the contrast was clear: Antonelli keeps finding the top step, and Russell is determined to make Miami a one-off as the circus heads to more “normal” conditions in Canada.

#F1 #MiamiGP #MercedesAMG #KimiAntonelli #GeorgeRussell #F1News

Unseen Miami GP footage has surfaced showing Lewis

Unseen Miami GP footage has surfaced showing Lewis Hamilton giving Franco Colapinto a one-finger salute after a Lap 1 clash left Hamilton’s Ferrari damaged. Already losing ground avoiding Max Verstappen’s opening-lap spin, Hamilton was tagged at Turn 11 and said the hit cost him major downforce—around half a second per lap—turning a weekend that felt win-capable into a damage-limitation drive to P6, still finishing ahead of Colapinto on track.

Colapinto, though, leaves Miami with a very different story: classified P7 after a post-race penalty for Charles Leclerc, it’s the best result of his F1 career. He called it his most complete weekend yet and credited Alpine’s upgrades—new wings and a new chassis—for helping him find his feet. Same incident, two takeaways: Ferrari rue what might have been, Alpine celebrate a breakthrough.

#F1 #MiamiGP #LewisHamilton #Ferrari #FrancoColapinto #Alpine

Red Bull’s Miami story came down to a brutally sma

Red Bull’s Miami story came down to a brutally small detail. Isack Hadjar was disqualified from qualifying after his car failed scrutineering for a floor that protruded two millimetres beyond the 2026 regulations, dropping him to the back of the grid. Team principal Laurent Mekies insisted there was no split spec and no hidden advantage for Max Verstappen — the cars were the same, and this was simply a missed check that should have been caught.

The frustrating part is how avoidable it sounds, especially on a weekend that also included a Verstappen spin and a race-ending Hadjar crash. But amid the mess, Red Bull took encouragement from genuine pace progress: from being 1.2s off pole in Japan and 1.0s in China to flirting with the front in Miami, swinging from six tenths off on Friday to under two tenths on Saturday. The performance curve is heading the right way; the execution has to follow.

#F1 #MiamiGP #RedBullRacing #MaxVerstappen #IsackHadjar #MotorsportNews

Mercedes left Miami with another win and another p

Mercedes left Miami with another win and another pole for Kimi Antonelli, but Toto Wolff’s focus was on the same weakness that keeps showing up: the first 150 metres. Antonelli again lost ground off the line, and Wolff called it “not good enough” as Mercedes’ habit of failing to control Turn 1 from pole starts to look like a real handicap rather than a one-off.

With 2026’s launch phase magnified by the loss of the MGU-H and turbo response management becoming a key differentiator, Ferrari has set the benchmark, while McLaren and others appear to be closing in. Mercedes, arriving without major upgrades, remains the front-running outlier at lights-out. Wolff framed it as a team issue, and Antonelli admitted inconsistency and uncertainty in execution. The results still cover it up — three poles, three GP wins, and a 20-point championship lead — but Miami made it clear the warning signs are getting louder.

#F1 #Mercedes #KimiAntonelli #MiamiGP #TotoWolff #Ferrari

Liam Lawson’s Miami was decided at Turn 17, where

Liam Lawson’s Miami was decided at Turn 17, where a gearbox failure hit at the worst possible moment. The FIA cleared the Racing Bulls driver after his Lap 5 collision with Pierre Gasly, accepting the evidence that the VCARB03 dropped into neutral/anti-stall under braking and left Lawson with no realistic chance to avoid contact — a crash that sent Gasly’s Alpine into a heavy roll and upside-down impact.

Unbroadcast radio and onboard footage add the grim detail: Lawson instantly called “I lost the transmission,” was told to stay out, then the issue returned at Turn 1 — “It’s gone again.” Within a lap it deteriorated into alarming noises, the team warned him not to change gears, and Lawson limped back in second before retiring. It’s his first DNF of 2026, a brutal end to recent points momentum, and a reminder that in F1 a single mechanical failure can define the optics long after the verdict is clear.

#F1 #MiamiGP #LiamLawson #RacingBulls #PierreGasly #MotorsportNews

Pierre Gasly’s Miami GP unravelled in seconds. Aft

Pierre Gasly’s Miami GP unravelled in seconds. After a sharp launch from P9, he arrived at Turn 2 boxed in by Lewis Hamilton and George Russell as Max Verstappen sat stranded broadside across the track. Gasly hit the brakes to avoid the Red Bull and says the “sensible” decision instantly cost him five or six places as the pack streamed past.

Any hope of recovering with Alpine’s pace ended later with a trip to the barrier after contact with Liam Lawson. Lawson escaped a penalty after stewards blamed a gearbox failure, leaving Gasly to rue a day where caution still came with a heavy price.

#F1 #MiamiGP #PierreGasly #AlpineF1Team #MaxVerstappen #LiamLawson

Lando Norris left Miami seething after a win slipp

Lando Norris left Miami seething after a win slipped away without a proper fight. He led the opening stint, but Mercedes pulled the trigger first with Kimi Antonelli on lap 26 and the undercut decided the race. Norris pitted a lap later, rejoined alongside Antonelli, but the Mercedes’ warmer tyres and the ideal line into Turn 2 sealed the lead. From there, Norris could only hover a couple of seconds back as Antonelli controlled the second stint to the flag.

Norris called it a missed chance to maximise the day, while Andrea Stella pointed to a perfect storm: pit timing, a “slowish” 2.8s stop, a slightly off pit-box position, and a weaker in-lap that compounded the damage. In a season where McLaren don’t have tenths in hand, those tiny margins become terminal.

#F1 #MiamiGP #LandoNorris #McLaren #KimiAntonelli #MercedesAMG

Kimi Antonelli is changing the conversation at Mer

Kimi Antonelli is changing the conversation at Mercedes. Miami delivered the 18-year-old’s third grand prix win in a row, and he’s now gone three-from-three: every one of his first three pole positions has become a victory. Even with a messy start, he reset, reclaimed control, and absorbed late pressure from Lando Norris like it was routine.

Mercedes still sits one-two in the standings, but the internal balance is shifting fast. George Russell started 2026 as the presumed spearhead, yet early-season bad breaks and “could’ve been” weekends have left him 20 points back and, in Miami, looking a step off his team-mate’s pace. Momentum has a way of becoming the team’s default direction, and right now Antonelli is the reference — with the rest of the grid watching a prodigy start to look inevitable.

#F1 #Mercedes #KimiAntonelli #GeorgeRussell #MiamiGP #MotorsportNews

Charles Leclerc owned Miami’s turning point: a las

Charles Leclerc owned Miami’s turning point: a last-lap gamble that backfired and turned a podium fight into damage, penalties and a drop to P8. From P3 on the grid he rocketed into the lead despite the FIA start tweak, then got pulled into a tense, pace-managed battle as Ferrari pitted early on a rain threat that never arrived. Leclerc questioned the call, still fought back to third, and looked set to bank big points.

But when Oscar Piastri closed and passed at Turn 17, Leclerc tried to engineer a final-lap counterpunch. He overcommitted at Turn 3, spun into the barrier, limped home with steering damage, then received a 20s post-race penalty for repeated off-tracks and “lasting advantage.” Leclerc refused to hide behind strategy or the damage: “It’s all on me.” With the title margins tightening, Miami underlined how thin Ferrari’s line is when the pressure ramps up.

#F1 #MiamiGP #CharlesLeclerc #Ferrari #OscarPiastri #Formula1

Lando Norris didn’t need the data to judge Max Ver

Lando Norris didn’t need the data to judge Max Verstappen’s Miami GP — the cooldown-room replay was enough. Watching Verstappen scrap hard on older tyres after an early spin and a Lap 7 Safety Car gamble put him out of sync, Norris summed it up bluntly: “He just ruined his own race.”

But Miami also showed what 2026 racing is becoming. With energy deployment, harvesting and the new yo-yo effect, overtakes can be temporary and defence can be as much about disrupting rhythm as saving position. Verstappen fought Antonelli, Norris, Leclerc and Piastri with second-phase moves and instant counterattacks, even as the risks rose — highlighted by a Turn 1 clash with Russell that drew no further action. It looked like stubborn self-sabotage, until Leclerc’s last-lap spin opened the door and Verstappen snatched fifth anyway.

#F1 #MiamiGP #MaxVerstappen #LandoNorris #Formula1 #RedBullRacing

Martin Brundle’s Miami gridwalk slipped fully into

Martin Brundle’s Miami gridwalk slipped fully into late-night chaos when Jimmy Fallon bounded in, grabbed Sky’s microphone and bit the mic sock clean off. Brundle kept it moving on live TV with a deadpan laugh, later joking he’d never once wondered what a branded mic sock tastes like in 30 years of broadcasting. Another reminder that in modern F1, the grid is as much red carpet as reporting zone.

Behind the viral moment, the racing stayed serious: Kimi Antonelli won for Mercedes to extend his 2026 championship lead to 20 points after four rounds, and he’s now turned his first three pole positions into three wins. Relentless, efficient, and already forcing the paddock to recalibrate.

#F1 #MiamiGP #MartinBrundle #JimmyFallon #KimiAntonelli #MercedesAMG

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