2024 Miami GP

This gave some drivers a free stop. George and Lewis had previously made their only stop on laps 25 and 27 respectively. While George switched from Medium to Hard, Lewis did the opposite.

After the restart on lap 33, Lewis was able to overtake Tsunoda with a great move in turn 12 and improve to P7. He then set off in pursuit of Sergio Perez, who was ahead of him in P6. Lewis and Perez were the only drivers in the top 10 running on the Medium tyres. Both made up a position when Piastri slowed down after a contact with Carlos Sainz and then had to pit for a new front wing. Lewis was now in P6, George improved to P8.

Lewis gave everything in the final phase of the race to get past Perez. He was in the Red Bull's DRS window for many laps, but couldn't get close enough to make a move. George, meanwhile, struggled with the Hard tyres and drove a lonely race behind Tsunoda in P8.

The race was won by Lando Norris (McLaren), for whom it was his maiden victory in Formula 1.

F1 is heading back to Europe from Miami. The first European race of the season will take place there in a fortnight's time at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola.

George Russell

A massive well done to Lando and McLaren. He truly deserves it, and all told, he probably deserves to have more than one victory already by now. We’ve been racing each other for a long time; he’s put so much hard work in, and I had no doubts that he would win in F1. I’m very happy for him.

My race today was difficult. I lost a few positions at the start and then in the final stint, I had no pace on the Hard tyre and was struggling a lot. We will go away and assess why that was. Our lack of speed was quite unexpected, whilst Lewis had a strong race so there was definite speed in the car.

Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director

Firstly, well done to Lando and McLaren. It was a very impressive performance from the team and driver today. They have done a great job and are fully deserving of victory. We know we've got work to do to catch them, but it offers encouragement to see how much of an improvement they have delivered in the space of 12 months.

Our race today was relatively straightforward. We knew it was going to be hard to move forward; the car hasn't been handling well around this track and we've struggled in the slower corners particularly. Lewis had a tough stint on the Hard but after the restart was much happier with the car on the Medium compound. Unfortunately we didn't quite have the straight-line speed to get past Perez, but it was good to be able to race him at the end. It was a frustrating afternoon for George meanwhile. He was sliding around and struggling to get the tyres to bite. We'll look into that over the next few days.

Our focus is of course on making the car faster. We have some good developments in the pipeline and will push hard to get them to the car as soon as we can.