Miami delivered chaos, and Kimi Antonelli walked out of it with a third straight win. The opening lap alone reshaped the race: Max Verstappen pirouetted out of the lead group, and before the afternoon was done, Isack Hadjar, Liam Lawson and Pierre Gasly were all in the barriers. Gasly's Alpine ended up inverted after contact with Lawson — the kind of incident that justifies every dollar Miami spends on its run-off and recovery crews.
For an American crowd that paid premium prices for a street-circuit spectacle, this was the race Miami has been chasing since 2022: genuine drama, a teenage star sealing a hat-trick, and a Verstappen recovery drive forced by his own mistake. The bigger story is the championship picture. Three in a row for Antonelli flips the season's gravity. Canada next, and Max suddenly has work to do.
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