Miami GP 2026 results: Antonelli wins record third in a row
For US fans the 2026 Miami Grand Prix delivered the kind of headline weekend the calendar promised — and the 19-year-old at the front kept rewriting the F1 record book.
Results
Kimi Antonelli won the 2026 Miami Grand Prix from pole, holding off McLaren's Lando Norris over the closing stages to claim his third consecutive victory. The Mercedes teenager crossed the line 3.264 seconds clear of the McLaren after a strategic undercut that decided the race in the second half. Oscar Piastri grabbed the final podium spot in chaotic closing exchanges, and the result confirmed Antonelli as the first driver in F1 history to win his first three Grands Prix from his first three pole positions.
A frantic start saw Max Verstappen spin a full 360 degrees after contact with Charles Leclerc, dropping the Red Bull deep into the pack before he fought back to fifth. The Sunday race had been brought forward three hours on storm forecasts that never delivered.
Final top 10: Antonelli, Norris (+3.264s), Piastri (+27.092s), Russell (+43.051s), Verstappen (+43.949s), Hamilton, Colapinto (career-best), Leclerc, Sainz and Albon. Four DNFs: Hadjar, Gasly, Lawson and Hülkenberg, with the first two crashes triggering an early safety car.
Verstappen's spin and Hadjar's exit made the Red Bull garage the focal point of the weekend's chaos.
What the drivers said
Antonelli credited the strategic call when speaking to formula1.com after the race:
"The team did a great strategy; we did a massive undercut, and we managed to bring it home." — Kimi Antonelli, formula1.com
McLaren had nothing to defuse the timing. Norris was direct in the post-race media pen, refusing any softer explanation:
"We just got undercut, there are no excuses other than that, we got undercut. We should have boxed first." — Lando Norris, RacingNews365
Behind them, Max Verstappen turned a near-disaster — a 360-degree spin in the opening exchange after contact with Leclerc — into a P5 recovery and the line of the day:
"I managed to do a good 360, so yeah, if Formula 1 doesn't work out, I can always go rallying." — Max Verstappen, RacingNews365
Antonelli, championship leader by some distance, refused to declare the title race over:
"This is just the beginning; the road is still long. But we're working super hard, the team is doing an incredible job." — Kimi Antonelli
Sunday's drama had a US-team subplot too: Cadillac's debut F1 season sent Sergio Perez to P16 and Valtteri Bottas to P18, the home race a quieter brand moment than the front of the field.
Standings & FIA
Antonelli now leads the Drivers' Championship on 100 points — the first driver to break 100 this season — ahead of Russell on 80, Leclerc on 63, Norris on 51 and Hamilton on 49. The Italian's lead over his Mercedes teammate stands at 20 points after four rounds. Mercedes have stretched the Constructors' gap to 68 points: Mercedes 180, Ferrari 112, McLaren 94.
The stewards produced three notable verdicts. Verstappen picked up a 5-second time penalty for crossing the pit-exit line but kept P5 with margin to spare. Leclerc was the headline punishment — a 20-second post-race penalty for repeated track limits and continuing in a damaged car after his final-lap spin, dropping him from sixth on the road to eighth, and handing Hamilton P6 and Colapinto a career-best P7. Investigations involving Russell, both his clash with Verstappen and a separate Leclerc incident, closed without further sanction.
Next round
The 2026 season heads to North America again on May 22-24 for the Canadian Grand Prix at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. This year is a calendar first: Canada's first-ever Sprint weekend in the venue's history, paired with the move to May to align with the Miami leg. Mercedes arrive with three wins in a row in Antonelli's garage; McLaren and Ferrari arrive with upgrade packages aimed at closing the gap before the European season kicks in.