Miami GP: Lando Norris finally wins his first race in Formula 1 after McLaren drivers……
After five years and 110 races, Lando Norris is an F1 race winner. The McLaren driver inherited the lead under Safety Car but then blew Max Verstappen and rivals away with supreme pace up front. Verstappen settled for second, with Charles Leclerc third, and Lewis Hamilton a season-best sixth.
Lando Norris claimed the first victory of his Formula 1 career in his 110th race as he took full advantage of a timely Safety Car and then emphatically pulled away from Max Verstappen to win the Miami Grand Prix.
Shedding the unwanted record of the most podium finishes without a win (15) in his sixth season of F1, Norris ran only sixth in the race’s opening stages but the decision by McLaren to extend his opening stint proved inspired when the Safety Car was called for a crash for Williams’ Logan Sargeant on lap 29.
Having already inherited the lead with all those ahead of him having pitted by then – including race leader Verstappen – Norris was then crucially able to pit while the rest of the field ran to the reduced speed behind the Safety Car and re-emerge still in front.
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But the job was far from over though with 24 laps still to go and Verstappen, the dominant winner of four of the season’s first five races, right behind him for the restart.
Yet Norris made light of that apparent challenge to close out his first F1 triumph as, instead of having to focus on defending from the world champion behind him, the 24-year-old consistently pulled away from Verstappen in the laps that followed and eventually won by a dominant 7.6-second margin.
