Andrea Stella: "Today was an exceptional result for McLaren at the end of a remarkable weekend. First and second yesterday in the Sprint, followed by first and second again today in the Miami Grand Prix, which is a first for any team in a Sprint weekend. It's a big haul of points, and we're mindful that tomorrow is the anniversary of our first victory of this era, which was a fundamental milestone in the direction and development of our team.
"Not for the first time this year, I would like to thank the people at McLaren who have designed, manufactured, built and are racing this phenomenal car, as well as our technical and commercial partners, and fans who are with us on this exciting journey.
"After a very tight Qualifying session, it was great to see the car performing so well during the race, allowing Oscar and Lando to dominate. Oscar was clinical and very precise, taking the opportunities that came his way and displaying excellent pace. Lando was delayed in the mêlée at the start, recovering from sixth and then overtaking Max Verstappen later in the stint, but without this he was in strong contention for the win also.
"This is a great foundation for the rest of the year, but we also know that maybe these were exceptional circumstances. We'll keep our feet on the ground, keep working on the MCL39 to improve it, and see where it takes us now the racing season moves back to Europe."
Christian Horner: "We gave it everything today but well done to McLaren, they were in a different league so P4 and a double points finish is as good as we could get from an often chaotic Miami GP. Max put up a staunch defence of his lead and position in the opening stint, but the VSC gave others the opportunity to capitalise on Max's earlier stop and ultimately cost him a podium finish. P10 for Yuki who did well to hold onto his point in the end. The race showed that we still have a lot of work to do on the car to find that ultimate race pace. We'll take our learnings back to Milton Keynes and come back with everything we have for our 400th race in Imola in a couple of weeks time."
Scuderia Ferrari HP had a difficult time of it in the Miami Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton came home seventh and eighth, having spent the entire race fighting in traffic in a train of cars all with DRS. Rain had been expected but there was no sign of it during the race so that reduced the opportunities to move up the order. Therefore, the team leaves Florida with 16 points, ten from today and six from yesterday's Sprint.
Charles started on Medium tyres, Lewis on the Hards, maintaining their eighth and twelfth places off the grid, before the Englishman soon moved up to eleventh, passing Isack Hadjar and on lap 22 he moved into the points, getting ahead of Esteban Ocon. Leclerc remained stuck in a queue of cars. The team made the most of the Virtual Safety Car after Oliver Bearman had to park his car, to call in the drivers for their only pit stop. Hamilton, further down the order, pitted on lap 28, making the most of the VSC, but Leclerc had to wait one more lap, so his stop cost a bit more time. Once the entire field had pitted, the SF-25s found themselves in line astern, in eighth and ninth places. On lap 34, Charles passed Carlos Sainz and as the Spaniard ran wide, Lewis also nipped by to be eighth behind his team-mate. In the closing stages, the team tried to set off in pursuit of Kimi Antonelli in the Mercedes, swapping its drivers' positions twice, but it was not enough to catch the Italian and so, Charles and Lewis took the chequered flag in seventh and eighth places respectively.
After six races in three continents, Formula 1 is finally heading for Europe with the next round being the Made in Italy e dell'Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola in a fortnight's time.
Fred Vasseur: We didn't quite get the balance right this weekend, particularly yesterday in qualifying and then today we struggled in the middle of the group with little chance to secure a better result than this. When we were in free air, we were close to Mercedes and Red Bull in terms of pace. After a race like this there's obviously a sense of frustration, but we need to stay focused and keep working hard in order to address the issues, dealing with our limitations step by step.
On the strategy front, our calls were right: we pitted both our drivers under the Virtual Safety Car and this allowed Lewis to run behind Charles at the restart. Then we swapped the cars as soon as we were sure we were not putting Charles at risk from the cars behind, as Lewis was on Medium tyres and we wanted to try and catch Kimi Antonelli. It didn't work so we reversed the call at the end as per our standard procedure.
George Russell finished third and Kimi Antonelli P6 in Sunday's Miami Grand Prix. George's P3 marks his, and the team's, fourth podium of the 2025 season and both his and the team's maiden top three finish at the Miami Grand Prix.
Starting P3 on the Medium compound, Kimi moved up to second on the opening lap but couldn't resist the pace of the McLarens in the opening stint and dropped back to P4. George, opting for the alternative strategy and starting on the Hard tyre, shadowed him in P5.
Kimi stopped to switch to the Hard tyre on lap 26; he was delayed slightly by traffic in the pitlane and thus was unable to attempt the undercut on Verstappen. George meanwhile ran longer and took advantage of a Virtual Safety Car period to switch to the Medium tyre and rejoin in P3. The Brit resisted pressure from Verstappen in the closing stages to take third and maintain his strong start to the season. Kimi meanwhile battled hard, dropping back to P6 behind the Williams of Alex Albon at the flag.
The team sits second in the Constructors' Championship after the first quarter of the season and returns to action in two weeks' time for Kimi's home race at Imola.
Toto Wolff, Team Principal & CEO: george drove a great race today and did everything he needed to do to claim third. It was another mature performance where he got everything out of the car that was there. Obviously, the gap to the McLarens was large though. That is disappointing but we are working hard to bring updates that will hopefully close that deficit. We've seen these performance gaps fluctuate over these first six races, and some weekends other teams get right in the mix at the front, but they are the team to beat right now.
Kimi meanwhile showed his talent this weekend but had a race where he will take away some good learnings. That is completely normal for a rookie driver, and one that is just 18 years old. The race management will come as he continues to build his experience and we're now looking forward to the upcoming triple-header in Europe. The next race will mark Kimi's first ever home Grand Prix at Imola and I am sure he will be looking forward to that.
Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director: Congratulations to George on his fourth podium of the season. We benefited from the deployment of the Virtual Safety Car to jump Verstappen, but that is always one of the upsides of running long. We had opted to start George on the Hard compound so that we could do this and that decision paid off. We also estimated the chance of a wet race at about 50% but, despite a cell getting incredibly close, the rain just passed us by.
Whilst George benefited from the Virtual Safety Car, Kimi lost out having stopped just before it came out. We had to box him to protect from Albon in the Williams who had the chance to deploy the undercut. Some traffic in the pit lane cost him and ultimately his pace on the Hard tyre consigned him to P6. It has still been another good weekend for Kimi though as he continues his development.
McLaren were the class of the field once again today and we are working hard to close that gap. Overall, we leave Miami pleased we have added more points to our tally compared to Red Bull and Ferrari, but knowing we have got work to do if we are to challenge at the very front each weekend. Our single lap has been a strength, but we need to improve our long run pace. Hopefully we can make some gains in this area starting in Imola in two weeks' time.
Andy Cowell, CEO & Team Principal: "Today's results in the Miami Grand Prix are a reminder that we are simply lacking car performance. There were very few opportunities to progress from our starting positions and the race turned out to be a comfortable one-stop race for the entire field. It was important that we scored four points with Lance yesterday in the Sprint, but under normal dry conditions we don't have a car capable of competing for points right now. We need to continue to analyse where we can improve and work hard to be more competitive in Imola."
Oliver Oakes, Team Principal: "We leave Miami disappointed where ultimately, we lacked performance to be competitive enough to fight for points. Although we did not come away from Miami empty-handed, picking up one point in the Sprint. Pierre was not happy with how the car felt in Qualifying and given his starting position we opted to make changes to his car and start from the pitlane. The forecasted rain missed the circuit, so in a conventional dry race we tried to make progress and pitted Pierre under the second VSC. Although we made up several positions ultimately it was only good enough for 13th. Jack's race unfortunately ended on the first lap after contact with Lawson at Turn 1. We have some time now between races to understand where we can improve and come back with some more performance for the European triple-header starting in Imola."
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team finished with Esteban Ocon 12th, while Oliver Bearman was forced into retirement, at the Miami Grand Prix, held Sunday at the Miami International Autodrome.
Ocon started from ninth position on Pirelli P Zero Yellow medium tires but lost out on the opening lap, dropping to 10th place. Ocon put in a fine defensive effort to protect the final points paying position against Lewis Hamilton, but was eventually overhauled by the seven-time world champion, dropping to 11th spot. Ocon came into the pits on lap 23 for White hard tires and preserved that set through the remainder of the race to finish in 12th.
Bearman took the start from 19th position on hard tires and made up several positions on the opening lap to run in 16th place, and embarked on a battle with Alpine's Pierre Gasly. Unfortunately for Bearman his VF-25 suffered a power unit issue on lap 28 and he was forced to retire from the race.
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team holds sixth position in the Constructors' Championship on 20 points.
Ayao Komatsu, Team Principal: "Today's been quite a tough race. With Ollie starting from P20, we tried to go forwards as much as possible but we had a PU failure, so that was the end of his race. Esteban's first stint was okay - he was fighting against Hamilton pretty well and held him back for as long as he did, so he drove well - but we didn't get our pit stop timing correct so we got undercut by Hadjar. That ruined it as in the second stint we couldn't overtake him, which killed the tires. I think because of Tsunoda's penalty, we could've had P10 and that's the really disappointing thing, but we need to learn from it. This weekend, sometimes we really nailed it; like in Q2 with Esteban, but Q1 and Q3 wasn't great. There's plenty of things that we need to understand, today's race pace and decision making because the pit stop didn't work, so we need to learn as a team and then put it right in Imola."
James Vowles, Team Principal: It's been a topsy turvy weekend, but I'm really pleased for the team with the result today. Given the setbacks we had yesterday morning, to come back fighting with both cars in the top ten in Qualifying, and to finish with both cars in the points is incredibly rewarding. It's a long season and teams will bring updates so it will be interesting to see how it all shakes out over the next few races, but to score from five of the first six races is a different world to where we've been previously. I couldn't be more proud of the team and the world class drivers we have. Alex and Carlos are really giving their all to this team and we are on a good pathway moving forwards.
McLaren scored the maximum 58 points this weekend in Miami: first and second yesterday in the Sprint and another one-two in today's Grand Prix. Yesterday, Lando Norris was first past the chequered flag, followed home by Oscar Piastri, but today the positions were reversed, the Australian recording his fourth Grand Prix win of the season, the third in a row and the sixth of his career. It was McLaren's 51st one-two finish, its second this season.
Joining them on the podium was George Russell (Mercedes) his fourth top three finish of the year, with one second and three third places.
As predicted prior to the event, on the grid the drivers were split into two groups, 13 of them opting for the Medium tyre for the first stint, thus adhering to the theoretically quicker strategy and the rest who went with the Hard, banking on being able to delay the pit stop window, in the hope of making the most of a safety car period in which to pit, or to deal with the possibility of rain, the threat of which was there throughout the race.
Two drivers shared the longest stint of 36 laps on a set of Hards, Nico Hulkenberg in the Sauber and Lance Stroll in the Aston Martin. As for the Medium, 29 laps was the longest stint, accomplished by both McLaren drivers and the Ferrari pair of Charles Leclerc who drove his first stint on the C4 and Lewis Hamilton who used it for his second stint.
Mario Isola: "It was a very straightforward race as far as the tyres were concerned. From the little data gathered over the weekend it had become clear that, despite bringing a trio of compounds one step softer than last year's in order to create more strategy choices, it would probably still be a one-stop race and so it proved to be. There was very limited degradation on the C3 and the C4, in fact on the latter it was even less than expected. That explains why drivers who started on the Medium were able to extend their first stint to the halfway point of the race or even further, especially as the Virtual Safety Car made it easier for the leaders to switch to the Hard compound.
"The low tyre degradation also contributed to the many battles, especially early on when drivers were able to push as hard as they wanted. It was a different scenario to the one we witnessed in Suzuka for example, a month ago. The track characteristics here are very different, with overtaking possibilities, and it also demonstrates how difficult it is to have everything in place to produce the great show that the fans deserve to see."
