Miami Grand Prix F1 sprint race results after four penalties
Lando Norris won a highly eventful Miami Grand Prix Formula 1 sprint race
Lando Norris won a highly eventful Miami Grand Prix Formula 1 sprint race as a safety car for Fernando Alonso being sent into the wall by Liam Lawson gave him enough time to change from intermediate to slick tyres without losing the lead to McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri.
The order changed at the flag when Max Verstappen had a 10-second unsafe release penalty applied for being sent into polesitter Kimi Antonelli's Mercedes in the pits - an incident that broke the Red Bull's front wing and meant Antonelli couldn't get into his pit box so had to do an initial lap on intermediates. With the field tightly packed behind the safety car, Verstappen fell all the way from fourth to 17th with that penalty.
Three more penalties followed in the hours after the race.
First Haas's Ollie Bearman - who'd come through from 19th on the grid to eighth - was given a five-second penalty for his own unsafe release incident with Sauber driver Nico Hulkenberg. That dropped Bearman to 14th in the results.
Then Alex Albon was given a 5s penalty for not staying above the required minimum time during the safety car, costing him the fourth place that would've been his and Williams's best ever sprint result. He fell to 11th.
Finally Lawson was given a 5s penalty for putting Alonso in the wall, dropping him to 13th.
All of that meant George Russell moved up to fourth for Mercedes and Lance Stroll to fifth for Aston Martin, while Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull), Antonelli and Pierre Gasly (Alpine) all gained three places and were elevated into the points.
Charles Leclerc - who didn't even start the race due to his crash on a reconnaissance lap - was reprimanded for not immediately stopping his damaged Ferrari afterwards.
Results
1 Lando Norris (McLaren)
2 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)
3 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)
4 George Russell (Mercedes)
5 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)
6 Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull)
7 Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)
8 Pierre Gasly (Alpine)
9 Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber)
10 Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls)
11 Alex Albon (Williams)
12 Esteban Ocon (Haas)
13 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)
14 Ollie Bearman (Haas)
15 Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber)
16 Jack Doohan (Alpine)
17 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)
DNF Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)
DNF Carlos Sainz (Williams)
DNS Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)
