ANTONELLI WINS IN MIAMI TO EXTEND HIS LEAD IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP

Formula One returned after its enforced five week break due to the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grand Prix's - so it was over to Miami to bring the drama and excitement for round four of this years championship. In a new record Kimi Antonelli makes it three consecutive wins from three pole positions. Behind the young Italian driver came the two McLaren's of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri who will be encouraged by their pace in another race they could have won.

Frustratingly for Kimi Antonelli it was once again not the best start from the Mercedes driver as Charles Leclerc takes the lead of the race into turn one after lock ups from Antonelli and Verstappen into turn one, Lando Norris sits second and Oscar Piastri in third. Then in an attempt to regain his places he lost into the first turn Verstappen gets to excited on the throttle and does a full 360 spin and drops several positions down to tenth. Along with all that drama Franco Colapinto and Lewis Hamilton made contact, damaging the Ferrari.

It only took up until lap four for Antonelli to take the lead of the race from Leclerc. But it was the very next lap that Leclerc retook the lead at the same corner he lost it the previous lap.

The first retirement came in the form of Isack Hadjar who clips the wall on the inside of the chicane and had no chance, breaking his suspension arm and was always destined for the wall after that moment. Safety Car deployed.

While behind the Safety Car somehow Liam Lawson and Pierre Gasly come together and the Alpine driver is out. The Alpine flipped around and thankfully ends up the right way round. Lawson would retire three laps later on lap nine. At the same time the Audi of Hulkenberg is retired from the race, for an unknown reason.

We get going again on lap twelve as the Safety Car returns to the pits and the green flag is shown. Leclerc keeps his lead on the restart, with little to no drama on the sole Safety Car restart of the weekend.

Between lap thirteen when Norris took the lead from Leclerc, we also had Verstappen lead the race momentarily before Antonelli ended up at the front of the pack after the pit stops and he looked confident to the end of the race.

The final moment of chaos in what was an exciting, overtake filled race saw Leclerc spin just after losing third to Piastri, the Ferrari loses grip in the rear spinning the car in a complete circle just clipping the wall with his front tyre so he is able to finish the race although he does drop to sixth behind Russell and Verstappen.

The next race is the Canadian Grand Prix.

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