FACTS AND STATS: Piastri secures McLaren’s first victory hat trick in over 25 years

Oscar Piastri came away from the Miami Grand Prix weekend with the biggest points haul – as well as adding some interesting data to the history books. But he wasn’t the only one – here’s our round up of the need-to-know numbers from an enthralling race in the United States…
• Piastri is the first McLaren driver to win three consecutive Grands Prix since Mika Hakkinen (with his first three career wins at Spain 1997, Australia and Brazil 1998).
• It is Piastri’s sixth career victory, and his fourth Grand Prix win this season.
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• Piastri’s victory means McLaren have won back-to-back Miami Grands Prix.
• The Miami Grand Prix maintains its record of never being won from the front row (Piastri started P4).
• This is Piastri’s 32nd consecutive point-scoring weekend, the fourth-longest streak in F1 history.
• With Lando Norris finishing second, McLaren become the first team to finish one-two in a Sprint and a Grand Prix on the same weekend.
• It’s only the fourth time McLaren have finished 1-2 in a Grand Prix in the last 15 years.
• The last time McLaren finished 1-2 with everybody else over 30 seconds behind was Monaco 2007, when Fernando Alonso won ahead of team mate Lewis Hamilton, with Felipe Massa 1m 09s behind the winner in third).

• Mercedes’ George Russell’s P3 was his fourth Grand Prix podium finish this season and matches his total from the entire 2024 season.
• It was Mercedes’ first-ever podium finish in Miami.
• With P4 for Red Bull, Max Verstappen finished off the podium in the Miami Grand Prix for the first time.
• Verstappen has finished off the podium three times in the opening six Grands Prix in 2025.
• With P5, Alex Albon matched his result from the season-opening Australian Gr, his only previous top-six finish since joining Williams at the start of 2022.
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• With Carlos Sainz in P9, both Williams cars scored points for the second consecutive race.
• Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli finished sixth for the fourth time in the last five races.
• With Charles Leclerc their lead driver in P7, Ferrari missed the top five for the first time in Miami Grand Prix history.
• It was Leclerc’s lowest finish since the opening race in Australia.
• Team mate Lewis Hamilton finished in P8 and only has one top-five finish this season (Bahrain).

• Red Bull’s Yuki Tsunoda was tenth, meaning he scored in both the Sprint and the Grand Prix this weekend.
• Tsunoda finished just 0.168s ahead of Isack Hadjar after taking a five-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane.
• Only five teams scored points, the minimum possible number (McLaren, Red Bull, Mercedes, Williams, Ferrari).
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• Esteban Ocon finished in P12 for Haas – he has finished eighth, ninth, tenth and 12th in his four Miami Grand Prix starts.
• With Fernando Alonso in P15 and Lance Stroll P16, the Aston Martins were the last classified finishers, nearly 20 seconds behind the next car.
• Oliver Bearman’s DNF in the Haas was his first-ever failure to finish a Grand Prix (in his ninth F1 start).
• Jack Doohan’s DNF at Alpine was the second time he has retired on the opening lap this season (also Australia).

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