Verstappen beat Leclerc and his Pink Bull team-mate Sergio Perez in the 19-lap race, the second dash occasion of the season.
F1 Miami GP dash outcomes
2024 F1 Miami GP dash race report
Poleman Verstappen, who began on scrubbed medium tyres, led the cost to the opening nook forward of Leclerc, who began on recent rubber.
Daniel Ricciardo’s RB grabbed third from Perez at Flip 1, who ran huge attempting to get round Leclerc, with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz working fifth.
The security automotive was shortly required, as McLaren’s Lando Norris didn’t make it round Flip 1. The crash was triggered by the Aston Martins of Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll brushing wheels at first, however then Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes lunged to their inside and the 4 vehicles related.
Norris received spun out by Stroll, who was additionally pressured to retire within the pits, whereas Alonso stopped to alter a puncture.
The race restarted on lap 4, with Verstappen heading Leclerc, Ricciardo, Perez and Sainz. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) ran sixth, forward of the Haas vehicles of Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen, with Hamilton in ninth and maybe lucky to flee a penalty for his bold first-corner transfer.
Perez outbraked Ricciardo into Flip 11 on lap 5 to take the ultimate spot on the rostrum.
Verstappen led Leclerc by 1.7s at half distance, whereas Ricciardo misplaced DRS on Perez with 9 laps to go, leaving him liable to Sainz’s assaults.
Hamilton banged wheels with Magnussen at Flip 12 on lap 12, with Magnussen getting a 10s penalty for earlier chopping the chicane.
Hamilton attacked Magnussen once more on lap 14, however as they each ran off the monitor it allowed RB’s Yuki Tsunoda to grab ninth from Hamilton. Magnussen gave spots as much as them each, however received two extra penalties.
Verstappen received by 3s from Leclerc and Perez. Ricciardo was a distant fourth however saved the close-following Sainz and Piastri at bay.
Hulkenberg was seventh, whereas Hamilton handed Tsunoda for eighth on the ultimate lap, with Pierre Gasly (Alpine) in tenth.
However Hamilton was given a post-race drive-through penalty for rushing within the pits through the security automotive, the 20s penalty dropping him to sixteenth, which put Logan Sargeant (Williams) inside the highest 10.
Alpine’s Esteban Ocon acquired a 10s penalty earlier than the race even began after ramming Leclerc’s Ferrari within the pitlane on the way in which to the grid. He took benefit of the security automotive by getting it out of the way in which and completed fifteenth.
Alex Albon began his Williams from the pit lane after a disastrous qualifying and completed thirteenth.
F1 Miami GP dash quickest laps
Cla | Nº | Driver | Automobile / Engine | Time | Delay | kp/h |
1 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Pink Bull/Honda RBPT | 1’30.415 | 215.486 | |
2 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1’30.807 | 0.392 | 214.556 |
3 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Pink Bull/Honda RBPT | 1’30.921 | 0.506 | 214.287 |
4 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren/Mercedes | 1’31.393 | 0.978 | 213.180 |
5 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | RB/Honda RBPT | 1’31.505 | 1.090 | 212.919 |
6 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 1’31.568 | 1.153 | 212.773 |
7 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1’31.830 | 1.415 | 212.165 |
8 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | RB/Honda RBPT | 1’31.844 | 1.429 | 212.133 |
9 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Haas/Ferrari | 1’31.963 | 1.548 | 211.859 |
10 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas/Ferrari | 1’32.113 | 1.698 | 211.514 |
11 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber/Ferrari | 1’32.131 | 1.716 | 211.472 |
12 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine/Renault | 1’32.148 | 1.733 | 211.433 |
13 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 1’32.173 | 1.758 | 211.376 |
14 | 2 | Logan Sargeant | Williams/Mercedes | 1’32.192 | 1.777 | 211.332 |
15 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine/Renault | 1’32.218 | 1.803 | 211.273 |
16 | 23 | Alexander Albon | Williams/Mercedes | 1’32.223 | 1.808 | 211.261 |
17 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin/Mercedes | 1’32.355 | 1.940 | 210.959 |
18 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber/Ferrari | 1’32.462 | 2.047 | 210.715 |