Formula 1: Kimi Antonelli wins Miami Grand Prix for 3rd straight victory of 2026

Kimi Antonelli has won three straight races from the pole position. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

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Kimi Antonelli scored his third straight Formula 1 win in the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday.

The 19-year-old got ahead of Lando Norris after each driver had pitted on lap 28. Antonelli, who pitted just before Norris, used his warmer tires to his advantage and snuck past Norris after the 2025 champion had exited the pits. Antonelli then cleared Max Verstappen — who had pitted much earlier because of a lap 1 spin — and was able to build a comfortable gap to Norris over the second half of the race.

Antonelli became the third driver behind Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher to win the first three pole positions of his career in successive fashion during qualifying on Saturday. And he’s now the only one of those three to convert each of the consecutive poles into wins.

After wins in China and Japan, Antonelli entered the race as the points leader. And thanks to Mercedes teammate George Russell’s sixth-place finish, Antonelli leads Russell by 24 points just four races into the 22-race season. The Miami Grand Prix was supposed to be the sixth race of the 2026 season, but the Bahrain Grand Prix and Saudi Arabian Grand Prix were both canceled because of the Iran war.

Norris’ McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri finished third after a pass of Charles Leclerc on the penultimate lap. Leclerc then spun on the final lap after Piastri passed him but somehow didn’t destroy the car.

However, Leclerc bumped the wall and fell from fourth to sixth in the final corners after he was passed by Antonelli’s teammate George Russell for fourth and Verstappen for fifth.

The race was unbothered by rain after the start time was moved up three hours to 1 p.m. ET on Saturday evening with the risk of thunderstorms arriving around the original start time of 4 p.m. ET.