The new battle between McLaren and the Red Bulls It will be one of the great attractions of the fourth edition of the Miami Crypto.com Grand and sixth world championship career of Formula 1from May 2 to 4 at the Hard Rock Stadium.
The Australian Oscar Piastri aboard a McLaren He arrives at the Surfloridano Autodrome as the great figure with three victories at the start of the 2025 season. In the five races that are played, always the McLaren They went up to the podium.
The father’s paternity of the Netherlands, Max Verstappen, and the Red Bullsglobal tetra -champion, it has been challenged by the mastery of Piastri and the British Landon Norris, as well as for the ideal moment that the McLaren cars have reached.
It is still very early in the campaign to draw conclusions, but at least an idea of what will come, because the teams such as Mercedes Benz and Ferrari are on the stalking. And there are others that can improve as Williams, Haas and Aston Martin.
McLaren to the attack
The first two editions of the Miami GP won them Verstappen and last year Norris took the victory.
This year there will be no Mexican Sergio “Czech” Pérez with Red Bull and it is speculated that he will reappear in the 2026 season at the head of the new Cadillac team in F1; The Spanish Carlos Sainz went from Ferrari to Williams, the British Lewis Hamilton changed Mercedes Benz for Ferrari and his place was occupied by the 18 -year -old Italian Kimi Antonelli.
Hamilton, seven times world champion, saw his streak of a poker of consecutive titles from 2017 to 2020 by Verstappen, who reigns in the F1 with four consecutive crowns from 2021 to 2024.
This season, Verstappen does not have them all.
The McLaren have surpassed it, and that of the Netherlands has to settle for a third place after Piastri with 99 points and Norris with 89. Verstappen marches with 87, followed by the British George Russel (73), the monagués Charles Leclerc (47), Antonelli (38), Hamilton (31), the Thai (20), French Esteban Ocon (14), Canadian Lance Stroll (10); With six the French Pierre Gasly, the German Nico Hulkenberg, the British Oliver Bearman; with five the Frenchman Isack Hadjar, Sainz, the Japanese Yuki Tsunoda; and with zero the Spanish Fernando Alonso, the Australians Liam Lawson and Jack Doohan and the Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto.
The good moment of McLaren can also be attributed to some uncertainty that is lived in the Red Bull team after designer Adrian Newey went to the Aston Martin team.
Before the Grand Prix in Saudi Arabia, last Sunday, the counselor of the Energy Drink Company for Motorized Sports Helmut Marko publicly expressed concern about the future of Verstappen in the team.
Many speculated that that of the Netherlands shuffles the possibility of following Newey to Aston Martin on 2026.
The main of Red Bull Racing Christian Horner immediately refuted those versions and assured that the worldwide tetrampone “has made it clear that it is part of the team.”
Everything indicates that the team has lost the cohesion that was the key to its successes of the past.
Meanwhile, Aston Martin is in a reconstruction process. The team marches in seventh place with 10 points and its star pilot, Alonso, twice world champion, says you have to wait a bit to get better results.
The Miami Autodrome is one of the most interesting of the F-1 World Cup. Its extension is 5.41 kilometers, has 19 curves and three lines where speeds can be reached up to 320 kilometers per hour.
Until now, the McLaren have been shown as cars that best adapt to the different autodromes, the Red Bull have lost consistency and the Ferrari have problems with the speed of their cars in the curves.
A week after the start of the car party in Miami there are still some details that can be decisive at the time of truth, Sunday.
