Piastri completes winning hat-trick in Miami

MIAMI :Oscar Piastri won the Miami Grand Prix in an utterly dominant McLaren one-two finish on Sunday to stretch his Formula One world championship lead over teammate Lando Norris to 16 points.

The win from fourth on the grid was the Australian's third in a row, after the previous two in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and fourth in six races.

George Russell finished third for Mercedes.

Red Bull's world champion Max Verstappen was fourth, overtaken by both McLarens and maintaining a sequence dating back to the race's debut in 2022 of the driver starting on pole position in Miami failing to win.

(Writing by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Toby Davis)