Miami International Autodrome, Sunday 7 May

Hear from McLaren Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, and Team Principal Andrea Stella after the Miami Grand Prix.

As it happened

• Lando and Oscar both started the race on the Soft tyre. • De Vries locked up at Turn One and colliding into the back of Lando's car, Lando dropped back to 19th as a result.  • Oscar made a strong start, moving up five places to 14th. • Lando and Oscar pit on consecutive laps early on to swap their Soft tyres for fresh Hards. • After the first flurry pit-stops, Lando was 16th with Oscar two places back in 18th. • Lando was overtaken by Albon, dropping to 17th. • Piastri was overtaken by De Vries for 18th. 

"Tough day. We just struggled with pace. I had a good start, but we got hit from behind into turn one, which then put us at the back. We had tried a different strategy, which required something exciting to happen during the race, but it didn’t work. We’ll go back to MTC, reset and keep pushing hard for a better result in the next one." 

"I had a lot of issues on the car in the race. We had a failure six or seven laps in on the brake-by-wire system. I was managing a lot of issues after that. I had a really good lap one, where I managed to pass five cars and that was the highlight of the weekend. Otherwise, a frustrating afternoon, trying to drive around all of the issues.  We’ll now get our heads down and focus on having a better weekend in Imola." 

"Given our grid positions, we needed a good start, an eventful race and high tyre degradation in order to climb into the points. Unfortunately, none of these conditions materialised and the race was a bit of a procession at the back for us. At the first corner, Lando was hit from behind after he had gained some positions, resulting in damage costing 2-3 tenths per lap, as well as relegating him to the back. Oscar had a race-long brake-by-wire problem and did an incredible job to cope with that through a minimising the consequences and keeping decent pace.  

“Our main takeaway from Miami is that we were not quick enough this weekend. After scoring points in Baku, this weekend serves as a reality check on how much work we have ahead of us. The plan doesn’t change: we have good developments coming, we keep our heads down, regroup and go again in Imola." 

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