One thing we learned over the last year....when Mclaren bring an upgrade, they bring an UPGRADE!

I really enjoyed seeing Fred Vasseur going to celebrate with the McLaren team (wearing their hat & sneakily spraying bubbly too) when they were taking the team photo. & all the drivers passing Lando and applauding him. Whole paddock really getting behind Lando getting his first win. Great show of sportsmanship & community

Neither Max nor Charles pitted under virtual safety car conditions, all the leaders missed it. They pitted soon after so the point about max self induced his Pitstop to take advantage of vsc conditions is incorrect

9:57 this should never have happened. The safety car should've been launched on track in front of the leader, not the 2nd placed car. So while Max et al got bunched up at slower speed behind the safety car for almost half a lap, Lando could make his pit stop and come back easily many seconds in front. I call this gaining an unfair advantage and I don't understand why noone's talking about it or teams protesting this. Don't get me wrong, I loved to see Lando win, but not under these circumstances.

Here in Australia I didn't want to wake up to watch it. I woke up half way through and checked my phone. I saw Lando was leading with a 30sec gap. I thought: "No, biggy, he's probably just the last to pit". I closed my eyes, and went back to sleep. Then I was like " shit a pitstop is 20 seconds", then I jumped out of bed and turned on my TV. My sleep is F'd but at least I got to witness Lando's fist win

Lando needs to thank Kevin.

For anyone who thinks Lando won because of a safety car mistake, it didn’t actually make a difference. Let me explain… The safety car was called quickly (approx 25s after the crash), at this time Lando was at the start/finish line, by the time the safety car got down the the pit lane and onto the track, Lando had already passed the pit lane exit. There’s no way the safety car could have picked up Lando on that lap. And even if the safety car let Max go, Lando would have had time to make a free pit stop. The gap was 18.6s when max crossed the start/finish line, before Max could even see the safety car. The reason the gap went to up to 18.6s from 11.5s is because Max had to travel a further distance at safety car speed compared to Lando. When the safety car was called and everyone had to slow down to a delta, Max was at T17, Lando was on the start/finish straight. So from T-17 to the start/finish Lando could take it full speed, Max couldn’t. That’s how the gap increased to 18.6s. This happens regardless, so even if the safety car let Max past him when Max caught up to it at turn 4, the gap would have remained around 18s, giving Lando enough time for a free pit.

Watch the replay on max hitting the cone, there is pieces of debris bouncing around after he hit the point where the cone was planted in the ground with his diffuser. He lost some pace after that and the hard tyre's added to it, because on mediums he was quite comfortable in front. Peter mentions it @ 8:10

I am super happy for Lando, but Lando got way more than 10 seconds advantage. He went from being 10 seconds ahead with old tires to 20 seconds ahead with new tires. Of course, he had to give that back before the restart, but in effect, he went from being a few positions down (even with good luck of a safety car) and having to fight to the front to being gifted the newest tires and P1 for the restart. That's not to say it wouldn't have been an interesting race (given his pace) without the safety car/race control stuff, but the announcers seemingly ignored it and pretended there wasn't momentous good fortune there. Rubbed me the wrong way. It would be like watching an NFL game and 7 points randomly showing up on the board for a team and nobody pays it any notice. Btw, I 100% agree that McLaren brought the best car this weekend. Props to them.

So happy for him! Congratulations to Lando and Mclaren!🎉

McLaren looked sharp this weekend, but by far their best upgrade was the safety car

Lando said after the race that without the safety car that yes he would have been the only one of the top six with new tyres till the end of the race,but it would have been very hard to win the race,having to pass 2RB's 2 Ferrari's and his teamate.

I don’t remember hearing George russels name even once during the GP

I was really gutted for Oscar, he’s my preferred McLaren driver and I would have loved if he could have won or at least stayed in the top 5. Congrats to Lando though

As happy as I am for Lando, it does feel weird how he can stay in the lead after making a pitstop when being only 11 seconds in front. But apparently that is totally normal, no one even mentioned it during the broadcast 🤔

The cone Max hit in lap 21 distroys partly the floor.

Your reviews are never boring. Always listens to ur reviews on a race day.

Yeah, when RB went for the hards during VSC, you could see that Max wasn't catching up to Lando. The time stayed between 10 and 11 seconds of a gap. Of course, when Lando pitted during the Safety Car, his tires were 10-15 laps fresher than Max's. For Max to win that race, his car had to have a better balance and ridiculous speed. So, just like Max's first win in Barcelona, Lando had to have a bit of luck to win. It will be interesting to see next race. Will Red Bull have their setup right? Will McLaren have the same speed? Either way, with having two Sprint races this year, we have seen some backmarkers reaching the podium or close to it, and see teams score points and win, who would usually not.

F1 needed this win

Fun to see Lando score his 1st victory BUT I don't understand that the safety car is on track, Lando comes in for tires (think he's the only one who has not), he gets caught in the pits and gets fresh tires, THEN they put Lando at the front and restart the race. How is it that the only guy in the lead group gets to put on fresh tires, then they placed him at the front of the pack? But I do also think that F1 has been hoping that someone else would win an F1 race. Nice way fix that on a hot as hell day in Miami.

As I'm watching this, Sainz get a 5s penalty for the Piastri front wing, just as Peter predicted

Happy for Norris 🙌 phenomenal drive and Lewis had his best race result too 👏

Great win! I love it when drivers get their first wins. What a race!

being a tsunoda fan...i was @ this event in miami...so exhilarating & unpredictable... verstappen started in first...then overtaken by piastri...tsunoda proved to perform fabulously...considering he started in position 10...eventually finishing 7th...but a big congrats to norris & team mclaren on a well-deserved victory

Hey Peter, thanks from Australia, appreciate all your input throughout the years and I always wish you the best of health and success. Take care mate.

Not boring, Peter. I enjoy your analysis of the races in particular.

Lando was flying today, he make everyone happy today. It's nice to see drivers congratulating Norris, even Fred joined McLaren's celebration. I think that even without SC Lando could win today. He drive off from Max substancly from restart. Feel sorry for Oscar, he forced out Carlos and make him really angry therefore Sainz make a little bit reckless move and ruined Piastri's race.

Excellent analysis as always Peter, thank you.

Thank you for explaining the importance of this win Peter. And, as an asside - and this really doesn’t need to be said - your VLogs are not boring😊

Everyone including the Redbull team acted as great sportsmen by not talking about the mistake of the safety car. However I expected Peter to point out the mistake more than he did. Lando got the win due to the mistake and the team made a huge mistake not to get him in a lap earlier

Appreciate your review!

What a farce!! Why the hell did SC pick up Max and not Lando? That gave him a free win, and why is no one talking about it, ridiculous

Peter, your reviews to races are the best out there. This is the analysis we, as F1 fans need. Thank you.

Hi Peter. In AD21 also no rules were broken. It looks like you imply this at 09:56

Your videos are great Peter, don't doubt yourself. Always a great analysis.

We all loved to see it!!

Thank you Peter for the analysis!

Piastri was driver of the day to me, no disrespect to Lando at all. Lando is the winner today but i was so impressed with Piastri's racecraft. He had half the upgrades Lando did and by the end of the first stint he climbed 4 positions and was 2nd behind Max by only a few seconds. Just how? To pass Leclerc so early on track? He was on it. I could've done without Sainz incessant whining later in the race though. Really annoyed me how that unfolded, especially how it ironically was Piastri who had his race ruined, not Sainz. Mclaren wont likely be winning every race, but i think theyll be the odd favorite here and there, just as i predicted they would be in Miami.

Peter your observations are amazing.

Fantastic race,

Been waiting for this moment for sooooo long! GG Landooooooo

I'll say it again. I think Lando was spot on to sign early with McClaren. He' s the obvious team leader of a great, assending F1 team. What else do you need?! Its just a matter of concentrating on his racing now, no other worries . Well done Lando!

Hi Peter! So fun for Mclaren and Lando!

This is the first thing I look forward to after the race

Thank you Mr. Windsor. I can rewatch the highlights now and understand what was going on.

Never boring Peter. I had a feeling it was Lando’s turn but love your insightful analysis. Here’s to the next McLaren victory!

Hi, Peter. Love your podcast. Do you think the turmoil at RB had to do with the P2 result?

The inconsistency within the FIA is ludicrous. They don't penalise Oscar for forcing Carlos off, yet penalised K-Mag for a similar move yesterday?

What stood out to me besides the racing facts is the amount of hugs and congratulations for Lando that despite F1 being so competitive did feel genuine and real. And that Leclerc, sainz, Rusell, Lando and even Max are able to keep that human part alive within all the fights feels good. Much better than what Hamilton did in running his friendship with Rosberg into the ground over the fight.

What an exciting and emotional race! Well done for Lando, he deserves this victory since he has been trying many times. Good takeaway knowing that the MacLaren was consistent, by Lando taking and keeping the lead ahead of a RedBull's car, Max's car in this case, even enhancing the gap respecting Max during the lead to the end of the race to grab the victory, something remarkable knowing that the Redbulls always overtaking when any car is ahead since they are dominating, important improvement for the MacLarens and hope this car keep going improvement in order to make more competitive races.

One thing...Charles pitted before Max and the virtual safety car deployment...and he set the fastest lap with the hard compound tyres, just before the virtual safety car, it was gonna work nicely for Leclerc Yesterday without the "safety cars"

Over the past 2 hours I've been waiting for your Miami Review.

Happy for the team tbh.

Thanks, PW.

I think Lando’s set-up seemed to be perfect for low fuel load because he was ballistic after about lap 20 & Yes when he could see Oscar & Carlos ahead - talk about a rabbit & a greyhound.. He was just pulling almost quali lap times. The car seemed to come to him and not much was said about the diff in upgrade package to Oscar but it’s clearly working and looks really promising.

let's not forget that Ferrari still hasn't brought any upgrades and yes for sure McLaren were faster but they also got the help of the safety car and Leclerc only finished 2secs behind Max. would have been interesting to see a 3-way battle between these three at the front without the safety car as Max would have benefited from the DRS etc. let's hope that Ferrari's upgrade will be as good as what people on other videos are claiming but if we can have a real 3- way battle at the front, that's going to be epic!

Happy for Lando

Lucky win. Safety car won it for lando.

Happy for Lando but gutted for Oscar. How much bad luck do you have to have to go from 2nd to last within a few laps by no fault of your own? 🤦‍♀️

Decent result and a good effort guys 🏎🏎 Very unlucky with the safety car timing once again but getting a podium is always nice 👍 PS - Huge praise must be given to mechanics for that 1.9 second pit stop during Charles' pit stop. Bravo! 👏💪🏽 💚🤍❤ Forza Ferrari! 💚🤍❤

I think a lot of people are underplaying the tyre offset advantage that Lando had at the end. Max pit on lap 23. The race restarted after the safety car on lap 32 - so effectively Lando had tyres about 10 laps younger than Max (which itself is over a sixth of the race distance offset), and 14 younger than Charles. So getting 7 seconds on Max in the 35 remaining laps is about 0.2 seconds per lap average. To me that feels about right for tyres 10 laps younger, on a day when RB weren’t as quick as usual. The point I’m making is that Lando wasn’t blisteringly quick, and to say he “definitely would have won without the safety car anyway” is total nonsense. The SC gifted the McLaren the win. While many of us are pleased for them, let’s not pretend this race was won on merit alone. Obviously F1 pundits/presenters on Sky/F1 TV are not going to talk about this on the coverage because it’s bad for the sport and they are trying to big up the win as much as possible.

I agree - it was amazing! I looked up who won......and when Lando's name came up......I couldn't believe it!

Oh, Max did suffer some floor damage when he axed that bollard. In the replay, you can clearly see some debris coming out of the back of Max’ car. Nevertheless a good win for Lando.

If Perez took Max out on the first corner how open would that seat be?

Yeah - finally Lando managed to not shoot himself in the foot ! I always remember Franchitti (US CART championship) always getting so close to a win but messing up somehow. He got his 1st win & then went on to win several championships. Been following Lando ever since seeing him in Ginetta Juniors in the UK - great to have him finally get past this 'hurdle'.

I'm very happy for Lando, finally his first win! I do have to say that the Safety Car "misunderstading" helped him a LOT, but Max also made a costly mistake that he might not have fully recovered from, but we'll never know. Either way, it was great to see everyone congratulating Lando, and that Max wasn't being sour about it. Max should still be safe, but it sure opened up the competition for the rest of the podium places, which is great news.

Peter, I'm an American and rightly proud of it. I'm writing you here because I trust and admire you and have done so for many years. I hope that many F1 fans who feel the same will stop by your place and see what I have written. We are enduring a terrible political regime in the USA at the moment and to someone foreign-born, and to someone who only hears what they are fed by their handlers, it may be hard to understand the appeal of Trump. Most Americans want him back. I want him back. So it doesn't do well for the F1 community - either directly or indirectly - to disparage him for coming to the Miami race. If we allow politics to get into our beloved international sport then it is easy to attack the warring Russians and take their race away and then cancel the Chinese race because of their various and nefarious geopolitical activities. For sure we would cancel all the middle east races on human rights violations alone. What country would be left whose politics or leaders or religion has a perfect track record (pun intended)? Let those who are without sin cast the first stone, so to speak. Further, I can promise you that I am not qualified to make a judgement on the good or bad points of QE II's reign, I don't even know the political hierarchy of the Netherlands, and I don't care who is the current chancellor of Germany. I'm sure the inverse is true. So concerning all the snide remarks about our past and future President, I say it has no place in sport.

The VSC ended before Max could come in so he got no advantage.

Lando/McLaren Fan here, why was the safety car picking up Max (bad habit?) I thought it was going to be close for Lando to get in and out before Max came around, but with Max being held up it wasn't even close. A few things F1 should consider stealing from Indy Car: 1. During Qualifying use a timing line that isn't the start finish. The line that separates sector 2 and 3 would be ideal. This allows for cars to get off the track immediately after completing a flying lap. There are too many cars on the track in Q1, resulting in too many penalties. 1b. Split Q1 into even and odd based on current points. Top 7 from each advance. Again solving the issue of traffic during qualifying. 2. Causing a collision on track has got to be more than 5sec. Sainz' (a drive I like) penalty for essentially ending Piastri's race is pathetic. That penalty isn't severe enough. The old school stop/go would be far more fitting. (Hamilton's 1st corner for sprint was worse. 4th car in the inside with no ability to make the corner was always going to end badly. A 7 time champion should know this.) Indy has puts cars to the back of the field, F1 needs to look into much stiffer penalties. 3. Safety car needs to be leaving pit out as the leader passes pit in to ensure it picks up the correct car. Miami looked like a mistake to me.

I would think Americans are well used to safety cars affecting races. There's plenty of street tracks in Indycars (as there was also in CART & Champ Cars).

Let’s go LANDO!!! There it is Sir! You did it. Everyone knew it would come. The first of many. Congratulations on a fantastic performance. Landos McLaren looked obviously stable and quick. There were medium/high speed corners where Lando looked as it wasn’t taking much physical effort, the car was there when it we needed it.

What a day for F1! Those celebrations said it all. I did cry. I did cry.

Max and lecler didn't pit under VSC. Lecler pitted before it, and max the lap after it ended

Very nice race. McLaren looked great , Merc also looked amazing comparing to Saturday. Congratulations to Lando and McLaren. THANKS

Great first win for Norris and McLaren, although probably circuit specific and he did have a lot of help from a rather friendly safety car. Looks like Newey's departure has taken effect already!

I was at the race and it was amazing ❤️❤️

Fantastic race , of course because Lando gets his first win but also because it was close hard racing from start to finish . Ocon described the race as going at 110% throughout.

Lando is a very welcome racewinner. He drove brilliant as well, but forgot to pit when he needed to. Then the FIA helped him by letting the savety car pick up Max instead of the race leader Lando

Such an amazing result. Great for Formula 1. Going to be FASCINATING to see if this McLaren pace continues on or is just a one off - if it continues, that 50-ish point gap Max has on Lando might not be so comfortable! I have been saying all season so far that RB are not home and dry, despite how the media weirdly seems to enjoy downplaying the season. It was Ferrari that I thought could post a challenge, but maybe now it is McLaren... ! I LOVE F1 haha

Lando!!!! So happy for him!!!

Great race. Super congrats to Lando!! Been a McLaren fan since 1976 when James Hunt won championship. Love F1 and McLaren cars.

More like Lando Norris kinda got gifted a win when he was really in a net P6 at the time. Anyway I'm happy for him but I'm sure he would like to get a win that he earned a little more than this one in the future

Lando had the full upgrade package here, Oscar didn’t just FYI

The upgraded MCL38’s pace was ridiculous, I’m sure it’ll settle down at other tracks, but I can see McLaren winning another race or two this season.

As an Australian I would like to say, if i were Piastri, I would be absolutely filthy with the team, there was absolutely no reason why they should have pitted him before they pitted Norris, beacuse he was first and Norris was in third behind him. Nevertheless, happy for Lando and good on him, but I would not be happy if I were Piastri

I agree 'surfsaus'. However, in all fairness, upgrades should go to the longest serving driver. Oscar will have his day!

The way he describes the flow of lando driving, the beauty of being in the zone

Peter, minor note... Free Practice graphic has 20 names, 18 times and 20 speeds... Norris ends up between two times.

Max had clear floor damage after hitting the bollard, that explains the pace gap

Ok, I've looked deeply into what happened with the SC. Lando is, undoubtedly, very lucky the safety car came out too early and picked up the wrong driver, because the safety car was announced literally 1 second after Lando passed the pit line entrance. It could have been disastrous for him. He had to go all the way round again while the safety car came out early and picked up Max, slowed him and the pack by 35 seconds, allowing Lando to zoom around the track, pit and retain the lead despite having only an 11 second lead when the SC came out. It took me 24 hours to work out exactly what happened, look at the data, track location data, etc. It was a bizarre confluence of conditions. That said, I wouldnt have it *any* other way. Lando was faster than Max all day and I almost cried with happiness when he won. I'm so glad he no longer has this no win curse hanging over him. Lando needed this. F1 needed this. He beat Max on pace alone in those last laps. Who was the last driver who kept Max behind that long so convincingly? Incredible effort!

So happy for Lando !!

So the SC came out to pick up Max who was 2nd at that moment, this gave Lando the opportunity to increase his gap with Max from 11 to 35 seconds so he went from a pit stop which would cost him 1st place to a pit stop which would give him 1st place anyway. That was the first fuck up, then Lando came in before the SC and they didn’t know what to do, after some time they let the SC pass Lando. This was a total fuck up by the FIA, they ruined a race with great potential.

I have just been bagging the Miami parking lot G.P., but it ended up a pretty good race. A nice scrap with Carlos and Oscar, too bad there was contact, and further back, a battle between Honey Badger and Fernando.

Looking over about Max going off track It really looks like he damaged the floor... Besides I also think by the data you gave Pete like Max had more wing. I'm curious about the upgrade McLaren brought to this race.

I am max fa. But Lando sooo fantastic. Max was also happy for his best friend. Leclerc also fantastic. Nice weekend 👍👍👍

Great review of a key race I agree it changes the perspective of the season .. so pleased for lando and i think mclaren will keep improving and will overtake the ferraris and really challenge redbull for the WDC ..

Well done Lando and Mclaren. Is it significant that not only did Lando out pace Max in the second half of the race but also that Lewis was keeping up with Perez and almost passing him?

Peter hhas made this before the news came out that Max indeed had a hole in the floor. Floor damage due to his own error I suppose. This explains why Max was relativ slow (but still second in the race). About the safety catr. It was a comparable blunder as in Abu Dhabi 2021. The safety car HAS to catch up the LEADING car. The reaction form Max on this is gold..."Sometimes you're lucky wyth a SC , sometimes yopure unlucky.

Well deserved win. Disappointing that Charles was behind Max

Considering Ferrari is still running Bahrain spec car, finishing 0.19s on pace behind the heavily upgraded McLaren is a really good sign. Hopefully the Imola ugrades help with the slow speed corners and we might have a 3 way battle for wins this season.