Piastri stated: “I really feel like I did fairly the whole lot proper, so a bit disillusioned to come back out in second however that is the way it goes generally. Racing is a tricky enterprise. Needed to get my elbows out on the first nook, pleased with what I did.”
Hamilton had struggled for tempo on the moist tyres however he pitted for his slicks on lap 11, making the choice himself, and it vaulted him up the order from sixth within the opening laps to 3rd on the finish, passing the broken Pink Bull of Verstappen on observe.
“I am so pleased with that,” he stated. “It has been a tricky 12 months to this point however I by no means thought it could rain in Miami, it is the primary time we have all been on observe within the moist right here and what a race it offered us.
“I made that decision ultimately. As a result of I used to be going nowhere.”
The madcap occasions of the pit-stop interval, security automotive and Verstappen’s penalty helped Williams’ Alex Albon, seventh within the early laps, vault to fourth within the outcomes, forward of George Russell’s Mercedes.
The ultimate factors have been taken by Lance Stroll’s Aston Martin, Lawson and Haas’ Oliver Bearman, who drove a superb race to take the ultimate level from nineteenth on the grid.
The drama started earlier than the beginning when Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc hit the wall within the moist circumstances on the way in which to the grid, damaging the automotive and forcing him out of the race.
On the official race begin time, the vehicles accomplished two laps behind the security automotive to guage the circumstances, earlier than it was determined that visibility was too poor to proceed.
The close to half-hour break allowed the observe to dry sufficiently for it to change into raceable.
It was the primary time on this race’s four-year historical past that rain had affected the working.
