Max Verstappen wins Miami Grand Prix to extend championship lead

George Russell was accused of doom-mongering at the start of the Formula One season when he suggested that Red Bull would win every race this year, but the Mercedes driver’s prediction is starting to look alarmingly accurate.

Max Verstappen’s victory in Miami was his third win of the season and Red Bull’s fifth. With Sergio Pérez taking second, it was the fourth time in five races that the two Red Bull drivers occupied the top two steps of the podium. A couple of other factors came into play to make the achievement all the more impressive.

The first was that Verstappen started from ninth on the grid, the consequence of an error in qualifying which, after the session was ended early, left him with no