McLaren driver Oscar Piastri won his fourth race of 2025, beating teammate Lando Norris in an action-packed Miami Grand Prix.

Oscar Piastri made it a hat-trick of wins with victory in the Miami Grand Prix as McLaren enjoyed a one-two on the podium to continue their dominant Formula One season.

The Australian driver finished 4.6 seconds ahead of British teammate Lando Norris, with George Russell of Mercedes finishing third but 37.6 seconds behind.

The victory on Sunday was the third in a row for Piastri after his wins in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and his fourth in the six races so far this season.

Four-time world champion Max Verstappen, who started on pole, finished in fourth place with Alex Albon of Williams fifth and 18-year-old Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes in sixth.

“I was aware enough to avoid Max in turn one, and from then I knew I had a good pace advantage,” Piastri said. “The car was incredible today.

“The hard stint I was struggling a little bit, so there are some things to work on. Got to keep learning, but very happy to be leaving Miami on top.

“Two years ago here, we were the slowest team, I think we got lapped twice. Here, we just won the race by 35 seconds,” he added.

Piastri, who started at fourth on the grid, grabbed the lead on lap 14 when Verstappen took the inside line but was too late on the brakes and went wide.

“Brakes man, honestly, useless,” the Dutchman told his team radio and the Red Bull driver, a two-time winner at Miami, was not to get a sniff of the lead again.

Norris went on the hunt for Verstappen but by the time he got ahead, after some jousting on lap 17, Piastri had opened up a 9-second lead.

“It’s never the best feeling [to be second] but the team has done an amazing job, so I can’t fault them at all,” said Norris.

“We were up the road so it is a good feeling. Oscar drove well, Max put up a good fight as always so it is what it is. I paid the price for not doing a good enough job today, but still happy to be second,” he said.

Russell had finished behind his teammate Antonelli in qualifying but after some frustration in the sprint race as well, he was glad to be on the podium.

“Really happy to come away with P3 as I have been struggling this weekend personally. Well done to the McLaren, they were just too far down the road,” he said.

It was another disappointing day for Ferrari, with Charles Leclerc finishing seventh and Lewis Hamilton a place behind.

Hamilton, in his first season with the Italian team, expressed frustration with his team’s tactics several times during the race, especially after he was instructed to let Leclerc pass him.

Williams driver Carlos Sainz faced a steward investigation after his aggressive attempt to overtake Hamilton on the final corner resulted in a clash of wheels.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano overcame a lot to finally get his first victory this season.

It came a week after Team Penske teammate Austin Cindric’s win at Talladega, where Logano had a fifth-place finish that became 39th after a postrace inspection found an issue with the spoiler on his No. 22 Ford. There was also Logano’s expletive-laden rant on the radio toward his teammate in the middle of that race the two smoothed out during the week. Oh, and he started 27th at Texas after a bad qualifying effort on the 1.5-mile track.

But Logano surged ahead on the restart in overtime Sunday to win in the 11th race this year. He led only seven of the 271 laps, four more than scheduled.

“After what happened last week, to be able to rebound and come right back, it’s a total ‘22’ way of doing things. So proud of the team,” Logano said.

On the final restart after the 12th caution, Logano was on the inside of his other teammate, Ryan Blaney. But Logano pulled away on the backstretch and stayed easily in front the final 1½ laps, while Ross Chastain then passed Blaney to finish second ahead of him.

“Just slowly, methodically,” Logano said of his progression to the front. “Just kept grinding, a couple here and a couple there and eventually get a win here.”

Logano got his 37th career victory, getting the lead for the first time on lap 264. He went low to complete a pass of Michael McDowell.

“I mean there’s always a story next week, right,” Logano said. “So I told my wife last week before we left, I said watch me go win this one. It’s just how we do stuff.”

On a caution with 47 laps left, McDowell took only two tires and moved up 15 spots to second. He ended up leading 19 laps, but got loose a few laps after getting passed by Logano and crashed to bring out the caution that sent the race to overtime. He finished 26th.

“We were giving it everything we had there to try to keep track position,” McDowell said. “Joey got a run there, and I tried to block it. I went as far as I think you could probably go. When Blaney slid in front of me, it just took the air off of it and I just lost the back of it. I still had the fight in me, but I probably should have conceded at that point.”

Hamlin had finished on the lead lap in 21 consecutive races, but a fiery finish on lap 75 ended that streak that had matched the eighth-longest in NASCAR history. He was the first car out of the race.

After the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota lost power, something blew up when Hamlin recycled the engine. There were flames coming out from under the car and it was engulfed in smoke by time it rolled to a stop on the inside of the track and Hamlin climbed out unharmed.

Carson Hocevar, the 22-year-old driver who is McDowell’s teammate with Spire Motorsports, was the youngest polesitter ever in Texas. He led only the first 22 laps of the race, losing it while pitting during the first caution. He finished 24th after a late accident.

Both in-race stages finished under caution. Cindric won Stage 1 after Hamlin’s issues and Kyle Larson took the second after a yellow flag came out because of debris on the track after the right rear tire on Chris Buescher’s car came apart.

Larson got his 68th overall stage win and his sixth at Texas, with both marks being records. He has won a stage in each of the last five Cup races at Texas, starting in his 2021 win there.

Notes: William Byron, Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin and Chase Elliott remained the top four in season points. … Elliott left Texas last spring with his first victory after 42 races and 18 months without one. He hasn’t won since, and now he has another long winless drought — this one 38 races and now nearly 13 months after finishing 16th. … A crew member for Christopher Bell crawled in through the passenger side of the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota and was fully in the car to reconnect an air hose the driver’s helmet during a caution in the second stage. It took two stops during that caution, and twice climbing into the car, to resolve the issue.

FORT WORTH — In the end, it was Joey Logano who avoided crashes and survived NASCAR Overtime at Texas Motor Speedway to score his first NASCAR Cup Series victory of 2025.

Logano outdueled his Team Penske teammate Ryan Blaney to earn the win Sunday in the Würth 400, extending his mark of winning in consecutive seasons to 14.

“The sport changes so quickly,” said Logano, whose highest finish prior to the win was eighth at Martinsville. ” It’s crazy how you can just ride these roller coasters and just proud of the team.

“Finally get AAA Insurance into victory lane. They’ve been a partner of mine since I’ve been to Penske, so 13, 14 years. I’ve yet to win with them. It was awesome to get that done here.”

In total, Logano led seven laps en route to the 37th win of his career, tying him with 1970 series champion Bobby Isaac for 23rd all-time on the series’ wins list.

Ross Chastain also picked up his highest finish of the year, scoring the runner-up finish and second Top-5 effort of the year.

“Starting 31st, we wanted to go plus 30 positions today,” Chastain said. “It’s all on this crew – the engineering group at Trackhouse Racing and the group at Chevrolet.”

Blaney finished third, with Kyle Larson — who led a race high 90 laps — and Erik Jones rounding out the Top-5 finishers.

“If I could have kept the lead, we would have been hard to beat in clean air like that. Just a little frustrated with myself, but all-in-all, it was a good points day for us today,” Larson said.

The race featured 12 cautions for 73 laps, with 13 drivers failing to finish.

The next race for the NASCAR Cup Series is scheduled for Sunday, May 11, at Kansas Speedway.

Würth 400 Results

1. Joey Logano
2. Ross Chastain
3. Ryan Blaney
4. Kyle Larson
5. Erik Jones
6. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
7. Austin Dillon
8. John Hunter Nemechek
9. Christopher Bell
10. Daniel Suarez
11. Todd Gilliland
12. Ty Dillon
13. William Byron
14. Riley Herbst
15. Justin Haley
16. Chase Elliott
17. Zane Smith
18. Chris Buescher
19. Cole Custer
20. Kyle Busch
21. Tyler Reddick
22. Shane Van Gisbergen
23. Ty Gibbs
24. Carson Hocevar
25. Austin Cindric
26. Michael McDowell
27. Chase Briscoe
28. Brad Keselowski
29. Ryan Preece
30. Cody Ware
31. Jesse Love
32. Josh Berry
33. Bubba Wallace
34. Noah Gragson
35. Alex Bowman
36. A.J. Allmendinger
37. Chad Finchum
38. Denny Hamlin

Spanish pole-sitter Alex Palou dominated from start to finish to win Sunday’s Alabama Indy Grand Prix and stretch his IndyCar points lead in quest of a third consecutive season title.

Palou won for the third time in four races this season with Denmark’s Christian Lundgaard second and New Zealand’s Scott McLaughlin third.

It was the 14th IndyCar career victory for Palou after 90 laps over the 2.3-mile, 17-turn road course at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama.

Not since New Zealand’s Scott Dixon had a driver won three of the first four races in an IndyCar campaign.

Palou cruised to victory in 16.26 seconds.

“It was a perfect day, I would say a perfect weekend,” Palou said. “The car was amazing, super fast, and I just had a ton of fun. I was a bit lonely there but I loved it. It was an amazing day.”

Dutchman Rinus Veekay was fourth with Australia’s Will Power fifth.

Palou, chasing a fourth series crown in five campaigns, won this year’s first two races at St. Petersburg and Thermal and captured his latest on the same Alabama track where he took his first IndyCar triumph in 2021.

“We’ve always been really good here. I love this place,” Palou said. “Every lap here feels good. It’s going to be special from now on.”

Palou surged ahead at the start and cycled back to the front quickly after the first two sets of pit stops. He refueled for the last time on lap 65 and three laps later was back in front to the finish.

Palou, 28, advanced his points edge with Lundgaard moving past Long Beach winner Kyle Kirkwood of the United States into second.

“It’s awesome. Everything we could have hoped for and much better,” Lundgaard said.

The fifth race of the season will be contested Saturday on the road course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as teams prepare for the series’ signature event, the Indianapolis 500 oval classic on May 25.

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FORT WORTH, Texas – With 12 cautions including seven in the final stage, Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway quickly became a battle for survival. 

And while ultimately, it wasn’t quite the win it often looked like it would be for Kyle Larson, his No. 5 Valvoline Chevrolet was still intact and rolling when the checkered flag fell. 

Larson won the second stage – his fifth straight race at Texas with a stage victory – and turned in a solid fourth-place finish, scoring 50 points along the way. It was the second straight race in which the 32-year-old scored the most points. 

He also led the most laps and was in control of the race through much of stage three. But on lap 244, Michael McDowell got a good jump on a restart and had help from behind, shuffling Larson back to fourth. With three more cautions and restarts, and with track position at a premium all day, Larson wasn’t able to quite make it back to the point. 

“You don’t want to give up the lead at a mile-and-a-half (track), it’s hard to get it back,” Larson said. “Michael just did a good job timing it. I left early the restart before and was going to leave early again then and he just anticipated and left probably right with me or barely before and he had (Tyler) Reddick pushing behind him. Wish I could go back and do that all over again. Just try to learn from it.” 

William Byron, the Cup Series points leader, was solid in each of the first two stages, finishing seventh in both and scoring eight points. During the stage two caution break, crew chief Rudy Fugle made a two-tire call but Byron made contact with Cole Custer upon leaving his stall. Still, Byron took over the lead and was able to hold on for a while, eventually succumbing to Larson. 

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After trying to short pit, Byron was trapped a lap down when Jesse Love crashed with 49 laps to go, bringing out a caution. However, he quickly got it back when Kyle Busch spun a handful of laps later and the No. 24 team went to work. More cautions and trips down pit road gave the team more time to repair the nose and by the end, Byron had rallied all the way back to a 13th-place finish. 

Chase Elliott was also trapped a lap down along with Byron and like the 24 team, the No. 9 NAPA Auto Parts squad used the Busch caution to rejoin the lead lap. From there, the 9 followed the 24 back through the field, avoiding damage from cautions and eventually coming home with a 19th-place showing. 

Alex Bowman was also fast throughout most of the early going, especially in stage two as he rocketed through the field all the way to third, scoring eight points. But the No. 48 Ally Chevrolet was collected in a crash at the beginning of stage three, not of Bowman’s doing, and the damage was too severe to repair. He finished 35th. 

“I just saw guys wrecking in front of me. I tried to get high. The No. 16 (AJ Allmendinger) came back across the track, and we all piled in there,” Bowman said. “I hate that for this team. We had a really fast No. 48 Ally Chevrolet. I think we passed more cars than anyone’s ever passed at Texas.”

The NASCAR Cup Series will return next week with a race at Kansas Motor Speedway. Next Sunday’s race is set for a 3 p.m. green flag and will air on FS1. 

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