Race Review | 2026 Miami Grand Prix | 175 | Mercedes Brought Nothing. They Won Anyway. Now What?

Kimi Antonelli has now won four consecutive Formula 1 grands prix. Miami was the first one where he had to earn it -- with a world champion behind him, car problems mid-race, and thirty laps of pressure that did not let up.

McLaren arrived with what Andrea Stella called almost an entirely new car. They were fast. They led. Joe Saward laughed.

That laugh is worth understanding. Because the question Dick, Joe, and Sabrina spent most of this episode on is not who won Miami -- it is whether Miami told them anything real about where this season is going. They do not entirely agree.

There is also Max Verstappen's lap-one spin that somehow resolved itself. Charles Leclerc's final lap that somehow did not. Isack Hadjar's weekend, and what Red Bull needs to do about it. The silly season conversation that Joe confirmed has already started in the paddock. And a tangent about Williams, American kids, and a very old Pinewood Derby analogy that turned out to be the sharpest thing anyone said about Formula 1's future.

Four races in. The development race is on. Whether you know who's actually winning it depends on which of the three of them you ask.

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