Rome, 2 May (LaPresse) – It’s a return to the past. In the sprint race at the Miami Grand Prix, the fourth round of the F1 World Championship, McLaren secured a one-two finish. On the Florida circuit, reigning world champion Lando Norris finished ahead of his team-mate Oscar Piastri. On the podium was Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari, a ‘Scuderia’ car that arrived in the US with a substantial package of updates to the SF-26, described as ‘one and a half packages’ of new features, the result of a month of intense development work. Behind the Monegasque driver was George Russell’s Mercedes, which capitalised on the 5-second penalty for track limits imposed on championship leader and team-mate Kimi Antonelli, who had finished fourth but slipped to sixth place behind Max Verstappen’s Red Bull. This marks the first victory for a non-Mercedes car this season.