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Formula 1's return to Miami last weekend yielded a repeat result to the inaugural 2022 Grand Prix as Max Verstappen once more stood atop the podium. And just like last year, the Red Bull driver had to do the job on track after missing out in qualifying, securing a result that will sting for his chief title rival. Here's what we learned from F1's first of three trips Stateside in 2023

With five successive wins at the start of the 2023 Formula 1 season, there was little to be learned in Max Verstappen’s Miami Grand Prix triumph for his Red Bull squad – bar the team nailing the tricky demands of the track’s new surface around the home of the Miami Dolphins NFL team.

But for the Dutchman, his recovery from a wrecked Q3 to win ahead of pole-sitting team-mate Sergio Perez set out a narrative-shifting marker that is predicted to become the main basis of his title defence in what is clearly, solely, an intra-Red Bull affair.

Elsewhere, Ferrari’s tough 2023 start continued, Alpine had to hear some strong criticism from its boss and the FIA introduced new personnel rules following Esteban Ocon’s pitlane near-miss a week ago in Baku.

This what we learned from F1’s second trip to Miami.

1. Verstappen snaps Perez’s early title momentum

Source: Autosport