Leclerc’s car was clearly damaged on the final lap as he saw the podium place he had held for much of the race evaporate.

Lap 56/57: Antonelli’s lead is now just shy of three seconds. Leclerc is just about holding off Piastri in the battle for third.

Lap 55/57: Russell clips Verstappen but Max, in fifth, maintains his lead over the Briton.

Lap 54/57: Some good news for Russell after a disappointing day: he’s gaining on Verstappen and could claim a place in the top five. Antonelli’s lead widens to 2.4sec.

Lap 53/57: If any rain does come now, it’s unlikely to make any difference to the race. Antonelli just needs to maintain the excellence he’s shown all race. Doesn’t look like that will be hard for him.

Lap 52/57: Standings with five laps to go:

1) Antonelli

2) Norris

3) Leclerc

4) Piastri

5) Verstappen

6) Russell

7) Hamilton

Lap 51/57: This looks like Antonelli’s race now, barring disaster. The lead over Norris in second is up over two seconds. A reminder that he doesn’t turn 20 until August.

Lap 50/57: Leclerc and Piastri have leapt ahead of Verstappen and Max is down in fifth. Leclerc is third and Piastri fourth. Verstappen finely suffering under those worn tyres.

Lap 49/57: Norris has gained some time on Antonelli – a few tenths of a second – but it’s not enough to cause the leader any serious problems as yet.

Lap 48/57: While Antonelli has looked supreme for most of this race, his Mercedes teammate, George Russell, has had a tough, scrabbly day down in sixth.

Lap 47/57: Standings with 10 laps to go:

1) Antonelli

2) Norris

3) Verstappen

4) Leclerc

5) Piastri

6) Russell

7) Hamilton

Lap 46/57: The most intriguing battle may now be for third between Verstappen using all his skills to fend off Leclerc.

Lap 44/57: Antonelli’s lead is up to two seconds. Norris looked like he might crack his opponent for a while but the championship leader is looking untroubled now as we enter the race’s final stages.

Lap 43/57: “I’m just four wheels sliding,” says George Russell, who looks to have lost fifth to Oscar Piastri for good. You’re more than that, George – you’re a person with feelings.

Lap 42/57: Antonelli is giving Norris nothing at the moment and it doesn’t look like weather is going to be a factor in this race as the heavens stay firmly closed.

Lap 41/57: The lead is back up to a second for Antonelli, whose worries a few laps back look – for now – to be unfounded.

Lap 40/57: Your standings so far:

1) Antonelli

2) Norris

3) Verstappen

4) Leclerc

5) Piastri

6) Russell

7) Hamilton

Lap 39/57: Norris’s car looks more steady than Antonelli’s but the Italian still leads.

Lap 37/57: Antonelli is worried. “My rears are gone,” he says on the radio but he’s maintaining a lead of 0.7sec for now.

Lap 36/57: Norris within one second of Antonelli and we have a race!

Lap 35/57: Piastri, one of the 547 people to have led this race at some point, is moving up the field and is back in fifth.

Lap 34/57: Norris hasn’t gained any ground on Antonelli despite the Italian’s concerns over his gearbox. No rain yet, by the way. We were promised storms!

Lap 32/57: This result would extend Antonelli’s lead in the drivers standings if things remain the same. But he says he has concerns with his gearbox on the team radio.

Lap 31/57: Leclerc, the former leader, is gaining on Verstappen in third. Red Bull took a risk with their early pit – it was brave but the wear on Max’s tyres has been too much for him.

Lap 31/57: Antonelli has a lead of 1.2 seconds over Norris but this race is still up for grabs.

Lap 30/57: Your standings so far:

1) Antonelli

2) Norris

3) Verstappen

4) Colapinto

5) Russell

6) Leclerc

7) Piastri

8) Hamilton

Lap 29/57: Verstappen starting to struggle a little as his hard tyres wear. That leaves Antonelli, in second, and Norris, in third, to with the advantage. And Kimi is through! He’s in the lead and the favourite to win. Norris takes second from the struggling Verstappen.

Lap 28/57: Hamilton and Norris pit. And Norris can’t enter the track ahead of Antonelli, who is in third, behind Verstappen and Piastri, who is yet to pit.

Lap 27/57: Antonelli pits and drops from third to fifth. Norris still leads and has yet to pit. Verstappen will take the lead when Norris pits though.

Lap 26/57: Hamilton takes the racing line and blocks Verstappen from overtaking him and moving into fourth. Max gets what he wants on his second attempt though.

Lap 25/57: McLaren thought it would start raining around now. It is not raining. Verstappen is gaining on Hamilton in fourth. Norris’s lead is being eroded by Antonelli. And … we have a few drops of rain! But by no means a deluge.

Lap 24/57: Leclerc is up to 10th after at one point leading the race but he’s struggling to regain a decent position after pitting.

Lap 23/57: Verstappen is up to fifth and has, to remind you, pitted already. Piastri is being told on his team radio that it’s about to rain. No one seems to know what’s going on with the weather.

Lap 21/57: Norris’s lead is now up to three seconds. David Coulthard insists his app says we won’t have rain, we’ll see how good it is. Leclerc pits and reenters the race in 12th.

Lap 20/57: Your standings so far:

1) Norris

2) Antonelli

3) Leclerc

4) Piastri

5) Russell

6) Hamilton

7) Colapinto

8) Verstappen

9) Sainz

10) Albon

Lap 19/57: Norris is building his lead as the skies darken but no rain yet.

Lap 18/57: On Perez’s radio we’re told rain is expected in two to three laps.

Lap 17/57: Piastri briefly moves past Leclerc into third but the Ferrari driver grabs his position back. Norris has a lead of 2.3 seconds ahead of Antonelli in second.

Lap 16/57: There are whispers that the rain may not fall after all. That would be a huge boost for Verstappen, who could stay out for the rest of the race without pitting. He’s 10th at the moment but will be feeling pretty pleased himself.

Lap 15/57: Norris extends his lead to 1.7 seconds. Verstappen up to 11th and he’s flying through the field. Not literally, that would be cheating.

Lap 14/57: This has been an eventful race so far, and it hasn’t even rained yet. Verstappen is up to 12th after pitting early, by the way. Antonelli is back up to the second, not sure how much hitting that debris has affected Leclerc, who led the race not too long ago.

Lap 13/57: The skies are definitely looking more ominous but the rain hasn’t started yet. And we have another leader! Norris passes Leclerc on the straight. Leclerc hit some debris on the track after Norris passed him.

Lap 11/57: The safety car is about to make its bow (for now) so we’ll be back to actual racing soon.

Lap 10/57: The safety car is still out. A reminder of the top positions so far. We’re told rain is coming in 20 minutes – around lap 25 or so. Verstappen, now in 16th, is the only driver to have pitted – if the rain holds off, it will reward the former world champion. The stewards are looking into the collision between Gasly and Lawson, and the New Zealander could be penalised.

1) Leclerc

2) Norris

3) Antonelli

4) Russell

5) Piastri

6) Hamilton

7) Colapinto

8) Albon

9) Sainz

10) Bearman

Lap 10 of 57: Hadjar clipped a wall before he crashed, he simply turned too early. He’d been moving up the field on the hard tyres too.

Lap 8 of 57: Gasly’s car flipped after he was clipped by Lawson. The New Zealander is OK to continue. Gasly has walked away unharmed.

Lap 7 of 57: Gasly and Hadjar were involved in separate crashes, by the way. Verstappen pits.

Lap 4 of 57: Antonelli challenges Leclerc for the lead but Leclerc holds off the championship leader … just about. Antonelli has another dart and Leclerc lets him through. Antonelli in the lead!

Lap 3 of 57: A good start for Alex Albon, who started the day in 15th but has leapt up to 10th. Hadjar, the only driver on hard tyres after starting in the pit, has zoomed to 16th .

Lap 2 of 57: Verstappen makes back a little ground, passing Lawson and is now up to eighth. Leclerc has a lead of a second over Antonelli in second. Russell is up to fourth.

Every driver starting on the grid is on medium tyres today, the rain earlier means there’s not likely to be much grip on the track. And, of course, if it rains later …

Hadjar, starting in the pit lane, will start on hard tyres in the hope of making up ground on the field.

Max Verstappen, an excellent wet weather driver, is chatting to Apple TV as he makes his way to the grid. He predicts a “hectic race” in the unpredictable conditions.

This will be the first race this season with rain, and the first time we see how the new cars handle wet conditions. While we wait for the start of the race, a little reminder of the driver standings at the start of the day:

1 Kimi Antonelli (It) 75pts

2 George Russell (GB) 68

3 Charles Leclerc (Mon) 55

4 Lewis Hamilton (GB) 43

5 Lando Norris (GB) 33

6 Oscar Piastri (Aus) 28

7 Oliver Bearman (GB) 17

8 Pierre Gasly (Fr) 16

9 Max Verstappen (Neth) 16

10 Liam Lawson (NZ) 10

Latest news is that the race should start in dry conditions, although the rain is more than likely to set in at some point during the grand prix. Meanwhile, Jon Rahm has turned up to get some advice from Carlos Sainz and Rafa Nadal on the LIV situation.

The rain is still holding off for now. Looks like F1 have linked up with some local teams, so little known Inter Miami veteran Lionel Messi can afford to get in! Great to see F1 giving back to the community.

A little update from AFP on the grid:

Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar will start from the back of the grid in the Miami Grand Prix after he was disqualified on Sunday from qualifying for a technical infringement on his car.

Hadjar had posted the ninth quickest time in Saturday’s qualifying but the stewards announced that the Frenchman’s car failed its inspection. They said its floor was deemed non-compliant because its dimensions exceeded by two millimetres the reference volume defined by the 2026 regulations.

Red Bull accepted the decision and “admitted a breach of the technical regulations”, the stewards specified.

“We made a mistake and we respect the stewards’ decision,” said team principal, Laurent Mekies, in a statement.

“No advantage was sought or gained from this error. We will learn from this mistake and review our procedures to understand how it happened and ensure it does not happen again.”

Hadjar, 21, is therefore relegated to the back of the grid in 22nd spot.

Tom will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s how qualifying went down:

Kimi Antonelli took pole position for the Miami Grand Prix with a strong lap, but only by narrowly beating a resurgent Max Verstappen and Red Bull into second place.

After the session had finished, the FIA, F1 and the Miami promoter issued a joint statement announcing the start of Sunday’s race had been brought forward from 4pm to 1pm local time – 6pm BST – because of heavy thunderstorms forecast for the afternoon.

On the track Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton were in third and sixth for Ferrari, with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri in fourth and seventh for McLaren, while Antonelli’s Mercedes teammate George Russell could manage only fifth, four-10ths back from the Italian.

Antonelli, who leads the world championship by seven points from Russell, claimed his third straight pole, reasserting Mercedes’ pace at the front of the field that had looked to be genuinely under threat over the weekend in Miami. Not least when Norris and Piastri took a dominant one-two in the sprint race earlier on Saturday at the Hard Rock stadium.

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