Windsor believes Norris could have won the Miami Grand Prix: 'Lando had no alternative'

Windsor discussed in his race analysis the incident after the start between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris. He explains how the Dutchman got off to a good start but braked too hard at the first corner, allowing the McLaren driver to overtake. "Max locked up, ran wide, and there's Lando down the inside and looked for all the world as if he was going to get the lead here," Windsor states. "The problem for Lando is that at Miami, yes, it's a relatively tight right-hander, but then you're accelerating out of that through a left-hander. Even though he was on the outside of the right-hander, Max was lined up perfectly for the inside going into the left."

"All Max had to do was just back off a fraction, and Lando would have got the lead," the former team boss continued. "Max Verstappen's never going to do that for Lando Norris. He just stayed on the racing line, used probably a little bit more road than he should have, knowing that Lando was there and Lando had no alternative but to go off track and lose two or three places."

Windsor thinks that Norris threw away a nearly certain victory at the start. "I don't think Lando read Max very well and had he just backed off slightly there let Max take that position fouled in behind him Lando would still have been second but much more importantly he would have been in front of Oscar Piastri and he probably would have won the race so easy to say oh well Lando blew it there but the reality is you've got to read the character of the individual that you're racing against and as we saw later in the race." 

Finally, the F1 analyst points out a crucial difference between the way Piastri and Norris attacked the Dutchman. "Piastri got past Max Verstappen, absolutely no problem, took him two laps. Actually, he induced Max into his only, his second mistake of the race." About Norris, he said, "By the time Lando got past Max, to make it a McLaren one-two, Oscar Piastri and then Lando Norris, he was nine seconds behind Oscar Piastri. So, thank you and good night."