Pierre Gasly’s car tumbled over in the opening laps of the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday after he was on the outside of Liam Lawson entering the Turn 17 hairpin on lap 6. Lawson locked up the brakes, made contact with Gasly and sent the Alpine car flipping before it came to rest wedged against a barrier.
Gasly was OK and walked away from the wreck, as did Lawson, but the crash quickly became the most dramatic moment in a race that had already turned messy. Just after the start, Max Verstappen spun on his own after lining up second, and Franco Colapinto later made contact with Lewis Hamilton after sliding into the left side of Hamilton’s car.
The Gasly-Lawson hit came only laps into the race, and the chain reaction did not stop there. Seconds later, Isack Hadjar clipped the wall hard enough to break the steering on his car, then drove straight into the outside wall at the end of the chicane. Those two crashes brought out the first safety car of the race.
Kimi Antonelli won the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday, claiming his third straight victory of 2026. For Gasly, the result was a brief but violent end to a race that never settled, and it followed an already difficult weekend after he struggled in Miami, a run of form that also framed Alpine’s top-10 Sprint effort for Franco Colapinto.
