I wasn't exactly jumping with joy when it was announced last week that the Miami Grand Prix would be staying on the Formula 1 calendar until 2041. With it taking place in a literal car park and producing forgettable races in its first three years, it's down there with my least favourite tracks.
Given that, I was worried on Sunday that the pre-race Drivers' Parade would be the highlight of the day. After all, those life-sized Lego F1 cars were very cool.
Thankfully, though, the fun didn't stop there, with Oscar Piastri winning a race that produced its fair share of drama on the track and over the team radios.
Here are my main takeaways from it.
The same old story at the front
In my column after the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, I wrote about how Oscar Piastri handled going wheel-to-wheel with Max Verstappen better than teammate Lando Norris has over the last few years, and the Aussie's superiority in that regard was even clearer to see in Miami.
Norris was faster than Piastri all weekend but finished four seconds behind him on Sunday purely because of their contrasting fortunes when needing to overtake the Dutchman.
The Brit fell behind his rivals at the start when he tried to take advantage of a lock-up from Verstappen and take the lead, only to run out of room and go off the track. His hopes of winning the race then ended when he saw Piastri pass the reigning champion with ease before spending four laps failing to do so.
Both at the start and later on, Norris tried to force his way through, going for gaps that didn't really exist. Piastri, on the other hand, waited until there was a clear opening, which was always going to present itself fairly quickly given he had a much faster car than Verstappen, who was having to drive at the very limit to stay ahead.
Not for the first time, Piastri looked calm, confident and self-assured, while Norris seemed impatient and almost desperate.
That's somewhat understandable given he was the one doing the chasing, trying to stop his teammate from winning a third straight race and extending his championship lead to 16 points. However, if he wants to close that gap, he needs to be smarter.
Things get heated at Ferrari
In his first few races as a Ferrari driver, Lewis Hamilton largely kept his cool when his new team let him down with questionable decisions or outright errors, but things boiled over in Miami.
He looked to be in with a real chance of securing a top-six finish when he caught teammate Charles Leclerc on fresh medium tyres, but by the time the team decided to tell Leclerc to move aside four laps later, those tyres were past their best and the chance of catching Kimi Antonelli was gone, much to the Brit's frustration.
"Have a tea break while you're at it," he told his team over the radio while they deliberated.
That and a number of other messages he sent made it clear that he was far from happy with Ferrari, that he's already running out of patience with them and their famously incompetent decision-making.
That probably wouldn't be the case if they'd at least given him a top car, but the one he was driving in Miami was miles off McLaren's and comfortably slower than the one he'd have been in if he'd chosen to stay at Mercedes. That latter point especially has got to sting.
His decision to join Ferrari was one made by the heart more than the head, but he nevertheless would've been expecting a lot more from the Scuderia, and if things don't improve, what was dubbed the most exciting partnership in the history of the sport is going to become a fraught one. The cracks are already beginning to appear.
Williams are getting back to where they belong
The team that Ferrari were closest to in Miami was Williams, and while that's a pretty damning indictment of the Italian team, it's an even bigger endorsement of the work James Vowles has done to turn the British team around.
When he joined as team principal at the start of 2023, they'd just finished rock-bottom of the standings with eight points to their name, but he seemed absolutely certain that he could get them back to the front of the field.
In the two seasons that followed, the progress was steady but hardly spectacular, but Carlos Sainz's decision to join for 2025 and beyond suggested that bigger things were coming, and that's proved to be the case.
The Spaniard and Alex Albon were both faster than the Ferraris for a good chunk of the latest race weekend and weren't far off the Mercedes and Red Bull drivers either, with Alex Albon finishing comfortably ahead of Antonelli, Leclerc, Hamilton and Yuki Tsunoda, and Sainz also beating the latter.
Such was the gap behind to the teams they'd have been expecting to compete with this year that it would be more accurate to call them the slowest of the frontrunners rather than the fastest of the midfield pack, and that's pretty remarkable when you think about where they were not long ago.
With the combination of two top drivers, a man who looks to be one of the best team bosses around - is it a coincidence that Mercedes have struggled since he left? - and the rich history of the team, the Williams project might just be the most exciting in Formula 1 right now.
