The 2025 Miami Grand Prix presented a weekend of mixed fortunes for the Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team. Challenging weather conditions and persistent performance issues hampered the team's progress, resulting in a disappointing outcome despite individual moments of brilliance. **Friday: Practice and Sprint Qualifying** Free Practice 1 saw both Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso focusing on data collection using the Medium compound tires, switching to Softs for the final 15 minutes. A red flag prematurely ended the session. Sprint Qualifying saw Stroll struggling with traffic, narrowly missing SQ2 and qualifying P16. Alonso, however, impressed, progressing to SQ3 and securing a P10 starting position for the Sprint. Stroll commented: "Sprint Qualifying didn’t play out well for me today: I had a lot of traffic on my final push lap and was a bit unlucky with where I came across Verstappen on the final straight. All of that cost me a few tenths and I just missed the chance to get through to SQ2." Alonso added: "It’s a bit of a surprise to qualify where we did because the car is still struggling with balance and it’s not always consistent - but all in all, a good day." **Saturday: Sprint Race and Qualifying** The Sprint race was impacted by rain, resulting in a red flag and a change to intermediate tires. Both drivers had strong initial laps, with Alonso climbing to eighth and Stroll to eleventh. The track quickly dried. Stroll pitted for dry tires earlier, while Alonso's sprint unfortunately ended prematurely following contact from Liam Lawson, triggering a safety car. Despite the incident, Stroll secured P5 and four valuable points, finishing the Sprint and Qualifying in P5 and P19 respectively. Alonso ended the Sprint in DNF and Qualified in P17. Stroll reflected: "We know we don’t have the pace currently and finished Qualifying as we expected. We made some positive set-up changes following the Sprint and the car felt the best it has been all weekend, but we know we are just not quick enough. So it felt really good to get a decent result in the Sprint earlier today." Alonso stated: "A difficult day. In Qualifying, we just didn’t have the pace to proceed to Q2, so it will be a challenge to score points tomorrow. In the Sprint, I was having a perfect race and felt competitive. We should have taken dry tyres earlier, but we were still going to score points when Lawson made contact with me." **Sunday: Grand Prix** The Grand Prix started under partly dry conditions. Alonso started P17 on Hard tires, while Stroll started P18 on Mediums. Both gained positions initially, with Stroll reaching P15. Stroll's pitstop was on Lap 20, switching to Hard tires. Alonso switched to Mediums under a Virtual Safety Car on Lap 28. Both drivers ultimately finished the race in P15 and P16, respectively. Stroll expressed: "Difficult race for us today and very tricky conditions, as we expected. We just simply lack pace – we’ve been slow all season so far and today wasn’t any exception. With an uneventful race and no opportunities, it just shows how we’re not competitive and need to look at improving the car in all areas." Alonso added: "Tough race. We didn’t have the pace the whole weekend, and we expected the race to be difficult. We faced similar challenges today that we’ve had all season and couldn’t capitalise on any chaos ahead of us. We need to get better and hopefully in Imola take a step forward." Team Principal Andy Cowell summarized: "Today’s results in the Miami Grand Prix are a reminder that we are simply lacking car performance. There were very few opportunities to progress from our starting positions and the race turned out to be a comfortable one-stop race for the entire field. It was important that we scored four points with Lance yesterday in the Sprint, but under normal dry conditions we don’t have a car capable of competing for points right now. We need to continue to analyse where we can improve and work hard to be more competitive in Imola." **Looking Ahead:** The team will now focus on analyzing the data and making improvements to the AMR25 ahead of the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, the first race of a triple-header. The team’s determination to overcome their current challenges and return to competitiveness remains strong.