Miami set the stage for a full-speed weekend, bringing together scene-stealing celebrities, elite performance, and electrifying adrenaline in ultimate Formula 1 style.

There are race weekends, and then there are Miami race weekends. The kind where the heat is part of the dress code, the guest list reads like a fever dream, and somewhere between the starting grid and the after-party, you lose track of where the sport ends and the spectacle begins.
This year, the Miami International Autodrome delivered everything and then some. 19-year-old, Kimi Antonelli, crossed the finish line first&mdash;for the third consecutive time&mdash;driving <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/heron-preston-mecedes-benz-collaboration-collection-look" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mercedes</a>' legendary car. The stands were packed with exactly the kind of faces you'd expect in Miami in Spring. And on Sunday night, as the adrenaline of race day still hung heavy in the air, W Hotels threw the kind of after-party that made everyone forget they had early flights.
L'OFFICIEL was there for all of it&mdash;and this is what you missed.

Kimi Antonelli. Courtesy of Getty Images.

This weekend felt like one of those where you watch history being made in real time&mdash;one with sunscreen melting, lots of champagne, and a heart inexplicably racing even though you don't fully understand the technical regulations. The 2026 Miami <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/formula-1-fashion-history-motocross-style-trend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grand Prix</a> was the setting&mdash;a city that has never needed anyone's permission to be the center of the universe, and that welcomed <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/formula-1-fashion-history-motocross-style-trend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Formula 1</a> in 2022 not as an intrusion but as a natural extension of everything it already was.
When <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/lewis-hamilton-dating-history-girlfriend-wife-nicole-scherzinger-kim-kardashian-age-formula-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lewis Hamilton</a> left Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS to join Ferrari, he left behind a seat that felt, to many, like replacing a religion. The answer to who could possibly fill it came in the form of Kimi Antonelli&mdash;19 years old, impossibly calm, and apparently built for exactly this. This weekend, driving the legendary Silver Arrow, he crossed the finish line first for the third consecutive time.
There's something quietly poetic about watching <a class="underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current" href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/heron-preston-mecedes-benz-collaboration-collection-look">Mercedes</a>, a team with that kind of legacy, bet everything on a teenager and be proven spectacularly right. His family was there trackside all weekend, cheering him on with the kind of energy that belongs more to a school game than a Grand Prix. And in case you needed a reminder of just how young he is: when he crossed the finish line, F1 handed him non-alcoholic champagne&mdash;because he's 19, and in the US, that means no bubbles for you. He said it himself, laughing. Three consecutive victories, and he's still not old enough to drink to them.
Watching him take the checkered flag at Hard Rock Stadium, waved by none other than&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/louis-vuitton-core-values-campaign-2024-roger-federer-rafael-nadal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rafael Nadal</a>, felt less like watching a race and more like watching the first chapter of something enormous.
<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/heron-preston-mecedes-benz-collaboration-collection-look" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mercedes</a> had a very good weekend. And so did everyone lucky enough to be watching.

Serena Williams. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Lionel Messi. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Shaboozey. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Alix Earle. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Rafael Nadal. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Emma Roberts. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Jimmy Fallon and Patrick Dempsey. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Tyriq Withers. Courtesy of Getty Images.

DJ Khaled. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Madison Bailey. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Terry Crews, Colin Farrell and Patrick Dempsey. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Olivia Ponton and Dixie D’Amelio. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Mackenna Grace. Courtesy of Getty Images.

Miami in May has always had a certain electricity to it&mdash;the kind that makes you feel like anything could happen and probably will. It's a city that invented its own sonic identity, home to Miami Music Week and Ultra Festival, with a nightlife culture that has exported its energy to every corner of the world. <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/charles-leclerc-wife-alexandra-f1-miami-grand-prix-2026-photos-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Formula 1</a> only amplifies all of that, arriving each year with its own gravitational pull on the famous and the fabulous.
The paddock and the stands delivered their usual constellation of faces. <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/louis-vuitton-core-values-campaign-2024-roger-federer-rafael-nadal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rafael Nadal</a> took the honorable post of waving the checkered flag&mdash;a passing of the baton between two worlds of athletic greatness that felt almost cinematic. <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/all-the-celebrities-at-formula-1-las-vegas-grand-prix-2024-f1-las-vegas">Lionel Messi</a> was spotted trackside, proof that wherever the world's biggest cultural moment is happening, Leo will find it. Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/serena-williams-us-open-denim-tennis-skirt-2004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Serena Williams</a> moved through the weekend with the kind of presence that makes everyone else feel slightly underdressed.
And yes&mdash;the internet had convinced itself that <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/lewis-hamilton-dating-history-girlfriend-wife-nicole-scherzinger-kim-kardashian-age-formula-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kim Kardashian</a> would be in attendance, given the swirling rumors about her and a certain newly-Ferrari-bound British driver. Rarely, not a single Kardashian was in sight. Miami somehow survived.

LP Giobbi at W PRESENTS. Courtesy of Marriot Bonvoy.

Val Fleury, Singeo and LP Giobbi at W PRESENTS. Courtesy of Marriot Bonvoy.

Singeo at W PRESENTS. Courtesy of Marriot Bonvoy.

Val Fleury at W PRESENTS. Courtesy of Marriot Bonvoy.

W PRESENTS. Courtesy of Marriot Bonvoy.

<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/formula-1-fashion-drivers-guide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Formula 1</a> is no longer just a race. It is, in the most complete sense of the word, a world&mdash;and when that world lands in Miami, a city where the rhythm never really stops, something particular happens. The speed and the sound don't compete. They sync.
The smartest players in hospitality understand this better than anyone. Marriott Bonvoy, whose partnership with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/men/tag-heuer-formula-1-watches-eyewear" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS</a> has quietly become one of the more culturally coherent alignments in the sport, doesn't just show up to these weekends&mdash;it shapes them. And W Hotels, Marriott's most music-obsessed brand, made that case definitively on Sunday night at W South Beach.
W Presents&mdash;their global live music series&mdash;took over the post-race stage for an intimate night that felt less like an event and more like the party you'd been trying to get into all weekend. The kind that could only happen here: where <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/men/tag-heuer-formula-1-watches-eyewear" target="_blank" rel="noopener">F1</a> adrenaline meets a city that has been throwing legendary nights since long before the cars arrived. And Miami is just the first stop&mdash;the series follows the F1 calendar to Barcelona, Budapest, and S&atilde;o Paulo, turning W Hotels around the world into live stages, each one shaped by its destination.
Headlining was LP Giobbi, W Hotels' Global Music Director and one of the most compelling figures in the current electronic music landscape. Her sets are piano-driven, euphoric, and built for exactly this kind of charged atmosphere. Supporting her were Sinego, who is quietly redefining Latin dance music for a new generation, and Val Fleury, whose opening set the kind of magnetic, raw tone that makes you realize a good DJ is essentially a mood architect.
"Producing a feeling," as LP Giobbi describes it. In Miami, that feeling was: we are exactly where we are supposed to be.
And for a city that has always known that <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/hyeres-festival-2022-mercedes-benz-sustainability-prize-fashion-design" target="_blank" rel="noopener">F1</a> didn't change it&mdash;it just finally caught up&mdash;that feeling makes perfect sense.

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