The result is in, and Red Bull’s protest against George Russell’s third-place finish has been thrown out by the Miami stewards.

Red Bull had argued Russell had not slowed enough when passing a single yellow flag being waved for Gabriel Bortoleto’s stranded Sauber. At the time, Max Verstappen immediately radioed Red Bull to “check if George lifted — there was a yellow.”

The Dutchman’s team — having quickly reviewed the telemetry data from all cars disturbed via GPS track systems — reported Russell had only lifted to 90 percent throttle application. Verstappen even braked and downshifted his gears as he passed the yellow flag, being shown at a marshal’s post where Bortoleto had stopped.

Russell, for his part told Mercedes he “lifted for the yellow there.” Mercedes did not get a notification of the incident on the F1 live timing data systems, but Russell insisted he saw “pretty clear the yellow flag.”

In the stewards room, Russell repeated his case and it was found he had lifted off to 75 percent throttle. This is deemed acceptable, even though Russell’s absolute speed leaving the yellow flag zone was higher than it had been entering (fairly obvious physics explains why).

Because he lifted, he was actually going slower than had he been at full racing chat past the incident. Therefore, the stewards were satisfied he had not broken Article 26.1 a) of F1’s sporting rules and cleared him.

Russell keeps third behind Piastri and Norris, and there’s even been a final race classification issued by the FIA. We’re done here.