George Russell finished third and Kimi Antonelli fifth in Saturday’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Starting P4 and P17 respectively, both drivers gained places to add a solid 25 points to the team’s overall count in the battle for P2.
George ran a conventional Medium-Hard one-stop; he gained two places on the opening lap but had to cede a position back to the McLaren of Lando Norris in the second stint.
He managed his final stint to bring home P3 and his ninth podium of the season.
Kimi meanwhile gained a remarkable 12 places from his P17 starting position with a brilliant drive.
He started on the Soft tyre, switched to the Hard tyre at the end of lap two, and ran that to the end.
He held off Oscar Piastri on the road whilst running P4 but dropped behind the McLaren due to a five-second time penalty picked up for the minutest of movements before the lights went out.
Nevertheless, his pace on significantly older rubber saw him gap both Carlos Sainz and the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc to take P5.
Following the race, both McLaren drivers, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, were disqualified. This meant that all the other drivers moved up in the classification.
The team thus leaves Las Vegas with a double podium finish: George in P2 and Kimi in P3.
There was success earlier in the day with Mercedes Junior Doriane Pin coming home P5 to claim the F1 Academy title.
