F1 race in downtown Miami being discussed for 2019.

heads up folks............

" Just seen this piece saying Miami will vote on Thursday to indefinitely defer the F1 contract. In fact if the author had checked the documents he would have seen that they have indefinitely deferred the vote on Thursday about hosting a race FROM 2019... Big, big, difference."


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Just ran across this on Racer...

A fan festival will still take place at Bayfront Park in the days leading up to this year’s US Grand Prix,
with live demonstrations planned for October 17.

That is all...

BHW

 

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What can I say? Simply brilliant!

 

First news we’ve seen on this in quite a while.

Reason to be optimistic? I’m not really sure…

Gauging by the attendance at the “Fan Fest” last October, interest is huge. And, imagine if
they scheduled the Grand Prix for this weekend next year. Miami is absolutely going off
this week with Spring Break, the Grand Prix would blow the lid off the whole thing.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/142295/crucial-vote-on-miami-gp-set-for-next-week

BHW

 

MAY BE DEFERRED.............

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Really hoping for a Miami GP It would be the hottest one on the calendar

 

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It would be very high on my list to go to. Great weather, loads to do before/after the race. Those with kids, especially out of state/country can really make a holiday out of it by going to the parks also.

Caribbean around the corner also.

 

We'll see what happens.

There are strong lobbying efforts on both sides obviously.

F-1 may draw a lot of strength from the Fan Fest they had here in October which was
hugely attended and by all indications a very successful event.

Homestead/ISC is using fear as their M.O. Downtown residents are being told that the event
will make more noise than a jet aircraft taking off (no really), tens of thousands of people
will be camping out in front yards across the whole city, traffic snarls (we already got plenty
of that), dogs & cats living together, the sky is falling, all this.

BHW

 

Does F1 needs another street race on the calendar though ?

We have Monaco, Sochi, Baku, and Singapore, is that not enough ?

Apart from Monaco, street GPs tend to have a short lifespan. Remember Detroit, Long Beach, or Valencia, from the past?

After a few years, the enthusiasm fades away and the town stop hosting a GP.

It could be the same for Miami.

 

Weird.

Liberty should put together some documentary showing the effects a city race has on all the big cities. F1 fans are some of the richest fans one can imagine and they will spend it in town.

 

You ever been to Miami ? It's literally the sexiest city on the planet it's got beautiful everything

 

And the women...... jeez, i didn’t know which way to look nor to walk whenever I visit.... and south beach every day of the year is a sight to behold

 

But what has that to do with Miami being another boring street circuit as opposed to a purpose-built racetrack?

 

you're hilarious

 

Don't confuse Miami with Miami Beach -- they're two different cities.

 

At the rate F1 is going, all circuits are going to be street circuits.

 

True that's why "we" tourist stay in South Beach Been going there since 93

 

Yes, it's crazy.

Historic purpose-built race tracks are threatened with noise abattement legislation, and instead temporary street circuits are promoted.

Liberty seems to have that fixation with turning the championship into a grand tour of cities since it took over F1.

After a few years, the locals mobilise against the disturbance and the authorities withdraw Financial support fearing to lose the next election.

 

My last visit to Miami Beach was in '73 -- and even then, it was thick with golddiggers.

 

They'll just have races in obscure places no one cares about. I for one welcome the idea of a Norilsk GP.

 

F1 news: Plans for Miami Grand Prix shelved for foreseeable future after local lawmakers' delay puts 2020 hopes on ice.

Plans for a Grand Prix on the streets of Miami next year have hit hit the skids after local lawmakers delayed a vote on whether to give the green light to the Formula One race.

It is the latest twist in a saga which has already seen F1 put the brakes on plans to hold the race in 2019 after residents complained about the route the 2.6 mile track would take. It was due to run down the palm-tree lined Biscayne Boulevard and pass through the peaceful Bayfront Park which fuelled the opposition.

In June last year a group of 11 Bayfront Park residents sent a cease and desist order to Miami’s City Hall demanding that it puts the brakes on negotiations over the race. It made an impact.


In July, F1’s commercial boss Sean Bratches said that the sport had scrapped plans for the 2019 race . Instead he said it had “decided, in consultation with the Miami authorities, to postpone sign-off until later in the summer, with the aim of running the first Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix in the 2020 season.”




At the end of September the Miami City Commission was due to vote on whether to approve the contract for the race and its organiser Stephen Ross, the billionaire owner of the Miami Dolphins NFL team. However, it was indefinitely deferred and a spokesperson for the City of Miami said there was a six-month window for the Commissioners to vote on the race again. They kept its hopes alive but left it to the eleventh hour as the vote was due to take place on 28th March which was just before the deadline expired.

The outcome was a closely-guarded secret but it has been revealed in the minutes of the meeting. They show that there has been yet another delay as the vote “was deferred to the May 23, 2019 Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting.” Miami is still in with a shout but its chances of hosting a Grand Prix in 2020 seem to be remote as it usually takes well over a year to get a race to the finish line once authorities have agreed to it. Testimony to this, a Grand Prix on the streets of Vietnam’s capital city Hanoi will join the calendar next year after the deal was signed in November 2018.


Miami got a taste of F1 in October last year when it hosted a fan festival which was first revealed by Independent Sport. The event featured a street demonstration of F1 cars, a line-up of supercars and a garage located in the hotly-debated Bayfront Park. According to F1 the event attracted 80,000 spectators compared to the 100,000 who reportedly attended the festival on the streets of central London in the run up to the 2017 British Grand Prix.

F1 isn’t the only European sport which has struggled to find a home in Miami. Since 2013, David Beckham (pictured above) has been negotiating with authorities there about building a stadium for his Inter Miami Major League Soccer franchise. After years of setbacks it finally came to a head last week when the nearby city of Fort Lauderdale agreed to let Beckham’s group begin demolition of a local stadium so it can finally begin construction.

If Miami gives the red light to the Grand Prix as well it would make a much bigger dent in F1’s plans than those of the city. In 2017 F1 was sold to American investment firm Liberty Media and it soon announced that one of its priorities was boosting the sport’s tally of races in the United States. F1 currently only has one race there – the US Grand Prix in Texas – and this has led to the sport trailing in popularity behind the home-grown NASCAR and IndyCar series.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/motor-racing/formula1/f1-news-miami-grand-prix-a8860401.html

 

damned.

 

IMO a GP here would be terrible.

I’ve been going down to south beach for years and always have a great time, but a race here would make it such a pain just to get around I wouldn’t want to go. It would probably literally take hours just to get over one of the few bridges. No thanks.

And the circuit they laid out looked horrible.