Formula One Coming to Miami

Formula One officials have come to Miami to inspect proposed venue locations.

Homestead/ISC is already preparing for war by hiring a Tallahassee lobbying firm to post
online petitions and taking out full page ads, riling up the rubes against F1 in Miami.

Get the popcorn ready...

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/downtown-miami/article186841413.html

Thread already active in the Florida section...

https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/forums/florida.19/

BHW

 

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Sounds good to me and a lot closer than Texas. Love the Keys, too.

 

Love it, I'll come to visit definitely.

 

Great!

Looking forward to seeing everyone here!

BHW

 

Miami would be simply brilliant. I can't wait.

 

Miami would be a lot of fun! I can't wait..

 

I wonder where the $$$ for the host fee will come from? Change of cost format?

 

traffic is BRUTAL in Miami.....can you image it during an F1 weekend ughh

 

any idea on potential sites?

as mentioned elsewhere I don't see Bayfront Park viable any more. too much traffic, too many anti-racing/car/noise neighbors.

Tamiami park?

around Marlins or Hard Rock stadiums, a la Meadowlands?

Virginia Key/Marine Stadium?

 

Sounds like another parking lot race.

https://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/27131248/f1-determined-secure-miami-grand-prix

 

No to car-park race

 

Look, they already have a track set up. It could work!

In all seriousness, if you zoom out on the property map you can make a 5000ft (1.5km) straight on the stadium property itself. It may work out.
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Grand Prix ... autocross! Will there be orange cones?

How very exciting!!

not

 

If it’s autocross you could teach them all how to do it buddy (I seem to remember you have done that for a long time, I may be remembering wrongly...... morphine on the brain isn’t a good mixture!)

 

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The last news we've received in Miami about the potential Grand Prix was that the downtown
option wasn't workable.

As many predicted, Ross wants the venue to be at Hard Rock Stadium. But, this isn't exactly
what Liberty is looking for. Liberty wants to visual of downtown Miami, the buildings, palm trees,
beautiful water, big cruise liners, etc. not Miami Gardens which is the polar opposite of downtown
Miami.

The proposed downtown venue has too many land use issues which threw the whole thing off.
Areas which are designated as parks cannot be used. Other areas would require paving but
if they do this, then entire major shopping and dining areas get cut off from their patrons, all this...

It was a good notion but I seriously don't think it's going to happen.

BHW

 

South Beach would be so cool. would buy tickets immediately.

 

Reminds me of CART's Meadowlands Grand Prix from 1984 through 91. Set up in the parking lot around Giants Stratum.

 

Sadly impossible.

BHW

 

Yeah, and I recall it was the most hated venue on the CART schedule.

BHW

 

I went to the CART Meadowlands race one year, and as a spectator, it really wasn't too bad. But this course reminds me more of Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas....

 

I take it. Heck, I take any F1 GP in Miami. Tired of going to Austin, which no longer embraces the GP but instead celebrates some college football gig. And after having gone regularly to the Montreal GP, that too eventually gets a little old.

 

Yup. Went over like a lead balloon there too........

 

They have progressed beyond cones to great fields of red, white, and blue paint.

 

Ah the French touch. Magnifique!