After a quick reprieve, Method 1’s groups had been again at it this previous weekend on the Miami Grand Prix. It was the primary of three stops within the US and 5 in North America as F1 capitalizes on its present wave of recognition right here. The game evidently believes one thing goes proper—it simply introduced a contract extension that can see the occasion stay on the calendar for one more 16 years.
The Miami race is among the many newest of F1’s new breed of Grands Prix. It was initially purported to be extra of a real avenue circuit like Baku or Singapore or Las Vegas, with a route that crossed over a bridge into South Seashore. However the observe is laid out across the numerous parking numerous Miami’s Laborious Rock Stadium, like a Twenty first-century model of the early ’80s Caesars Palace Grands Prix or the now-defunct Sochi race that wound its approach round Vladimir Putin’s favourite sea-side theme park.
Ticket costs seem to have come down a bit of now that the race is in its third 12 months, however the “seaside membership” and Potemkin marina stay, even when they did not look significantly busy on any of the overhead pictures. Regardless of what seemed like sparse attendance on Friday and Saturday, we’re instructed that 275,000 folks attended throughout the weekend.