The organizers of the Miami Grand Prix wish to present extra motorsport experiences all year long on the Miami Worldwide Autodrome, however internet hosting different racing collection shouldn’t be a part of that plan.
Miami joined the Components 1 calendar in 2022 and has grown as an occasion every year up to now, with a document 275,000 individuals attending over the three-day weekend earlier this month. The race’s president Tyler Epp says additional bettering within the grand prix is a serious goal transferring ahead, alongside growing a extra everlasting motorsport tradition on the Exhausting Rock Stadium venue.
“I feel there are two massive issues for us,” Epp informed RACER. “Primary, I feel it’s persevering with to put money into Components 1. They’re our largest accomplice in our motorsports enterprise, so proceed to put money into the product and what they do and ensuring that we’re doing that in a approach that’s sticky and relatable for our followers.
“Proper now we function as one big F1 occasion at our facility yearly. We have now to be sure that we’re delivering that on the highest stage, and so the followers that do get pleasure from coming and have continued to return, we’ve bought to develop a relationship with them. So there’s there’s loads of work that we have to proceed to do to domesticate that fan base.
“I feel the second a part of that although, is creating different motorsports experiences on our campus. And Steve [Ross, Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium owner] and Tom [Garfinkel, Dolphins CEO and Miami GP managing partner] have been very intentional about making an attempt to work in additional motorsports-type occasions, into the issues that we do in our facility as an entire all year long.
“We’re going to be engaged on {that a} bunch this summer time and on into the autumn, to offer not solely to individuals who come for Components 1 weekend, but additionally these people who find themselves involved in automotive tradition in South Florida a spot to return and expertise motorsports on the highest stage.”
Regardless of F1 being the one racing occasion to happen at Miami Worldwide Autodrome up to now, Epp says there are not any plans to attempt to entice different collection to the circuit, that has restricted availability as a result of impression of the NFL season and Miami Open tennis event in spring.
“It might be powerful,” he stated. “And that’s not likely a part of the technique, actually. The technique is way more to determine methods to work with the non-public driver, or the non-public automotive collector, the people who simply love vehicles – the automotive golf equipment, if you’ll – and actually provide our facility as a spot for them to return and have the the most effective expertise they presumably can.
“We haven’t had any conversations with any of the opposite racing collection. It’s not likely on this system. We like having our skilled racing collection targeted on one weekend with F1 as our lead.”
