Formula 1 will visit the city of Miami for the first time for the dispute of a new grand prix on American soil next weekend from May 6 to 8. This will be the fifth round of the 2022 season calendar, and it is the only track that opens this season, so teams, drivers and fans are awaiting the construction of the track.
It seems that the scenes that were criticized so much at the debut of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in December 2021 will not be repeated, when the Grand Circus landed in the Middle Eastern country on a half-built circuit, with many works still pending completion and against the clock.
Miami has almost everything ready to host the highest category of motorsports on a 5.41 kilometer track around the spectacular Hard Rock Stadium, where 57 laps will be covered to find out the first winner of the event.
Gallery: this is the Miami GP circuit a month before the F1 race in 2022
Photographs from Motorsport.com show a sunny setting as construction machines put the finishing touches on as the fastest single-seaters on the planet speed around the Miami International Speedway, brushing against the walls in Florida.
There are still very important things missing from a circuit, such as the curbs or the protections, but there is already a glimpse of what will be one of the most impressive and complex tracks on the calendar, with many stands to welcome a large mass of fans eager to see the heroes who discovered, mostly, through the Netflix series , ‘Drive to Survive’.
One of the reasons why Formula 1 will hold a race in Miami, in addition to the logical commercial interest in the area, is the exponential increase in the number of followers of the category in the United States, a country that will have another appointment in 2023 with the GP from Las Vegas for a total of three. At the Austin event last year, nearly 400,000 people flocked to the Texas track to enjoy a day of Formula 1, so it is obvious that Liberty Media wanted to grow this with more races on North American soil.