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Agreed, it's a terrible location for a track

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What do you guys need? It is located in flat boring terrain, and next to a 10-lane highway.

All that's missing is stand your ground laws in the general admission areas, alligators in the run-offs, and a cocked-out Florida Man running naked on track prior to the race start.

with a sign that says F1 SUCKS, NASCAR RULES

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Miami!!! Yes....whoop whoop. Beaches, babes and booze and copious amounts of coke and methyessss.....ahhh, hang on, umm, soooo, ahh shit....that is where we are racing? In the middle of bum fuck no where next to a dirty canal that isn't exactly millionaires row? Ahhhhh haha yeah......MiAmI.

I can picture the TV cut away's now of the beaches and glamorous people, then cut back to the helicopter overhead of the track where you can see people turning tricks by the canal.

perhaps the main reason Liberty accepted to race in Miami is to get a good load of nose candy for themselves

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Great. We finally get rid of Sochi and it's replaced by another Sochi. Sochi here, Sochi there, Sochis everwhere.

It was already said that the race would be held in the poor part of town, where the locals couldn't even dream of being able to buy a ticket.

so that's where the dealers used to sell their drugs in Miami Vice

funny that speaking about tracks in uncommon places, Homestead is located half mile away from a nuclear power station

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If they don’t use a white testarossa as pacecar in Miami we riot

Yup definitely Sochi vibes. What a shame the location doesn't capture the famous Miami vibes at all. This could've been hosted in any major US city and we wouldn't know the difference. Oh well, I guess it captures the concrete jungle vibe of the races in the US in the early 90s.

Wait, the track is around the Hard Rock Stadium, right? What's this buzz about it being located in a poor area? Most Miami-based events are moving into Hard Rock led by the big tennis tournament after the luxury pensioners prevented a facility upgrade at Key Biscayne. From what I recall the Dolphins owner is one of the richest owners in the NFL. As usual in USA, money talks and it seems like the Dolphins owner is all in on the money in first place.

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I'm a little half cocked, sorry if I ramble.
I think the point is, stadium locations don't equal money or nice areas in the US at least. In fact it's usually the opposite. The rich assholes get serious cases of NIMBY combined with higher land value and zoning regs and usually stadiums and tracks wind up in the shit part of town. Mind you, some historic ballparks are in major urban areas that are nice, and some newer stadiums and tracks try to revitalize the surrounding area, but often it's shitville.

You don't want to be hanging around where Richmond Raceway is after dark. The Washington Nationals stadium was built in a murder filled shit hole, but I think that may have actually improved.

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the same happen with Interlagos, there are several poor communities nearby and since it's pubicly owned they wanted to sell the lot to build fancy condos

But since the track actually brings profit on concerts and other events, they quit the idea of selling

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Well, baseball parks were usually build in the peasant urban areas because before WWI or WWII fans wouldn't rather take a car or maybe a bus to the game that often (couldn't afford either). So they had to build them where people would literally walk to or ride a bike? The locations stayed over the years, they usually demolish the old stadiums and build the new ones at virtually the same place or nearby?

Modern day is different, some rich owner buys a piece of land for cheap and builds the stadium because he knows fans would still get to the place with ease. More people drive cars than horse carriages compared to 1920s for sure!

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The drone overheads say different.

So have I missed something? My Youtube feed is full of F1 channels saying Vettel is going to retire. I mean, yeah I could see that happening but I have about 6 different channels suddenly appear in the last two days all saying the same thing. Did he say something?

probably one made a video, and then the others followed suit

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Mike Krack mentioned in an interview that the mistakes he made in Melbourne were 'not normal' and couldn't just be explained by his lack of seat time and having had Covid. It did seem to be weirdly phrased, like a very badly-deployed motivational criticism.

funny that Vettel's performance has been declining very sensibly, kinda remembers Jacques Villeneuve

Alonso on the other way, despite burning bridges and having to deal with crap equipment, is still able to pull good performances

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This isn't the first un-Miami track in Miami.

There was also Tamiami Park which was inland a bit as well. But that was actually a decent track, narrower, and didn't have ridiculous tarmac runoffs.