Redesigning The Miami Grand Prix Circuit 

Welp. I don’t know what to say after that race… 🤣 Timing is impeccable as always 🤡. CONGRATS LANDOOOO

I have one thing: why do we need 3 Races in The US, but none in Germany? Nürburgring and hockenheim are top spots with a crazy crowd and history. Or in argentina. Or any east european country. Or india. Or some southeast asian country. Maybe new zealand. Theres so much so why 3 us grandprix? And yeah the chicane is horrible change it.

What would I change? - delete the whole dang thing! - an American

Unfortunately that last mini chicane is a must have because there is no space for any kind of run-off leading onto the back straight. It has to be slow!

This aged poorly, really really quickly

Lol. Meanwhile we just got the best race of the season in miami

Bro legit if they just had a competent designer build the track it would all be fine

Yeah I definitely prefer the options of fixing the tracks we have than removing them, especially the US ones. I feel like a lot of European F1 fans don't understand the struggle of having 2/3 of the calendar be at unwatchable times. Replacing Miami with like Germany does nothing but make the sport even less accessible to watch here and F1's next big step they're taking is trying to grow in North America. Having these NA tracks is necessary, but improving them is where priorities should lie.

Fans should have 100% control on where F1 races on

How about just removing the Miami Autodrome entirely

The chicane is there because it’s uphill and close to the overpass so the chicane has to stay for safety reasons

Great video! I honestly think turn 1-3 is fine. Could be a bit more open and flowing but it provides overtaking. Biggest change is I would make a monza style parabolica turn to replace the horrible turn 7 and 8. I partially agree with you on the back straight as i hate that area with the long right. I think that left-right chicane needs to be later so to promote more speed. and then i would keep the last chicane before the back straight but make the following left hander more flowing and open so as to promote more speed down the back straight.

4:47, i see what you're talking about and why you 're talking about it with the widening of the corner, tho if cars are coming into that corner faster (due to the little straight you put before) a significantly big runoff area has to be constructed, and you'll have to take into account the space for that, too

Your changes are on point but I would take 17 and make it a longer sweeping corner that flows through 18/19 and on to the straight (think Suzuka spoon or turn 1). Easiest way to do that is to take 17 and move the start of the corner up the road 20-50m (sorry tree), and then run it out to where the grand stand sits in the current layout (push that grandstand back obvs). I would then move the DRS zone to the exit of 18 and give the drivers DRS through 19 and the entire straight. Reward drivers brave enough to punch it through 19 with a huge run. You could also move DRS zone 2 closer to 16 and end it halfway up the straight which will get trailing car chance to fight back. Makes 17 a more enticing battle location

Yeah, I actually started watching WEC instead of F1. I really like the cars, the sounds and the tracks, but the coolest thing is that you start watching a 24h race, you sleep, and on another day the race is still going, that's super cool

In fairness, Miami is a street race. They can only do so much at the location they chose. They can make the track wider, but it is on main streets for traffic as well. It is like complaining about Monaco and saying it is not good racing, which is not so when is that video. If you want a new track, then it can't be at the hardrock stadium, which is the only reason there is a race in Miami. Is it too many in the us, maybe, but no one says that about the two in Italy. Plus, it is actually quite a good track in games, but that is cause more risk can be taken.

The problem is the can mostly drive one line around maimi. So fixing the track won't do much. They need 1) let more cars race aeound this track for more rubber and grip or 2) make it that the track is less "green."

Not the worst redesign I have ever seen online, leaving the first corner as is but tightening it could achieve what it does atm as a braking overtaking zone Beyond that, making the radius of the corners generally go from larger to smaller might also help turn the continual corners where nothing happens, into spots where the drivers skill and placement can create variability, which in turn creates opportunities for overtakes

i like the concept of t1-3 irl because its a mirror of interlagos. Interlagos works though because of the long af sector 3 leading to it.

That new Miami is lovely

My bucket list of Formula 1® tracks, (but) in chronological order of regional: 🇦🇺 Albert Park 🇸🇬 Marina Bay 🇲🇾 Sepang 🇰🇷 Yeongam 🇯🇵 Suzuka 🇨🇳 Shanghai 🇮🇳 Buddh 🇦🇪 Yas Marina 🇶🇦 Losail 🇧🇭 Sakhir 🇸🇦 Jeddah / Qiddiya 🇦🇿 Baku 🇹🇷 Istanbul 🇫🇮 Kymi Ring 🇭🇺 Hungaroring 🇦🇹 Österreichring 🇮🇹 Monza 🇲🇨 Monte-Carlo 🇫🇷 Buggati / Magny-Cours / Paul Ricard 🇩🇪 Nürburgring GP-Strecke / Hockenheimring 🇧🇪 Spa-Francorchamps 🇳🇱 Zandvoort 🇬🇧 Silverstone 🇪🇸 Barcelona-Catalunya 🇵🇹 Portimão 🇨🇦 Montreal 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas 🇲🇽 México City 🇧🇷 Interlagos 🇿🇦 Kyalami Although i'm Indonesian, but I almost never too optimistic about the potential for the Indonesian Grand Prix. Just has these six Asian tracks is very enough for me. I also don't want three races in the USA. One race per country is my dream calendar, as always. 30/07/2024 19:49 Or 07:49 PM At My Local Time.

As an American I’d rather have Poland Germany or kyalami

I think Miami would be a good race if they added a Sepang-style chicane at T7-8 much like Sepang's T1-2, could promote another overtaking opportunity

*How I would improve this:* - Delete this track & Las Vegas from the calendar. - Add Hockenheim & Nürbürgring on the calendar instead.

Love the idea with the chicane and widening but it may not be feasible. State and federal highways/interstates are very strict with what can be placed and how far it is from the road making the widening really hard and the reason it’s very narrow at that part of the track. Also the it will be a crap ton of money because of the landscaping of the grass, (most of the parking lot is grass and not asphalt.

Glad i am not the onlyone who want's to redesign this circuit. Your design was pretty good one but i would still make couple of changes. New turn 1 is nice so i keep that Fast sector 1 corners removed and in goes straight and hairpin corner. Your Monza style chicane made Montreal wall of champion style right/left and wall very close. Rest of the track as you have planned

Everyone is blinded by Lando's win to realize the race was pretty trash by formula 1 standards, and it only got Lando his win because of safety car mistake. There were quite some overtakes in terms of this year but quite less for f1. The track is shit. And in that chicane part, people cant overtake so they HAVE to back off. So, NO, the racing is very bad here. Yes, I'm happy for Lando, but the race was by no means interesting or fun to watch.

I swear to god the track doesn’t suck I promise ya it’s never bad

1:10 I think Vegas is a far worse example of f1 shoe horning a track in because money. Just think about it

Great timing

How about every Tilke circuit?

me personally I love Miami I think it’s a nice area bc it feels good a lot of the time there only problem for me is the chicane or at least where they put it

i disagree with most of this, i would say the only change is that stupid chicane and turn it into a straight with a wider longer 90 degree left hand corner

who let bro cook?

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Nah tbf at least Qiddya isn’t a street circuit, it will be purpose built

The 3 changes I would make are move it to 1 Road America, 2 laguna seca,3 Watkins Glen. Miami Gardens is not Miami as people imagine it, it's a shit compromise as it was supposed to be downtown and its a shit layout. America has a dozen better venues. Even Indianapolis would be an upgrade

I’d have the cars go through the stadium

Turn 1 looked different when they proposed the track

I don't think your changes in the braking zones help at all, there are now no very hard braking zones in the corners you changed. Also for turn 1 I wouldn't change the corner of turn 1 but I would get rid of turn 2 and 3 and straight line that bit so it makes it easier to undercut the driver who is defending when the driver on the outside wants to cut back for a better exit. I think the "S" section is good, even if you make it wider there, there is no chance the guy behind would really give it a go on the outside there as there is too much risk of being squeezed out or getting a massive snap of oversteer. For the other section i diagree with your changes as your braking zone is not long enough to do anything it would just be single file and no chance of out braking anyone. What i would do there, would be to keep the braking zone maybe but the kerb on turn 11 a bit narrower so there is more chance for dive bombs, keep the weird long right turn but then straight line the section under the motorway which would allow the cars to keep closer together for the back straight. I think these changes would create better racing. This is my proposition. Anyway I like your thinking but practically it would probably make the racing worse as you got rid of most of the demanding braking zones.

My problem , Is the ticket prices . If F1 is trying to get the fans in the USA , the ticket price is going to turn people off . You can go to NASCAR races for what F1 race charges to park your car at the race track . I have boycotted the races in America . I really don’t think it will take off well . Very sad .

Madrid is being "considered" to join the calendar

Love the video

Worst track is big cope with Vegas existing imo

It’s not a bad track, It’s just American

...isn't madrid confirmed?

I hate to say it, but this solved nothing. The first turn being a sweeper destroys the point of a first turn, a slower corner where initial moves can be completed. The Monza chicane is simply awful, as the Monza chicane is. Straightlining the original chicane works. I do suppose the wider track works. But those first two changes I mentioned improved nothing and actually seemed to have made the circuit worse.

Honestly, just leave Miami. There is no need to have three Grands Prix here in the United States. (I could argue that F1 could just stop racing in the United States altogether [especially depending on what happens in our presidential election in November, for reasons similar to fans arguing that F1 shouldn't be in Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, or Bahrain {then again, I'm a trans woman, and the way the states of Texas and Florida have been attacking trans rights makes them undeserving imo of a Grand Prix}]). Sorry if I've gotten too political, I'll get off my soapbox. -Sincerely, An American

I can't decide if this video was a joke or you actually took it seriously? You made the whole first sector to be flat out basically, you ruined the overtaking opportunities. Like wtf?? Miami is already good for racing. There are circuits that are way less good. Look at the 2024 gp aswell, you could see, there were tonns of battles

Abu Dhabi is worse

Lando fixed it for you

The qualifying crash was in 2023

MGP, 2024 proved you 100% wrong. Your video didn't age well.

Zandvoort is much worse

I would absolutely love the track going through the stadium. Is there a way to build a temporary circuit part that goes over the grass without damaging it?