Method One vehicles will race in Miami subsequent 12 months after the game introduced a ten-year deal to host a Miami Grand Prix, beginning in 2022.

The long-awaited race will happen on a brand new 3.36-mile observe that loops round Exhausting Rock Stadium, the house of the Miami Dolphins.

The circuit may have 19 corners and three lengthy straights, with vehicles anticipated to hit high speeds of 198mph.

The precise date of the race will likely be decided at a later time, however F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali confirmed the occasion can be held within the second quarter of the 12 months, forward of the summer time break in August.

This implies F1 will keep away from back-to-back races within the U.S. by maintaining the Miami Grand Prix separate from the U.S. Grand Prix, historically held within the closing quarter of the season at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas. This 12 months’s Austin race takes place on Oct. 24.

“We are going to preserve them separate, with a view to give the appropriate house for each,” Domenicali mentioned on Sunday. “That is actually essential.”

F1 has been engaged on bringing a race to Miami for quite a few years and initially hoped to race across the Biscayne Bay and Bayfront Park space as early as 2019 earlier than native opposition blocked the concept.

Working alongside the proprietor of the Miami Dolphins, Stephen Ross, F1 then focused a race on the land across the Exhausting Rock Stadium, however nonetheless confronted opposition from native residents and politicians.

Metropolis councilors lastly voted in favor of the concept on Thursday after a advantages package deal for Miami Gardens was included as a part of the deal.

An allotment of discounted tickets will likely be put aside for Miami Gardens residents and a $5 million assist programme for native companies and the neighborhood has been agreed, together with a STEM schooling programme for native colleges.

As well as, as a part of a memorandum of understanding between the race promoter and the town, it was agreed that “no portion of the proposed observe shall make the most of northwest 199th Avenue or N.W. twenty seventh Avenue, and that no race shall begin previous to 2:30 p.m. (ET) on a faculty day” in addition to making certain no session begins after sundown.

Miami will develop into the eleventh venue to host a Method One race in the USA and is anticipated to affix the prevailing U.S. Grand Prix on the 2022 schedule, assuming the race in Austin renews its contract as anticipated for subsequent 12 months.

“We’re thrilled to announce that Method One will likely be racing in Miami starting in 2022,” F1 CEO Domenicali mentioned. “The U.S. is a key progress marketplace for us, and we’re drastically inspired by our rising attain within the U.S. which will likely be additional supported by this thrilling second race.

“We will likely be working intently with the workforce from Exhausting Rock Stadium and the FIA to make sure the circuit delivers sensational racing but in addition leaves a constructive and lasting contribution for the individuals in the area people.”

Tom Garfinkel, the managing accomplice of the Miami Grand Prix, added: “The Exhausting Rock Stadium leisure campus in Miami Gardens exists to host the most important world occasions to profit the complete higher Miami area and Method One racing is as huge because it will get.

“Now we have labored with specialist designers to create a racetrack that we, Method One and the FIA imagine will present nice racing and we hope to create best-in-class distinctive fan experiences which can be reflective of the various and dynamic nature of Miami.”