MIAMI, Florida — The organisers of the Miami Grand Prix have held discussions about turning their annual System One occasion into an evening race sooner or later.

The three.3-mile circuit is situated across the grounds of Miami Dolphins’ Laborious Rock Stadium, and on Sunday hosted the second race of its 10-year contract.

The occasion, which is ready to retain its early-Could date shifting ahead, is certainly one of three F1 races in the USA this season, with an evening race in Las Vegas set to hitch the schedule in November.

Six of F1’s 23 races now happen below floodlights, and Miami Dolphin’s CEO Tom Garfinkel is contemplating giving the identical therapy to his occasion.

“We have had some discussions about that,” Garfinkel informed reporters in Miami. “We have had some discussions about doubtlessly doing that.

“It is clearly this time of 12 months the climate’s a bit unpredictable, the climate’s been good this 12 months to date, final 12 months was unseasonably scorching, however there’s quite a lot of elements that go into that with F1 and tv and every part else so we have got to weigh all these issues, however we’re actually open-minded to it.”

Garfinkel mentioned different issues would come with the noise for native residents in Miami Gardens and whether or not Miami would run its race on Saturday night time like Las Vegas plans to do.

“We’re not at a spot the place we’re making a choice proper now,” he added. “I feel we’re having discussions the place if we did it what would it not appear to be.”

The Miami Grand Prix invested closely in bettering services for its second race, together with three ranges of latest hospitality items above the pit lane and the choice to maneuver crew hospitality items on to the sector of Laborious Rock Stadium.

Garfinkel mentioned the upgrades have been made with the race in thoughts, however there are plans to make use of the pit buildings on soccer weekends, together with a novel premium tailgating expertise for Dolphins followers.

“We’ll do some issues round soccer video games, however we’ll do some enjoyable issues,” he added. “I would like to go away the motive force indicators up above the garages and for soccer video games we’ll do some premium tailgating down there.

“So somebody can hire out Lewis Hamilton’s storage and have a bartender, they will pull their automotive proper in, have a chef, do some premium tailgating as properly.”