Miami International Autodrome

Formula One track in Miami Gardens

Racing Around Hard Rock Stadium

Each spring a Grand Prix track rises among the parking areas of Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, a ritual that began in 2022.

For most of the year this ground is where people leave their cars. As temporary circuits go, the Miami International Autodrome is an unusual one: instead of borrowing public streets, it occupies privately owned land surrounding Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, stitching freshly built roads together with existing ones through the stadium's parking areas. Barriers, fencing and safety equipment go up a few weeks ahead of race weekend and come away once it is over, and the site returns to ordinary life, with rather slower traffic.

Getting here took patience. Stephen Ross, who owns the stadium, spent years courting Formula 1, and a first plan for the site was drawn in October 2019. Apex Circuit Design weighed as many as 75 layouts and ran 36 of them through simulation before fixing the final shape, a round of revisions that would test a novelist's patience. Local commissioners initially rejected the project, then changed course in April 2021, and in September the circuit received its name.

The lap that emerged covers 5.412 km and 19 corners, and a Formula 1 car in qualifying trim averages roughly 224 km/h around it. Four shorter configurations, introduced from 2024, keep the venue busy beyond race week, and Formula E made it the home of its Miami ePrix for the 2025 to 2026 season.

Miami has staged five championship rounds, 2022 to 2026, and has already proved generous with milestones. Max Verstappen won the first two for Red Bull. In 2024 Lando Norris broke through for the first Grand Prix win of his career, Oscar Piastri won for McLaren a year later, and in 2026 Kimi Antonelli turned pole position into victory for Mercedes. For a circuit that packs itself away each year, it has a remarkable memory.

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