Spring break fever has overtaken Formula One. It has Charles Leclerc playing catch with baseball’s Jazz Chisholm Jr, Lewis Hamilton teeing off with the NFL superstar quarterback Tom Brady and Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris chasing James Corden around the paddock in cutoff team shirts. It could only happen in Miami. And it’s a wonder it hasn’t happened sooner.
This weekend F1 its first ever race in Miami as the US plays host to a pair of Grand Prix races for the first time since 1984 when the series touched down in Detroit and Dallas. But this time, rather than return to Motown, F1 has parked its massive travelling circus here, to the land of white sand beaches, neon lights and withering heat. And the local buzz isn’t simply a product of the town’s strongly poured daiquiris and mojitos.
