It is the hottest ticket in town, a truly A-list event even by America’s star-spangled standards.
When the lights go out for Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix, Formula One will officially roar into a new boom-time era. It will be the era of billion-dollar drivers, night races in Las Vegas and record TV audiences. No wonder Porsche and Audi now want to get in on the act. The F1 scene has always been glamorous, always been awash with money, always been a high-end commercial playground. But the inaugural Miami race will take it to another level.
For race day, there will be a crowd of 85,000 at the track which runs through the campus of the Miami Dolphins’ Hard Rock Stadium. The cheapest tickets in the stands have a face value of $500 but are reselling for $2,500. But it is in the hospitality areas where the numbers become eye-watering.
