“In reality, there were two GPs in Miami in those years”, The Nivellois de Phoenix said. “”There was that reserved for Indycar, on a semi-permanent circuit 50km in the south where I even finished third in 1988, and the Grand Prix IMSA GT, between the city walls of the city center, in the Bicentennial Park. Thanks to the enthusiasm of Latin-American people who are bitten of cars, he was very popular and prized. He was even the backdrop of an episode of the TV series Miami Vice. Michael Mann even asked driver Danny Sullivan to shoot in a few episodes. But he was frankly bad. He would have done better to focus on his piloting (laughs) !”
After this golden age, Miami continued to welcome the cars. At the start of the millennium, the Alms and the Champcar will perform in Bayfront Park, still in the Downtown. Simultaneously, the Grand-Am invests the oval of Homestead, in the suburbs, where Theys won on Ferrari 333SP in 2000 and 2002. Finally, the formula e took place in the city center, in Biscayne Bay, in 2015, Jérôme d’Ambrosio finishing 4th in the race. But that’s another story.
