On the morning of the 2024 Method 1 Miami Grand Prix Tom Garfinkel, the Managing Companion of the race, instructed a choose group of media members together with SB Nation that the race promoters have been attempting to get higher yearly, and hearken to suggestions from followers.
Right this moment, the Miami Grand Prix introduced the most recent transfer in that effort.
For the 2025 Miami Grand Prix, followers should buy single-day tickets, enabling followers to safe seats at premium areas on the Laborious Rock Stadium campus. These choices embrace seats close to the beginning/end line, seats close to Flip 1, and seats alongside Flip 18. That flip comes on the finish of the prolonged straight alongside the again stretch of the circuit and is a primary vantage level for followers to witness overtaking on the observe.
“We’re thrilled to supply 1-Day Grandstand ticket choices for the primary time, permitting followers the chance to expertise the Miami Grand Prix in a fashion that most accurately fits them,” stated Tyler Epp, President of the F1 Miami Grand Prix in an announcement. “We’ve listened to suggestions from followers and understood their want for single-day tickets, and this providing underscores our dedication to offering them as many superb experiences as potential to take pleasure in our race. In doing so, we’re excited that we are going to have the chance to welcome much more attendees to race weekend and make the game extra accessible to new motorsports followers trying to expertise the high-speed spectacle of Method 1.”
The one-day ticket choice is likely one of the modifications the Miami Grand Prix is has launched to supplied followers with an improved expertise. Race promoters provided a rotating seat choice for the 2024 race, giving followers the prospect to take a seat at completely different vantage factors over the course of a three-day ticket. The race launched that choice for grandstand tickets in 2024, and is prolonged that choice to higher-level decisions in 2025. Final September in an unique dialogue with SB Nation, Epp outlined why that was essential to supply followers.
“So one of many criticisms that we’ve seen over time is, you pay no matter you pay for a three-day ticket, however you sit in the identical seat for all three days, proper? So this yr we constructed a Grandstand product that rotated the ticket day after day to day,” described Epp. “We’re extending that this yr to our membership tickets and in addition to our luxurious tickets. I feel we’ve seen actually good suggestions on that simply because it differentiates the expertise. Particularly once you go to a Method 1 occasion the place you typically sit on a nook, or generally a straight, being able to go see the vehicles within the motion from a special vantage level on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we really feel there’s an actual benefit and an actual worth proposition to our prospects.”
One other change that’s coming to Miami for the 2025 installment is the McLaren grandstand, giving followers of the recently-crowned Constructors’ Champions an opportunity to take a seat collectively.
“So, I feel it’s consultant of how we’re attacking or how we’re attempting to plan out how we work by means of the segmentation mannequin, proper? So individuals wish to be round individuals who like the identical issues that they love to do,” Epp instructed me in September. “And so placing the McLaren followers collectively, and so placing Ferrari followers collectively and Mercedes followers collectively, these are issues we’re speaking about always, whether or not it’s manufacturers, whether or not it’s producers, whether or not it’s driver golf equipment. We’ve received integration going into all of these completely different areas, and we’ll always be engaged on placing these applications collectively.”
Nonetheless not satisfied a visit to Miami for the 2025 Grand Prix is for you? Permit Epp to make his elevator pitch.
“So I pitched my 25-year-old self who spent, , most of his early profession out and in of North American Motorsport,” started Epp. “And I’d let you know that the rationale to come back to Miami is since you get a workforce of individuals right here who’re targeted on you, your expertise, and bringing the artwork, the tradition, and the experiential nature of Miami to you surrounded by the perfect motor racing on the planet.”
