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Miami International Autodrome

Miami Gardens, USA

Miami's circuit is laid out around the Hard Rock Stadium complex, a purpose-built track that carries the feel of a street course. It pairs long, fast straights with a tight, twisting technical section, so setup becomes a compromise between straight-line speed and the grip needed through the slower corners. The surface and the walls give it a genuine street-circuit edge despite being built for racing, and the technical middle sector demands patience rather than bravado.

It sits at the heart of the sport's growth across the United States, a showpiece event wrapped in the spectacle of the surrounding stadium grounds. The mix of high speed and technical precision, run in Florida heat, makes it a real test of both car balance and driver concentration.

The gap, in metres

2026 Qualifying here. Each driver’s time gap converted to the distance it actually puts them behind at racing speed.

#DriverGapDistance
1Kimi Antonellireference
2Max Verstappen+0.16615.0 m
3Charles Leclerc+0.34531.1 m
4Lando Norris+0.38534.8 m
5George Russell+0.39936.0 m
6Lewis Hamilton+0.52147.0 m
7Oscar Piastri+0.70263.4 m
8Franco Colapinto+0.96487.0 m
9Isack Hadjar+0.99189.5 m
10Pierre Gasly+1.01291.4 m

Across the full field, Kimi Antonelli to Gabriel Bortoleto covers 536.2 m.

See the full 2026 Qualifying drawn to scale

On the radio here

930 messages recorded at this circuit, 2023 to 2025.

Every session drawn to scale

The radio archive, season by season