Weekend tip: Miami invites you to the GP spectacle 🎥
GLAMOUROUS NEW LAND Formula 1 is making a guest appearance at a new circuit in Florida that promises spectacle on and off the track. The World Endurance Championship and the Carrera Cup are on the agenda at Spa, and the 24-hour qualifiers at the Nürburgring.
The 5.412 km long track was specially designed for Formula 1 in the northern district of Miami Gardens. The glamorous location certainly rivals Monaco - the American owners of Formula 1 send their regards. The animation illustrates the course of the track and the diverse infrastructure for the fans.
Around a famous sports venue
The temporary Miami International Autodrome runs around the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami and includes twelve left turns and seven right turns. The layout is interesting because it offers many slow corners and also many very fast ones, but not very many in the middle section. There are also several long straights and three DRS zones.
As this is a circuit that has never been driven on before, all the teams and their drivers had to prepare for it on the computer and in simulators.
Alfa Romeo Sauber can hope for more points
Under normal circumstances, the fifth round of the world championship is unlikely to change anything in the hierarchy - in other words, Red Bull and Ferrari will decide the winner between themselves. After Valtteri Bottas' brilliant fifth-place finish in Imola, Alfa Romeo Sauber is also hoping for continuity when it comes to placings in the championship points.
Swiss television will report live from qualifying late Saturday evening, May 7, on the third channel SRF info from 9:55 p.m. to 11:10 p.m. and on Sunday evening, May 8, from 8:50 p.m. to 11:25 p.m. from the Miami Grand Prix. Commentators are Oliver Sittler and Marc Surer.
WEC and Porsche Cup in front of new grandstands at Spa
The second round of the World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) will take place at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday. The facility was extensively renovated and expanded for the 2022 season. However, nothing has changed in terms of track length and layout.
New gravel beds and grandstands were built at numerous curves. In the gallery on the left, the view from the race track to the new grandstand of Eau-Rouge, in the gallery on the right, the view from this grandstand to the circuit.
Completely live on TV
With Sébastien Buemi (Toyota Hypercar), Louis Delétraz, Nico Müller (both Oreca LMP2), Rahel Frey, Thomas Flohr, Christoph Ulrich (all Ferrarri 488 GTE) and Nicolas Leutwiler (Porsche 911 RSR), several Swiss with different ambitions and prospects of success are at the start of the second WRC round in 2022. At the season opener in mid-March in Sebring (USA), the Alpine ELF Team won for the first time over Toyota.
The 6-hour race can be followed in full on Saturday, May 7, on the free TV channel RTL Nitro. Broadcasting begins at 12:40 p.m. (race start 1 p.m.), ending after the highlights at 7:25 p.m. On Sunday morning, May 8, Eurosport 1 will broadcast a summary from 8:30 to 10 a.m.
Alexander Fach ahead of second season premiere
This year's first races of the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland will be run on Friday (start at 5.20 p.m.) and Saturday (start at 10.55 a.m.) in the pre-WEC program. Fach Auto Tech from Schwyz is involved with the Swiss Porsche Cup champion Alexander Fach, the Briton Lorcan Hanafin and the German senior Christof Langer.
After the encouraging debut in the Supercup at Imola (16th), Fach jr. is also hoping for a good result at Spa. As an excellent sixth (Hanafin) and twelfth (Fach) in Friday afternoon's qualifying, the two 20-year-olds created a very good starting position as the best rookies in the 32-strong field. Without a red flag, Fach, who was on his fastest lap when the race was prematurely stopped, would also have been in with a chance of a top-10 start.
Both races can be seen live on RTL Nitro or on YouTube can be tracked. In addition, there is a video of all the races at Spa. Livetiming.
Nürburgring GT3 premieres from Apothéloz and Mettler
At the ADAC 24h Nürburgring Qualifiers, participants in the big Nordschleife marathon held at the end of May have the last opportunity to bring their competition cars and driver crews to the Nordschleife under competition conditions. More than 90 teams take advantage of this opportunity, including some drivers from Switzerland.
For Julien Apothéloz and Yannick Mettler, this is even the first opportunity to familiarize themselves with a Mercedes-AMG GT3 on the legendary circuit. The winner of the 2018 Young Driver Challenge has been an official Young Talent of AMG-Mercedes Motorsport since this year and drives in the Landgraf Motorsport team, the former VLN GT4 champion with Schnitzelalm Racing.
On Saturday, the first three-hour race will start at 6:30 p.m., and on Sunday, the second race will start at 2 p.m.. Both will be held on the YouTube channel and the Homepage of the 24 Hours of Nürburgring broadcast live.
