FIA’s Formula E electric car racing series will run its 2026 Miami E-Prix at the same site as FIA’s Formula 1 runs its Miami Grand Prix — the Miami International Autodrome at Hard Rock Stadium.

Miami’s 2026 motorsports calendar will start with the Miami E-Prix on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026, end with NASCAR Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway in November and peak with Miami Grand Prix weekend, May 1-3 as Formula 1 officially announced.

The Formula E event won’t use the same 3.36-mile (5.41 kilometers) track used for the F1 race, rather one of four shorter configurations. Unlike the F1 course and accompanying event fuss, none of the four options will affect access roads to or from Florida’s Turnpike.

Nor will it alter life at the nearby Miami Dolphins facility should the NFL team still be playing. The Formula E event falls six days after the AFC Championship Game and during the Pro Bowl weekend between Championship Sunday and the Super Bowl.

This will be the third venue in three Miami E-Prixs. In the series initial season, 2015, the event — practice, qualifying, race all in one day — ran on a downtown Miami course that included Biscayne Boulevard and the then-AmericanAirlines Arena. This year’s return to Miami-Dade, despite scant local promotion and media coverage, drew 18,000 to 20,000 to Homestead-Miami Speedway. For comparison, that beat at least two days of qualifying and racing during March’s NASCAR weekend at Homestead. And, there’s a permanent road circuit at Homestead.

But, Formula E prefers life on those downtown streets or at least closer than 35 miles (Homestead-Miami Speedway to the Freedom Tower) or 63 miles (Homestead-Miami Speedway to downtown Fort Lauderdale).

“It’s a bit far from the city center, which is not what Formula E is about,” Formula E co-founder and Chief Championship Officer Alberto Longo said Monday. “We like to be as close to the city as possible. We have always liked to say, ‘We’re bringing motorsport to the people’ not the other way around, to have to get in your car and drive for one and a half hours to get there.” Longo felt that solid crowd got swallowed by Homestead’s massive grandstands, saying “If you saw that when we were racing in Paris, it would be amazing because the grandstands would be full.” Also, “the cars are going to look way better at [Hard Rock] than Homestead.”

Miami’s the only U.S. stop currently on the calendar, although dates May 30 and June 20 will be announced later. The other new track in the series is Circuito de Madrid-Jarama in Spain, the sixth stop. Most of the 12 2026 stops have twin Saturday and Sunday races making an 18-race season.

The season begins in Sao Paulo on Dec. 6, then goes to Mexico City on Jan. 10. During the racing heavy month of May, the series will be in Berlin May 2 and 3 and Monaco May 16 and 17. The May 30 and June 20 dates have yet to be announced.

Source: Miami Herald 

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