Formula E's Miami E-Prix returns in 2026 with a new site — Hard Rock Stadium
The Formula E event on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026, won't use the same 3.36-mile (5.41 kilometers) track used for the annual 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, on the chance the Dolphins are still 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.'
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