By: EFE Updated 04 May 2022, 19: 46 pm EDT
The Miami Grand Prix became the world capital of motor racing this Sunday, but also of show business. Actors, singers, great sports stars and celebrities from all walks of life have made the Miami International Autodrome their new mandatory appointment this weekend.
Through the ‘paddock’ it has been possible to see the Mexican driver Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez (Red Bull) playing the perfect host for the Puerto Rican reggaeton player Bad Bunny, whom he went to look for in the circuit parking lot and almost gave him a guided tour.
And his teammate Max Verstappen, current world champion, did the same with the singer of Black Eyed Peas Will.I.Am, who this Sunday was “unfaithful” to the Mercedes team with which had just presented a striking prototype called “WILL.I.AMG”, which is based on the four-door Mercedes-AMG GT.
They have also been seen the singer Luis Fonsi, the former US first lady Michelle Obama, the filmmaker and creator of the The Star Wars saga George Lucas, Caitlyn Jenner, the famous clan of the Kardashians, the actors Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher or Michael Douglas and the former Argentine tennis player Juan Martín del Potro, who was received by the French pilot Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri).
The driver Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), the Formula One’s most successful driver, had time before getting into the car to be with those considered the best in history in their respective sport, the former basketball player Michael Jordan and the player of American football player Tom Brady, who was joined by another legend such as the former English soccer player David Beckham.
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Numerous celebrities also attended the Friday in South Beach to a party that was the “green traffic light” for the participation of world celebrities in this grand prize, such as the presenter James Corden, the star of the NBA LeBron James, the musician Wyclef Jean and Beckham himself.
Prices for clouds
All of them will hardly have any problem in paying the most expensive tickets in the entire Formula One World Championship, only behind the Monte Carlo Grand Prix, with 640 dollars the cheapest, which flew on the first day.
In this area, called “Yacht Club”, the most exclusive in the whole circuit, prices ranged from 9. 500 dollars for a single ticket, 19.000 for double and 38.000 which gives access to four people.
Although there are, without a doubt, much more expensive.
En the resale in Ticketmaster they could be found this Sunday still tickets up to 19.000 dollars in a bench located after turn number 8, where the circuit designers opted precisely to create a marina reminiscent of Monte Carlo.
The organizers can boast of the success of ticket sales , because the close to 240.000 that came onto the market for three days of the event disappeared in a few hours.
This shows the good moment of Formula One in the United States, and already US Grand Prix regular in Austin, Texas, Miami will join them at the world premiere this year on the world championship calendar 2023 another urban circuit, in this case on the famous “Strip” of Las Vegas (Nevada).
“I think Miami will be like our Super Bowl,” Hamilton said last Friday in a comparison with the final of the American football league NFL that does not stop ringing these days in South Florida both due to the expectation, the economic benefits and the level of “famous” that it generates.
The tourism promotion company of the neighboring city of Fort Lauderdale calculated that the income that Formula One will generate this weekend will be, according to projections cited by CBS, higher than that of a Super Bowl, the largest sporting event in the United States.
A motor festival
Because it is, without a doubt, a high-flying party.
The idea of the organizers of the Grand Prix was to go much further than three days of racing and they wanted to turn this Grand Prix into almost a festival of first class music and that is why they hired Post Malone, The Chainsmokers, DJ Tiësto and the Colombian Maluma, who They sang after the race.