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Race Cancelled as Miami Grand Prix Weekend Forced to Reschedule Due to Lightning Storms
TL;DR
The second Porsche Carrera Cup North America race at the Miami Grand Prix has been canceled due to severe weather forecasts. Organizers rescheduled the main event to avoid incoming storms, impacting the support races.
Key points
- Second Porsche Carrera Cup race canceled due to weather
- Main event rescheduled to 13:00 to avoid storms
- Support races impacted by schedule changes
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The Porsche teams made the trip to Florida. They ran Race 1 on Saturday. Then the weather stepped in.
The second Porsche Carrera Cup North America race of the Miami weekend has been canceled following a schedule change forced by forecasted severe weather.
The Grand Prix was originally set to start at 16:00 local time, but organizers pulled it forward three hours to 13:00 in a bid to beat an incoming band of storms.
Three support categories were already slotted into Sunday’s programme. With the main event now eating up the morning, not all of them could survive the compression. Porsche drew the short straw.
Why F2 Kept Its Slot and Porsche Didn’t
Formula 2’s position on the bill was protected partly by circumstances that had nothing to do with Sunday’s weather. The series was added to the Miami weekend as a replacement after its Bahrain and Saudi Arabian rounds were pulled earlier in the year due to regional security concerns, meaning teams had already crossed the Atlantic to be there. Bumping them at that point would have been a harder call financially and politically, so the axe landed on the sportscar grid instead.
The second McLaren Trophy America race, making its F1-weekend debut, was also retained, though pushed up to an 8 a.m. ET start.
A statement from Porsche Motorsport North America confirmed that “the decision leaves this year’s Miami weekend as a single-race event for Porsche Carrera Cup North America following Saturday’s Race 1.”
On the question of what happens next, the door is at least left open:
Q&A
Why was the second Porsche Carrera Cup race in Miami canceled?
The race was canceled due to severe weather forecasts that forced a schedule change.
What time was the Miami Grand Prix originally scheduled to start?
The Miami Grand Prix was originally set to start at 16:00 local time.
What adjustments were made to the Miami Grand Prix schedule?
The main event was moved forward to 13:00 to avoid incoming storms, which affected the support races.
