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.
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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.
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:
The race was canceled due to severe weather forecasts that forced a schedule change.
The Miami Grand Prix was originally set to start at 16:00 local time.
The main event was moved forward to 13:00 to avoid incoming storms, which affected the support races.
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“The next round of Porsche Carrera Cup North America is scheduled for Watkins Glen International from June 25 to 27,” with the statement adding that “details regarding a potential make-up race will be announced at a later date.”
A make-up date later in the season would be the obvious fix, though fitting an extra round into a calendar that already offers a pair of 40-minute sprint races at each of its eight rounds is rarely as simple as it sounds. For the teams and drivers who came to Miami expecting two races and a full points haul, the wait for answers will be the most frustrating part. The weather didn’t care about their travel budgets, and neither, apparently, did the scheduling gods.