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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.12.2015 - 6:27 pm
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This street circuit was first set up in 1983 to host the debut of IMSA's
famous Grand Prix of Miami. The track was abandoned after the 1985 Grand
Prix when IMSA moved north to a new street course in Bicentennial Park.
The track was revived in 2002 to host CART and ALMS action but abandoned
for good after 2003.

The rain-soaked 1983 Grand Prix of Miami here was the first time IMSA
raced on a street course.


  2.   RaceFanX posted:
  11.15.2020 - 3:53 pm
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Scenes for the 1986 "Miami Vice" episode "Florence Italy" were filmed
here during the 1985 Miami Grand Prix IMSA race. The episode famously
featured Indy 500 winner Danny Sullivan guest starring as a race car
driver accused of killing a prostitute (the titular "Florence Italy")
but in an odd twist for a guest star on that show he comes out
relatively fine: Crockett and Tubbs clear his name, he becomes a father,
and wins the race at the wheel of a Porsche 962 over the course of the
episode. Famously the episode ends with a car chase out of the track
onto the city streets where the real killer, the Mario Andretti-inspired
father of Sullivan's character, takes off in his race car when the
police close in.


  3.   possum posted:
  11.15.2020 - 6:05 pm
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@1 - yes, it was the first time IMSA ran on a street course. I recall
them franticaly welding all the manhole covers in place the night after
the first practice sessions, since it became painfully evident that a
GTP prototype generates more than enough suction to pull a manhole cover
out of the road.

I'd forgotten they resurrected it for a couple of years after the turn
of the century. By then the IRL had Homestead under contract, and CART
was in it's dying days and looking for anywhere the could run. I don't
recall now if it was before the first race or the second that CART's
director said people don't care about the race, they come for the
experience - CART's demise shortly thereafter should be a lesson to
other racing series not to put "show" ahead of competition.


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