Miami showed how good of a job they did on the car redesign. We haven't seen that level of following in a long time.
I think they'll get rid of turns 11-16, or at least modify them. Drivers seemed displeased. Overall seemed like a hard race for the drivers, very physical and hot. Sainz's bottle wasn't working during the race.
They followed like that in Jeddah, too, of all places. The return of ground effects certainly seems to have worked.
Miami management has apparently expressed willingness to modify the circuit, but the chicane is tricky because, while the initial publicity sold it as just a challenging feature of the track, the reason it's there is to slow the cars down to acceptable levels to pass under the bridge safely. So there's not a lot they can do. Perhaps they reprofile the beach section to carry more speed into the slow segment, but the chicane itself is the part the drivers complained about and it's not clear that there are great alternatives.
Ironically, when staying close was tougher in previous years, that chicane actually could have been a real boon to on-track action, since the slow speeds emphasize mechanical grip rather than aerodynamic, and it would be easier for trailing cars to stay close.
What's notable to me is the immense amount of money they are pouring into the facility. It's actually pretty cool how much the space gets used for, but the costs to re-build everything every year are pretty big.
And Liberty is pouring hundreds of millions into Vegas. $250 mil just to buy the land that the pit complex will occupy. F1 is certainly growing in popularity right now, so it seems promising... but economic downturns have wounded promising trends in racing before.
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