Depending on who you listen to, Sunday's Miami Grand Prix will either be a Formula 1 race squeezed into an NFL stadium car park or the much anticipated, inaugural event at the brand-new Miami International Autodrome. Both descriptions are true and rarely has the American phrase 'Fake it until you make it' been as appropriate as for F1's debut in South Florida. The 'campus', on the grounds of the Miami Dolphins' Hard Rock Stadium, hosts a 'Beach Club' where there is no beach and, most noticeably of all, a Marina without water. The 'yacht club' does boast real yachts, but the impressive vessels sit on concrete blocks above a special vinyl surface designed to look like gently rolling waves...
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