Formula E drivers want a longer Miami track

Miami E-Prix winner Mitch Evans described the layout of the Miami International Autodrome used for the first time in Formula E over the weekend as “a challenge” and admitted he would have liked a longer lap.

The 14-turn, 1.442-mile MIA loop at the Hard Rock Stadium hosted a wet debut race, but in dry conditions lap times were sub-one minute, and Evans says the short nature of the lap meant finding time was hard.

“Every corner feels challenging, but it's a short lap, so to find a tenth or something is very difficult,” he said. “It's not a lot of technical corners, so it's hard to drive around things. I'd love to do more of the F1 track, personally, like the last sector, but ultimately it worked out well. We'd like to have a few more corners, [but] I think it was a challenge.”

Pascal Wehrlein, who finished third, somewhat agreed, saying the track itself wasn’t particularly difficult, but there weren’t many places a driver could make a difference.

“It's not a very challenging track, to be honest, quite a short track, like Mitch said, and not many corners,” he said. “And it sounds super technical as well, [but] if you look at the data, you really brake only five times around the left and it feels like five corners.

“I agree I would have definitely like to have a bit of a longer lap, a bit more corners, because if you only have like five corners, it’s super tight together – not a big difference between drivers and teams. That's probably the most difficult part about it.”

Wehrlein added that had the race taken place in the dry, it would've looked completely different, with the track's high-speed nature leading to a more “chaotic” race.

“If it would have been dry, I think the race would have been very chaotic, and a lot of slipstream, a lot of peloton,” he said. “So in a way, it was good that it was wet. We would have seen a very different race.”