Clive Bowen, designer of the Miami track, admits he was left feeling embarrassed by the complaints from drivers upon Formula 1’s first visit.
迈阿密大奖赛的首次亮相是一级方程式赛车的重要一步，是该系列赛在美国的扩张，是2022年在美国上演的两个大奖赛中的第一个。
From 2023, it will become three when the拉斯维加斯大奖赛加入折叠。
Throughout the paddock, there was plenty of praise for the spectacle that was the 2022 Miami Grand Prix, but as for the Miami International Autodrome track itself, designed around the grounds of the Hard Rock Stadium, the drivers were not particularly happy.
A main area for concern was the tight and technical section around the Turn 14/15 chicane, the likes of Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz believing it is不适合现代一级方程式汽车.刘易斯·汉密尔顿将其比作B＆Q停车场。
Sainz would find the concrete there in practice, the same true for Esteban Ocon, with safety concerns also arising due to the absence of TecPro barriers.
That slow section was, as Miami GP managing partner Tom Garfinkel put it, a “necessary evil”不仅可以为赛道的其余部分腾出空间，而且还因为那里缺乏径流空间而减慢驾驶员的速度。
Nonetheless, design changes will be considered going forward.
此外，驾驶员还对沥青进行了质疑，包括离线抓地力水平。塞尔吉奥·佩雷斯（Sergio Perez）甚至将表面称为“笑话”。
And it was this criticism of the surface which was taken to heart by Bowen, boss of Apex Circuit Design which created the track in conjunction with the FIA and F1 engineer Craig Wilson.
在接受采访赛车杂志, he said: “Actually, it was embarrassment on my part personally, because there’s a lot of time invested in getting this right.
“涉及专业自豪感，不是吗？
“There was a lot of research undertaken. We didn’t go off-piste, it was conventional thinking, it was conventional engineering. And you’ve got to remind yourself that first races at venues often have this happen.
“It was the same at COTA, it was the same as Singapore, it was same at Istanbul when it was resurfaced. And so if you think of it from that perspective, it’s just a question of waiting for the track to mature. It’s a brand new piece of asphalt, and it needs to do its thing.”
Bowen says that situation can be helped by treating the track pre-event to remove any debris and dust, something which they should have done this time around in hindsight, but certainly will do in 2023.
“Next year, we’ll start conditioning the track sooner with FOD BOSS, which is an electrostatic way of lifting debris off a circuit,” he said.
“因此，由于它是一个如此磨擦，粗糙的表面，因此实际上，如果吹牛，所有的赛道都是小动物仍然坐在山谷中。
“If you sweep it, the same thing happens, you need to lift it vertically. And on Saturday morning, we started using the FOD BOSSes, and from that point forward, the track came to us.
“The one regret, I didn’t arrange for the FOD BOSS machines to do their work on the Thursday and the Friday. I just wish that I had made sure that they had run earlier.”
Nonetheless, despite criticism of the surface and chicane section, the track overall delivered when it came to racing action.
In fact, the 45 overtakes produced was the second-highest number of the 2022 season so far, behind only Bahrain where 58 overtakes took place.
“I think that the theory of the design was borne out in the reality of the race,” said Bowen.
“我为此感到高兴。因为显然，在星期五和周六，由于赛道是如此肮脏，因此我们没有到达我们想要的地方。
“But it’s interesting that [during the race] there were multiple lines, there was overtaking on corners. And many of the things that people were criticising, they were actually probably looking at the wrong thing. It’s like binoculars, which side are they looking from?”
当被问及驾驶员的批评是否引发了迈阿密GP记者的压力时，鲍恩回答：“相信与否，那没有发生。
“There was a confidence that we would have a race. There was a pleasure that we had the race that we had. And there was in my case a genuine pleasure in seeing that we achieved what we wanted.
“I call it the Holy Grail. We’ve become very used in F1 to seeing overtaking on straights. And classic races, the ones that people talk about for decades afterwards, are the ones where you see dicing on track through corners. Tell me something. Did you see that happening today?
“中场，我看到很多传球都在拐角处。实际上，我没想到会看到非常高速的角球，因为当然，汽车在那里被握住。但是他们仍然做到了。和W系列一样，绝对是保时捷。
“And what that told me is that the line wasn’t restricted to just the racing line. Because you can’t have passing side-by-side when you’re at high G if you don’t grip offline.”