MIAMI – Formula One has been and gone for another year, but Miami's Hard Rock Stadium is now in a race to get ready for the soccer World Cup starting next month.
Argentine great Lionel Messi was in the Miami Grand Prix paddock at the weekend, visiting Alpine F1 driver and compatriot Franco Colapinto before Sunday's grand prix and treading the green static-charged carpet laid out over the stadium's field of play where teams had their tented hospitality units.
Within hours of the race ending, the focus was already on starting the transformation to something more familiar to Messi — real grass and a playing surface fit for the 48-team tournament.
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