Formula E is preparing to deepen its footprint in the United States, with series leadership now openly targeting a second American round for the season that follows the current campaign. You are already guaranteed one home race at Miami, and the expectation from the paddock is that another U.S. city will soon join it on the calendar as the championship looks to lock in its long term presence in a key electric vehicle market.
For you as a fan, that means the current 2025–26 schedule is only part of the story. The confirmed events, including the Miami ePrix, set the stage, but the real expansion is being plotted for the 2026–27 season, when a second American E‑Prix is now described by series bosses as a realistic goal rather than a distant ambition.
Miami’s confirmed place on the current calendar
Your next guaranteed chance to see Formula E in the United States comes in Miami, which is locked into the 2025–26 schedule as the Miami ePrix. The official championship calendar lists Miami in the Country column as United States, with the Circuit named as the Miami International Autodrome and a Date assigned within the 2025–26 campaign. That entry confirms that the U.S. remains a core stop on the world tour rather than an occasional detour.
Series material for the event underlines that you will be watching all electric racing around the Miami International Autodrome, the same complex that hosts top level single seater racing around Hard Rock Stadium. The venue is presented as part of a broader push to race in major global cities, a strategy that is reflected across the official Overview of the 2025–26 Formula E race calendar, which details each Race, Date, City and Country from the opening round through to the London finale.
How the 2025–26 schedule sets up future U.S. growth
To understand where a second American race fits, you need to look at how the current calendar has been constructed. The 2025–26 season is built around 18 races, with the table of events listing each Race alongside its Date and Country, including a mid season stop in Shanghai that underlines the series’ commitment to China. Within that structure, the United States currently appears only once, through Miami, which leaves clear headroom for expansion in a subsequent season rather than crowding the existing schedule.
The championship has already shown it is willing to tweak venues within a market to find the right long term home, which is relevant to how you should read the U.S. plans. Reporting on the 2025–26 calendar notes that the series is once again travelling to Miami in the USA, but this time it will drive on the Miami International Autodrome rather than the earlier city centre layout. That willingness to adjust circuits, while keeping a foothold in the same metropolitan area, hints at how flexible Formula E can be when it comes to adding another American venue in a later season.
What series leadership means by “next season”
The clearest signal that you should expect a second U.S. race comes from Formula E chief executive Jeff Dodds, who has now said he anticipates two American rounds on the schedule in the near future. In an interview given in early February 2026, Jeff Dodds said he expects two races to be on “next season’s” schedule and confirmed that the championship is talking to places like Phoenix, Atlanta and COTA, the Circuit of the Americas in Texas. Because those comments were made after the 2025–26 calendar had already been released and racing was under way, “next season” in that context refers to the 2026–27 championship, not the current one.
For you, that distinction matters, because it means the second American race is not a late addition to the existing 18 race slate but a planned expansion for the following year. The official 2025–26 calendar, which includes the Miami ePrix in the United States and a round in London as the finale, is already fixed, so any new American venue that emerges from talks with Phoenix, Atlanta or COTA will be part of the subsequent season’s planning cycle rather than a midstream reshuffle.
Miami’s evolving role in Formula E’s U.S. strategy
Miami is not just a one off stop for you, it is the anchor around which Formula E is building its American presence. The series has already highlighted that Formula E returned to Miami this season, visiting the Hard Rock Stadium complex and racing on the Miami International Autodrome as part of its Season 12 calendar. That continuity, from earlier seasons through to the 2025–26 campaign, shows that the city is being treated as a long term pillar of the championship’s North American strategy.
At the same time, the series has been willing to experiment with how it uses the city’s infrastructure, which affects the experience you will get trackside. A detailed calendar entry for the USA 2026 Miami E‑Prix explains that the racing series will return to the city centre in 2026 and that here it will race on a shortened version of the Formula 1 Miami Interna circuit around Hard Rock Stadium, rather than simply repeating the previous layout. That willingness to refine the Miami configuration, while keeping the event in the same metropolitan area, suggests that Formula E sees the city as a flexible test bed for how to present all electric racing to American audiences.
Why a second U.S. race now looks inevitable
If you are wondering why Formula E is pushing for two American rounds, the answer lies in both history and momentum. In the very first season of the championship, the United States of America hosted Two E‑Prix events when Long Beach and shared the spotlight, and there has been recurring discussion about returning to that level of presence. More recent analysis has even floated the possibility that, over time, there could be three races in the US if demand and logistics align, which gives you a sense of how ambitious the long term roadmap has become.
That ambition is reinforced by the way the current calendar balances established and emerging markets, a pattern you can see in the inclusion of Shanghai in the Shanghai round and the return to Madrid alongside Miami. With Jeff Dodds already in talks with Phoenix, Atlanta and COTA for the 2026–27 season, and with Miami firmly embedded as the American mainstay, the expectation that you will see a second U.S. race on that future calendar now looks less like speculation and more like the logical next step in Formula E’s global expansion.
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