Ferrari will race at the Miami Grand Prix with a colour scheme featuring two different shades of blue to mark its history in the United States, the team announced on Tuesday.

The Italian outfit, famous for racing in its distinctive shade of red, will unveil the new look ahead of the Florida race on May 6.

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The livery will mark 70 years since the manufacturer entered the U.S. marketplace.

In the early days of motor racing, nations were unofficially given ‘racing colours’ — Italian teams would race in red, with the Rosso Corsa shade becoming synonymous with Ferrari in the 20th Century, while American teams traditionally raced with blue. This custom is where “British racing green” comes from.

Ferrari has confirmed it will use shades called Azzurro La Plata and Azzurro Dino.

The Italian team has used throwback liveries in the past, with a special shade of red for its 1000th race in 2020.

Ferrari did not confirm the extent to which the blue shades will replace the team’s traditional red colours on its car in Miami.

Florida has long been a popular destination during the winter months. Whether the panhandle’s beaches, the theme parks of Orlando or the quieter Gulf Coast, the state had something for everyone. 

But for years, everyone knew that Miami Beach was best avoided in the “spring break” months of March and April. South Beach, in particular, on the southern tip, was a rowdy place to be. Fights, garbage and arrests were all standard. The crowds were excessive and felt dangerous. It was certainly not somewhere for families to visit.

This year, Steven Meiner, the new mayor of Miami Beach, elected just in November, pledged to put an end to that reputation. 

Our family vacationed on Miami Beach a few weekends ago to see for ourselves. The change from previous years was dramatic.

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Police were very present but quietly so. It didn’t seem like a scary environment that required police presence, just that they were around in case of any problems. The city felt safer but also cleaner and more organized. Disorderly crowds were nowhere to be seen. 

I had assumed they achieved this result with more arrests. But, in fact, arrests were down this year from previous years. It turns out deterrence played an important role. The city ran an ad campaign, that had gone viral online, “breaking up” with spring break. 

Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner, at the podium, with Gov. Ron DeSantis, right, during a spring break law enforcement crackdown. (Fox News Digital)

A memorandum from Rickelle Williams, interim city manager, a few days ago, noted, “While some of the measures had been employed in the past, the totality of the 2024 spring break measures was unprecedented, particularly with respect to the ‘Miami Beach is Breaking Up with Spring Break’ campaign that reached a global audience and garnered an estimated 19.8 billion media impressions.” 

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I spoke with Mayor Meiner about the city’s success. He told me “the ad campaign was instrumental” to the positive outcome. The ad campaign warned people coming to vacation on Miami Beach that the city wouldn’t stand for bad behavior. Just saying so helped control that bad behavior.

Of course, it couldn’t be done with a good ad alone. Meiner told me that they had a united front. From government agencies to businesses, everyone wanted a safer, happier spring break scene. 

“Everyone is saying enough is enough,” Meiner said. “Law and order are priority number one. Gov. Ron DeSantis visited several times and said he would provide whatever the city needed. The state was a great partner and came through for us. The county gave us many police officers. Everyone was on the same page.”

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As part of Meiner’s 14-point plan, neighboring police departments stepped in to help too: “Law enforcement agencies providing additional resources to the Miami Beach Police Department, including the Florida Highway Patrol, Miami-Dade. County Police Department, City of Miami Police Department, and Coral Gables Police Department, among other jurisdictions.” 

It makes sense. When bad behavior is happening on Miami Beach, it could easily spill over into other areas. 

Most of all, the City of Miami Beach simply enforced laws that were already on the books. Open container laws and the city’s noise ordinance already existed, but demanding they be followed went a long way to curbing other law-breaking.

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The mayor told me the city had “no fatalities, no stampedes,” during the spring break time, as they had had in previous years.

The message of the Miami Beach cleanup to other cities is: It doesn’t have to be this way. 

Miami Beach has shown that good coordination among government agencies leads to good results. But they’ve also shown that enforcing the law, and telling visitors they plan to do so, leads to more law-abiding behavior. 

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Much of it is not rocket science. Cities that have allowed themselves to spiral into being targets for crime largely don’t enforce existing laws. 

Miami Beach has drawn a line in their soft, white sand: Not here, not anymore. 

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MIAMI – With Miami-Dade County issuing the owners of the Miami Seaquarium an eviction letter on Monday, Local 10 News is working to address your questions about what could happen to the animals at the marine park.

A Sunday deadline for the park owners to vacate the premises came and went Sunday, with the park operating business as usual on Monday.

Its owners plan to fight any eviction.

‘The animals belong to the company’

During a March 7 news conference where Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and County Commissioner Raquel Regalado announced the county’s decision to terminate Miami Seaquarium operator the Dolphin Company’s lease, the Mayor told Local 10′s Christina Vazquez “to be clear, the animals belong to the company, they do not belong to the County.”

The county, she said, “does not have the ability to intervene at this point, only the U.S. Department of Agriculture can do that.” She confirmed that the Dolphin Company, as owners of the animals, could transfer the animals to other parks in its portfolio.

Regalado added that from what they understand it also “depends on the animal” because “some of them are owned outright, some of them are leased, some could return to their lease holds.”

On Monday, Holly, of SoFlo Animal Rights, told Local 10 News that she does find it “frustrating” that the Dolphin Company, as the owner of the animals, is able to, in her words “traffick” them to other facilities.

“We know it is very complicated,” she said about the intersection the animals have with different federal regulatory agencies based on species, “but ultimately what is so sad is the animals are just property so even if they do close and the animals are removed it is still sad, but yet, the one good thing is that it would be one less marine park so it signifies a change in public opinion, so that is something to celebrate, but right now we are sad.”

Contingency plans

During an interview on April 12 with Local 10 News, Miami-Dade County Chief Operations Officer Jimmy Morales said that the county is working on contingency plans in the event the Dolphin Company should abandon animals if it does eventually vacate the premises.

Those plans include working with federal partners who have jurisdictional and regulator oversight over certain animals as well as assessing County resources where permissible like Zoo Miami.

Dolphin Company officials say they plan to stay.

Federal oversight agencies

In the past year, federal agencies have also decided to transport some of the animals at the Miami Seaquarium to other facilities.

In those cases, it would be the decision of the federal agency and the private partner taking in the animal, rather than Miami-Dade County.

For example, in August of 2023, following the passing of beloved orca Lolita, two of Lolita’s dolphin companions, Loke and Elelo, were taken to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.

A spokesperson for that institution said at the time that it “responded to an urgent need to provide sanctuary for two Pacific white-sided dolphins…from the Miami Seaquarium living in insufficient environmental conditions. The transport of 40-year-old female dolphin Loke and her 5-year-old son, Elelo to Shedd’s 3-million-gallon cold water habitat took place on August 3 under authorization from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Office of Protected Resources.”

A month later, the third of Lolita’s dolphin companions, Li’i, Elelo’s father, was transferred from the Miami Seaquarium to SeaWorld San Antonio.

A SeaWorld spokesperson told Local 10 News in a news release that “the expedited transport of this 40-year-old male dolphin to AZA-accredited SeaWorld San Antonio took place on September 24, 2023 under authorization from the NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources.”

In November, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed that it was working with “an experienced team of manatee rescue and rehabilitation experts to assist with the transport effort of manatees from Miami Seaquarium.”