The first draft of the 2021 F1 calendar was published by Formula 1 on November 10th 2020.
It followed a heavily disrupted 2020 season in which many races were cancelled or postponed due to the global pandemic. Covid-19 continued to force F1 to adapt its schedule, and the first changes were announced in January of the new year.The races in Australia, which was due to hold the season-opener, and China, originally the venue for the third round of the championship, were delayed. While Australia was given a new date in November, with knock-on changes to other races around the same time, the Chinese race was not immediately rescheduled.
An additional race at Imola in Italy was announced to take the place of China’s early-season slot. The original calendar also included a race at an undetermined venue. Three weeks before the season was due to begin, F1 confirmed the race would take place at the Autodromo do Algarve in Portugal.
The 73rd running of the world championship will also see the addition of a new race in Saudi Arabia on the streets of Jeddah. The Dutch Grand Prix, which was supposed to return at Zandvoort in 2020 but fell foul of the pandemic, was confirmed for a September date.
However other new races the sport aspired to hold in Miami, USA and Hanoi, Vietnam did not join the schedule as hoped.
2021 F1 calendar of races
Testing dates
Pre-season testing has been reduced from six days to three for the 2021 championship. A single three-day test will be held at Bahrain International Circuit from March 12th to 14th.
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What new races will be on the calendar?
Formula 1 has confirmed a new night race will take place on the streets of Jeddah. The first Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will take place on December 5th.
In October 2019 F1 announced ‘agreement in principle’ to hold a race on a new circuit at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. It intended to hold the race in May, but no further details have been confirmed.
The Vietnam Grand Prix, which was supposed to take place for the first time in 2020 but was cancelled due to the pandemic, will not go ahead in 2021.
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The calendar has more than tripled in length since the world championship began. The first F1 season took place in 1950, when seven races were held. By 2020 the schedule had grown to 22 world championship grands prix.
