The FIA has confirmed the starting times for all 23 races on the 2023 Formula 1 calendar.
The 2023 schedule includes one new race in Las Vegas. Uniquely, this event will run from Thursday to Saturday, with all sessions taking place under lights after sunset.The first practice session on the Las Vegas Street Circuit will begin at 6:30pm local time on Thursday 16th November, which will by 2:30am on the following Friday for viewers in the UK. As previously announced the race will start at 10pm local time on Saturday night, 6am on Sunday morning in the UK.
With the return of the Qatar Grand Prix, six rounds on the 2023 calendar will be held at night. These are joined by the Bahrain, Saudi Arabian, Singapore and Abu Dhabi grands prix.
The Brazilian Grand Prix will begin one hour earlier than it did last year. Other than that the start times of the existing rounds on the championship are unchanged.
As previously confirmed the rounds at Baku, Red Bull Ring, Spa-Francorchamps, Losail, Circuit of the Americas and Interlagos will be sprint events.
2023 F1 race starting times
| Event | Track | Date | Race start time (local) | Race start time (UK) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bahrain Grand Prix | Bahrain International Circuit | 5 March | 18:00 | 15:00 |
| Saudi Arabian Grand Prix | Jeddah Corniche Circuit | 19 March | 20:00 | 17:00 |
| Australian Grand Prix | Albert Park | 2 April | 15:00 | 06:00 |
| Azerbaijan Grand Prix | Baku City Circuit | 30 April | 15:00 | 12:00 |
| Miami Grand Prix | Miami International Autodrome | 7 May | 15:30 | 20:30 |
| Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix | Imola | 21 May | 15:00 | 14:00 |
| Monaco Grand Prix | Monaco | 28 May | 15:00 | 14:00 |
| Spanish Grand Prix | Circuit de Catalunya | 4 June | 15:00 | 14:00 |
| Canadian Grand Prix | Circuit Gilles Villeneuve | 18 June | 14:00 | 19:00 |
| Austrian Grand Prix | Red Bull Ring | 2 July | 15:00 | 14:00 |
| British Grand Prix | Silverstone | 9 July | 15:00 | 15:00 |
| Hungarian Grand Prix | Hungaroring | 23 July | 15:00 | 14:00 |
| Belgian Grand Prix | Spa-Francorchamps | 30 July | 15:00 | 14:00 |
| Dutch Grand Prix | Zandvoort | 27 August | 15:00 | 14:00 |
| Italian Grand Prix | Monza | 3 September | 15:00 | 14:00 |
| Singapore Grand Prix | Singapore | 17 September | 20:00 | 13:00 |
| Japanese Grand Prix | Suzuka | 24 September | 14:00 | 06:00 |
| Qatar Grand Prix | Losail International Circuit | 8 October | 17:00 | 15:00 |
| United States Grand Prix | Circuit of the Americas | 22 October | 14:00 | 20:00 |
| Mexican Grand Prix | Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez | 29 October | 14:00 | 20:00 |
| Brazilian Grand Prix | Interlagos | 5 November | 14:00 | 17:00 |
| Las Vegas Grand Prix | Las Vegas Street Circuit | 18 November | 22:00 | 06:00 |
| Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | Yas Marina | 26 November | 17:00 | 13:00 |
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Jere (@jerejj)
15th December 2022, 15:13
I didn’t expect next season’s provisional session timings to come out in mid-December as this year’s timings came in February (unusually late release) & these have usually come in January.
Therefore, less than four weeks after the previous season’s end is unusually early.
So Sao Paulo GP has returned to 14:00 local after only a single season with 15:00 that gave nearly 3h30min lead time to sunset, but oh well, I don’t mind.
However, I don’t get why Miami GP gets treated differently from other events by having a race start time half past the hour rather than on the hour, which is pointless.
15:00 should be okay, if not even 14:00, like with other non-floodlit NA locations.
I wish FIA & or FOM were more transparent by providing a simple straight answer to unclear matters, as not everything is clear-cut obvious from the outside.
I’m happy that at least the Qatar GP will start 13 mins before the sunset, which means Abu Dhabi GP like sky color change, except for about 20 min less.
t1redmonkey (@t1redmonkey)
15th December 2022, 15:17
Are they definitely not replacing the Chinese GP with another circuit then?
MGus.ai
15th December 2022, 16:19
Or FIa is only letting the auction to go on among the venues vying for replacing China.
James E Brown F1
16th December 2022, 11:39
Both of you(?!), no. This is because COVID-19 is back of humanity of Chinese Lockdown. You shouldn’t know look a News of China next time for Safety and Climate change, see. That’s why it happened again since. I’ve seen it last month it happening to let Chinese people down. And don’t expect to judge me (!). The FiA motorsport (late) now will be heard of this.
MichaelN
15th December 2022, 15:18
The Miami time is going to cause some confusion, but it’s great that F1 publishes this list.
Other series could learn from this, especially the WEC which seems to go out of its way to obfuscate information about its events on its dated and maze-like website.
Jere (@jerejj)
16th December 2022, 10:54
@MichaelN No more confusion than this year, but still pointless to have one half-past start time while all others have an on-the-hour start time.
Every location should be fully aligned on this front as they were pre-2021 (also in those seasons with 10-past start times)
X1Znet (@x1znet)
15th December 2022, 21:11
They actually released the time for all F1 sessions and I am very disappointed that the last on-track action of the day in Montreal (probably others) on Friday and Saturday is F1…
For those attending the race, it makes leaving the circuit much more difficult than previous years when there were support races after the F1 free practice and qualifying sessions, so some people left after F1 and others stayed.
S
16th December 2022, 2:58
Then wait for an hour or two