The FIA and Formula 1 have revealed the schedule of races for the 2026 F1 season.
While the series introduces new technical regulations next year, the 2026 F1 calendar will be much the same as this year’s 24-round schedule. The main change, announced last year, is the addition of a new round in Spain on a temporary circuit in Madrid.The first Spanish Grand Prix at the Madring will be held in September. The race’s current venue, the Circuit de Catalunya, will hold a race in its usual early summer slot. No title has yet been announced for this round, which is the last on the Barcelona circuit’s current contract.
Zandvoort is also due to hold its final race in 2026. The Dutch Grand Prix will not return in 2027 as the organisers have not agreed a new deal with F1.
The only other significant change to the calendar is an earlier date for the Canadian Grand Prix at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. This means it will follow the Miami Grand Prix, allowing F1 to reduce the distance covered by freight between the two races, held three weeks apart.
Next year’s Canadian Grand Prix will take place on May 24th, the earliest the race has ever been held. The race has never previously taken place in May, when the average temperature in Montreal is 15C, peaking at 20C.
As was the case this year, the season will open with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne and conclude with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in Yas Marina.
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“With 24 grands prix across five continents, the season truly reflects the global nature of our community, while the improved geographical flow of the calendar shows our joint commitment to making the championship more efficient and sustainable,” said FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem. “The debut of Madrid, the arrival of iconic brands like Audi, Cadillac, and Ford, and the introduction of the next generation of F1 cars powered by 100% advanced sustainable fuels signal an exciting new era of racing.”
The schedules for the 2026 Formula 2 and Formula 3 seasons have also been confirmed. As previously announced, both series will join F1 for its new race at Madring in Spain, which will serve as the finale for the F3 series.
2026 F1 calendar
| Round | Race | Date | Forum |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australian Grand Prix | Mar 6-8 | Forum |
| 2 | Chinese Grand Prix | Mar 13-15 | Forum |
| 3 | Japanese Grand Prix | Mar 27-29 | Forum |
| 4 | Bahrain Grand Prix | Apr 10-12 | Forum |
| 5 | Saudi Arabian Grand Prix | Apr 17-19 | Forum |
| 6 | Miami Grand Prix | May 1-3 | Forum |
| 7 | Canadian Grand Prix | May 22-24 | Forum |
| 8 | Monaco Grand Prix | Jun 5-7 | Forum |
| 9 | TBC Grand Prix (Circuit de Catalunya) | Jun 12-14 | Forum |
| 10 | Austrian Grand Prix | Jun 26-28 | Forum |
| 11 | British Grand Prix | Jul 3-5 | Forum |
| 12 | Belgian Grand Prix | Jul 17-19 | Forum |
| 13 | Hungarian Grand Prix | Jul 24-26 | Forum |
| 14 | Dutch Grand Prix | Aug 21-23 | Forum |
| 15 | Italian Grand Prix | Sep 4-6 | Forum |
| 16 | Spanish Grand Prix (Madring) | Sep 11-13 | Forum |
| 17 | Azerbaijan Grand Prix | Sep 25-27 | Forum |
| 18 | Singapore Grand Prix | Oct 9-11 | Forum |
| 19 | United States Grand Prix | Oct 23-25 | Forum |
| 20 | Mexican Grand Prix | Oct 30-Nov 1 | Forum |
| 21 | Brazilian Grand Prix | Nov 6-8 | Forum |
| 22 | Las Vegas Grand Prix | Nov 19-21 | Forum |
| 23 | Qatar Grand Prix | Nov 27-29 | Forum |
| 24 | Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | Dec 4-6 | Forum |
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2026 F2 and F3 calendars
| Venue | Race one | Race two | Series |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Park, Melbourne | 7 Mar | 8 Mar | Formula 2, Formula 3 |
| Bahrain International Circuit | 11 Apr | 12 Apr | Formula 2, Formula 3 |
| Jeddah Corniche Circuit | 18 Apr | 19 Apr | Formula 2 |
| Monaco | 6 Jun | 7 Jun | Formula 2, Formula 3 |
| Circuit de Catalunya | 13 Jun | 14 Jun | Formula 2, Formula 3 |
| Red Bull Ring | 27 Jun | 28 Jun | Formula 2, Formula 3 |
| Silverstone | 4 Jul | 5 Jul | Formula 2, Formula 3 |
| Spa-Francorchamps | 18 Jul | 19 Jul | Formula 2, Formula 3 |
| Hungaroring | 25 Jul | 26 Jul | Formula 2, Formula 3 |
| Monza | 5 Sep | 6 Sep | Formula 2, Formula 3 |
| Madring | 12 Sep | 13 Sep | Formula 2, Formula 3 |
| Baku City Circuit | 26 Sep | 27 Sep | Formula 2 |
| Losail International Circuit | 28 Nov | 29 Nov | Formula 2 |
| Yas Marina | 5 Dec | 6 Dec | Formula 2 |
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XM (@xmf1)
10th June 2025, 6:45
“It’s a track where overtaking is difficult with this iteration of F1 cars” they said.
“30 total overtakes, highest ever amount since the 90s” Imola 2025 said.
Jere (@jerejj)
10th June 2025, 6:56
That was largely down to the neutralizations as otherwise overtaking for a position could only really happen with a big tyre delta.
Jere (@jerejj)
10th June 2025, 6:55
Long post warning:
Next season’s GP calendar is largely how I expected based on indications & otherwise.
However, I’m baffled that after only one season with every single round within the Australia-China-Japan trio having something to pair with, the Japanese GP will be a standalone round again next season.
A triple-header with the Australian & Chinese GP taking place seven days later each would be better, or the same pattern as this season, meaning seven days later for all three, or as a third option, China-Japan double (i.e., Chinese GP seven days later) with the Australian GP preceded by the last pre-season test on the same circuit the preceding week.
I’m also baffled that the Miami & Canadian GPs won’t form a double-header at least for the first season of being held consecutively in order, even though the whole purpose of moving the Canadian GP in the first place was to make such a double-header possible, meaning that the latter would’ve been better off staying in June in the end.
The Indy 500 clash is also note-worthy because Montreal & Indianapolis share a time zone, which means that a direct timing clash may be inevitable, unlike with the Monaco GP due to a six-hour time difference.
Therefore, holding the Canadian GP a week earlier & the Miami GP a week later would be more fitting since a two-weekend gap would exist either way but more fittingly between Jeddah & Miami instead of Miami & Montreal.
Montmelo a week after the Monaco GP is unsurprising, although the Austrian & British GPs will each take place roughly on the same weekend, while the Belgian, Hungarian, & Dutch GPs will each move forward by roughly a weekend, hence no post-summer break triple, but the Monza & Madrid dates are still as I expected & the same for the Azerbaijan GP.
The Singapore GP will take place roughly a weekend later than this season as will the US & Mexico City GPs (the same respective race days as in 2015) with the last four taking place roughly on the same weekends as this season & the final three race dates were the easiest to predict.
Before reaching the race calendar in full within this article, I briefly assumed the return of a COTA-Mexico-Brazil triple would mean the Sao Paulo GP moving forward by a weekend, but oppositely the former two in the end.
ykiki (@ykiki)
10th June 2025, 7:21
Indeed, having Montreal 3 weeks after Miami is a bit of a head scratcher, especially with the Indy 500 conflict. Why make the move if they’re basically flying back and forth anyway?
Perhaps things shake up more in 2027?
Jere (@jerejj)
10th June 2025, 8:03
Tell me about it & things could indeed shake up more after next season & I certainly hope that they’d be standalone rounds within the same month only as a one-off thing.
BasCB (@bascb)
10th June 2025, 9:08
Maybe the point is that they want to transport the stuff from Miami by road?
BasCB (@bascb)
10th June 2025, 9:10
Also, I think the F1 teams made it pretty clear to F1 that they are very much not keen on having triple headers, which is why they do not have the Australia-Japan-China triple header (and have the Dutch GP as a standalone)
Jere (@jerejj)
10th June 2025, 9:26
@bascb Yet the late-season phase still has triple-headers & two again, with the final one being essentially caused by the stubbornness to hold the Las Vegas GP in any other November phase, even though that’d be easily re-negotiable.
Ironically, an Australia-China-Japan triple would be comparatively more suitable travel-wise than the LV-Qatar-Abu Dhabi one or even COTA-Mexico-Brazil.
Jere (@jerejj)
10th June 2025, 9:28
@bascb I forgot to touch on your first post that I doubt transport from Miami to Montreal would happen by road anyway since that’s a thing only for European locations, with sea freight the norm for flyaways.
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
10th June 2025, 10:54
I think they just wanted to avoid a triple header right at the start of a brand new era, to ease the pressure on teams as supplies will probably be short in all areas.
Jere (@jerejj)
10th June 2025, 11:29
@fer-no65 A plausible explanation, which I hadn’t thought about.
The early-season phase for a season with considerable technical regulation changes can certainly be different supply-wise than the equivalent season phase for a season with stable technical regulations from the preceding one.
Simon
10th June 2025, 18:27
Jere bingo card nearly complete using just the first post on this thread :/
F1statsfan (@f1statsfan)
10th June 2025, 7:16
Timing wise a really horrible calendar whereby the season at times is very stretched and at other times extremely condensed.
There are 24 races over a 40 week period from week 10 to week 49.
It starts with a double header in week 10 & 11
Then Japan is suddenly a stand alone in week 13
Followed by another double header in week 15 & 16
Then comes to stupidest part with Miami in week 18 but Canada not till week 21 – why are these not put back to back. So in a 7 week period there are 2 races but in the 8 weeks after there are 6 races.
This is followed by 3 double headers in Europe in week 23 & 24, week 26 & 27 and week 29 & 30 before the summer break.
After the summer break the Dutch race is pulled forward as a stand alone event in week 34 followed by a double header in week 36 & 37.
Now comes the 2nd stupid thing – as 2 stand alone races follow in week 39 and week 41 going from Europe to Baku to Singapore (why not combine Singapore with Japan earlier in the season).
Due to big gaps in end April/May and now Sept/Oct there is little time to finish the season with as result there are 2 triple headers week 43, 44 & 45 and 47, 48 & 49 with still the insane Las Vegas to Qatar combo.
So after the Dutch Race in week 34 there are 8 weeks with only 4 races but in last 7 weeks there are 6 races with likely half of those weekends being sprint weekends as well.
Jere (@jerejj)
10th June 2025, 8:10
Indeed. The GP calendar could definitely be formed in a better way, especially the very early part regarding the Australia-China-Japan trio as well as the Miami-Montreal phase & while moving the Singapore GP to the early-season phase was ruled out once, it could certainly take place a week earlier, forming a double-header with Baku like last season, which would allow for COTA & Mexico City each to take place a week earlier & therefore, minimize the triple-header amount in the late-season phase.
The Miami-Montreal case is indeed the stupidest one since the whole point of moving Montreal in the first place was to allow for a North American double-header at that season phase, so unless them not forming a double-header is only a temporary thing for next season, this whole move is pointless, meaning that Montreal would be better off just staying in June if they’re still going to be standalone events.
some racing fan
11th June 2025, 20:45
Miami and Montreal is not a double header because of the weather in those 2 places. Maybe, perhaps you could have Montreal on 17 May- but no earlier. It gets too cold there at that time of year.
some racing fan
11th June 2025, 20:46
Plus any later with Miami and it gets too hot and rainy there.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
10th June 2025, 7:33
Ah, ofc, let’s get rid of interesting tracks like imola and have 2 in spain.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
10th June 2025, 7:34
The more I see how f1 is going on, the more I like that I’m only watching it for free.
Jere (@jerejj)
10th June 2025, 8:05
@esploratore1 Spain having two is either only a one-off thing or something that’ll happen every other season beyond next season.
Yes (@come-on-kubica)
10th June 2025, 8:13
Those last 3 tracks are absolutely dreadful. What an awful way to end the season. The calendar is so static and bloated. Especially as 8 of those tracks need cutting.
Leksa (@leksa)
10th June 2025, 10:21
If we’re lucky, the championship is over by then, so we can skip those 3 night races and call Interlagos the season finale.
Jere (@jerejj)
10th June 2025, 11:31
@leksa The Las Vegas GP has so far produced decent racing & even if the championship gets clinched by the final triple-header, those three rounds could still feature some other exciting close battles, especially in the lower constructors’ championship positions.
Roger Ayles (@roger-ayles)
10th June 2025, 13:26
@jerejj Vegas is a truly horrid circuit though.
That along with Miami are easily the 2 worst circuits on the current calender and are up there with Sochi & Valencia in terms of been truly dire to watch cars lapping.
The long DRS zones help create some passing but 99% of it is utterly boring and forgettable and other than Sainz hitting the manhole the first year and Leclerc passing Perez on the last lap I honestly can’t remember anything else that happened from either race and so that tell’s me the racing can’t have been all that good in terms of producing great exciting memorable battles or overtakes.
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
10th June 2025, 8:53
Good to see Monaco given a bit of breathing space. Still, I wish they’d kept Imola. Couldn’t they call it the Dan Marino Grand Prix?
It ends with a weary plod around three night races. Bright lights and more fireworks than New Year’s Eve to try and distract us from the lousy tracks. What’s sustainable about that?
ferrox glideh (@ferrox-glideh)
10th June 2025, 14:34
I would get behind the Rita Moreno Grand Prix.
Broderick Harper (@banbrorace)
10th June 2025, 11:23
Genuinely perplexed why people think Imola is so great and Vegas and Qatar so terrible.
Please explain in technical details. As I find those new additions give us a nice variety.
There always seems to be greater criticism of newer tracks than the old one. Frankly, if someone proposed the Monaco track right now – it would get slated.
Jere (@jerejj)
10th June 2025, 11:30
I couldn’t agree more.
Roger Ayles (@roger-ayles)
10th June 2025, 13:38
@banbrorace
Becaue Imola is a truly wonderful circuit that has a ton of character, a great flow and a lot of soul.
It’s a great track to watch cars lapping from a spectators point of view both in person (I’ve been there a few times over the years for various categories) as well as watching on TV. The cars look alive lapping around it in part due to the elevation change but also because of the location and flow of the place. This is why drivers universally love the circuit.
Vegas on the other hand is a flat, featureless, characterless, soul-less circuit that has nothing that helps it stand out above any of the other modern car park street tracks. It’s horrible to watch cars lapping, Has no point of it that is exciting to watch cars going around and the cars just don’t look especially alive around the place so it just lacks the sort of visual spectacle that makes it thrilling to watch.
Qatar isn’t bad but it’s also not especially inspiring for some of the same reasons. It lacks any real character or atmosphere so watching on TV it just always feels as if something is missing as been a night race in the middle of a desert just also makes the place feel a bit dead which again takes away from the atmosphere.
You compare it to a circuit like Imola where you have the parkland scenery and packed grandstands of knowledgable and passionate fans and that creates an atmosphere which helps make everything feel that extra bit special.
It’s similar reason as to why I always hate it when the season starts in Bahrain rather than Melbourne. It starting in Melbourne with the atmosphere that venue has just always makes the start of the season feel that bit more of a big deal. With Bahrain it’s a decent track but like Qatar it just lacks an atmosphere so the season starting there just always falls a bit flat for me.
Sadly under Liberty most of the new circuits are more along the Qatar/Vegas style where they just lack a lot of what makes watching cars lapping circuits fun, These modern style car park street circuits are just truly dire imo so losing Imola for yet another one of those in Madrid is just further proof to me that Liberty are taking F1 is a very negative direction.
Roger Ayles (@roger-ayles)
10th June 2025, 13:44
And it’s not just fans. Ask the drivers what the most exciting and best circuits to drive are and I bet none of them would have the likes of Las Vegas, Miami, Yas Marina, Jeddah, Madrid or maybe even Qatar anywhere near the top of the list.
And that stuff comes across on TV as well as the best circuits to drive also tend to be the best to watch cars driving around because they are often the one’s that provide the most challenge for both car and driver and that makes the cars look and feel the most alive which really add’s to the visual spectacle of watching.
some racing fan
11th June 2025, 20:55
I agree with everything you said except the part about Vegas being featureless and character-less, and I probably have a higher opinion of the Losail circuit than you do. The Losail circuit is the best of the Middle Eastern tracks because it is so fast. I don’t mind flat circuits so long as they are fast and/or interesting- Silverstone and Melbourne among others are both flat.
And as for Vegas, it certainly has features and the kind of seedy character that makes it strangely interesting- like Long Beach back in the day. The circuit going past all those features being the hotels and amusements with neon lights mean it can only be in one place- Vegas.
Sam
10th June 2025, 23:11
Qatar is an alright track. Would be better with some elevation changes but at least it has lots of high speed corners. Las Vegas on the other hand… Stupidly long straight is the main problem. Give me a race at Road America anyday over Miami or Las Vegas.
I don’t think Imola is a great circuit, only the middle sector stands out, and the Madrid street race looks alright because it actually has some elevation changes. Overall, I don’t mind the tracks being swapped. A much bigger problem is all the middle eastern and US races when we don’t have Istanbul Park, Sepang or Kyalami, and Zandvoort is going and Spa is rotating.
David B
10th June 2025, 21:31
The sport that keeps making overtaking more difficult with stupidly large cars tops it off by continuing to replace proper tracks with street circuits.. Someone please save this ‘sport’.
Sam
10th June 2025, 23:19
I just am not interested in this many races, especially not at this many bad tracks. I used to enjoy the build up to an F1 season and F1 races, whereas now it feels to me like a slog to keep up.
I actually think the new Madrid circuit looks alright, kind of like a street version of Sonoma.