Components 1 2025 schedule: Australia to host opener as 24-race calendar confirmed | F1 Information

Components 1 has confirmed a 24-race schedule for 2025 that may see the season begin in Australia for the primary time since 2019.

The 2025 calendar options the identical 24 circuits as F1’s 2024 schedule, which was the longest within the sport’s historical past, however there have been modifications to the order for the world championship’s seventy fifth anniversary season.

Bahrain has hosted the opening race for the final 4 years, however the timing of Ramadan subsequent 12 months means the Sakhir race, together with the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, have been pushed again to April.

Meaning Australia, which was final scheduled to carry the opening race in 2020 earlier than the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic noticed the occasion cancelled, will step in to host from March 14-16 on a weekend the place Lewis Hamilton will make his Ferrari debut.

F1 president Stefano Domenicali mentioned: “2025 shall be a particular 12 months as we have fun the seventy fifth Anniversary of the FIA Components One World Championship, and it is that legacy and expertise that permits us to ship such a robust calendar.

“As soon as once more, we’ll go to 24 unbelievable venues world wide, delivering prime class racing, hospitality, and leisure, which shall be loved by thousands and thousands of followers worldwide.”

In a reversal from their working order in 2024, China will observe Australia because the second race earlier than Japan continues within the spring spot it occupied for the primary time this 12 months.

With Ramadan over, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia observe with back-to-back races in April.

From there on, there are solely minor tweaks to the 2024 calendar, with the Spanish Grand Prix – going down in Barcelona for the ultimate time earlier than it switches to Madrid in 2026 – moved in entrance of the Canadian Grand Prix.

That makes Barcelona the ultimate venue for one in all two triple-headers throughout the 2025 season, with the previous races in Imola and Monaco.

The British Grand Prix, scheduled for July 4-6 at Silverstone, is now a part of a double – fairly than triple – header, following on from the Austrian Grand Prix.

One other small change sees Belgium and Hungary swap locations within the double-header that precedes the August summer season break, with Budapest now internet hosting the final race, on August 3 ,earlier than a four-week pause.

The races after the summer season break, beginning with the Dutch Grand Prix from August 29-31, run in the identical order as in 2024, with the one change being a weekend off launched between the Mexico Metropolis and Sao Paulo occasions to stop the season ending with two triple-headers.

The ultimate three races, nevertheless, are as soon as extra with out pause, as Las Vegas hosts from November 20-22 earlier than the season heads to Qatar and ends in Abu Dhabi on December 7.

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem added: “The 2025 FIA Components One World Championship calendar, accepted by the World Motor Sport Council, is an additional illustration of our collective mission of assembly sustainability targets by means of the regionalisation of occasions. Whereas our focus is on the general stability of Components 1, we even have a shared obligation to the surroundings and to the well being and well-being of travelling workers.

“Components One Administration, below the path of Stefano Domenicali, have produced a calendar which strikes a great mix of conventional circuits and trendy venues.”

Affirmation of which circuits will host an anticipated six Dash weekends in 2025 shall be supplied at a later date.

Subsequent up in 2024 is the return of the Chinese language Grand Prix on April 19-21, which can also be the primary Dash weekend of the season. You may watch each session stay on Sky Sports activities F1 and steam each F1 race and extra with a NOW Sports activities Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime

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