Formula One announced the 2025 racing calendar with the Australian Grand Prix currently scheduled to return to its traditional position as the first race of the new season on March 16 in 2025. The race in Melbourne had traditionally been the first race virtually every year since it made its debut in 1996 until the […]
Formula One has released a revised calendar for the 2024 season and it now includes the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai – in what would be the first time the race has occurred since 2019 before the Covid-19 worldwide pandemic. Since then, the race has been scheduled but always cancelled due to either the pandemic […]
Formula One has officially confirmed the addition of an inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix on the recently released 2023 racing calendar – and it will be Saturday race [on November 18], instead of the usual Sunday race on most grand prix weekends – the last time a race was not held on a Sunday during […]
Formula One has released their tentative – due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic – racing calendar for the 2022 season but it is already known that the Chinese Grand Prix, scheduled to be held in Shanghai, has been dropped from next year’s Formula 1 calendar and will be replaced by the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix […]
Formula One has added a grand prix at the Losail circuit in Qatar to their 2021 racing calendar. Qatar will make its debut on the Formula 1 calendar with the race on November 21, 2021. Qatar has also signed a 10-year deal to host a grand prix race beginning in 2023. The gap in grand […]
Electric racing organization Formula E has announced that they will add races in both South Africa and South Korea for their 16-race 2022 calendar. The newly added races will be held in Cape Town on February 26, 2022 and in Seoul on August 13-14, 2022. For South Africa, it will be that country’s first top-level […]
Formula One continues to play musical chairs with the calendar as the the 2021 version of the Turkish Grand Prix – initially added as a replacement for the cancelled Canadian Grand Prix, then cancelled due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic – has been added again to the calendar, this time on October 3, 2021, as […]
Formula One has officially added the Portuguese Grand Prix to the 2021 calendar as the third race of the season on May 2, 2021 at the Portimao circuit in the trendy Algarve region of Portugal. The 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix was one of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton’s 11 victories last year on his way to claiming […]
The FiA [Formula One’s governing entity] has announced the 2021 season schedule – there will be 23 grands prix next year – the longest season in history. The 2021 Formula One season begins, as usual, in Australia on March 21 and ends, as usual, in Abu Dhabi on December 6. The calendar is official but […]
The Vietnamese Grand Prix has been dropped from the 2021 Formula One calendar. The race was set to be a street race in the capital of Hanoi and was due to make its debut in April this year but was cancelled due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. The date of the expected 2021 Vietnamese Grand […]
The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix has been provisionally added to the 2021 Formula One calendar. The 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix is temporarily set to be on a street circuit in Jeddah and will be inserted toward the end of the calendar year. After a new track is built at Qiddiyah [expected to be ready […]
Formula E has tentatively set their 2021 racing calendar – with Chile unveiled as the host site of the first race in January 2021. The Santiago E-Prix in Chile will kick off the Formula E racing season – before making stops in Mexico City, Saudi Arabia, China, Rome, Paris, Monaco, Seoul, Berlin, New York City […]
Formula One has set the calendar for the 2020 racing season, tentatively consisting of eight races at six European locations – all without spectators. The 2020 Formula 1 season will start in Spielberg, Austria on July 5, 2020, with the traditional Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring. That will be followed the next […]
After hemorrhaging Grand Prix races left and right from the 2018 racing calendar in recent weeks, Formula One announced that there will be a new addition to the calendar for that year – the French Grand Prix. The 2018 French Grand Prix will be held at Circuit Paul Ricard, located in the south of France […]
It is official – but it is also provisional, with Brazil’s participation still hanging in the balance – there will be at least 20 races on the 2017 Formula One racing calendar, beginning with the Australian Grand prix on March 26, 2017… The Official, Provisional, Formula One 2017 Racing Calendar March 26 – Australia (Melbourne) […]
The official – albeit provisional – schedule for the 2016 Formula One season has been released and the main change was moving the season opening Australian Grand Prix race at Melbourne to March 20 [from its original early April date]. No other major movements or changes are on the schedule, however, the inaugural race at […]
An already crowded 2016 Formula One calendar with 21 races could get another after Turkish officials met with Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone and announced that – pending governmental elections on November 1, 2015 and government approval – Turkey could be the host to a 22nd race next year. Turkey previously hosted a grand prix […]
Are you ready for a third Formula One race in the Middle East? The only countries able to afford hosting expensive Formula One race spectacles these days are oil-rich and/or government-run states and Iran has become the latest of these – joining Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Russia and Azerbaijan – to possibly be included in an […]
As reported earlier, the 2016 Australian Grand Prix moved to a later date in April – that movement has resulted in a shift of several of the other races on the calendar as Formula One released their provisional calendar for 2016… April 3 — Australia (Albert Park) April 10 — China (Shanghai) April 24 — […]
Information on the provisional calendar for the 2016 Formula One season has been released and the first race of the season, the Australian Grand Prix, will be held on April 3, 2016 – the latest start to an F1 season since 1988. Although no official reason has yet been provided by Formula One as to […]