Posted on 09/16/2026 7:17:41 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
Formula 1 and the FIA unveiled the long-awaited schedule on Wednesday following approval from the World Motor Sport Council, confirming 24 grands prix across 22 countries.
The Australian Grand Prix is scheduled for the first week of April as the third round of the season after opening the championship in both 2025 and 2026, although its position could still shift if uncertainty surrounding Bahrain and Saudi Arabia forces changes to the opening rounds.
Australia will also become one of five first-time sprint hosts alongside Bahrain, Japan, Monaco and Abu Dhabi.
Montreal and Silverstone retain sprint weekends from this season, while Monza, Sao Paulo and Qatar will return to the format.
That means China, Miami and Singapore will lose their sprint status after featuring on the six-event 2026 schedule, while Zandvoort drops away entirely as one of two races not returning next season.
2027 Formula 1 World Championship calendar
| Date | Event | City | Circuit |
| March 12-14 | Bahrain Grand Prix* | Sakhir | Bahrain International Circuit |
| March 19-21 | Saudi Arabian Grand Prix | Jeddah | Jeddah Corniche Circuit |
| April 2-4 | Australian Grand Prix* | Melbourne | Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit |
| April 9-11 | Japanese Grand Prix* | Suzuka | Mie - Suzuka Circuit |
| April 16-18 | Chinese Grand Prix | Jiading | Shanghai SAIC International Circuit |
| April 30-May 2 | Miami Grand Prix | Miami Gardens | Miami International Autodrome |
| May 21-23 | Grand Prix du Canada* | Montréal | Circuit Gilles Villeneuve |
| June 4-6 | Grand Prix de Monaco* | Monte Carlo | Circuit de Monaco |
| June 18-20 | Grande Premio de Portugal | Portimão, Algarve | Autodromo Internacional do Algarve |
| July 2-4 | British Grand Prix* | Silverstone, Northamptonshire | Silverstone Circuit |
| July 9-11 | Großer Preis von Österreich | Spielberg, Styria | Red Bull Ring |
| July 23-25 | Große Preis von Belgien | Stavelot, Liège, Wallonia | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps |
| July 30-August 1 | Hungarian Grand Prix | Mogyoród, Pest | Hungaroring |
| September 3-5 | Italian Grand Prix* | Monza, Lombardy | Autodromo Internazionale di Monza |
| September 10-12 | Gran Premio de España | Barajas, Madrid | Madring |
| September 24-26 | Azərbaycan Qran Prisi | Baku | Baku City Circuit |
| October 1-3 | Turkish Grand Prix | Tuzla, Constantinople | Intercity Istanbul Park |
| October 8-10 | Singapore Grand Prix | Singapore | Marina Bay Street Circuit |
| October 22-24 | United States Grand Prix | Elroy, TX | Circuit of the Americas |
| October 29-31 | Gran Premio de la Ciudad de México | Ciudad de México | Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez |
| November 5-7 | Grande Prêmio de São Paulo* | São Paulo | Autódromo José Carlos Pace |
| November 18-20 | Las Vegas Grand Prix | Paradise, NV | Las Vegas Strip Circuit |
| December 3-5 | Qatar Grand Prix* | Lusail | Lusail International Circuit |
| December 10-12 | Abu Dhabi Grand Prix* | Yas | Yas Marina Circuit |
*Sprint weekend
The expansion represents another significant step for the format, which debuted with three events in 2021 and remained at that number the following season before doubling to six from 2023.
That total remained unchanged through 2026 but will now jump by four next year, meaning nearly 42 percent of race weekends will feature sprint action.
F1 has pointed to increased audience and attendance figures behind its continued support of the format, claiming overall viewing figures for sprint weekends are 12 percent higher than conventional events.
CEO Stefano Domenicali welcomed the increase alongside the return of two races to the calendar.
“We are thrilled to welcome Portugal and Turkiye to the championship and to expand sprint racing to 10 events, giving our fans even more intensity, drama, and the wheel-to-wheel action that make our sport so special,” he said.
The return of Portugal and Turkey also reshapes the wider calendar.
Portugal will join the European leg following Monaco, while Turkey returns in October between Azerbaijan and Singapore.
Their additions come as Zandvoort disappears from the schedule following its final Dutch grand prix this year, while Barcelona also drops out for 2027 as part of its new rotation with Spa.
After the opening three rounds in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Australia, F1 will head to Japan and China before moving through Miami and Canada and into the European portion of the campaign.
The closing sequence will again take the championship through Austin, Mexico City, Sao Paulo and Las Vegas before scheduled races in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.
Pre-season testing has meanwhile been expanded from three to four days and will take place in Bahrain from February 24-27, giving teams additional running ahead of the new campaign.
Despite the calendar now being formally released, uncertainty continues to surround its opening Middle Eastern rounds.
The ongoing regional conflict has already caused substantial disruption in 2026, with the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian grands prix removed from their original positions earlier this year.
Bahrain’s race was subsequently revived through an unusual arrangement that will see it staged at Sepang in Malaysia from October 2-4, while Saudi Arabia has not returned to the calendar.
F1 delayed publication of its 2027 schedule while considering how the situation could affect next season, with Domenicali previously making clear the championship would release its preferred 24-race plan while retaining contingency options.
Should conditions remain unstable and Bahrain and Saudi Arabia prove unable to host the opening rounds, several alternatives have been discussed.
China has emerged as the leading candidate to open the season, potentially followed immediately by Japan, although bringing Australia forward to reclaim the opening slot has not been entirely ruled out.
Such a move would be complicated by the ongoing redevelopment of the Albert Park pit building, although work at the site earlier this year was running ahead of schedule.
If China and Japan ultimately form the opening leg of a revised calendar, Australia would be expected to retain its existing position as the third round of the season.
Domenicali has nevertheless indicated F1 intends to stage a full 24-race campaign regardless of whether its contingency plans are eventually required.
Questions also remain over the final stages of the current season.
Qatar and Abu Dhabi remain scheduled to close the 2026 campaign on November 29 and December 6 respectively, but F1 has yet to announce whether either event will be affected by the continuing Middle East situation.
Qatar organisers have insisted preparations are continuing as normal, while F1 previously indicated a decision would not be made before the middle of September.
Should either event become untenable, the championship has already considered returning to Europe to finish the season, with Imola among the options previously discussed.
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As there is only elitist media controlled by California activists when CBS Sports has Australian GP rights and NBC Sports is pushing for soon to be NBC-owned ITV to replace 4 for UK rights, we have a literal fight between Apple and two US broadcast networks, one of which has Australian rights and the other wants British rights for their domestic races.
Of course, it's not possible to trust US media for F1 because Apple has strict restrictions.
Having a sprint at Monaco is a joke. It’s the lowest overtaking venue on the circuit (but Madrid is giving it a run for its money). In 2024, the top 10 finishers at Monaco all finished the race in the same order they were in on the starting grid.
Holding an additional short format race there that was designed to free of pit stops makes absolutely NO sense. It’s a guarantee of processional racing.
So, 7 Muslim (including England), 3 US. no German.
F1 has turned into “follow the leader” and hope someone in front breaks. NASCAR, despite its wokeness, provides better entertainment.
Never underestimate a 6’4 260 lb jackman. Esteban Ocon saw that firsthand in a BP video. The drivers learned the jackmen are strength athletes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SmW1uG9jv0
They made significant changes to the 2026 cars that might have improved that. Not 'cured,' but improved. Which might have given hope for the future, but their insistence on continuing the electric hybridization (and their botched calculations) gave all the potential back.
In this decade, 54% of all F1 races have been won from pole. In 2025, the number was 67%. Thus far this season it's 57% but at this point the pecking order is well-sorted and Antonelli's dominance likely will drive that number higher by season's end.
F1's problem at this juncture is that Liberty Media, which has owned F1 since 2014, is more interested in environmental virtue signaling than they are the nature of the competition or their impact on the sport's legacy. They couldn't care less that they're driving away the 'legacy' fans because they're attracting masses of bunny-huggers who used to vilify motor racing. They're not there because they're racing fans, they're there to show their solidarity with the New Green Religion.
And Stefano Domenicali is the 'new' F1's chief apologist, Liberty Media's "Baghdad Bob." He'll preach that the ship isn't sinking so long as he can keep his nose above the waterline.
From its inception and through the Ecclestone-Mosley era, the governance of F1 had treated the sport as a sort of wild thing whose growth could be directed, within limits, but whose wild nature must be respected.
Liberty Media has turned F1 into a potted plant. It’s “spec” racing in all but name. It would be much cheaper for the teams, and I doubt the “new” fans would notice the differnce in the competition, if they bought everything they use from Jegs.
F1 needs to drop all the ‘woke’ ICE/EV hybrid power, ‘green’ fuels, etc for the cars and go back to pure ICE v8/10/12 engines. Nobody can afford the ‘green’ gas even if it were to made available to the general public. And Toyota and others have moved hybrid power into mainstream usage with power-trains that resemble F1 power only in concept.
There is no reason that F1 cannot be a sport that uses a different powertrain than the real world. Think like American football (oblong pig-skin) vs. non-American ‘futball’ ie soccer.
Ouch!
That hurt!
F1 was somewhat better when Oswald Mosley’s family ran it, but even that was below what it was in the 60s.
So far, I have had no complaints with apple tv and F-1. I think they are just re-broadcasting the Sky Sports Feed.
INDYCAR has used alcohol fuels since 1965 because of the fatal crashes.
F1 has 1600cc engines when the typical family car is now sub-2000cc. China wants in.
And they’re cutting races from 305km to 290km next season.
Fox and INDYCAR are likely pushing at the idea of adding laps to more races in 2027. The Washington one-off could be repeated but Fox loved the 400-kilometer distance (sold as 250 miles).
Here’s 400km (248.5 miles) at the other INDYCAR road and street circuits. The mile ovals run at 250 laps. Having 400km races would make Fox and IndyCar say, “Here’s 110 km more racing for you”. 250 mile races would tax the drivers and result in drivers hitting the weight rooms.
St. Petersburg - 138 laps (100)
Arlington - 91 laps (70)
Long Beach - 125 laps (95)
Barber - 105 laps (90)
Indy (RC) - 103 laps (85)
Detroit - 148 laps (100)
Road America - 62 laps (55)
Mid-Ohio - 111 laps (90)
Portland - 129 laps (110)
Markham - 114 laps (90)
Laguna Seca - 113 laps (95)
As I noted in Chode's old thread, I find that hysterical.
They're shortening the 2027 races because they miscalculated how much power the 2026 cars could harvest at the average circuit, and the result is "Yo-Yo" racing. Overtake on one lap because you've got more battery, then get overtaken the following lap because you used too much on the previous lap and the guy you just overtook now has more charge. Repeat ad infinitum.
They can't fix the energy recovery problem under the current homolgation so instead they're increasing the 2027 max fuel flow so the cars won't run out of breath so easily on the long straightaways. But they can't just increase fuel flow because the cars are too tightly packaged and they can't enlarge the fuel tanks. Higher fuel flow means they can't race for 305km. So their solution is to shorten the races.
F1 needs to stop micro-managing engine configuration. it's one of those things they claim was done in the interest of cost savings but in the end it made the sport astronomically more expensive. The cap on lease costs to the engine customer teams as of May this year was $18.5 million per PU, $148.5 million.
It hasn't been in the too-distant past when teams could campaign the entire season for less than they now pay for the lease for a single V-6 turbo hybrid PU.
The "sustainable" fuel costs several hundred dollars per gallon to make. Anybody who considers that "sustainable" is brain dead. And if they think the savings is significant, they're just plain simple-minded.
I did the math. The F1 (DHL) circus uses a fleet of 300+ semi tractor-trailers to haul F1's combined 15(-ish) thousand tons of freight a distance of 160,000 miles (at least -- could be more) to get it to and from the nine Continental races (Azerbaijan straddles the two continents but F1 flies there because it's a 2000 mile drive from the UK).
Plus Pirelli sends 15 trucks full of rubber, and each team has their own fleet of motor homes to use as paddock offices, press rooms, physio clinics, and nap spaces for the drivers. I figure they couldn't do that for less than 390,000 gallons of diesel (based on an 8mpg average for all those trucks, which is extremely optimistic).
For the fly-away races, DHL sends five to seven Boeing 777s (depending on whether there are F2 & F3 races at the same venue). Based on actual air miles of their actual routes, and published fuel consumption for that model of 777, I figure at least 2.3 million gallons of jet fuel.
In 2025, F1 sold 6.7 million tickets to F1 races. Mix in a few (very conservative) 'guesstimates,' I figure the F1 fans driving to their local F1 race are burning at least 3.8 million gallons of fossil fuels.
If F1 2026 100% lives up to its fuel reduction claims, over the original 24-race calendar, they'd have saved about 7000 gallons of fuel versus what they might have burned over the same 24 races in 2025 cars.
So they're bragging about saving 7000 gallons of fuel (and ruining the sport in the exchange) when they're burning several million gallons of fossil fuels to maintain the sport's underpinnings and hoping nobody notices.
"Green" F1 isn't just a disaster for the competition, it's a charade, and an out-and-out lie.
That should have read, "...$148.5 million per team for eight PUs...."
The fuel tanks in F1 are less than an INDYCAR or NASCAR fuel tank. Under their logic, the 18-gallon fuel tanks go 185 miles. More than 10 miles per gallon folks.
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