Apr.15 (GMM) A few question marks continue to hang over the newly-announced Formula 1 season calendar for 2025.
Another 24-race calendar awaits next year, with both F1 and the FIA confirming speculation that it will be Melbourne rather than Bahrain that opens the schedule on 16 March – due to Ramadan.
FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem hailed the better sequencing of the races “through the regionalisation of events”, assisting the “health and wellbeing of travelling staff”.
2025 F1 calendar
Date Country Venue
March 14-16 Australia Melbourne
March 21-23 China Shanghai
April 4-6 Japan Suzuka
April 11-13 Bahrain Sakhir
April 18-20 Saudi Arabia Jeddah
May 2-4 USA Miami
May 16-18 Italy Imola
May 23-25 Monaco Monaco
May 30 – June 1 Spain Barcelona
June 13-15 Canada Montreal
June 27-29 Austria Spielberg
July 4-6 UK Silverstone
July 25-27 Belgium Spa
August 1-3 Hungary Budapest
August 29-31 Netherlands Zandvoort
September 5-7 Italy Monza
September 19-21 Azerbaijan Baku
October 3-5 Singapore Singapore
October 17-19 USA Austin
October 24-26 Mexico Mexico City
November 7-9 Brazil Sao Paulo
November 20-22 USA Las Vegas
November 28-30 Qatar Lusail
December 5-7 Abu Dhabi Yas Marina
According to Auto Motor und Sport, however, there are still some outstanding questions.
“It has not yet been decided where the pre-season testing will take place,” correspondent Tobias Gruner said.
“As Bahrain is not the start of the season, it would be advisable to test once again in southern Europe and thus cut costs. But we hear that Bahrain would like to invite the Formula 1 circuit back to Sakhir for testing in February.
“One advantage of that is more consistent weather conditions, but on the negative side, there would be logistical problems with the supply of spare parts.”
Another question-mark, Gruner added, are which venues will be assigned ‘sprint’ weekend format status – with six such weekends likely yet again in 2025.
“F1 authorities are still in negotiations with the individual race promoters,” said Gruner.
“As always, the winners will be those races that are willing to pay the biggest premium for the additional action.”