The F1 season has just begun but work is already underway on what the 2025 calendar will be: several new features in the pipeline.
The first green light of 2024 only went off just over a month ago, but Liberty Media it has accustomed us to planning things with the necessary timing. In fact, the gaze is already turned towards 2025 and to what will be the calendar of the next F1 world championship.
To start, all the 24 circuits part of the 2024 program already have an agreement valid for 2025. This means that, in all likelihood, the 2025 calendar will be composed of same circuits that will be protagonists in 2024.
What could change, however, is the slots occupied by the various grand prix, as the well-known English journalist writes Joe Saward on his usual Green Notebook. Just a few days ago, the third seasonal grand prix took place in Australia which saw the triumph of Carlos Sainz, with Charles Leclerc completing a Ferrari double as splendid as it was unexpected. Since its debut in F1 in 1996, the Melbourne race has almost always rhymed with the start of the season.
Things have changed slightly since the advent of Covid, but in 2025 we will return to dear old habits. The Australian GP will in fact mark the again start of the world championship and it should take place on March 9.
This is therefore the date circled in red, not only formally but in fact, from Lewis Hamilton: it will in fact be the beginning of his new adventure in Ferrari. We’ll see what color suit instead Carlos Sainz will prepare to defend the victory just won.
The start of the 2025 World Cup could immediately be characterized by a back-to-back. The March 16 in fact the GP should be scheduled Chinawhich will be followed, after a weekend of respite, by the GP of Japan The March 30th.
The race in the Land of the Rising Sun will close the triptych of events in the Far East, but at the same time it could constitute the start of a hat-trick. The GPs of Bahrain And Saudi Arabia they could in fact go on stage respectively on April 6 and 13as the fourth and fifth appointment of 2025.
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The two races in the Middle East, which opened the last three seasons, will therefore be moved later, to conclusion of Ramadan, scheduled for Sunday 30 March. We will then fly overseas for the sixth round of the season, which should take place on that day You love me The April 27. Then it will finally be the turn of the classic European circuits. The GP of Monk will, as usual, be scheduled forlast weekend of Mayprecisely between the 23rd and 25th.
From a logistics and sustainability perspective, such a calendar configuration would certainly represent a step forwardas it would avoid moving from one end of the globe to the other, as happens in 2024.
Attempts to merge the Miami GP with that of Canadain order to avoid two trips from one side of the Atlantic to the other, However, they risk going up in smoke Once again. The Montreal race, in fact, occupies a contractual slot in the first half of June and the organizers refuse to bring forward the race also due to a temperature issue. For organizational reasons, it also seems quite complicated to postpone the appointment in Florida by about a month.
No changes should therefore be planned in 2025 regarding the circuits. Big changes are planned for 2026when the first grand prix is scheduled on the street circuit of Madrid. The Spanish capital has in fact signed a ten-year contract that will tie it to F1 until 2035. Furthermore, the CEO of F1, Stefano Domenicalihas set the maximum number of races for a single championship at 24.
It is therefore probable that a European tender will have to give way. Barcelona However, it does not give up and aims to host the queen category of motorsport in the coming years too. The hope is that it won’t have to be one of the two Italian races that abdicates.
Monza And Imola in fact, they both expire in 2025, but for the Brianza racetrack the situation seems to be turning for the better. Ongoing road and infrastructure work is expected to lead to reappointment for several years to come. However, the situation of the circuit dedicated to Enzo and Dino Ferrari appears more complex.
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