Formula 1 management have announced a new calendar for next season which is set to feature a record 24 races with the return of the Chinese Grand Prix as there are numerous changes to calendar positions to reduce costs.
This year the calendar was also supposed to consist of the same number races as for 2024, but Chinese GP was canceled due to COVID-19 measures while Emilia Romagna was canceled due to flooding.
The pre-season testing will last three days, like this year, and will be held at the location of the first race of the season in Bahrain on February 21 – 23.
The first two races of the season in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia will be run on Saturdays, joining Las Vegas in running on Saturdays both this year and next, and the gap between the first two races will be a week instead of two.
Japan will be the fourth race of the season next year instead of Azerbaijan as they swapped places while Singapore and the USA in Austin are almost a month apart, the second four-week break after the usual summer break.
Qatar has been moved towards the end of the calendar and will be the penultimate race of the season in 2024, a week before the final in Abu Dhabi.
The season starts on 2 March and ends on 8 December, which is the latest end of the season since 2021 when the season ended on 12 December.
2024 F1 CALENDAR
| 1 | Bahrain | 2 Mar |
| 2 | Saudi Arabia | 9 Mar |
| 3 | Australia | 24 Mar |
| 4 | Japan | 7 Apr |
| 5 | China | 21 Apr |
| 6 | Miami | 5 May |
| 7 | Emilia Romagna | 19 May |
| 8 | Monaco | 26 May |
| 9 | Canada | 9 Jun |
| 10 | Spain | 23 Jun |
| 11 | Austria | 30 Jun |
| 12 | Great Britain | 7 Jul |
| 13 | Hungary | 2 Jul |
| 14 | Belgium | 28 Jul |
| 15 | Netherlands | 25 Aug |
| 16 | Italy | 1 Sep |
| 17 | Azerbaijan | 15 Sep |
| 18 | Singapore | 22 Sep |
| 19 | USA | 20 Oct |
| 20 | Mexico | 27 Oct |
| 21 | Brazil | 3 Nov |
| 22 | Las Vegas | 23 Nov |
| 24 | Qatar | 1 Dec |
| 24 | Abu Dhabi | 8 Dec |
