On this day in 1999, Michael Schumacher won his first race of the season in Imola after Mika Hakkinen crashed from the leading position in lap 18 when he had 13 seconds advantage over his team mate David Coulthard.

Nigel Mansell enjoyed his dream season in Williams FW14B with Renault's V10 engine and won for the fifth consecutive time at the start of the season in Imola.

On this day in 1997, Heinz Harald Frentzen won his first race in Formula 1 after beating his former sportscar team mate Michael Schumacher in Ferrari.

Before the first sprint weekend in Imola, the FIA ​​announced one track change related to the detection point for the only DRS zone that has been moved backwards to discourage tactics using the DRS we saw in the first two races of the season.

On this day in 2004 Michael Schumacher won for the fourth time in a row in 2004. in Imola after beating Jenson Button who started from pole position in his BAR Honda.

On this day in 2006 Michael Schumacher beat Fernando Alonso to secure his first victory of the season for Ferrari, day after he surpassed Senna's all time pole record.

Formula 1 has confirmed a new version of the calendar for this season after it was confirmed that the races in Australia and China will be postponed and the race in Imola will replace the GP of Vietnam in April.

FIA je na stazi Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, skraćeno Autodromo di Imola, odlučila postaviti jednu DRS zonu koja će biti na startno ciljnom pravcu koji će biti duži nego za vrijeme posljednje održane utrke na ovoj stazi 2006.