F1 announces six sprint races venues for 2025

Formula 1 has announced nan six grands prix which will big events successful nan sprint format successful 2025.

The races, which characteristic a shorter title connected nan Saturday earlier nan main arena connected nan Sunday, commencement pinch nan 2nd expansive prix of nan play successful China connected 21-23 March.

The others are Miami connected 2-4 May, Belgium connected 25-27 July, nan US Grand Prix successful Austin connected 17-19 October, Brazil connected 7-9 November and nan penultimate title successful Qatar connected 28-30 November.

China, Miami, Austin, Brazil and Qatar are besides sprint events connected this year’s schedule.

Belgium hosted a sprint antecedently successful 2023.

The 2025 F1 play starts successful Australia connected 14-16 March.

F1 has besides released information to show that audiences are higher for sprint events than for grands prix tally to nan modular format, which sees 2 believe sessions connected Friday, followed by 1 connected Saturday earlier qualifying and past nan race.

A connection said that unrecorded assemblage figures for nan sprint successful qualifying and sprint successful China this twelvemonth were 40% higher crossed F1’s apical 15 markets compared to nan mean believe sessions for nan opening 2 races successful Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

F1 president Stefano Domenicali said: “The sprint has been a awesome occurrence for Formula 1, bringing each our fans much action and racing connected nan track.

“We are seeing nan impervious of this successful our assemblage data, instrumentality attendance connected Fridays and from nan promoters and partners.”

F1 will people nan 75th day of nan founding of nan world title adjacent play and Domenicali said nan sprint was “a awesome illustration of bringing caller elements to our athletics successful a measurement that is respectful of nan championship”.

There will beryllium nary changes adjacent twelvemonth to nan caller sprint format that was introduced this season.

F1 bosses discussed making further modifications to nan format earlier this year. Those talks will beryllium revisited astatine a later day but location is nary denotation of timing aliases circumstantial changes that mightiness beryllium considered.

The caller format this twelvemonth separated retired nan sprint from nan main expansive prix.

There had been a number of different formats earlier this season, but each mixed together nan sprint and expansive prix successful 1 measurement aliases different - either by having nan sprint group nan grid for nan main title aliases by having nan sprint successful betwixt expansive prix qualifying and nan title itself.

Under nan latest format introduced successful 2024, a qualifying convention that sets nan grid for nan sprint takes spot connected Friday afternoon, followed by nan sprint arsenic nan first way arena for F1 connected Saturday.

The qualifying convention for nan main expansive prix is tally later connected Saturday earlier nan expansive prix connected Sunday.