On Thursday Formula 1 confirmed the areas for the Sprint Races for the 2025 marketing campaign.
As with the 2024 season, there will probably be six F1 Sprint Races, and 5 of the websites will carry over from this present season into the following marketing campaign.
However, one change brings the F1 Sprint format to one of many sport’s most iconic circuits.
The first F1 Sprint Race subsequent season will come on the Chinese Grand Prix, which hosted an F1 Sprint Race this season because the grid returned to China for the primary time since COVID-19. Then the grid will take part within the F1 Sprint format on the Miami Grand Prix as was the case this season. Daniel Ricciardo put in an incredible efficiency in each qualifying for the F1 Sprint Race on the Miami Grand Prix, after which within the F1 Sprint Race itself, beginning — and ending — fourth.
However, the following F1 Sprint Race on the calendar in 2025 is not going to be the Austrian Grand Prix, however as an alternative the Belgian Grand Prix. Next 12 months Spa will host an F1 Sprint Race, adopted by The United States Grand Prix, the São Paulo Grand Prix, and the Qatar Grand Prix. Those latter three circuit will host F1 Sprint Races this 12 months as nicely.
“The Sprint has been an amazing success for Formula 1, bringing all our followers extra motion and racing on the observe. We are seeing the proof of this in our viewers information, fan attendance on Fridays and from the promoters and companions,” mentioned Stefano Domenicali, the President and CEO of Formula 1, within the announcement. “As we put together to rejoice our seventy fifth anniversary in 2025 we are going to at all times honour our unimaginable historical past, however we should at all times be wanting forward, innovating, and bettering to ship the most effective for our rising and various fanbase.
“The Sprint is a good instance of bringing new parts to our sport in a method that’s respectful of the Championship, and I need to thank the six venues that can host the Sprint in 2025 and sit up for these unimaginable occasions all through the season.”
Here is the full list with dates, as introduced by F1 on Thursday:
See you in Miami.