Components One’s new season might be a record-breaking 24 races lengthy and can begin on March 2 on the Bahrain Grand Prix.

There’s loads of build-up to the primary race, with groups designating time to unveil their new vehicles and color schemes to the general public, earlier than three days of preseason testing, which regularly is the primary indication of what the upcoming season would possibly seem like.

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Automobile launches

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February 5 – Sauber, Williams

February 12 – Aston Martin

February 13 – Ferrari

Preseason testing

The Bahrain’s Sakhir Worldwide Circuit will host three days of testing on February 21-24, every week earlier than the opening race on the identical venue.

That alternative of venue means vehicles and tools is not going to want transporting between testing and the primary race of the yr, according to the FIA’s efforts to make the championship extra sustainable. Bahrain can also be a venue which lends itself to extra mileage for groups in comparison with earlier testing venues corresponding to Spain’s Circuit of the Catalunya on the identical time of yr.

The race schedule

For the primary time ever, F1’s season will begin on a Saturday in Bahrain. That race, and the follow-up occasion one week later in Saudi Arabia, have had their schedules shifted a day early to accomodate for the start of Ramadan.

It’s a report calendar for F1 at 24 occasions. The returning Chinese language Grand Prix, cancelled yearly since 2020 as a consequence of COVID, and the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, which needed to be scrapped in 2023 as a consequence of heavy flooding within the area, return to deliver the calendar to a report quantity.

Las Vegas’ second race can even be held on a Saturday night time, because it was in 2023.

There might be six occasions run beneath ‘dash’ guidelines — the place qualifying is held on Friday, adopted by a day allotted to the dash format, which has one other qualifying occasion for a shorter race that afternoon, whereas Sunday is devoted to the grand prix as regular.

Two American races, the Miami Grand Prix on the Miami Dolphins’ Exhausting Rock Stadium, and the U.S. Grand Prix at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, will run beneath the dash, as will the occasions in China, Austria, Brazil and Qatar. Final yr, Max Verstappen secured his championship on the dash in Qatar, one among a variety of landmarks of his mind-blowing 2023 championship.

March 2 – Bahrain Grand Prix – Sakhir

March 9 – Saudi Arabian Grand Prix – Jeddah

March 24 – Australian Grand Prix – Melbourne

April 7 – Japanese Grand Prix – Suzuka

April 21 – Chinese language Grand Prix – Shanghai

Could 5 – Miami Grand Prix – Miami

Could 19 – Emilia Romagna Grand Prix – Imola

Could 26 – Monaco Grand Prix – Monaco

June 9 – Canadian Grand Prix – Montreal

June 23 – Spanish Grand Prix – Barcelona

June 30 – Austrian Grand Prix – Spielberg

July 7 – British Grand Prix – Silverstone

July 21 – Hungarian Grand Prix – Budapest

July 28 – Belgian Grand Prix – Spa-Francorchamps

August 25 – Dutch Grand Prix – Zandvoort

September 1 – Italian Grand Prix – Monza

September 15 – Azerbaijan Grand Prix – Baku

September 22 – Singapore Grand Prix – Marina Bay

October 20 – U.S. Grand Prix – Austin

October 27 – Mexican Grand Prix – Mexico Metropolis

November 3 – Sao Paulo Grand Prix – Sao Paulo

November 23 – Las Vegas Grand Prix – Las Vegas

December 1 – Qatar Grand Prix – Losail

December 8 – Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Yas Marina