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After Max Verstappen's fourth consecutive world championship title, the new Formula One season is now just around the corner. Here are the important dates on the horizon.
At the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix, Oracle Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen was crowned Formula One world champion for the fourth consecutive season. Now, there's just a couple months before the the reigning world champion and his team start their mission to defend the Dutchman's crown and reclaim the coveted Constructors' Championship.
The Formula One calendar for the 2025 season has now been finalised and with a planned 24 races, fans and drivers can expect the longest Formula One season of all time this year.
For the first time in years, the season opener of the 2025 Formula One season will take place in Australia, kick-starting the campaign on March 16, 2024 – two weeks later than the 2024 season start – while the season finale will once again be the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which will take place on December 7.
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The 2025 Formula One calendar
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Australia back as Round 1
Melbourne's popular Albert Park Circuit has been the home of the Australian Grand Prix since 1996 and was the season opener for many years, before Bahrain took over opening race duties in recent years. This year however, the F1 season will finally start Down Under once again. With fans eager to see drivers and teams on track for the first time in 2025, expect Albert Park to be packed out once again
The 2024 race marked champion Max Verstappen's only DNF of the season and just one of five Grands Prix where an Oracle Red Bull Racing driver wasn't on the podium, so expect both driver and team to come out swinging and right that blip this year.
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China and Japan back-to-back
Coming two stops earlier than in 2024, China and Japan are rounds two and three of 2025 season and boast very different tracks and histories.
The Chinese Grand Prix is up first and after returning to the F1 calendar in 2024 after a four year absence, the ultra-modern Shanghai International Circuit is again the host circuit. Not renowned as circuit that promotes close racing, Max Verstappen dominated by over 13 seconds in 2024 as Oracle Red Bull Racing went 1–3 on the day.
The Suzuka International Racing Course meanwhile has long been the home of the Japanese Grand Prix and is a real favourite of drivers, including Verstappen. He took maximum points from Japan in 2024 with the race win as well as the fastest lap and pole position and will be looking to do just the same when we head back to the iconic 'crossover' circuit on April 6.
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Sun and fun in Miami
If there's one Grand Prix on the calendar that can tick all the boxes for sun, fun and a whole dose of glamour, it's the Miami Grand Prix. The sixth stop of the series once again, this year Miami comes after visits to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and is the first of three visits to the United States in 2025.
First added to the F1 calendar in 2022, the tight and narrow Miami International Autodrome is a temporary circuit set in the Hard Rock Stadium complex, home to the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, and really knows how to put on a show. It's F1 done the American way, complete with a packed VIP area full sports stars and Hollywood heartthrobs. If you're looking to make a holiday out of an F1 race weekend, this one is right at the top of the list.
Max Verstappen has finished 1–1–2 in the three Miami Grands Prix to date, so if he and the RB21 are on form, he'll be hard to beat around the 19-turn circuit in the Sunshine State.
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Imola kicks-off the European block
It's seven rounds into the 2025 Formula One World Championship before a European circuit hosts a race and for the second year running it's the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at the iconic Imola that gets the nod to kick-off the European block of the calendar.
Aside from one fly-away Grand Prix in Canada, nine of 10 races from Imola on May 18 until the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on September 7 are raced in Europe take in a whole host of circuits that have long formed the backbone of the Formula One World Championship.
A fast anti-clockwise circuit with a classic, old-school feel, it really puts drivers on the line in iconic corners like Acque Minerali and Piratella, and tests cars to the very limits as well. This was one of seven races that Max Verstappen won during his 2024 title-winning season
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Can't miss Monaco
Its long-term future in the modern era of F1 might be up for debate, but while it's on the world championship calendar, Monaco will always be the most famous, glamorous and coveted Grand Prix out there. The 2025 edition will be no different.
After back-to-back Oracle Red Bull Racing wins in the principality in 2022 and 2023 via Sergio Pérez and Max Verstappen, the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix was one of the most difficult races for the team. They'll be looking to put that right on May 25 and celebrate another win in the most famous race of them all aboard one of those super yachts that pack the harbour each Grand Prix week.
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Spielberg–Silverstone–Spa triple threat
You know it's summer season in F1 when the British Grand Prix arrives and this year the longest running race on the calendar is book-ended by the Austrian and Belgian Grands Prix to deliver a three-race run of some of the most well supported and enjoyable events on the entire calendar.
Up first is the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring in alpine Spielberg on June 29. Hands down on of the most scenic circuits in the world, it's obviously also a massive race for Oracle Red Bull Racing, who always go big for the race they've won four times with Max Verstappen. Verstappen fans come out in force as well, making it one of the most entertaining and atmospheric Grands Prix each year.
Next comes historic Silverstone, a track that hosted its first Grand Prix in 1948. It might not always deliver the summer weather its July 6 date warrants, but rain or shine the British Grand Prix is always one of the best supported races on the calendar, making it another season highlight. British fans got a dream weekend in 2024 when Lewis Hamilton won his only Grand Prix of the year ahead of Verstappen, but you can be sure he'll be looking to stand on top of the podium this summer.
Finally comes your favourite driver's favourite circuit: Spa-Francorchamps. Another venue with decades of Belgian Grand Prix hosting behind it, the undulating asphalt that snakes through the Ardennes Forest is one of the series' toughest tests of both driver and car, with sections like the famed Eau Rouge pushing both to the limits. The often poor weather that accompanies the arrival of the F1 circus to town can make this race one of survival. We'll find out who'll triumph this year on July 27.
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The ultimate home race at Zandvoort
It'll be wall-to-wall orange at the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort on August 31, as seemingly half of the Netherlandsturn out to cheer on one man and one man only - Max Verstappen.Only Ferrari-mad Monza can come anywhere close to matching the partisan crowds that fill the undulating seaside circuit to support the four-time world champion. This gives the race an incredible atmosphere, especially when Verstappen wins, as he did in 2021, 2022 and 20223.
With the race looking set to end in 2026, you can be sure a bumper crowd will be there to see him hopefully in one more time – and you can bet Verstappen wants to deliver another home win just as much.
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Setting sail for the Americas
After the final European race of the 2025 in Monza on September 7, F1 teams will pack up the flight cases and hit the road for the final eight races of the season. After stops in Azerbaijan and Singapore, it's the four-race run through North and South America that stands out. Combining a classic circuit, some of the sport's most passionate fans and the pure spectacle of the Las Vegas night race, these races have it all.
First up is the United States Grand Prix on October 19 at the vast Circuit of the Americas just outside of Austin, Texas. Wide, undulating and boasting corners inspired by some of F1's most famous bends, COTA is one of the more popular modern circuits and a happy hunting ground for Red Bull Racing over the years. Expect a lot of cowboy hats in and around the pitlane, and some great racing on track with plenty of space to overtake.
From there it's a short trip down below the border the following weekend for the Grand Prix of Mexico at the highest altitude race circuit on the F1 calendar – and featuring some of the year's highest partying fans. Mexico City's Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez sits at 2,240m above sea level, making it a physically exhausting race for the drivers, but it's worth it for the incredible passion and atmosphere the Mexican fans bring, especially packed in the former baseball stadium infield section of track that provides one F1's most unique vistas.
The only South American round of the 2025 Formula One World Championship comes next, with the long-standing and much loved Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos on November 9. The tight, snaking circuit full is full of difficult cambers and takes real precision to go fast on, so often produces fantastic races for the passionate Brazilian crowds – especially when a tropical rain storm rolls through. Max Verstappen delivered the race of the season here in 2024 to drive through the field from 17th to victory in the pouring rain, all but securing him the Drivers' Championship in the process. Fans hope he'll produce similar magic in 2025.
Then, after a week off to recuperate, it's back up to the United States for the spectacle that is the Las Vegas Grand Prix on November 22. Now in it's third year on the calendar, the street circuit that threads between the gargantuan hotels of the world famous Las Vegas Strip isn't exactly a classic, but there's no denying that the backdrop of the world's biggest party town is a sight to behold and the whole production around the race is on another level altogether. Max Verstappen sealed the 2024 World Championship title in Las Vegas with a fifth-place finish, could we see him repeat that success here this year?
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What's waiting in Abu Dhabi?
It's now tradition that the Formula One season ends in the warmth of Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina Circuit and that's unchanged for 2025, with the series signing-off here on December 7. But what kind of race will it be?
The nerve-wracking finale of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix remains arguably the most remarkable conclusion to a sporting season in recent years, where Max Verstappen's overtake on the final lap against Lewis Hamilton earned the Dutchman his first world championship title.
Fans always want to see a winner-takes-all fight to the final flag to decide the Formula One title, but that 2021 season was the last time the championship was decided at the final race. Nevertheless, the circuit that mixes huge straights with slow-speed corners, always seems to deliver great races, so a good send-off to 2025 is pretty much guaranteed.
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What about the Sprint races?
During the summer of 2024, the FIA and Formula One announced the calendar for the six Sprint races that'll take place in 2025. There are few changes to the 100km format events for this year, the fifth season it will feature in F1. The Austrian Grand Prix is dropping off the Sprint schedule and Belgium is coming back in after missing out in 2024, while Interlagos will become the only venue to host five Sprint races. Check out the full Sprint list below:
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