Madrid, March 1. The Formula 1 World Championship will be the longest in history, with a total of 23 Grand Prix in a calendar to which that of Qatar returns, to which the new version of that of Las Vegas (Nevada, United States) is incorporated and which will continue without visiting China.
The championship begins this weekend with the Bahrain Grand Prix and will end on November 26 with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
The Qatar Grand Prix, which was first and last held in 2021, returns to the World Championship in 2023 and will be held again at the Lusail International Circuit on October 8.
Also new from 2022 is the arrival of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, which opens November 18 as the penultimate event of a new street circuit located on the Strip in the gambling capital. Prize held in Las Vegas was the 1982 Caesars Palace Grand Prix.
With the arrival of Las Vegas, the United States will host three races of the 2023 World Cup, joining the Miami (May 7) and United States (October 22) Grands Prix. This already happened in the 1982 campaign.
The Russian Grand Prix was meant to be part of the World Cup, but the Sochi race saw its contract terminated in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
A notable absence is that of the French Grand Prix, at the Paul Ricard circuit in Le Castellet, which will not feature on the 2023 calendar after returning in 2018, ten years later, and only being absent in 2020 due to of the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2023, the Chinese Grand Prix was due to take place, absent from the event since the last time, in 2019, but it was canceled for the fourth consecutive year due to the continuing difficulties posed by the covid-19 pandemic in the country. .Asian, and has not been replaced on the schedule.
There are also relocations in the 2023 race schedule. Thus, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix moves to early spring as the fourth round on April 30 (previously it was held in June), while the Belgian one is advanced to the previous period. to the August summer holidays to avoid a triple date after the summer break with those of the Netherlands and Italy.
There will also be six sprint races in 2023, at the Grands Prix in Azerbaijan, Austria, Belgium, Qatar, USA (Austin) and Sao Paulo.
– Calendar of the 2023 Formula 1 World Championship:
.1. Bahrain Grand Prix (March 3-5)
.2. Saudi Arabia Grand Prix (March 17-19)
.3. Australian Grand Prix (31 March-2 April)
.4. Azerbaijan Grand Prix (April 28-30)
.5. Miami Grand Prix (May 5-7)
.6. Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix (May 19-21)
.7. Monaco Grand Prix (May 26-28)
.8. Spanish Grand Prix (June 2-4)
.9. Canadian Grand Prix (June 16-18)
.ten. Austrian Grand Prix (July 1-2)
.eleven. British Grand Prix (July 7-9)
.12. Hungarian Grand Prix (July 21-23)
.13. Belgian Grand Prix (July 28-30)
.14. Dutch Grand Prix (August 25-27)
.fifteen. Italian Grand Prix (September 1-3)
.16. Singapore Grand Prix (September 15-17)
.17. Japanese Grand Prix (September 22-24)
.18. Qatar Grand Prix (October 6-8)
.19. United States Grand Prix (20-22 October)
.twenty. Mexican Grand Prix (October 27-29)
.twenty-one. Brazilian Grand Prix (November 3-5)
.22. Las Vegas Grand Prix (November 16-18)
.23. Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (November 14-26). EFE
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