{"id":148127,"date":"2025-09-16T19:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148127\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T19:48:12","slug":"f1-2026-sprint-venues-revealed-amid-2027-shake-up-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148127\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2026 sprint venues revealed amid 2027 shake-up talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formula 1 has revealed the six venues that will hold sprint races in 2026 &#8211; with discussions to increase the number and change the sprint format for 2027 taking place.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside a potential increase in the number of sprints &#8211; to theoretically as high as 12 &#8211; for 2027, the prospect of changing the sprint weekend format is also on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Among those potential format changes would be the introduction of a reverse grid element and the reduction in the quantity of non-competitive practice sessions.<\/p>\n<p>But any potential changes are still in the discussion phase between F1, the FIA, teams and drivers and won\u2019t be introduced for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This was a deliberate decision not to place an added burden on the teams, given the challenge presented by the new car and power unit regulations for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The six chosen venues for 2026 sprint races are China, Miami, Canada, Silverstone, Zandvoort and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Formula 1 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@fia<\/a> have today revealed the six venues set to host F1 Sprint events during the 2026 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season &#8211; including three exciting new locations.<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, Shanghai, Miami, Silverstone, Montr\u00e9al, Zandvoort and Singapore will all host an F1\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1aJDcNgvuX?ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1aJDcNgvuX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 F1 Media (@F1Media) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1Media\/status\/1967876321452737020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=the-race.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zandvoort will hold a sprint race for the very first time during its final planned F1 weekend next August before it drops off the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore and Canada are also hosting a sprint race for the first time, with China, Miami and Silverstone all having held a sprint weekend before.<\/p>\n<p>                                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Formula 1 has revealed the six venues that will hold sprint races in 2026 &#8211; with discussions to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-148127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}