{"id":148275,"date":"2025-09-16T14:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/148275\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:53:15","slug":"montreal-to-host-first-ever-sprint-event-as-part-of-2026-f1-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/148275\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal to host first ever sprint event as part of 2026 F1 calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS \u2014 Six sprint events, including one in Montreal for the first time, are on next year\u2019s\u00a0Formula 1\u00a0calendar.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of sprints stays the same, with the first event of 2026 taking place in Shanghai followed by Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Silverstone, which last hosted a sprint in 2021, returns.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal, Zandvoort and Singapore are set to host their first ever sprint weekend, F1 announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no sprint weekends in the last six rounds of the championship, a stark contrast with this season which features three sprints in the final six grands prix.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a02026 F1 calendar\u00a0features 24 races and was published in June.<\/p>\n<p>Sprints are shorter races covering 100 kilometres, about one-third of a grand prix distance. According to F1 figures, TV viewership during sprint weekends in 2024 averaged 10 per cent higher than on non-sprint weekends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2014 Six sprint events, including one in Montreal for the first time, are on next year\u2019s\u00a0Formula 1\u00a0calendar.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-148275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}