{"id":152353,"date":"2025-09-22T03:36:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/152353\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T03:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:36:28","slug":"official-grand-prix-start-times-for-2026-f1-season-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/152353\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Grand Prix start times for 2026 F1 season confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">The FIA has announced the race start times for the 2026 Formula 1 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Kicking off with the Australian Grand Prix from March 6-8 and concluding at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix across the weekend of December 4-6, the <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiMjQtcmFjZSBjYW1wYWlnbl9saW5rX2NsaWNrZWQiLCJjbGlja1RleHQiOnRydWUsInBhdGgiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mb3JtdWxhMS5jb20vZW4vbGF0ZXN0L2FydGljbGUvZm9ybXVsYS0xLXJldmVhbHMtY2FsZW5kYXItZm9yLTIwMjYtc2Vhc29uLlljdGJNWldxQnZyZ3lkZHJuYXVvOCIsInBhdGhUeXBlIjoiaW50ZXJuYWwifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/formula-1-reveals-calendar-for-2026-season.YctbMZWqBvrgyddrnauo8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">24-race campaign<\/a> will see the sport visit five of the world\u2019s seven continents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">In a year that will feature new technical regulations and 100% advanced sustainable fuels, the calendar also sees further improvements to the geographical flow of races, with Canada now following Miami in an earlier slot which creates a consolidated European leg of the season across the summer months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Meanwhile the Sprint is set to feature <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoiYXQgc2l4IHJhY2Ugd2Vla2VuZHMgaW4gMjAyNl9saW5rX2NsaWNrZWQiLCJjbGlja1RleHQiOnRydWUsInBhdGgiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy5mb3JtdWxhMS5jb20vZW4vbGF0ZXN0L2FydGljbGUvZm9ybXVsYS0xLWFuZC1maWEtYW5ub3VuY2UtMjAyNi1zcHJpbnQtY2FsZW5kYXIuM1B5TFBBYXpyQk5lOGtRSVMzd09mWSIsInBhdGhUeXBlIjoiaW50ZXJuYWwifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/formula-1-and-fia-announce-2026-sprint-calendar.3PyLPAazrBNe8kQIS3wOfY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at six race weekends in 2026<\/a>, including three new Sprint locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Check out the table below for a full list of timings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIA has announced the race start times for the 2026 Formula 1 season. Kicking off with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-152353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}