{"id":92845,"date":"2025-08-26T00:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/92845\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:55:11","slug":"major-changes-made-in-baku-ahead-of-the-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/92845\/","title":{"rendered":"Major changes made in Baku ahead of the Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"

For any fans wanting to go to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix<\/a>, this may be your chance! The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has released a decree regarding the visa that fans now need to enter the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For those planning to travel to Baku, the normal requirement is that travellers obtain a Electronic visa (E-Visa) before entering the country. The E-Visa is vaild for a 30 day stay and must be presented at the airport before being granted entry.<\/p>\n

However, for those going to Baku for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, slight changes have been made.<\/p>\n

Simplified Procedure for Baku GPThe president released a ‘decree that simplifies the visa procedures for foreigners and stateless persons who are arriving in the Republic of Azerbaijan in connection with the Formula 1<\/a> race to be held in Baku in 2025.’Within that decree he added that any fans looking to travel to the country to attend the F1<\/a> race who are, “presenting any of the documents specified in Part 2 of this Order may obtain visas at international airports of the Republic of Azerbaijan from August 25 to September 30, 2025.” <\/p>\n

This means that for the Formula 1 fans traveling, an E-Visa does not need to be obtained beforehand as long as they can provide at least one of the correct documents.<\/p>\n

\"Aston<\/p>\n

Aston Martin at the 2024 Baku City Circuit<\/p>\n

Said documents are:<\/p>\n

1. “An accreditation card or other document confirming accreditation in accordance with the relevant regulations of the International Automobile Federation and the “Formula One Management Limited” Company, the international organizers of Formula 1 races;”<\/p>\n

2. “Accreditation card confirming accreditation with the Baku City Circuit<\/a> Operating Company;”<\/p>\n

3. “A ticket for the Formula 1 race to be held in Baku in 2025, including an electronic ticket or a document confirming the purchase of a ticket.”<\/p>\n

This means for regular fans traveling, all they need to do is show their race ticket at the airport and they are able to apply for their visa in house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For any fans wanting to go to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, this may be your chance! The President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-92845","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\/92845","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=92845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}