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F1 Confirms Six Sprint Venues for 2026, Adding Montréal, Zandvoort and Singapore

Organisers will freeze the sprint count with the weekend format unchanged to ease teams’ workload during the 2026 rules overhaul.

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Oct 19, 2024; Austin, Texas, USA; A view of the paddock and the F1 Sprint logo during the Sprint Race in the 2024 Formula One US Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images/ File Photo

Overview

  • The six Sprint hosts are Shanghai, Miami, Montréal, Silverstone, Zandvoort and Singapore, with Montréal, Zandvoort and Singapore staging Sprints for the first time.
  • The 2026 Sprint weekend order stays unchanged: practice then Sprint qualifying on Friday, Sprint and Grand Prix qualifying on Saturday, and the Grand Prix on Sunday.
  • Silverstone returns to the Sprint roster for the first time since debuting the format in 2021, while Interlagos, Spa, Austin and Qatar revert to traditional weekends.
  • The events are scheduled for Mar 13–15 (China), May 1–3 (Miami), May 22–24 (Canada), July 3–5 (Great Britain), Aug 21–23 (Netherlands) and Oct 9–11 (Singapore).
  • F1 reports higher TV audiences on Sprint weekends and has added Gatorade as an official Sprint partner, with stakeholders now discussing a larger programme and possible format tweaks from 2027.