2026 Formula 1 Calendar: Imola disappears, Madrid appears, Monaco in June

Formula 1 announced the composition of the 2026 calendar and the dates of the 24 Grands Prix this Tuesday, a figure identical to 2025 and 2024. But after the status quo between last season and the current one, there will be a small change in 2026: the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, at Imola, which reappeared in 2020 during the reorganization of the season due to Covid-19, will disappear.

Conversely, Madrid's race is coming up, placed at the very end of the European part of the season, in mid-September. Spain will therefore have two races, for only one year a priori, the Barcelona contract, still in May, expiring next year. As this year, the dates of Ramadan will impose a start to the season in Australia (GP on March 8), then a sequence of China (March 15) - Japan (March 29) before going to Bahrain (April 12) and Saudi Arabia (April 19).

The main development is that the races in Miami (May 3) and Canada (May 24) will now follow one another, even if they are separated by two weekends without races. This means that, as mentioned at the time of the extension until 2031, the Monaco Grand Prix will be held on the first weekend of June (Sunday 7). Another more surprising consequence is that the race held in Montreal will find itself in a head-on collision with the Indianapolis 500, a television audience monster in North America (7 million viewers in the USA this year).

This change also means that Formula 1 will remain in Europe without interruption from June to mid-September with, among other things, the last of the Dutch Grand Prix on August 23. The end of the season is identical to 2025 with a visit to Azerbaijan (September 27) and Singapore (October 11) before a series of American races (Austin, Mexico, Brazil and Las Vegas) and then the finale in the Middle East, Abu Dhabi hosting, as is tradition, the final race on December 6.

Note that there will only be two "triple-headers"—three Grands Prix on three consecutive weekends—but they will cover the last six races of the year. This means that from Austin to Abu Dhabi, there will only be one off weekend in seven weeks.