Formula 1’s sprint race schedule for 2024 has been revealed, and it features some shakeups from 2023’s schedule.
There are scheduled to be six sprint races on the 24-racer schedule, just as there was for 2023, and four of those sprint races will be at the same circuits as last time — The Red Bull Ring at Spielberg in Austria, the Circuit of the Americans in Austin, Texas, in Sao Paulo in Brazil and at the Lusail Circuit in Qatar. There will not be a sprint race at Imola in Italy nor one at Spa in Belgium.
Introducing the 2024 #F1Sprint Calendar! 👊
Six venues will host F1 Sprint events during the 2024 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season.#F1 #Formula1 pic.twitter.com/Sv2GOjsWb6
— Formula 1 (@F1) December 5, 2023
Instead, there will be another sprint race in the United States at the Miami Grand Prix and then another in Shanghai at the Shanghai International Circuit in China. Formula 1 was supposed to race in Shanghai from the 2020 to the 2023 season, but difficulties due to COVID-19 saw the race canceled for each of those three years. Formula 1 will be racing in Shanghai for the first time since 2019.
There have been just five different winners of F1 sprint races since the inception of the event in 2021 — Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes’ George Russell, Red Bull’s Sergio Perez and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri have all finished first in a sprint.
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