![]() ![]() We still have Canada in June because the weather in May in Montreal is just too cold. Japan has been rumored to move to the sprint to pair with Shanghai. The Saudi Arabia race will need to move, and it has already been announced that it will be the opening race in 2024.īecause Saudi Arabia will open the season, pre-season testing is also expected to move to Jeddah in 2024 and be a week earlier than this year. With Vietnam and South Africa now off the table for 2024, we make our best guess for the 2024 calendar once again, taking into account Ramadan. On this week’s On the Grid Podcast, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said the 2024 F1 schedule will have 24 races. Anticipated 24-Race 2024 F1 calendar (Revised) Round This will follow the pre-season tests at the Bahrain International Circuit over the last weekend of February. “Ramadan begins on Sunday March 10 and so the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix has to be on the evening of Saturday, March 9, and in order to get everything moved in the limited time available, the Bahrain GP will move forward a day to Saturday, March 2. The change is not due to this, however, but rather because of Ramadan, which is the period of religious devotion that makes it incompatible with Formula 1 racing. ![]() “In the Arab world Sunday is a working day. This makes a lot of sense for the local organizers as in the Islamic world the “weekend” usually means Friday and Saturday, rather than the Western Saturday-Sunday. “The big thing that no-one has talked about yet is that the first two races of the year will be held on Saturday nights, rather than on the Sunday afternoons. Joe Saward writes the following in his latest Green Notebook, and as a result, the rumored schedule has been revised again. As we get more information about the 2024 F1 Calendar, we continue to provide updates. ![]()
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