F1 2023 Calendar revealed; Monaco to stay on calendar until 2025 and Las Vegas

Formula 1 finally revealed their 2023 world championship season as Monaco remains on the calendar and details about the Las Vegas Grand Prix have been released.

2022 championship draws ever closer to its conclusion, with the likely victor being Red Bull’s Max Verstappen who can mathematically secure the title in Singapore at the end of the month.

As a result, the 2023 calendar has been revealed and it’s a very heavy-duty calendar. The new calendar will attempt to break the most-races-in-a-season record with 24 races expected to take place between March 5 and November 26.

On Tuesday, F1 finally revealed that Monaco will remain on the calendar until 2025 after the Automobile Club of Monaco finalised agreement with the sport.

Set to become the stand out from the norm, Las Vegas will hold the 23rd – and penultimate – round of the 2023 season with a 10pm start on Saturday night.

2023 Calendar

After it was granted approval by the World Motor Sport Council, the pinnacle of single-seater motorsports will be undergoing a heavy 24-race calendar in 2023.

The season will kick off with the new regular season-opener in Bahrain, on March 5, and Abu Dhabi will end the season on November 26. While China will finally return after a three-season hiatus, after the COVID-19 outbreak, joined by Qatar which stood-in for the 2021 season before securing a 10-year deal.

Despite this, the summer break will remain in its traditional position, within the calendar. However, Belgium will move to the other side of the break and close out the first half of the season, swapped over for the Netherlands which will get the season going again.

France has once again been removed from the calendar, following its reintroduction to the calendar in 2018 while Belgium’s Spa-Francorchamps will remain after it was given a one-year extention.

Las Vegas

Following the announcement of the 2023 calendar, the Las Vegas Grand Prix is set to take place a week before the traditional American holiday of Thanksgiving, on November 18, 2023.

The iconic city will force F1 to step away from traditional norms for the Las Vegas GP as the buzzing metropolis is set to host its inaugural round on the 2023 calendar.

The race will mark a historic moment in F1 as the lights will go out at, approximately, 10pm (Pacific Time) on Saturday night. This means an early start for European fans as the race will start in the early hours of Sunday morning, such as 5am (GMT) in London.

President and CEO of Formula 1, Stefano Domenicali, said:

“The Las Vegas Grand Prix is going to take F1 race weekends to the next level.

“Staging a Grand Prix in the sports and entertainment capital of the world has allowed us to plan a truly spectacular celebration that has never been seen in our sport before, in the greatest arena on earth.

“The entire city is buzzing with excitement for next year’s race. We are truly overwhelmed by the response on our pre-registration portal and the donations received. We have far surpassed our goal of providing over one million meals to the local community.

“Our fans simply don’t want to miss this event. It is clear the Las Vegas Grand Prix will be THE must-have ticket for 2023.”

The GP weekend, like the Miami Grand Prix – this season, will see a star-studded opening ceremony on Wednesday, November 15. At the same time the sport will unveil a ‘spectacular new multi-use Paddock Building’ which will trigger the build up to the Las Vegas GP.

Practice will start on Thursday, Nov. 17, with Qualifying on Friday, Nov. 17, before the race gets underway on Saturday night.

The 3.8 mile (6.12km) track will guide the cars around Sin City, under the iconic lights, with expected speeds of up to 212mph (342km/h) over 50 race laps.

Monaco on until 2025

Despite speculation that the most-prestigious track on the calendar was about to be thrown out, F1 have found a way to come to an agreement with the Automobile Club of Monaco to extend its stay.

Monaco is F1’s most historic and famous track, a icon of F1 racing, yet it was put under doubt of continuing as it was speculated the sports’ iconic circuits couldn’t remain on the calendar through prestige alone.

When the sport arrived at the Principality, for the 2022 Monaco Grand Prix, it was uncertain if the small country would see a race in 2023. This came down to a number of factors such as; the cost of racing around the Principality, TV direction and advertising.

Fortunately, the circuit will remain on the calendar in its iconic date, at the end of May, as the sport’s eighth round of its 2023 season.

While the action – on race day – might not a fan-favourite, the iconic  circuit places a unique challenge to the drivers with very-little to no room for error.

Since the sports founding season, in 1950, only a handful of seasons failed to host a race around the streets of Monte Carlo.

That’s it for the article: F1 2023 Calendar revealed; Monaco to stay on calendar until 2025 and Las Vegas! What do you think of the 24-race calendar, next season? Let us know in the comments!

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Kamron Kent

Hi, I'm Kamron. I created ApexMotorsports.co.uk in the dying embers of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. It allowed me freedom to write whatever I wanted to write about which was all things motorsports, my passion. I have put a lot of effort in over the years to keep this website in its best shape and I've loved seeing the brand grow consistently, month-on-month, year-on-year. My ambition is to keep watching this brand grow into a primary outlet of news for all things motorsports whilst fueling my desire to pursue a career in sports journalism, specialising in motorsports.