Race times revealed: When will the F1 races start in 2025
3rd February 2025Formula 1 and the FIA confirmed the race start times for the upcoming 2025 F1 season with the first race being set for the Australian Grand Prix, on March 16.
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On Monday, F1 and the FIA confirmed the race start times for the upcoming 2025 season, consisting of 24 rounds like last year’s championship.
Instead of starting in Bahrain for the season-opening Grand Prix as it has been since 2021, following the calendar shift last year to make way for Ramadan, Australia will return to its traditional as the curtain raiser for the first time since 2019.
F1 will visit a total of 21 different countries, with three grand prix set to be held in the United States (Miami, Austin and Las Vegas), across five of the world’s seven continents. Only the Antarctic and African continents will be missing from the 2025 championship.
So what are the local timings for lights out in 2025?
Mark your calendars and set your alarms!
The 2025 @f1 start times are out 📆#FIA pic.twitter.com/1OmVT8sMHj
— FIA (@fia) February 3, 2025
- Australia: 3pm
- China: 3pm
- Japan: 2pm
- Bahrain: 6pm
- Saudi Arabia: 8pm
- Miami: 4pm
- Imola: 3pm
- Monaco: 3pm
- Spain: 3pm
- Canada: 2pm
- Austria: 3pm
- Great Britain: 3pm
- Belgium: 3pm
- Hungary: 3pm
- Netherlands: 3pm
- Italy: 3pm
- Azerbaijan: 3pm
- Singapore: 8pm
- USA: 2pm
- Mexico: 2pm
- Brazil: 2pm
- Las Vegas: 8pm
- Qatar: 7pm
- Abu Dhabi: 5pm
Ahead of this, F1 still has its unprecedented F1 launch to complete at London’s O2 Arena and pre-season testing in Bahrain later this month. The F1 Launch is set to start at 8pm on Tuesday, February 18, whereas the pre-season test will start at 7am until 4pm on all three days of testing from February 26-28.
Following this, the Australian Grand Prix will kick off the action on March 14-16 and the championship will be raced until the chequered flag at Abu Dhabi, on December 5-7.
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