System 1 has been speaking about transferring to a “regionalized” season calendar for a couple of years now, hoping to enhance logistics and cut back the carbon emissions concerned with delivery a racing collection across the globe. Sadly, the 2025 race calendar doesn’t appear any higher organized than it ever has, and makes for a grueling worldwide trek for racers and groups alike. The month of Might will see 4 races, and there will likely be three trans-Atlantic journeys to North America, two of them for a single weekend. The collection stays dedicated to 24 races, which is just too rattling many.
The season opens as soon as once more with Australia, because it ought to. There’s a good regional begin to the season as China and Japan observe on. Issues begin to disintegrate after a visit to the Center East for Bahrain and Saudi Arabia with a one-off journey midway across the globe to Miami. After a fast back-to-back trio in Europe, the entire circus jumps again throughout the pond for a one-weekend run in Canada. That journey to Singapore earlier than jetting off to Austin, Texas is a fairly egregious one, as nicely.
F1 additionally appears to not have realized from its 2023 classes, and has once more put the Las Vegas race on the finish of November. It will get chilly within the desert, dorks.
With 24 races on the calendar, the groups get a brief respite of simply two months of low season to complete improvement of the 2026 vehicles. There’s no motive the F1 calendar must stretch from mid-March to December. There was once a mid-season break of some weeks, too, however that’s now gone in pursuit of ever extra race victories for Max Verstappen.
There are solely 52 weekends in a yr. Do we actually must be racing F1 on nearly half of them?