F1 tracks and circuits

Albert Park is a 5.278 km semi-street circuit laid out around a lake in Melbourne, host of the Australian Grand Prix. A 2022 reprofile widened corners and removed a chicane, raising speeds and making it one of the faster flowing layouts on the calendar, with long straights and four DRS zones that aid overtaking.

The Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City is a 4.304 km circuit hosting the Mexico City Grand Prix at over 2,200 metres altitude. The thin air is the defining factor: it cuts aerodynamic downforce and cooling, so teams run their highest-downforce wings yet still slipstream down a very long main straight into the stadium section.

Interlagos, officially the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace, is a 4.309 km circuit in Sao Paulo hosting the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. Short, undulating and run anti-clockwise, with the flowing Senna S and a long uphill drag to the line, it is a fan and driver favourite that frequently delivers wet, chaotic, championship-deciding races.

Monza, the Temple of Speed, is a historic 5.793 km circuit in a royal park near Milan and the spiritual home of the Italian Grand Prix. Long straights broken only by a few chicanes and fast corners make it the lowest-downforce, highest-top-speed race of the year, where slipstreaming, braking stability, and a skinny rear wing decide the day.

The Baku City Circuit is a 6.003 km street track in the Azerbaijani capital, host of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. It pairs one of the longest flat-out runs in F1, around two kilometres along the seafront, with a tight, twisting medieval-castle section, a contradiction that makes wing level a gamble and produces dramatic, safety-car-heavy races.

The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya is a 4.657 km permanent road course in Montmelo, near Barcelona, that hosts the 2026 Barcelona Grand Prix on 12-14 June. The track is one of the most tyre-demanding venues on the F1 calendar with long-radius corners that load the front-left through Turn 3 and Turn 9, and is often called the most accurate test of overall car performance because of its mixed-corner profile.

Circuit de Monaco is a 3.337 km street circuit in Monte Carlo with 19 corners and one of the slowest pit lanes in Formula 1. It hosts the Monaco Grand Prix, traditionally one of the three races that make up motorsport's Triple Crown alongside the Indianapolis 500 and the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Spa-Francorchamps in the Ardennes forest is the longest circuit on the calendar at 7.004 km and the most loved by drivers. It blends the legendary uphill sweep of Eau Rouge and Raidillon and the long Kemmel straight with fast, sweeping corners, and its own micro-climate means it can be dry on one part of the track and wet on another.

The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is a 4.361 km semi-permanent track on Ile Notre-Dame in Montreal, host of the Canadian Grand Prix. It is a stop-start layout of straights linked by tight chicanes and hairpins, brutal on brakes, and famous for the Wall of Champions at the final corner that has caught out many a title contender.

The Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas is a 5.513 km purpose-built track hosting the United States Grand Prix. It opens with a steep uphill climb to a hairpin at Turn 1, flows through a sequence of esses inspired by Silverstone and Suzuka, and ends with a long back straight that makes for strong overtaking.

Circuit Zandvoort is a 4.259 km track set in the coastal dunes near Amsterdam, host of the Dutch Grand Prix. Narrow, flowing and old-school, its standout features are two banked corners, including the steeply banked final turn, which let cars carry huge speed but make a fundamentally tight, hard-to-overtake layout even more of a qualifying circuit.

The Hungaroring near Budapest is a tight, twisty 4.381 km circuit hosting the Hungarian Grand Prix. Often called Monaco without the walls, it is a near-continuous sequence of medium and slow corners with very few straights, which makes overtaking hard, downforce king, and qualifying position decisive in the usual mid-summer heat.

The Las Vegas Strip Circuit is a 6.201 km temporary street track that runs at night down the Las Vegas Strip. Defined by very long straights and a cold desert-night surface, it is one of the highest-top-speed, lowest-downforce races of the year, where keeping tyres in their working window in the cold is the central challenge.

The Lusail International Circuit near Doha is a 5.419 km venue hosting the Qatar Grand Prix at night. A fast, flowing layout of medium and high-speed corners, it puts exceptional energy through the tyres, so much that mandatory stint limits have been used, making tyre and physical management the defining theme of the race.

Madring is the new circuit hosting the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix from 2026, replacing Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Built around the IFEMA exhibition centre in Madrid's Barajas district, it is a 5.416 km hybrid of street and permanent sections with 22 corners. Unlike Monaco, it was designed to promote overtaking, with long straights, heavy braking zones, and a banked curve called La Monumental.

Marina Bay is a floodlit street circuit of roughly 4.9 km in downtown Singapore, host of F1's original night race. Hot, humid, bumpy and lined with walls, it is one of the most physically punishing events of the year and historically carries one of the highest safety-car probabilities on the calendar.

The Miami International Autodrome is a 5.412 km temporary circuit laid out around the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. It mixes three long full-throttle straights with DRS zones and a slow, technical chicane section in the middle sector, giving a lap that rewards both straight-line efficiency and mechanical grip in the tight stuff.

The Red Bull Ring in Spielberg is a short 4.318 km circuit in the Styrian hills hosting the Austrian Grand Prix. One of the quickest laps of the year, it is built from three long uphill-and-downhill straights linked by heavy braking zones and a handful of fast corners, with multiple DRS zones that make it one of the better overtaking venues on the calendar.

The Shanghai International Circuit is a 5.451 km Hermann Tilke design hosting the Chinese Grand Prix. Its signature is the Turn 1-2-3 spiral that tightens as it winds, demanding patience on entry, and a very long back straight into a tight hairpin that creates one of the best overtaking spots on the calendar.

Silverstone is a fast, flowing 5.891 km circuit on a former airfield, home of the British Grand Prix and host of the very first World Championship race in 1950. Its high-speed sequences, above all Maggotts, Becketts and Chapel, put huge lateral energy through the tyres and reward aerodynamic load and driver commitment as much as any track on the calendar.

Suzuka is a 5.807 km circuit in Japan and one of the most respected layouts in the sport, host of the Japanese Grand Prix. Its rare figure-of-eight design and the flowing S Curves of the first sector demand precision and rhythm, putting high energy through the tyres and rewarding a driver who can string the whole lap together.

Yas Marina on Yas Island is a 5.281 km circuit that hosts the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, traditionally the season finale, run into the evening from daylight to dark. A 2021 reprofile opened up several corners to improve racing, turning a once processional layout into a venue with genuine overtaking and a dusk-to-night track that cools as the race runs.