US EditionFernando Alonso: F1 Cannot Lose Barcelona After 2026
- Formula 1 will add a new race in Madrid from 2026 while Barcelona currently holds a contract for the next season but has no confirmed deal beyond 2026.
- The decision to include Madrid follows F1 management pushing for better infrastructure investment, which Barcelona has reportedly not provided, leading organizers to sign Madrid with a deal through 2035.
- Fernando Alonso, a two-time world champion and ambassador for the Barcelona circuit, is confident that the city will continue to feature on the F1 calendar even as Madrid prepares to host its own Grand Prix, enthusiastically supported by Madrid-born Carlos Sainz.
- The Madring street circuit, featuring 22 turns and a 5.4-kilometer layout, will host the 2026 Spanish Grand Prix over 57 laps, but it is unlikely both Spanish events will run in the same season.
- This situation suggests a shift from traditional venues toward new urban circuits, with F1’s packed calendar facing pressure to maintain historic races like Barcelona amid expanding global interest.
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Formula 1 returns to Montmeló for the celebration of the Spanish Grand Prix 2025. Days before the race, the organization prepared a spectacular previous in the Plaza de Catalunya, where Fernando Alonso was the protagonist, and received the affection of the national public in an event in which Carlos Sainz or Pepe Martí also participated. "I am delighted to have become an ambassador of the circuit. I have had a great support competing there from …
This weekend is the Spanish GP from Formula 1 in the Barcelona-Catalonia Circuit, which has continuity guaranteed in the calendar for 2026. After that, everything is open. The Queen's calendar is in its 24th rounds, there are still countries interested in welcoming Great Prizes – it is about returning to the African continent, for example – and there seems to be little space for more than a Great Prize per country. There are exceptions, of cours…
Alonso: Barcelona will stay in F1 despite Madrid joining next year
While Barcelona technically has a contract to host a Formula 1 race next season, this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix is being treated as a circuit swansong by many with Madrid set to join the calendar from 2026.The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya has played host to the Spanish Grand Prix since relocating from Jerez in 1991 and has become a firm favourite for teams, which have racked up hours of ...Keep reading
Fernando Alonso: F1 cannot lose Barcelona after 2026
While Barcelona technically has a contract to host a Formula 1 race next season, this weekend’s grand prix is being treated as a swansong by many with Madrid set to join the calendar from 2026.The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya has played host to the Spanish Grand Prix since relocating from Jerez in 1991 and has become a firm favourite for teams, who have racked up hours of testing time ...Keep reading
Browning, Martí weigh in on new Madrid race as Barcelona faces uncertain future
Madrid’s entry to the Formula 1 and Formula 2 calendars next year puts Barcelona’s place on both at risk, with the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya’s current F1 contract expiring in 2026. Feeder Series spoke to drivers about what could be the last F2 race on the track. By Calla Kra-Caskey The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya has been an F2 mainstay since the series’ inception, hosting a race every year except 2021, when the F2 and F3 calendars were…
Two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso has given his opinion on the future Madrid circuit, Madring, where top-flight motorsport races will begin next year and which represents one of the most ambitious and megalomaniacal projects of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, together with the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, both due to the scale of the project and the speed and short deadlines avail…
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