Chapter 06
The tracks
No two F1 tracks are the same. Some are fast and open, some twist through city streets, some climb hills. Here’s every track on the 2026 calendar, and how a lap is split up for timing.
Builds on Chapter 01: Your first race.
The 2026 calendar
23 rounds, 23 tracks
F1 planned 24 rounds for 2026. It called off the races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in March, and the Bahrain Grand Prix moved to Sepang in Malaysia, leaving 23. Six of them are sprint weekends, and four are still to come.
The longest lap is Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps at 7.0 km; the shortest, Circuit de Monaco, is 3.3 km, so it has the most laps. Six are . Pick a round to see its track, and drag it to turn it round.
Round 20, Interlagos
São Paulo, Brazil
Interlagos
Runs anti-clockwise; the Senna S after the start is the best place to pass.
- S1Sector 11.24 km
- S2Sector 21.93 km
- S3Sector 31.14 km
- Race day
- 8 Nov
- Lap
- 4.309 km
- Race, 71 laps
- 305.9 km
- Corners
- 15
- Climb
- ~40 m
- First grand prix
- 1973
Permanent circuit
Drawn to scale, except that the track is wider than life and heights are doubled, so both show at this size. Tracks within a few metres of level are drawn flat.
Three sectors
Every lap is split into three , timed on their own. The colours on each track above show where they begin and end.
On the timing screen, each sector time is coloured: purple when it’s the fastest anyone has done, green when it’s a driver’s own best, and yellow when it’s slower. That shows where on the track someone is gaining or losing time, long before the lap is finished.
An example timing screen, with made-up times.
| Pos | Driver | S1 | S2 | S3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Driver A | 29.812 (fastest of anyone) | 41.304 (their own best) | 27.951 (slower than their best) |
| P2 | Driver B | 29.903 (their own best) | 41.188 (fastest of anyone) | 28.011 (slower than their best) |
| P3 | Driver C | 30.044 (slower than their best) | 41.390 (their own best) | 27.886 (fastest of anyone) |
- Purple: fastest of anyone
- Green: their own best
- Yellow: slower than their best
No two alike
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps climbs the most, about 105 m from its lowest point to its highest. Six of the tracks are within a few metres of level. Switch between lap length, corners and climb to see how different they are.
- Belgian7.00 km
- Las Vegasstreet6.20 km
- Azerbaijanstreet6.00 km
- British5.89 km
- Japanese5.81 km
- Italian5.79 km
- Bahrain, at Sepang5.54 km
- United States5.51 km
- Chinese5.45 km
- Qatar5.42 km
- Spanish5.41 km
- Miamistreet5.41 km
- Abu Dhabi5.28 km
- Australianstreet5.28 km
- Singaporestreet4.93 km
- Barcelona-Catalunya4.66 km
- Hungarian4.38 km
- Canadian4.36 km
- Austrian4.33 km
- São Paulo4.31 km
- Mexico City4.30 km
- Dutch4.26 km
- Monacostreet3.34 km
What to watch for on race day
- The sector colours on the timing screen. A purple sector mid-lap means a driver is on for a fast one, before the lap is even done.
- like Monaco, Baku and Singapore. With walls close on both sides, one small mistake ends a race, and overtaking is hard.
Calendar up to date after the Mexico City Grand Prix. Track shapes from bacinger/f1-circuits (MIT). Heights from EU-DEM (produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union), USGS NED, NASA SRTM and ASTER GDEM (a product of METI and NASA), via OpenTopoData. Corner numbers from MultiViewer; sector lines from qualifying laps’ sector times (OpenF1).