The 2025 F1 calendar is packed to capacity as last year’s was. Next month the teams will embark on a 24-round campaign featuring a total of 30 races.
On paper, the prospects for a competitive season appear much better than they did 12 months ago. Last year ended with four different teams vying for victory, and no driver took consecutive wins over the final 15 grands prix.
With little change in the technical regulations during the off-season, there’s plenty of cause to be optimistic that the new season will see a close fight for the title, as Max Verstappen’s rivals strive to stop him taking his fifth in a row.
But F1’s groaning schedule increasingly appears to be turning off some fans. The new season covers 10 months and features three sets of events on three consecutive weekends.
The FIA published the starting times for all of this year’s F1 race sessions and once again many take place at inconvenient times for those not moving with the paddock from track to track. This is an insoluble problem for F1, as the new time for this year’s Las Vegas Grand Prix indicates: The earlier time is more favourable for viewers in the USA, less so for those in Europe.
Is the inconvenience of a few early starts – or many, depending where you live – worth it to know you won’t miss a moment of the new season? Will you catch up on highlights if you can’t watch a race live? Or is F1’s schedule now so stuffed that organising almost half the weekends in a year around it is too much of a burden?
You say
How much F1 do you plan to watch in 2025? Cast your votes below and have your say in the comments:
Grands prix
How many grands prix do you intend to watch in 2025 (live or highlights)?
- All 24 (62%)
- 17-23 (23%)
- 9-16 (8%)
- 1-8 (8%)
- None (0%)
Total Voters: 13
Loading …Sprint races
How many sprint races do you intend to watch in 2025 (live or highlights)?
- All 6 (62%)
- 5 (0%)
- 4 (15%)
- 3 (8%)
- 2 (8%)
- 1 (0%)
- None (8%)
Total Voters: 13
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