Formula One: 21-race schedule confirmed for 2018 season

The FIA have officially confirmed the 21-race 2018 Formula One schedule, which will span for exactly eight months from March to November.

The 2018 Formula One schedule was officially confirmed today by the FIA after the initial schedule was released back in mid-June. No unexpected changes took place between then and now, as the official schedule looks exactly the way the initial one released back in mid-June looked.

As far as the changes from the 20-race 2017 season to the 21-race 2018 season go, there are definitely a few notable ones. First off, there are three major changes. The first one is that the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang International Circuit is no longer on the schedule.

The second and third big changes are that the French Grand Prix at Circuit de Neveres Magny-Cours is set to return for the first time since the 2008 season and the German Grand Prix at Hockenheimring is set to return for the second time in three seasons following its second one-year absence in the last three seasons.

A few minor changes that took place have to do with dates. First of all, the dates of the Bahrain Grand Prix and the Chinese Grand Prix dates have switched from the 2017 to the 2018 season.

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Next, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix will be held on the weekend that the Russian Grand Prix was held this past season while the Russian Grand Prix will be held on the weekend that the Malaysian Grand Prix was held this past season and the French Grand Prix will be held on the weekend that the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was held on this past season.

Finally, to prevent four straight weeks of racing, the dates of the Austrian Grand Prix and the British Grand Prix have been moved up one week each, and the German Grand Prix has been inserted two weeks after the British Grand Prix and one week before the Hungarian Grand Prix, which is the final race before Formula One’s annual “summer break”, which lasts for four weeks until the season gets going again with the Belgian Grand Prix.

Here is the full 2018 Formula One schedule.

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Be sure to stay up to date with the broadcast schedules of each of the 21 races of the eight-month 2018 Formula One season so you don’t miss any of the action.