Formula 1: 2019 schedule finalized, revealed

The schedule for the 2019 Formula 1 season has been finalized and revealed. Which races are scheduled for which dates next year?

The 2019 Formula 1 schedule has been revealed, and it looks a lot like the 2018 schedule. All 21 races on this season’s schedule are set to return to next year’s schedule, and very few changes have occurred.

This schedule was effectively finalized after it was revealed that the Hockenheimring would, in fact, return as the host of the German Grand Prix despite the fact that it was initially believed that the track would be off the schedule again next year.

The 2019 season is scheduled to start one week earlier than the 2018 season, and it is scheduled to end one week later than this year’s season. The season opener, the Australian Grand Prix, and the season finale, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, are the same in both seasons.

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With the Bahrain Grand Prix scheduled to take place two weeks after the Australian Grand Prix next season like it did this season, there is scheduled to be one weekend off between the Bahrain Grand Prix and the Chinese Grand Prix in 2019, which there was not in 2018.

Another change from this year’s scheduled to next year’s schedule is the fact that there is no more tripleheader from June to July. This past season, the French Grand Prix, Austrian Grand Prix and British Grand Prix were held on three consecutive weekends in those two summer months.

Next season, there is scheduled to be one week between the Austrian Grand Prix and the British Grand Prix. As a result of this, the German Grand Prix, the Hungarian Grand Prix, the Belgian Grand Prix, the Italian Grand Prix and the Singapore Grand Prix have all been pushed back by one week.

The Russian Grand Prix, however, has not been pushed back by one week, meaning that there will be no off weekend in between the Singapore Grand Prix and the Russian Grand Prix like there is scheduled to be this season.

However, instead of there being no off weekend scheduled between next year’s Russian Grand Prix and Japanese Grand Prix like there is this season, there is one off weekend between these two races on next year’s schedule.

It is this change that caused the remaining four races on next year’s schedule to be pushed back by one week (although two races did swap positions in the race order), thus causing the season to go into the beginning of December instead of only the end of November.

The only change as far as race order goes is the fact that the United States Grand Prix and the Mexican Grand Prix have swapped positions on the calendar. The former is the 18th race on the 2018 schedule but is the 19th race on the 2019 schedule, while the latter is the 19th race on this year’s schedule but the 18th race on next year’s schedule.

Here is the full 2019 Formula 1 schedule, which is still pending official FIA approval.

Which race or races are you most looking forward to attending or watching in the 2019 Formula 1 season? Are you excited that the season is scheduled to start one week earlier next year and that it is scheduled to end in December as opposed to November?