Formula 1: One race has been removed from the schedule

Just one of the 22 races on the 2022 Formula 1 calendar has not returned to the schedule for the 2023 season, which is set to see a record 24 events.

After all the talk about potentially losing the Monaco Grand Prix at Circuit de Monaco or even the Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, the release of the 2023 Formula 1 schedule confirmed that only one track has been dropped.

No longer on the schedule for next year is Circuit Paul Ricard, which had hosted the French Grand Prix since it made its return 2018 (except when it was canceled in 2020 as a result of COVID-19-related restrictions).

This year’s schedule features 22 races, and next year’s features 24. With the loss of the 15-turn, 3.63-mile (5.842-kilometer) Le Castellet, France road course, three other tracks have been added to the schedule, including two that have been on it in past years.

Returning to the schedule are Shanghai International Circuit and Losail International Circuit.

The former is set to host the Chinese Grand Prix while the latter is set to host the Qatar Grand Prix. The 16-turn, 3.388-mile (5.452-kilometer) Jiading, Shanghai, China road course most recently hosted a race back in 2019.

It was scheduled to do so again in 2020, but that did not happen as a result of COVID-19-related restrictions. The track hosted one race each year from 2004 to 2019, and now it is set to return in 2023.

As for the 16-turn, 3.343-mile (5.381-kilometer) Lusail, Al Daayen, Qatar road course, the only race it has ever hosted took place in 2021. Back in 2021, the track signed a 10-year deal to host the Qatar Grand Prix, but that deal did not start until 2023. The race was not on the 2022 schedule because of Qatar’s focus on this year’s World Cup.

The only truly new race on the 2023 calendar is the Las Vegas Grand Prix, the third race in the United States. Formula 1 is set to return to Las Vegas, Nevada for the first time since the 1982 Caesars Palace Grand Prix and on a brand-new 17-turn, 3.800-mile (6.116-kilometer) temporary street circuit.

This race is set to be the fourth Saturday race in Formula 1 history and is scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 18. Not since October 19, 1985, when the South African Grand Prix took place at Kyalami Circuit, has a race been contested on a Saturday.