{"id":476695,"date":"2024-01-23T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476695"},"modified":"2024-01-23T08:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T12:37:06","slug":"official-formula-1-returns-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/official-formula-1-returns-in-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Formula 1 returns in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formula 1 owner, Liberty Media, have officially confirmed that the sport will return to the Spanish capital, Madrid, in 2026, precisely 45 years after its last race.<\/p>\n<p>Madrid last hosted the sport in 1981 when the &#8220;Harama&#8221; circuit hosted the Spanish Grand Prix. The victory was claimed by Gilles Villeneuve with Ferrari, and the race was the last of a total of 11 held near Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming event, which will once again be the Spanish Grand Prix rather than the previously speculated Madrid Grand Prix, will take place on a street circuit within the city itself. The track will be constructed around the IFEMA exhibition center, where the first official Formula 1 exhibition took place last year.<\/p>\n<p>The track length will be 5.47 kilometers, featuring a total of 20 turns. The predicted average lap speed is 218 km\/h, and the contract will be for 10 years. There&#8217;s a high likelihood that the event in Madrid may be held at night, although this has not been confirmed yet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Let\u2019s go racing in Madrid!<\/p>\n<p>Say hello to the brand-new circuit built around the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IFEMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@IFEMA<\/a> Exhibition Centre \u2728<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/klysY8HAiT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/klysY8HAiT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1749731195917672710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>These news cast significant doubt on the future of the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona, which has been a constant on the Formula 1 calendar since 1991. While the current host of the Spanish Grand Prix has a contract until 2026, it may not be fulfilled due to the new race in Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula 1 owner, Liberty Media, have officially confirmed that the sport will return to the Spanish capital, Madrid, in 2026, precisely 45 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":476696,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[1081],"acf":{"announce":"The news put Barcelona Grand Prix at risk","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476702,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476695\/revisions\/476702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476695"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476695"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}