F1 2027 Calendar: Record 10 Sprints and Return of Portugal and Turkey

Formula 1 has locked in a 24‑race calendar for 2027, stretching from mid-March to mid-December and packing in a record 10 Sprint races in a schedule that blends nostalgia, experimentation and geopolitical uncertainty.

The season will open under the lights in Bahrain on March 14 and close, as so often in recent years, in Abu Dhabi on December 12. Between those bookends, the sport welcomes back two familiar names: the Portuguese and Turkish Grands Prix, set for June 20 and October 3 respectively.

Their return comes at a cost. Barcelona-Catalunya drops off the 2027 schedule as part of a new bi-annual rotation with Belgium, while Zandvoort also loses its Dutch Grand Prix slot for the year. For a calendar already straining at 24 rounds, something had to give, and this time it is two circuits that have been central to F1’s recent European core.

Sprint era goes into overdrive

The headline number is 10. That is how many Sprint weekends will punctuate the 2027 campaign, the most in the sport’s history and a clear signal of where F1’s format experiment is heading.

Six of those Sprints will land in the opening 12 races, turning the first half of the season into a relentless run of double-race weekends. Four more will follow after the summer, including, for the first time, a Sprint at the season finale in Abu Dhabi.

Perhaps the most eye-catching tweak comes in Monaco. The principality, so often accused of processional Sundays, will stage a second race across the first weekend in June, hosting a Sprint for the first time. On a track where qualifying has traditionally meant everything, the addition of a shorter, high-risk race could reshape how teams approach the entire weekend.

War casts a shadow over the Gulf

For all the boldness of the 2027 blueprint, the calendar still sits under a cloud. The ongoing Iran War has already forced the postponement of the 2026 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and triggered a reshuffle that saw the Bahrain GP moved to Malaysia.

That instability continues to ripple through the sport’s planning. F1 has yet to confirm whether the 2026 Qatar and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix will proceed as scheduled in November and December. The expectation inside the paddock is that they will not. Imola is understood to be on standby to step in as the season finale on December 6, a throwback to the circuit’s growing role as a dependable replacement when the calendar comes under strain.

F1 CEO and president Stefano Domenicali has already set the decision points. He indicated that the championship needed clarity on the 2026 Qatar and Abu Dhabi rounds by the middle of September, citing freight and logistical demands. As for Bahrain and Saudi Arabia’s ability to host the early races in 2027, that call does not have to be formally made until the end of the 2026 calendar year.

So the sport moves forward with a record-breaking schedule on paper, a packed slate of Sprints, and two returning grands prix that once offered refuge during pandemic disruption. The question now is simple: how much of this ambitious 2027 plan will survive first contact with a volatile world?