Madrid Grand Prix
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Circuit guide
Madring
Madrid, Spain
A new venue for the 2026 calendar, built around the IFEMA exhibition complex in Madrid and mixing existing roads with purpose-built sections. It is the newest circuit in the championship and nobody has meaningful history here.
- Track type
- Street and permanent mix
- Overtaking
- Unproven
- Upset risk
- High (new circuit)
What the lap demands
The layout combines street-circuit sections with faster purpose-built stretches, including a banked corner. Because it is new, teams arrive with simulation data rather than experience, and the first practice sessions carry more weight than they normally would.
How the racing unfolds
Unknown. New circuits often take a season or two before their real character is clear, and early expectations about overtaking are frequently wrong in both directions.
Picking a Top 5 here
Treat this as the highest-uncertainty weekend on the calendar. With no historical form to lean on, the usual heuristics are weaker: track evolution across the weekend will be steep, setup mistakes will be common, and a team that reads the circuit well in simulation can arrive unexpectedly strong. Watch practice more closely than usual before committing your picks.