Madrid

Madring is a 5.414 km, 22-corner circuit around the IFEMA exhibition complex in Valdebebas, in the Barajas district of north-east Madrid near the airport. It is a hybrid of temporary and permanent track designed by Jarno Zaffelli, with two short tunnels running under an elevated motorway and a sharp downhill drop between Turns 7 and 9. Its best-known feature is La Monumental, a semicircular banked corner at Turn 12 with about 13.5 degrees of banking, the longest banked turn on the calendar.

The circuit also has the first covered paddock in Formula 1. The main straight is short and there are two Straight Mode zones for the 2026 cars, but drivers criticised the lack of overtaking after the first race.

Madring was built to bring the Spanish Grand Prix to the capital region. The contract with Formula 1 runs to 2035 and the project started with IFEMA Madrid and Madrid City Council, with Zaffelli commissioned as designer in February 2023 and Carlos Sainz acting as an ambassador. The circuit was built at a reported cost of €83.2 million and opened in August 2026.

Formula 1 had visited the Madrid area before, at Jarama north of the city, which hosted the Spanish Grand Prix until 1981. The 2026 race, the first at Madring, was held on 13 September. Kimi Antonelli won for Mercedes ahead of Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, and George Russell set the race lap record of 1:35.587. Lando Norris had taken pole with a 1:31.824, the fastest lap of the circuit so far but a qualifying time, 0.011 s ahead of Antonelli.

The Spanish Grand Prix name moved to Madrid this year, while Montmeló hosts the separate Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.