Red Bull Ring agrees major new deal keeping F1 race until 2041 · RaceFans

June 29, 2025

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Method 1 has agreed a serious new take care of the Purple Bull Ring which is able to preserve the circuit on the calendar till no less than 2041.

The contract matches the size of the brand new deal F1 agreed with the Miami Grand Prix promoter earlier this 12 months, which is the longest held by any occasion on the schedule.

F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali stated “it’s implausible we’ve secured the long-term way forward for a Grand Prix so deeply rooted within the sport’s historical past.”

At the moment’s Austrian Grand Prix would be the thirty eighth within the historical past of the world championship, all bar considered one of which had been held at present venue, now owned by gentle drink producer Purple Bull.

Mark Mateschitz, son of Purple Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz, stated “I’m delighted that Method 1 will stay on the Purple Bull Ring for a few years to come back. I’m proud to proceed my father’s legacy and to protect the wealthy historical past of motor racing in Styria and on the Purple Bull Ring – with and, above all, for the folks of the area.”

F1 initially raced on the present venue between 1970 and 1987 on an extended, quicker circuit referred to as the Osterreichring. The occasion was revived a decade later however the circuit, now referred to as the A1-Ring, was considerably shortened.

Purple Bull purchased the venue after F1 left the monitor in 2003, renamed it the Purple Bull Ring and returned it to the F1 calendar in 2014. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020 the Austrian venue turned the primary spherical of the season, holding back-to-back races, referred to as the Austrian and Styrian grands prix. It did the identical once more the next 12 months.

The Austrian Grand Prix will occupy the identical slot as this 12 months, within the closing weekend of June, on the 2026 F1 calendar.

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