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The season opens under the floodlights at Sakhir, and for the first time the opening round is a Sprint weekend.

Round two runs at night along the Red Sea on the fastest street circuit Formula 1 uses.

The championship reaches Melbourne, where public parkland roads around Albert Park lake become a circuit for the weekend.

Suzuka is the only figure-of-eight layout in Formula 1, its back straight crossing over the first sector on a bridge.

Shanghai's opening complex spirals tighter and tighter through Turns 1 to 3 before the longest straight of the season's early rounds.

The temporary circuit laid out around Hard Rock Stadium hosts the first of three United States rounds.

Montreal's island circuit is a run of long straights and chicanes that ends at the Wall of Champions.

The slowest, tightest and oldest race on the calendar runs through the streets of Monte Carlo, where qualifying decides most of it.

Formula 1 returns to Portugal for the first time since 2021, on Portimao's roller-coaster of blind crests and steep drops.

The British Grand Prix returns to the old RAF airfield that held the first World Championship race in 1950.

The shortest lap of the season runs up and down a Styrian hillside in barely over a minute.

Spa is the longest circuit in Formula 1 at just over seven kilometres, and it makes its own weather across the Ardennes.

The Hungaroring's twisting layout is often called Monaco without the walls, and closes the first half of the season.

The Temple of Speed holds the highest average speeds in Formula 1, and the Tifosi fill the banking whatever Ferrari's season looks like.

The Spanish Grand Prix runs at Madrid's Madring, the part-street, part-permanent circuit around IFEMA that took the race off Barcelona.

Baku pairs a two-kilometre straight along the Caspian with a climb through the medieval old city barely wide enough for one car.

Turkiye returns to the calendar for the first time since 2021, bringing back Turn 8 - a four-apex left taken at close to 300 km/h.

Formula 1's original night race runs under floodlights around Marina Bay, in humidity that costs drivers several kilos a race.

Austin's purpose-built circuit opens with a blind 40-metre climb into a hairpin, and borrows corners from Silverstone, Istanbul and Hockenheim.

At 2,200 metres above sea level the air is thin enough to change how the cars cool, brake and make power, and the lap ends through a baseball stadium.

Interlagos runs anticlockwise over a hillside, is short enough to bunch the field, and has decided more championships late than anywhere else.

The only race Formula 1 runs on a Saturday night, straight down the Strip past the casinos at close to 350 km/h.

The penultimate round runs at night at Lusail, a fast, flowing circuit built for MotoGP and hard on tyres.

The season ends at Yas Marina as the sun sets, and for the first time the finale is a Sprint weekend too.