Spanish GP 2026
Round 14 of 23 runs at Madring, Madrid, Spain, with the race on Sun 13 Sep at 16:00 EEST Finnish time. This is a conventional weekend: three practice sessions, qualifying on Saturday, one race. Every session below is given in Finnish time first, with the circuit's own clock beside it.
This is round 14 of 23 on the 2026 Formula 1 calendar, a conventional weekend, with 9 Grand Prixs after it. 6 of the 23 rounds use the sprint format. The full F1 calendar lists every one in Finnish time and the fantasy guide explains how this weekend scores.
Spanish GP F1 Session Times In Finnish Time
All 5 sessions, converted with the Europe/Helsinki zone rather than a fixed offset — which matters this season because six rounds fall in EET and round 18 straddles the October changeover. The right-hand column is the circuit's own local clock.
| Session | Day | Finnish time | Circuit time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Practice 1 | Fri 11 Sep | 14:30 EEST | 13:30 |
| Practice 2 | Fri 11 Sep | 18:00 EEST | 17:00 |
| Practice 3 | Sat 12 Sep | 13:30 EEST | 12:30 |
| Qualifying | Sat 12 Sep | 17:00 EEST | 16:00 |
| Race | Sun 13 Sep | 16:00 EEST | 15:00 |
How To Watch The Spanish GP In Finland
Every session of the 2026 Formula 1 season is on Viaplay in Finland, including practice. That is the only Finnish Formula 1 rights-holder, so there is no free-to-air alternative for this Grand Prix. The weekend opens with Practice 1 at 14:30 EEST on Fri and closes with Race at 16:00 on Sun — the countdown at the top of this page tracks whichever comes next.
Our Formula 1 desk covers the weekend as it happens, and the F2 and F3 desk covers the support races that share the bill at most Grand Prix weekends.
If you are reading from outside Finland, the countdown adds your own local clock beside the Finnish time rather than replacing it. Every other F1 round is listed the same way on the 2026 Formula 1 calendar, and the F1 results archive carries each Grand Prix once it has run.
The Circuit: Madring
The Spanish GP is held at Madring in Madrid, Spain, at 40.46528, -3.61528. The reference record for this circuit, including its full history of Formula 1 rounds, is the circuit's own entry.
Track knowledge is why an F1 Grand Prix page is worth keeping separate from a season page: a Formula 1 lap at Madring is not an F1 lap anywhere else, and the pit lane, the grid slot that matters and the corner that decides this Grand Prix are specific to Madrid.
No Formula 1 World Championship round has been held at this circuit before, so there is no previous classification to compare against and no lap count from a past running — a genuinely unknown quantity rather than one we are guessing at.
The Spanish Grand Prix Before The Move
The event itself is not new even though the venue is. The last 2 runnings of the Spanish Grand Prix were held at a different circuit, and they are given below on that basis — useful for the entry and the running order, not for anything track-specific, because none of it was set here.
2025 Spanish Grand Prix
Oscar Piastri won for McLaren from grid slot 1 over 66 laps on 2025-06-01, at the circuit the race used then.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Grid | Time / gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 1 | 1:32:57.375 |
| 2. | Lando Norris | McLaren | 2 | +2.471 |
| 3. | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 7 | +10.455 |
| 4. | George Russell | Mercedes | 4 | +11.359 |
| 5. | Nico Hülkenberg | Sauber | 15 | +13.648 |
2024 Spanish Grand Prix
Max Verstappen won for Red Bull from grid slot 2 over 66 laps on 2024-06-23, at the circuit the race used then.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Grid | Time / gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 2 | 1:28:20.227 |
| 2. | Lando Norris | McLaren | 1 | +2.219 |
| 3. | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 3 | +17.790 |
| 4. | George Russell | Mercedes | 4 | +22.320 |
| 5. | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 5 | +22.709 |
Worth noting: 2026 runs 2 rounds in Spain — this one and Barcelona GP. They are different circuits, so form at one does not transfer to the other, and the two have separate pages here for exactly that reason.
What This Grand Prix Means For The F1 Championship
Round 14 has not run yet, so there is no post-race table to show. The standings going into it, and every completed round this season, are in the results archive; the full calendar has the rest of the season in Finnish time.
The Standings Going Into Round 14
Where the championship actually stands as this round approaches, after 11 rounds: Andrea Kimi Antonelli on 219 points, 50 clear of Lewis Hamilton. Those are the numbers this weekend will move.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Andrea Kimi Antonelli | Mercedes | 219 |
| 2. | Lewis Hamilton | Ferrari | 169 |
| 3. | George Russell | Mercedes | 160 |
| 4. | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 138 |
| 5. | Lando Norris | McLaren | 128 |
| 6. | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 109 |
| 7. | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 92 |
| 8. | Isack Hadjar | Red Bull | 68 |
| 9. | Liam Lawson | RB F1 Team | 43 |
| 10. | Pierre Gasly | Alpine F1 Team | 42 |
| 21. | Valtteri Bottas | Cadillac F1 Team | 0 |
Constructors Going Into This Round
Mercedes lead the teams' table on 379 points with 8 wins, from Ferrari on 307. The teams' order is the better read on whether a car is actually improving, because it averages out one driver having a bad afternoon.
| Pos | Team | Wins | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Mercedes | 8 | 379 |
| 2. | Ferrari | 2 | 307 |
| 3. | McLaren | 1 | 220 |
| 4. | Red Bull | 0 | 177 |
| 5. | RB F1 Team | 0 | 66 |
| 6. | Alpine F1 Team | 0 | 61 |
| 7. | Haas F1 Team | 0 | 21 |
| 8. | Audi | 0 | 12 |
| 9. | Williams | 0 | 11 |
| 10. | Aston Martin | 0 | 1 |
| 11. | Cadillac F1 Team | 0 | 0 |
The Finnish Angle On This F1 Grand Prix
Valtteri Bottas is the only Finn on the 2026 grid, in his first season with Cadillac after a year out. Whether the seat survives 2027 is the open question, and this round is another data point on it.
Away from Formula 1 the Finnish contingent is larger: 6 Finns are in the World Rally Championship, where Roope Korhonen is 22th on 5 points for Rautio Motorsport. The driver pages track all of them round by round, and the junior ladder is where the next ones come from.
Next Sessions Across The Season
| Session | Event | Finnish time |
|---|---|---|
| Practice 1 | Italian GP | Fri 13:30 EEST |
| Practice 2 | Italian GP | Fri 17:00 EEST |
| Practice 3 | Italian GP | Sat 13:30 EEST |
| Qualifying | Italian GP | Sat 17:00 EEST |
| Race | Italian GP | Sun 16:00 EEST |
Previous And Next F1 Round
- Round 13: Italian GPThe round before this one, with its result and standings.
- Round 15: Azerbaijan GPWhat follows, with session times already in Finnish time.
- The full 2026 calendarAll 23 rounds and 115 sessions, downloadable as a calendar file.
- 2026 results archiveEvery completed round and the current championship table.
This page is currently showing the schedule and the championship going in. It is rebuilt as the F1 weekend progresses rather than replaced by a separate report, so this one address carries the preview beforehand and the result afterwards.
Session times are converted to Europe/Helsinki from the RacingNews365 match centre; the classification, championship positions, sprint result and previous runnings are the official record via the Jolpica Ergast mirror. Both sources agree round for round on the 2026 calendar. Checked 26 August 2026.