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2026 Formula E Calendar

The 2026 Formula E schedule, or ‘Season 12’ in FE parlance, has been added to the calendars.

Here is a brief look at the changes since last year.

The season started at the end of last year, which is something FE used to do. This was the same date as the Formula 1 season finale which happened to come down to a title decider. It’s not the smartest move. I don’t remember anybody talking about anything other than F1, it was obviously going to take up all the airtime.

This weekend it is the turn of Mexico City on the short version of the layout but with the full Peraltada, the cars having more power than grip means the back end steps out around there, which is very cool.

The Miami round has been moved from Homestead-Miami Speedway to the F1 circuit, the Miami Autodrome. I think this is a good change. I’ve not seen the Homestead round yet but I’m told it wasn’t a good look, even if the racing itself was perfectly fine. Miami Autodrome feels like a better fit.

We have another road course round in March, with the Circuito del Jarama near Madrid joining. Test days have been held there already for Gen3. I’ve only ever seen one race there but the only thing I’ve heard about Jarama is it’s impossible to overtake there. Perhaps a slipstreaming, peloton-style Formula E race will be different.

With the Gen4 car looking to be another step up in pace, I feel like it is inevitable we’ll see a swing towards road courses and F1-grade “street” tracks like Miami.

A return to Sanya in China is also on the cards, followed by two races at Shanghai International. Sanya was used once before, in 2019, and I wonder if we’ll see the same layout this time? It was a very dramatic race ! A lot of contact. Some of these tight turns may need some work.

Highlights of the 2019 Sanya ePrix

There has been some reshuffling among the other races.

Shanghai and Tokyo move from May to July. Berlin goes the other way.

London moves later, to mid-August, which is a really good date as season finale. Being in the middle of the F1 summer break it has a better chance of some traction. It is also in the middle of the school holidays in Britain and hopefully this will attract families to the races! This weekend makes a lot of sense to me.

Jakarta is the only round we lose from last year, so we have a net gain of one race for a total of 17.

DateRaceLocationChange Since 2025
6 December 2025São Paulo ePrixAnhembi Sambadrome
10 January 2026Mexico City ePrixAutódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
31 January 2026Miami ePrixMiami International AutodromeMoved from Homestead
13 February 2026Jeddah ePrix 1Jeddah Corniche Circuit
14 February 2026Jeddah ePrix 2Jeddah Corniche Circuit
21 March 2026Madrid ePrixCircuito del JaramaNew
2 May 2026Berlin ePrix 1Flughafen TempelhofMoved from July
3 May 2026Berlin ePrix 2Flughafen Tempelhof
16 May 2026Monaco ePrix 1Monaco
17 May 2026Monaco ePrix 2Monaco
20 Jun 2026Sanya ePrixHaitang BayLast held March 2019
4 July 2026Shanghai ePrix 1Shanghai International Circuit
5 July 2026Shanghai ePrix 2Shanghai International Circuit
25 July 2026Tokyo ePrix 1Tokyo Street CircuitMoved from May
26 July 2026Tokyo ePrix 2Tokyo Street Circuit
15 August 2026London ePrix 1ExCel London CircuitMoved from July
16 August 2026London ePrix 2ExCel London Circuit

Races Watched 2025

At the beginning of 2024 I started to log all the races I watched. Now with two years of data I wanted to see what the numbers look like. Spotify Wrapped has a lot to answer for.

I wish I’d started doing this years ago. I’d love to know how the numbers compare to 2008 through to the early 2010s. I started this blog in ’08 and I watched a heck of a lot of races in those years. I used to post weekly reviews of what I was watching at the time, but never collated it.

There are people I follow online who watch more than me, and who should take the title of ‘I Watch Too Much Racing’. Shout out to Matt White, who inspired me to start tracking, as he posts all his races to socials – and got over 750 in ’25!

Races

In 2024 (blue) I had a big push in the spring but then felt burned out. It almost felt a chore to keep up and I kept things to a bare minimum, just F1 and IndyCar, with a couple of IMSA races to round out December.

2025 (orange) was the opposite. I never got started until February, then in the spring we had bad news in the family, obviously I placed my attention there rather than watch anything. When I decided to start up again I caught up all the F1 and IndyCar and also picked up my project to watch the 2024 BTCC.

That meant I caught up fast, so by August it became the game to try to beat 2024’s total by December. I made it by just two: 134 to 132

I actually felt better about it as well, not so burned out. I was still sick of F1 by the end of November, even with a brilliant title fight to enjoy.

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Celebrating Respect In Racing

As 2025 draws to a close, something which has struck me this year is the way competitors appear to respect each other more these days.

This is typified by the F1 title battle this year between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. It all seems very gentlemanly, may the best man win, but still intense. I don’t know that you can say they are the best of mates, but they seem to get on. Clearly they are both competitive and are driven to beat the other one and anyone else.

Large chunks of the F1 press have been very confused by this. They almost have an expectation that being team-mates it would automatically have the hostility of the Ayrton Senna versus Alain Prost days. Or the knife-edge intensity of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in 2016. Or in MotoGP a decade ago when Yamaha had to build a wall in the garage to prevent Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo from even seeing each other. It’s as if they are disappointed this hasn’t manifested in the Norris/Piastri fight. At least, not yet.

And let’s be clear, I love those battles too. Because I think that’s how *I* would be in that situation – angry and petulant. Wouldn’t you be? And for the media it’s obvious isn’t it? Needle sells copy, generates clicks, gets more views. But should we be disappointed?

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I Drove An Aston Martin

My sister gave me a voucher for Christmas to drive a classic car. A choice between two. But I kept forgetting about it because, well it’s been quite the difficult time since. But I remembered and finally got around to booking it, at what turned out to be the last opportunity this year at my closest venue. So I dutifully turned up to Upottery Airfield, adjacent to Smeatharpe Stadium short oval, to drive a Cobra. I’ve always wanted to drive Cobra.

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