Next GP will be in May – good or bad idea?
Radio-Canada notes that next year’s Grand Prix will be held in May and asks whether this will be as effective as a launch to summer in Montreal.
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Bert 09:54 on 2025-06-17 Permalink
One of the justifications given was so that the transport from the Miami GP, which is 3 weeks earlier, can be done by truck, of course using sustainable fuel. More and more, F1 are trying to group a few races in a given region.
One thing that the article misses is that weekend is Memorial Day in the USA, which means that it will be the weekend that the Indianapolis 500 will be run. Add to that they are basically being run in the same timezone, therefore the same time. The 500 will probably start earlier than the GP, but sill, there will be some overlap.
The biggest issue I can see with this are the ticket sales. I am sure that there are some people that did both the Indy 500 and the Canadian GP, which traditionally was a week or two later. I am not too worried about TV views, most any motorsports fan is well equipped to do multi-screen watching. I guess we will see.