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FIA confirms starting times for races on shortened, 23-round 2023 calendar · RaceFans

Start, Losail International Circuit, 2021

The FIA has confirmed the starting times for all 23 races on the 2023 Formula 1 calendar.

The 2023 schedule includes one new race in Las Vegas. Uniquely, this event will run from Thursday to Saturday, with all sessions taking place under lights after sunset.

The first practice session on the Las Vegas Street Circuit will begin at 6:30pm local time on Thursday 16th November, which will by 2:30am on the following Friday for viewers in the UK. As previously announced the race will start at 10pm local time on Saturday night, 6am on Sunday morning in the UK.

With the return of the Qatar Grand Prix, six rounds on the 2023 calendar will be held at night. These are joined by the Bahrain, Saudi Arabian, Singapore and Abu Dhabi grands prix.

The Brazilian Grand Prix will begin one hour earlier than it did last year. Other than that the start times of the existing rounds on the championship are unchanged.

As previously confirmed the rounds at Baku, Red Bull Ring, Spa-Francorchamps, Losail, Circuit of the Americas and Interlagos will be sprint events.

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