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The layout for the Madrid city circuit that will make its debut on the Formula 1 calendar in 2026 has been revealed.
Madrid's IFEMA exhibition centre, situated in the under-construction Valdebebas development in the north east of the Spanish capital, is the base for the circuit, which is being dubbed the 'Madring'.
It will not be a conventional city street race but is expected to be more of a hybrid set-up akin to the Miami GP, utilising what F1 has previously described as "street and non-street sections".
Initial projections were for a 1m32s qualifying lap of a 20-turn, 3.39-mile layout.
The version revealed on Friday, which included an onboard simulation video of the complete track, is 3.36 miles long with 22 corners.
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The 'Madring' will feature 22 corners and run around the IFEMA MADRID exhibition centre, thoughts?
P.S - love the unusual racing line at 0:28 😅 pic.twitter.com/tUCrz8Eoka
The Madring will be 12 metres wide throughout "except for the main straight and the first bend", which will be 15 metres wide.
That first corner sequence is a left/right chicane at the end of a 589-metre start/finish straight, where the organiser said 2026 F1 cars will "slow from 320km/h to 100km/h".
That is followed by a fast, open right-hander - Hortaleza, a reference to the Madrid neighbourhood in its backdrop - that leads onto a long run through the circuit's urban section to Turn 4, through which cars are predicted to hit a top speed of 340km/h.
Another tight sequence at Turns 5 and 6 follows, including an 8% gradient climb (around 10 metres) off the second of those corners, before the complex 'Bunker' section.
The Madring will also feature a 24% banked corner - La Monumental - that is 500m long, a fast Esses section and a slower 'Park' section at the end of the lap.
The race is set to take up the Spanish Grand Prix moniker from next year despite the Barcelona circuit that currently stages the Spanish GP having a deal for 2026.
