The Dutch GP returned to the F1 World Championship in 2021, after 36 years of absence, coinciding with the peak of Verstappen’s (Red Bull) career, who won the race in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The Dutch Grand Prix (GP), ‘home’ of four-time world champion Max Verstappen, will no longer be part of the Formula 1 World Championship after 2026, the competition’s organizers announced today.
The Formula One Group decided to extend by one year the agreement to hold the race, which is held at the Zaandvoort circuit and expires in 2025, but, after the 2026 GP, the Netherlands will no longer host the sport’s premier discipline. automobile.
The decision, which also includes holding a sprint race in the year of the event’s farewell, for the first time on Dutch soil, was taken “after extensive reflections and conversations”, the organizers said in a statement.
The Dutch GP returned to the F1 World Championship in 2021, after 36 years of absence, coinciding with the peak of Verstappen’s (Red Bull) career, who won the race in 2021, 2022 and 2023, finishing this year in second place, behind by the British Lando Norris (McLaren).
