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This year’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix will take place on Saturday afternoon, a day earlier than Formula One’s traditional Sunday slot.<\/b><\/p>\n
This is due to avoiding a clash with Azerbaijan’s national Remembrance Day, taking place on Sunday, 27 September.<\/p>\n
It means that the whole weekend schedule has been moved forward by a day. The race will take place on Saturday at 12:00 (BST), with qualifying starting at 13:00 BST on Friday.<\/p>\n
The race is taking place at Baku City Circuit in the country’s capital.<\/p>\n
Three practice sessions are scheduled across Thursday and Friday, with the first one starting at 09:30 BST on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Azerbaijan’s Remembrance Day, first established by the Presidential decree in December 2020, remembers military soldiers whose lives were lost in the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. A total of 2,783 Azerbaijan soldiers died in the conflict.<\/p>\n
Remembrance Day is held on 27 September, marking the day the war started.<\/p>\n
Since its inclusion as a regular Formula One race in November 2023, the Las Vegas Grand Prix is also regularly held on a Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Prior to the South African Grand Prix in 1985 – the last to be held on a Saturday until Las Vegas 2023 – races were often held on Saturdays, including the British Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n