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# Layout for Madrid F1 debut revealed
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/madrid-f1-circuit-layout-revealed/
- Published: 2025-04-25T11:35:25.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-27T13:48:39.000Z
- Description: The final layout for the Madrid city circuit that will make its debut on the F1 calendar in 2026 has been revealed
- Author: Jack Cozens
- Tags: Formula 1, #spanish-grand-prix

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'.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/dd/af/ddafbd99-2ccd-468c-b622-4b3cccf80b49/content/images/2025/04/Madring-layout-1.png)

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.

> Ride onboard for a lap of F1’s newest circuit 🇪🇸  
>  
> 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](https://t.co/tUCrz8Eoka?ref=the-race.com)
> 
> — The Race (@wearetherace) [April 25, 2025](https://twitter.com/wearetherace/status/1915722402400502239?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com)

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.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/dd/af/ddafbd99-2ccd-468c-b622-4b3cccf80b49/content/images/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-25-at-12.25.41.png)

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.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/dd/af/ddafbd99-2ccd-468c-b622-4b3cccf80b49/content/images/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-25-at-12.26.18-1.png)

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.