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# What time is F1's 2025 Saudi Arabian GP? Qualifying + race start times
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/what-time-is-saudi-arabian-grand-prix-f1-2025-schedule-qualifying-race/
- Published: 2025-04-15T09:11:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-15T09:11:39.000Z
- Description: The fifth running of the Saudi Arabian GP is also the fifth round of the 2025 F1 season. Here are all the key timings you need to know for this weekend
- Author: The Race Team
- Tags: Formula 1, #saudi-arabian-grand-prix, #hide-countdown

The first triple-header of the 2025 Formula 1 season concludes this weekend with the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

This will be the fifth running of the race at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, which first hosted F1 in 2021.

The race has occupied an early-season slot on the calendar since its second edition in 2022 and this year hosts the fifth round of the season.

## Saudi Arabian GP 2025 schedule

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Saudi Arabia uses Arabia Standard Time all-year round and is two hours ahead of British Summer Time, and one hour ahead of Central European Time.

### Saudi Arabian GP schedule (local time)

**Friday April 18**

**FP1**: 4.30pm-5.30pm  
**FP2**: 8pm-9pm

**Saturday April 19**

**FP3**: 4.30pm-5.30pm  
**Qualifying**: 8pm

**Sunday April 20**

**Saudi Arabian Grand Prix**: 8pm

### Saudi Arabian GP schedule (UK time)

**Friday April 18**

**FP1**: 2.30pm-3.30pm  
**FP2**: 6pm-7pm

**Saturday April 19**

**FP3**: 2.30pm-3.30pm  
**Qualifying**: 6pm

**Sunday April 20**

**Saudi Arabian Grand Prix**: 6pm