Formula 1 announced on 29 June 2025 that the Austrian Grand Prix would remain on the calendar through 2041 inclusive. The deal with Projekt Spielberg secured one of the sport’s most compact and scenic modern venues for the long term, and it did so on the same day the 2025 race itself was held at the Red Bull Ring.
Austria’s place in Formula 1 has never been continuous, but it has been unusually resilient. The country first appeared on the World Championship calendar in 1964 at Zeltweg, then found its more durable home at the Österreichring from 1970. That fast, flowing circuit became one of the classic driver’s tracks before safety demands and commercial realities reshaped the venue into the shorter A1-Ring and later the Red Bull Ring.
From absence to long-term security
The race disappeared after 2003 and looked, for a while, like another European Grand Prix lost to changing economics. Its return in 2014 followed major investment by Dietrich Mateschitz and Red Bull, which gave the circuit a renewed paddock, a clear promotional identity and the backing to re-enter a crowded calendar.
By 2025, the race had become a stable part of Formula 1’s European summer rather than a nostalgic revival. The Red Bull Ring’s short lap, elevation changes and heavy braking zones regularly produced close traffic and track-limits arguments, which is one of the least poetic but most reliable signs that a modern circuit is doing something.
The 2041 extension gave Austria a level of security rarely available to traditional European events in an era of street-circuit expansion and heavy competition for dates. For fans, the practical message was simpler: the Red Bull Ring was not going anywhere soon. Austria’s modern Grand Prix, once a comeback story, had become part of Formula 1’s long-range planning.
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