Track Layout
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
Track Sectors
Heavy braking into Turn 1, a downhill Turn 2 and the long right-hander at Turn 3 — the front tyre load sets up the whole lap.
Campsa, La Caixa and the climb to Turn 9 — medium-speed corners where aero efficiency shows.
The re-profiled final sector onto the pit straight, with its high-speed final corner rewarding cars strong through direction changes.
About Barcelona
The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya is the baseline car-development track of modern Formula 1. Its combination of high-speed corners, medium-speed direction changes and a long straight makes it so representative of a full lap that teams historically used it as their primary pre-season testing venue. If a car works here, it works almost everywhere.
Some of the very characteristics that make Barcelona a brilliant reference track make it a difficult race — overtaking is concentrated at Turn 1, and without it, qualifying can determine everything. The 2023 return of the original, high-speed final sector (removing the chicane added in 2007) improved both lap times and overtaking chances.
Recent Grand Prix Winners
Circuit History
Built for the 1992 Olympics, the circuit hosted its first F1 Grand Prix in 1991. The layout has been revised twice — once to add the final chicane, and more recently to remove it. The Spanish Grand Prix has been a fixture of the calendar ever since, and the track continues to be used for young-driver testing and manufacturer shakedowns throughout the year.
