Zandvoort secures contract extension until end of 2025

Formula One has confirmed that Zandvoort has secured a contract extension that signifies that the Dutch Grand Prix will stay on the calendar for at the least one other three years

With the 2023 Dutch Grand Prix on 25-27 August 2023 already offered out, the brand new settlement sees 2024 and 2025 added to the preliminary three-year take care of F1.

In 2019, it was introduced that the Dutch Grand Prix would return on the F1 calendar within the following yr. However, it was postponed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and was later cancelled altogether with the occasion’s return slated for 2021.

Home favorite Max Verstappen received the primary race following the 36-year hiatus, beating his championship rival Lewis Hamilton with the Dutchman repeating his success this yr.

While F1 launched an formidable goal to be a web zero carbon sport by 2030, the Dutch Grand Prix has additionally set its personal sustainability targets. One of the important thing focuses for the occasion has been sustainable fan journey, and on the 2022 race 99% of normal admission ticket holders made their option to the circuit by public transport, bike or strolling. There was additionally the implementation of a wise energy grid, utilizing various fuels, and a discount of total CO2 emissions of 80%.

“The Dutch Grand Prix has rapidly established itself on the calendar as a fan favorite, bringing unbelievable power and a fantastic fan expertise yearly,” mentioned Stefano Domenicali, President & CEO of Formula 1.

“The sold-out occasions within the final two years have raised the bar in phrases of organisation, leisure, and sustainability, and we’re delighted to increase our relationship with them. There is big demand to host F1 races so it’s testomony to what the group have performed to cement Zandvoort on the calendar until 2025, and we will’t wait to return subsequent summer season.”

Jan Lammers, former F1 driver and now Sporting Director of the Dutch Grand Prix, added: “We are trying ahead to the upcoming Grands Prix. With nice races during which Dutch followers can now take pleasure in at least two Dutch drivers. Of course, we are going to once more provide an intensive and shocking leisure program. With this we’re once more providing the final word race competition.

“We need the world to expertise once more how we because the Netherlands set up an occasion. It is exclusive that we’re on the calendar with world cities like Las Vegas, Monaco, and São Paulo. And as we are saying internally, we’re ‘Ready for Tomorrow’. We want and need to placed on the F1 occasion of the longer term, which isn’t essentially greater however higher, extra partaking, extra revolutionary, extra sustainable, and extra inclusive.”