F1 tracks in the USA, all 12 circuits current and former

Two details trip people up. Indianapolis counts from 1950, because the Indianapolis 500 was a world championship round until 1960. That puts it nine years before Sebring, which held the first United States Grand Prix of the championship era. Las Vegas has had two different circuits, with first races 42 years apart.

All 12 US circuits, with years and distances

Formula1.com counted Miami as the 11th US venue ahead of its first race in 2022. The Las Vegas Strip Circuit, first used in 2023, made 12. Years and round counts below come from that Formula1.com article and Motor Sport's list of every US Grand Prix circuit, with recent seasons checked against the Formula1.com results for 2021, 2022 and 2026 so far.

The distances are approximate. They're straight lines between each circuit's coordinates on Wikidata, worked out with Wikidata's own distance function and rounded to the kilometre. By road, every one of them is further.

The 12 circuits are in eight states, and California, Florida, Nevada and Texas have two each. The two furthest apart are Long Beach and Miami, 3,739 km (2,323 mi) apart.

Lap lengths and dates for the 2026 US circuits

The 2026 calendar has Miami on 1 to 3 May, the United States Grand Prix at Austin on 23 to 25 October and Las Vegas on 19 to 21 November. The USA first had three rounds in one season in 1982, with Long Beach, Detroit and Caesars Palace. It had three again in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Austin sits almost exactly between the other two. It's 1,768 km (1,099 mi) from Miami and 1,758 km (1,092 mi) from Las Vegas, and Miami to Las Vegas direct is 3,491 km (2,169 mi). Going through Austin adds only about 35 km to that.

Former US circuits from west to east

Our guide to F1 street circuits explains which of these count as street tracks.

• Long Beach raced as the United States Grand Prix West, along Shoreline Drive and Ocean Boulevard. Nobody won there twice in F1, and IndyCar has raced on these streets since F1 left.
• Riverside was a hilly track east of Los Angeles, with a 1.8 km straight. It closed in 1989 and was sold off for real estate.
• The Caesars Palace races were held in the hotel and casino's car park. Both decided the drivers' title, Nelson Piquet's in 1981 and Keke Rosberg's in 1982.
• Phoenix was built around the city's street grid. Only 6 of the 26 starters were running at the end of the hot 1989 race.
• Dallas raced round Fair Park in July 1984, and the heat broke up the track surface.
• Indianapolis held the Grand Prix from 2000 to 2007 on a 4.1 km road course, part oval and part infield, run in the opposite direction to the 500.
• Detroit used the downtown streets of the city. Ayrton Senna won its last three races, from 1986 to 1988.
• Sebring held the 1959 final round on a former Second World War airbase in Florida. Bruce McLaren won it at 22, and Jack Brabham pushed his car over the line after running out of fuel to take the title.
• Watkins Glen International is in the Finger Lakes district of upstate New York, in the hills south of the village of Watkins Glen, 303 km (188 mi) north-west of New York City in a straight line. Debt from its 1971 extension to 3.37 miles was a big part of why F1 didn't come back after 1980.

Of the nine, Watkins Glen is the one to visit. It held 20 US Grands Prix, more than any other US circuit, and it's still a working track, which the circuit's own site gives as 2.45 miles. Skip it if you want to see F1 cars race: none have raced there since 1980, so go to Austin, Miami or Las Vegas instead.

Years with no US world championship round

The USA has had two long gaps and one missed season. After Phoenix in 1991, no US round was held until Indianapolis in 2000. After Indianapolis in 2007, F1 stayed away until Austin opened in 2012. The 2020 season had no US race at all, as the 2020 results show, because of the pandemic.