Circuit · Montmelo, Spain
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
The sport's default winter testing venue for two decades, which makes it the circuit teams understand best and the one that most reliably ranks cars by raw performance. The Turn 10 chicane added in 2007 was removed in 2023.
- Championship races
- 36
- Seasons
- 1991–202636 seasons
- Length
- 4.657 kmcurrent layout
- Turns
- 14
- Direction
- clockwise
- Type
- permanent
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
A test-track archetype: fast opening sector rewarding aerodynamic load, slow final sector rewarding traction
Most wins here
| Driver | Wins | Span |
|---|---|---|
| Sir Lewis Hamilton | 7 | 2014–2026 |
| Michael Schumacher | 6 | 1995–2004 |
| Max Verstappen | 4 | 2016–2024 |
| Mika Hakkinen | 3 | 1998–2000 |
| Fernando Alonso | 2 | 2006–2013 |
| Kimi Raikkonen | 2 | 2005–2008 |
| Nigel Mansell | 2 | 1991–1992 |
| Alain Prost | 1 | 1993 |
| Damon Hill | 1 | 1994 |
| Felipe Massa | 1 | 2007 |
| Jacques Villeneuve | 1 | 1997 |
| Jenson Button | 1 | 2009 |
| Mark Webber | 1 | 2010 |
| Nico Rosberg | 1 | 2015 |
| Oscar Piastri | 1 | 2025 |
| Pastor Maldonado | 1 | 2012 |
| Sebastian Vettel | 1 | 2011 |
Constructors here
Every layout raced here 6 in the timeline, 6 drawn
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists. Each one is fitted to its own box, so these are not to scale: a longer layout is not drawn larger, and none of them carries a direction, a position or a start line. The drawing that opens the page is the latest layout raced or on the calendar here, not the longest. The length listed with each layout is this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under its drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.
- 1991–1993 Original layout
- 1994 With Nissan chicane
- 1995–2003 Grand Prix circuit
- 2004–2006 Revised final sector
- 2007–2022 With Turn 10 chicane
- 2007–2020 An F1DB layout no timeline row names
- 2021–2022 An F1DB layout no timeline row names
- 2023– Chicane removed
Each layout with its drawing, and what changed
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
Original layout
- Years
- 1991–1993
- Length
- 4.747 km
- Confidence
- medium
As opened, with the fast Nissan and La Caixa sequence
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
With Nissan chicane
- Years
- 1994
- Length
- 4.745 km
- Confidence
- medium
Temporary chicane in the 1994 safety review
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
Revised final sector
- Years
- 2004–2006
- Length
- 4.627 km
- Confidence
- medium
New Turn 14-15 complex before the pit straight
This row names no F1DB outline
With Turn 10 chicane
- Years
- 2007–2022
- Length
- 4.675 km
- Confidence
- medium
Chicane added after Alonso's 2007 testing accident
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
No timeline row names this drawing, 2007–2020
- Years
- 2007–2020
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
No timeline row names this drawing, 2021–2022
- Years
- 2021–2022
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
Chicane removed
- Years
- 2023–
- Length
- 4.657 km
- Confidence
- medium
Final corners restored to the original fast sweep
Every race here 36
Held here as the Spanish Grand Prix (35 races) and the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix (1 race).
The same on all 36 rows: Layout — not established.
Show all 36 racesShow the first 10, Every race here
Where this comes from
- Official name
- Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
- Location
- Montmelo, Spain
- Confidence
- high