Each of the 10 F1 teams will spend $100m while travelling 75,000 miles (equivalent to the Earth’s circumference thr🎉ee times!) and transporting 1,500 tons of equipment, sports business expert explains.

The original 23-race calendar for 2023 was acro﷽ss 20 countries, five continents, 240 hours of flights and 10 different time zones.

From Las Vegas to Abu Dhabi

Teams will f🍎ly from Las Vegas to Abu Dhabi this week - 82 miles, on a plane for 20 hours, then face an 11-hour♈ time difference.

The pack-up began during the Vegas race. Things tha♏t cannot be used, like additional engines, are packed immediately. The rest is packed 15 minutes after the Vegas race ends.

The mos𓄧t important stuff🐈 is driven to the aeroplane, loaded onto Boeing 777s chartered by F1, and each team must pay for the space that they use.

Staff travelled the day after the race.

Cargo planes land in Abu Dhabi on Monday and 𝐆go straight to the circuit.

A key rule is th🅠at no team can toucꩵh their equipment until every team’s equipment has fully arrived.

This rule exists to ensure that nobody gains an un෴fair advantage.

Crews have 48 hours to set up the paddock - this includes comple🌟x setting up of electrical equi🌄pment.

How motorhomes are dismantled and rebuilt

The🎐 logistical nightmare is planned 18 months🍸 in advance to avoid mistakes.

DHL, the logistic𝓀s partner of F1, must help each of the 10 teams travel to and from their individual HQs. 

Red Bull, Mercedes, Aston Martin, Alpine anꦑd Williams and McLaren are in the UK, Ferrari, AlphaTauri and Haas are in Italy, Alfa Romeo in Switzerland.

Truck🌱s, boats and planes move the F1 team’s ca💫rs, engines and computers.

Teams arrive a🌼t a grand prix several days before fans, and 27 lorries are unloaded over five days, ending on a Wednesday.

Each team has a motorhome in 💛the paddock - a building which is constructed at 𓆉each race, then taken down and moved to the next location before being rebuilt.

Red Bull’s motorhome is three-storeys, 13,000-♔square feet, with offices, a coffee bar, a private chef.

It takes 25 crew members 32 hours to asse꧂mble it, but just a day to deconstruct it.

But for the F1 Monaco Grand Prix? The motorhome is transported via boat - reconstructed while at sea - and towed 20 nautical miles. It then r🌃emains in the Monaco harbour all w❀eek.

The difficulty of back-to-back European races

Back-to-baꦫck races are a particular nightmare because of the lack of ༺time.

For example, the 2𝓡023 F1 Hungarian Grand Prix will end at around 5pm on July 23. Crew will begin packing up.

Teams worܫk through the night, and will complete packing up by 6am.

Two or three drivers work in each lorry - working in shifts - 1🌸3km and 12 hours to arrive in Belgium by Monday night.

Remaining crew members will meet them in Belgium, then unload tꦜhe lorry and reconstruct everything.

The logistics staff wor𓃲k 15 hour shift🌄s while being fed by team chefs!

There are seven back-to-back races in 2023.

Transportation crews spend two months per 🔯year𝓰 on the road.

Why shipping containers are so crucial

Before the season, each team will pack up five shipping containers. These include all non-critical equipment for race weeken꧋ds.

They are shipped by boat from each flyaway destinatio💧n to the nex♌t.

The shipping container🥃s, before the season, are shipped to Bahrain, Aౠustralia, Azerbaijan and Miami.

The Bah🥂rain kit moves to Saudi Arabia, Sinღgapore and Brazil.

The Australia kit will go to Japan.

The Azerbaijan kit goes to Qatar and Abu Dhabi.

The Miami🅘 kit goes to Canada, Austin, Mexico and 🃏Las Vegas.

And each kits go back to th🦄e team’s HQ through the winter.

Using shipping containers, rather than aeroplanes, save⭕s each team a lot of money.

Huge costs spent on drivers and cars

Drivers are paid up to $50m per year, and teams can spend $145m to develop the be🐬st car.

Hundreds of thousands of fans att♒end grands pr♌ix in person, while 70 million watch on TV.