On June 2, 2020, Formula 1 confirmed the Red Bull Ring would hold back to back races on 5 and 12 July to start the 2020 season, with the second race styled as a one-off Styrian Grand Prix. It will also hold the first four races of the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship and the 2020 FIA Formula 3 Championship. This first of the F1 races makes the circuit the first European circuit to host the opening round of a Formula One season since the Circuit de Monaco did this in the 1966 Formula One Season as well as the first time Austria has hosted the opening race of the World Championship and therefore the first time the circuit has hosted the opening round - an honour given to 13 previous venues since the inception of the World Championship in 1950.