Find your entrance before you pick a station
Your entrance depends on the section on your ticket. Open the ticket in the app's Wallet and tap Find My Entrance to get directions to it. All tickets are digital and go into this app. Log in the same way you did when you bought them (Google, Apple or email). If you bought with Facebook, use the email address linked to that account. A few days before the race you'll get an email with instructions for getting in.
The current official FAQ gives these nearest stations for each entrance:
| Entrance | Nearest station |
|---|---|
| A, B, C1 | Feria de Madrid (Metro Line 8) |
| C2 | Mar de Cristal (Metro Lines 8 and 4) |
| D | Valdebebas (Cercanías C-1) or San Lorenzo (Metro Line 4) |
| E | Valdebebas (Cercanías C-1) |
The FAQ lists stations by entrance letter (A, B, C1, C2, D and E), while tickets show the zone as A, C or E. Some letters overlap, but don't pick your entrance from your zone letter. Check it on your ticket in the app. A blogger who went in 2026 wrote that entrance C1, a short walk from Feria de Madrid station, was the easy way into a Zone C stand, and that their Zone E stand had to be entered through the E gates. The full venue map with entrances and facilities will be published closer to the race.
On that Zone E trip, the blogger arrived at entrance D near T10, wasn't allowed to walk through the circuit, and spent 30 minutes walking along the roads to entrance E.
Metro Line 8 and Cercanías C-1
Line 8 runs from Nuevos Ministerios to the airport, and Feria de Madrid is the stop after Mar de Cristal. Official pages give anything from 20 to 30 minutes for the trip from the city centre. Canillas, Mar de Cristal and San Lorenzo on Line 4 are also near the circuit.
For the northern side, take the Cercanías C-1. It stops at Valdebebas and links it with Atocha, Recoletos, Nuevos Ministerios, Chamartín and Airport T4. The organisers' travel page also mentions changing at Chamartín, so check the destination board before you get on.
The current FAQ also lists shuttle buses. For entrances A, B and C1 they leave from Canillejas station on Metro Line 5, and for entrances D and E they run from Plaza de Castilla to Valdebebas.
From the airport: Line 8 or the C-1
On Line 8, Feria de Madrid is the next stop after Aeropuerto T1-T2-T3. Line 8 runs from T4 as well, and if you're heading for the northern side, the C-1 gets you from T4 to Valdebebas.
With a single or 10-trip ticket, you pay a €3 airport supplement to enter or leave a Metro airport station. You don't pay it with the Tourist Travel Pass (Abono Turístico) or a travel pass that covers fare zone A.
Suitcases and wheeled bags aren't allowed into the circuit. If you're coming straight from the airport on Friday morning, drop your luggage at your hotel first or sort out somewhere to leave it.
Taxi and ride-hailing drop-off points depend on your entrance
| Entrance | Drop-off |
|---|---|
| A, B, C1 | Avenida de los Andes (opposite El Corte Inglés) and Avenida de las Naciones. Both are a 10–15 minute walk from the entrance |
| C2 | Not recommended. The nearest drop-off, Avenida de los Andes, is a 30–35 minute walk away. The Metro is much quicker |
| D, E | Taxis: Avenida de las Fuerzas Armadas, next to the Isidro González Velázquez roundabout. Ride-hailing cars: Valdebebas Interchange. Both are a 10–15 minute walk from the entrance |
If you have a PRM ticket for reduced mobility, taxis and ride-hailing cars can take you into the disabled car park on Calle Ribera del Sena for entrances A, B and C1, or on Avenida de las Fuerzas Armadas for D and E.
The organisers point drivers to two car parks
There's no general parking at the circuit, and private cars can't enter the circuit area. The organisers ask fans not to drive, because traffic restrictions and the crowds make the surrounding roads very congested. For those who drive anyway, they list two options:
- Parking Metropolitano: about 6 km from the circuit, with a free shuttle to the venue
- Parking Mowiz: next to the circuit, with limited spaces
A parking ticket covers one car, however many people are in it. The car parks aren't supervised, so don't leave valuables inside.
On 3 November, neither "Book parking" link in the FAQ led to a Madring parking booking page. The Metropolitano link went to the grandstand sales page and the Mowiz link went to Mowiz's general booking page. Neither the FAQ nor those pages gave prices or a date for bookings to open.
Leaving: the organisers' review and the blog tell different stories
The circuit is open from 08:00 to 19:30. In their review of 2026, the organisers said there were no big queues or crowding, including when people left on Saturday and Sunday.
In the Zone C post, the same blogger tells readers to expect huge queues at the end of the day, with tens of thousands of people leaving from the same Metro station. In the Zone E post, the queue at Valdebebas station on the way out was so long that the blogger walked about 30 minutes to San Lorenzo on Metro Line 4, where there was no queue. San Lorenzo is also listed for entrance D in the table above. If you're leaving from the northern side, walking to San Lorenzo is an option.
What you can't bring: big backpacks, food and drink, umbrellas
You and your bags may be searched at the entrance. The official list of banned items says "LARGE BACKPACKS (MAX. 40X30)" without giving a unit.
You can't bring food or drink. The list includes glass bottles and metal bottles or cans, and the banned items include "PLASTIC BOTTLE MAX. 500 ML". The wording doesn't make clear whether bottles up to 500 ml are allowed. There are drinking water fountains inside.
Umbrellas of any type are banned. So are folding chairs, tripods and selfie sticks, power banks bigger than a mobile phone, portable speakers and balls.
You can pay by card inside. Cash isn't accepted, but you can use it to top up your wristband and convert it into MAD-COINS. It can get very loud, so the organisers recommend hearing protection, especially for children. Once you're in, you can't leave and come back.