{"id":147833,"date":"2025-09-16T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/147833\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:00:09","slug":"formula-1-grand-prix-start-times-announced-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/147833\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 Grand Prix start times announced for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All 24 Grand Prix start times for 2026 have been revealed, meaning fans can start to officially mark their calendars for the year.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest change for 2026 is that the Canadian Grand Prix will now start at 16:00 local time, two hours later than in 2025. This means that it will avoid clashing with the Indianapolis 500, with the two races set to take place on the same weekend in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mclaren.com\/racing\/formula-1\/2025\/2026-formula-1-calendar-announced\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026<\/a>. Meanwhile, the all-new street race in Madrid will start at 15:00 local time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week, Formula 1 also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mclaren.com\/racing\/formula-1\/2025\/formula-1-reveal-2026-sprint-calendar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced the six venues that will host Sprints in 2026<\/a>, including three new tracks as well as the return of the Sprint format at Silverstone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2026 F1 Grand Prix start times:<\/p>\n<p>Grand Prix<\/p>\n<p>Date<\/p>\n<p>Lights out (local)<\/p>\n<p>Lights out (UK)<\/p>\n<p>Australian GP<\/p>\n<p>6-8\u00a0March<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>04:00<\/p>\n<p>Chinese GP<\/p>\n<p>13-15 March<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>07:00<\/p>\n<p>Japanese GP<\/p>\n<p>27-29 March<\/p>\n<p>14:00<\/p>\n<p>06:00<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain GP<\/p>\n<p>10-12\u00a0April<\/p>\n<p>18:00<\/p>\n<p>16:00<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabian GP<\/p>\n<p>17-19\u00a0April<\/p>\n<p>20:00<\/p>\n<p>18:00<\/p>\n<p>Miami GP<\/p>\n<p>1-3 May<\/p>\n<p>16:00<\/p>\n<p>21:00<\/p>\n<p>Canadian GP<\/p>\n<p>22-24 May<\/p>\n<p>16:00<\/p>\n<p>21:00<\/p>\n<p>Monaco GP<\/p>\n<p>5-7 June<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>14:00<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona\u00a0GP<\/p>\n<p>12-14 June<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>14:00<\/p>\n<p>Austrian GP<\/p>\n<p>26-28\u00a0June<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>14:00<\/p>\n<p>British GP<\/p>\n<p>3-5 July<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>Belgian GP<\/p>\n<p>17-19 July<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>14:00<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian GP<\/p>\n<p>24-26 July<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>14:00<\/p>\n<p>Dutch GP<\/p>\n<p>21-23 August<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>14:00<\/p>\n<p>Italian GP<\/p>\n<p>4-6 September<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>14:00<\/p>\n<p>Madrid GP<\/p>\n<p>11-13\u00a0September<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>14:00<\/p>\n<p>Azerbaijan GP<\/p>\n<p>24-26\u00a0September<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>12:00<\/p>\n<p>Singapore GP<\/p>\n<p>9-11\u00a0October<\/p>\n<p>20:00<\/p>\n<p>13:00<\/p>\n<p>United States\u00a0GP<\/p>\n<p>23-25\u00a0October<\/p>\n<p>15:00<\/p>\n<p>20:00<\/p>\n<p>Mexico City\u00a0GP<\/p>\n<p>30 October -1 November<\/p>\n<p>14:00<\/p>\n<p>20:00<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo GP<\/p>\n<p>6-8\u00a0November<\/p>\n<p>14:00<\/p>\n<p>17:00<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas\u00a0GP<\/p>\n<p>19-21 November<\/p>\n<p>20:00<\/p>\n<p>04:00<\/p>\n<p>Qatar\u00a0GP<\/p>\n<p>27-29 November<\/p>\n<p>19:00<\/p>\n<p>16:00<\/p>\n<p>Abu Dhabi GP<\/p>\n<p>4-6 December<\/p>\n<p>17:00<\/p>\n<p>13:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All 24 Grand Prix start times for 2026 have been revealed, meaning fans can start to officially mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-147833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}