{"id":409700,"date":"2026-01-13T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409700\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:18:08","slug":"f1-schedule-2026-dates-start-times-and-how-to-watch-every-formula-1-race-this-year-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/409700\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 schedule 2026: Dates, start times and how to watch every Formula 1 race this year from India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lando Norris lifted his maiden Formula 1 world title amid a three-way challenge, which forced the championship battle to go down to the wire in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a short and sweet winter break, the 2026 season is upon us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>F1 will expand to 11 teams and 22 drivers in the new calendar, with Cadillac being added to the fore. Meanwhile, Audi will hit the race tracks after they took control of the Sauber team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Add The Sporting News as a preferred news source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sporting News\u00a0tells you the key F1 dates for the 2026 calendar to look forward to.<\/p>\n<p>When is the preseason testing of F1?<\/p>\n<p>The 2026\u00a0preseason testing will kick off in mid-February in Bahrain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a four-day closed-door event testing in Barcelona scheduled in late January. This is being organised individually by the teams after agreeing to a deal with the\u00a0Spanish circuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will not be broadcast, and no official timing data will be revealed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/in\/tennis\/news\/australian-open-qualifying-2026-scores-schedule-results-bracket\/13065da9d26129811ce6208b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Australian Open qualifying LIVE 2026: Scores, schedule, draw, results, bracket<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jan. 26-30:\u00a0Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (behind closed doors)<\/p>\n<p>Feb. 11-13:\u00a0Preseason testing in Bahrain<\/p>\n<p>Feb. 18-20:\u00a0Preseason testing in Bahrain<\/p>\n<p>Formula 1 2026 calendar<\/p>\n<p>The first race for the season will take place in Australia in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will be a 24-round campaign with the United States hosting three races, the most by any nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Madrid is the latest addition to the race calendar. Meanwhile, there are six sprint weekends in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DateCountryVenueMarch 6-8AustraliaMelbourneMarch 13-15ChinaShanghai (Sprint)March 27-29JapanSuzukaApril 10-12BahrainSakhirApril 17-19Saudi ArabiaJeddahMay 1-3USAMiami (Sprint)May 22-24CanadaMontreal (Sprint)June 5-7MonacoMonacoJune 12-14SpainBarcelona-CatalunyaJune 26-28AustriaSpielbergJuly 3-5Great BritainSilverstone (Sprint)July 17-19BelgiumSpa-FrancorchampsJuly 24-26HungaryBudapestAugust 21-23NetherlandsZandvoort (Sprint)September 4-6ItalyMonzaSeptember 11-13SpainMadrid*September 24-26AzerbaijanBakuOctober 9-11SingaporeSingapore (Sprint)October 23-25USAAustinOctober 30 &#8211; November 1MexicoMexico CityNovember 6-8BrazilSao PauloNovember 19-21USALas VegasNovember 27-29QatarLusailDecember 4-6Abu DhabiYas Marina<\/p>\n<p>Stefano Domenicali, President and CEO of Formula 1, said: \u201c2026 will be a new era for Formula 1 where we will witness a brand-new set of regulations for our sport, the cars and the engines that will be powered by 100% sustainable fuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to welcome Madrid to the calendar, and to see huge automotive brands like Audi, Cadillac and Ford join the Formula 1 grid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How to watch Formula 1 in 2026 from India?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to watch F1in 2026 in India:<\/p>\n<p>TV channel:\u00a0NALive Stream:\u00a0FanCode<\/p>\n<p>Fans can stream F1, including\u00a0all sessions (practice, qualifying, sprints, races) in the FanCode app and website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Related links:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris lifted his maiden Formula 1 world title amid a three-way challenge, which forced the championship battle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-409700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409700","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=409700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}