{"id":462589,"date":"2026-02-06T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/462589\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:29:08","slug":"every-f1-2026-race-start-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/462589\/","title":{"rendered":"Every F1 2026 race start time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The race start is where anticipation levels peak on any given Formula 1 weekend – and they might be about to get a whole lot more unpredictable<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n

So, if you don’t want to miss any of the action this year, here’s your chance to familiarise yourself with every grand prix start time in 2026.<\/p>\n

There’s one new addition to the calendar for 2026, as the Spanish Grand Prix moves to the new ‘Madring’ circuit in Madrid – though previous host Barcelona has retained its place on the schedule.<\/p>\n

Like the other eight races in Europe and Great Britain, the Spanish GP on September 13 will have a 3pm local start time.<\/p>\n

The movement of the Azerbaijan GP to Saturday September 26<\/a>, has not resulted in a change of start time compared to 2025. The Baku race will also start at 3pm local time.<\/p>\n

The original reveal of F1’s 2026 race start times also included confirmation that the Canadian GP will begin at 4pm local time.<\/p>\n

This gives the Indianapolis 500, which takes place on the same day, a three-hour-15-minute window from its 12.45pm local time start before the Montreal race takes place.<\/p>\n

The US GP at Austin also moves to a 3pm local start time for 2026.<\/p>\n

Here are all the start times to be aware of for 2026:<\/p>\n

F1 2026 race start times (local \/ UK)<\/p>\n

Australia 3pm \/ 4am
China 3pm \/ 7am
Japan 2pm \/ 6am
Bahrain 6pm \/ 4pm
Saudi Arabia 8pm \/ 6pm
Miami 4pm \/ 9pm
Canada 4pm \/ 7pm
Monaco 3pm \/ 2pm
Barcelona 3pm \/ 2pm
Austria 3pm \/ 2pm
Great Britain 3pm \/ 3pm
Belgium 3pm \/ 2pm
Hungary 3pm \/ 2pm
Netherlands 3pm \/ 2pm
Italy 3pm \/ 2pm
Spain 3pm \/ 2pm
Azerbaijan 3pm \/ 12pm*
Singapore 8pm \/ 1pm
United States 3pm \/ 8pm
Mexico 2pm \/ 8pm
Brazil 2pm \/ 5pm
Las Vegas 8pm \/ 4am**
Qatar 7pm \/ 4pm
Abu Dhabi 5pm \/ 1pm<\/p>\n

*Saturday race local and UK time
**Saturday race local time; Sunday UK time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The race start is where anticipation levels peak on any given Formula 1 weekend – and they might…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-462589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462589","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=462589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}