{"id":266069,"date":"2026-04-13T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266069\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:06:11","slug":"how-to-watch-live-formula-1-races-at-sacramento-imax-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266069\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch live Formula 1 races at Sacramento IMAX theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest screens in town is hosting live watch parties for some of the biggest Formula 1 races of the year.<\/p>\n

As part of Formula 1\u2019s partnership with Apple TV, IMAX is screening races at some of its theaters nationwide. Sacramento\u2019s Esquire IMAX Theatre<\/a> is the only California theater outside the state\u2019s coastal metropolitan regions slated to play the races.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the first of the scheduled race screenings, the Miami Grand Prix, are available now.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how you can catch every moment of racing action on the big screen.<\/p>\n

Which F1 races are going to be screened at IMAX theaters?<\/p>\n

Of the 22 scheduled 2026 Formula 1 Grands Prix, five races will broadcast live to U.S. IMAX theaters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Miami Grand Prix will kick off the events on Sunday, May 3 at 1 p.m. Pacific Time. Theaters will screen 15 minutes of pre-race programming before the green flag drops, according to the IMAX website.<\/p>\n

These four races will also have events at IMAX movie theaters:<\/p>\n

Monaco Grand Prix \u2013 Sunday, June 7 at 6 a.m.British Grand Prix \u2013 Sunday, July 5 at 7 a.m.Italian Grand Prix \u2013 Sunday, Sept. 6 at 6 a.m.United States Grand Prix \u2013 Sunday, Oct. 25 at 1 p.m.How can I get tickets to watch the F1 Miami Grand Prix at the Esquire IMAX Theatre?<\/p>\n

Tickets for the theater\u2019s screening of the Miami Grand Prix<\/a>, hosted at the Miami International Autodrome around Hard Rock Stadium, are available on the IMAX website and on Fandango.<\/p>\n

Admission costs $30 per person, with an additional $2.69 convenience fee. Tickets for the other events will become available closer to the race weekends.<\/p>\n

As the European races start in the early morning for the West Coast, it was unclear as of Monday whether California theaters will screen the Monaco, British and Italian Grands Prix.<\/p>\n

Which other California IMAX theaters are playing F1 races?<\/p>\n

IMAX screens across the U.S. will play the F1 races, including 13 in California:<\/p>\n

Esquire IMAX Theatre, SacramentoAMC Saratoga 14 & IMAX, San JoseRegal Hacienda Crossings & IMAX, DublinAMC Metreon 16 & IMAX, San FranciscoAMC Burbank 16 & IMAX, BurbankUniversal Cinema AMC at CityWalk Hollywood & IMAX, Universal CityAMC Century City 15 & IMAX, Los AngelesAMC The Grove & IMAX, Los AngelesAMC Del Amo 18 & IMAX, TorranceRegal Edwards Ontario Palace & IMAX, OntarioRegal Irvine Spectrum & IMAX, IrvineRegal Edwards Mira Mesa & IMAX, San DiegoAMC Plaza Bonita 14 & IMAX, National City<\/p>\n

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Camila Pedrosa is a service journalism reporter at The Sacramento Bee. She previously worked as a summer reporting intern for The Bee and reported in Phoenix and Washington, D.C. She graduated from Arizona State University with a master\u2019s degree in mass communication.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the biggest screens in town is hosting live watch parties for some of the biggest Formula…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-266069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}