March 5, 2026
UPDATE
The 2026 System 1® season begins this weekend, completely on Apple TV in the U.S.
Beginning this weekend, Apple TV subscribers within the U.S. can watch all follow, qualifying, and Dash periods, together with races, because the 2026 season roars into gear
The 2026 FIA System One World Championship™ begins this weekend on Apple TV with the FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2026. As the brand new unique U.S. residence of System 1®, Apple TV is the place to look at each Grand Prix dwell and on demand — together with all follow, qualifying, and Dash periods, together with races — all season lengthy.
The FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2026 airs Saturday, March 7, at 8 p.m. PT on Apple TV, with all periods out there to stream dwell and on demand. Followers can comply with System 1 on Apple TV and discover an intensive assortment of curated programming at apple.co/f1onappletv.
“This weekend marks the beginning of a brand new period for System 1 followers within the U.S.,” mentioned Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice chairman of Providers. “We’re excited to convey each second of the season to Apple TV, delivering an immersive expertise designed solely round followers. System 1’s development in America has been extraordinary, and we’re proud to construct on that momentum — combining the facility of Apple TV with the broader Apple ecosystem to create much more methods for followers to attach with the game.”
“As we start this thrilling chapter for our sport with new groups, automobiles, engines, and drivers, it’s the excellent time to welcome Apple as our broadcaster in the USA,” mentioned Stefano Domenicali, System 1’s president and CEO. “We now have an essential journey forward of us, one we’ll share in a rustic the place the eagerness for F1 continues to develop with extraordinary power. We’re two international manufacturers with the identical ambition: to all the time attempt for excellence, to boldly innovate, and to ship thrilling experiences. I’m positive our American followers will respect not solely the depth and spectacle of our races, but in addition the standard and protection they’ll have out there. All through the season, they’ll have the ability to expertise each second on Apple TV, feeling even nearer to the motion, the groups, and the protagonists of this distinctive sport.”
The Greatest Solution to Watch System 1 within the U.S.
Viewers tuning in to F1 will take pleasure in a real front-row expertise, with complete protection and evaluation, expansive programming, and each Grand Prix with 5.1 encompass sound — and, for the primary time ever for F1 viewers, in beautiful 4K with Dolby Imaginative and prescient.1
Protection of each Grand Prix will characteristic English and Spanish commentary, together with entry to as much as 30 further dwell feeds throughout all periods.2 These embrace Driver Tracker for a hen’s-eye view of the race; real-time telemetry and timing; a blended onboard feed that robotically switches between onboard cameras because the race unfolds; and Podium feeds that dynamically comply with the drivers operating in P1, P2, and P3 all through.
Viewers can comply with each second of the race with a Multiview expertise, watching as much as 4 dwell feeds without delay.3 They will simply get began with a one-tap, preconfigured Multiview format for each workforce, or if they like much more personalization, they’ll customise their very own Multiview and select which feeds they’d wish to comply with.
Viewers will even have entry to Sky Sports activities broadcasts, offering one other approach to take pleasure in each race weekend.
By no means Miss a Beat with System 1 on Apple TV
Apple TV subscribers can discover curated collections of programming masking every part they should know heading into the 2026 season, together with rule modifications, new automobiles, workforce updates, the complete race calendar, and probably the most thrilling moments from final season. In the event that they miss a session, they’ll catch up anytime with full replays, highlights, and Race in 30 — all spoiler-free.
F1 TV Premium — System 1’s premier direct-to-consumer providing — stays out there completely within the U.S. by way of Apple TV and is included at no further value for subscribers. On Apple TV, iPad, and iPhone, subscribers also can entry System 2, System 3, F1 ACADEMY, and Porsche Supercup occasions by way of the F1 TV app utilizing their Apple TV subscription.
Netflix’s System 1: Drive to Survive Involves Apple TV within the U.S.
For the primary time, System 1: Drive to Survive shall be out there to stream on each Netflix and Apple TV, as Season 8 takes viewers by way of the thrills, shake-ups, and triumphs of the 2025 FIA System One World Championship™.
Whether or not the viewer is an off-the-cuff fan who fell in love with System 1 by way of Drive to Survive or a die-hard fanatic tuning in to every race weekend all year long, they’ll discover much more methods to interact with the game by way of this collaboration between Apple TV and Netflix. Launched simply final week forward of the 2026 F1 season, this newest chapter provides followers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the 2025 marketing campaign — a yr that noticed loads of motion unfold each on and off the monitor.
Drive to Survive shall be out there for U.S. followers to take pleasure in with an Apple TV subscription all through the complete season. Moreover, the FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2026, starting Could 22, will stream on Apple TV and Netflix within the U.S.
Extra Methods to Have a good time System 1
- Followers can comply with their favourite groups and drivers all season lengthy with the free Apple Sports activities app for iPhone. Designed for velocity and ease, the app places favourite leagues and groups entrance and middle, with real-time leaderboards, driver and constructor standings, and dwell updates for each follow, qualifying, and Dash session, together with races — all with fast entry to look at dwell on Apple TV. With Dwell Actions, Apple Sports activities delivers real-time updates to the iPhone Lock Display and Apple Watch, and upcoming races might be scheduled upfront so followers by no means miss a second. Sport Card Sharing lets followers share their pleasure for any Grand Prix. Followers also can comply with System 1 throughout Apple TV, Apple Sports activities, and Apple Information with My Sports activities, delivering a seamless expertise throughout supported apps.
- Apple Maps customers and F1 followers can discover {custom} Grand Prix particulars coming to pick races across the globe this yr, together with the upcoming FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2026. Maps is including detailed circuit maps with flip numbers, grandstands, and custom-designed 3D landmarks just like the F1 pit constructing. For followers attending in particular person, Maps makes it straightforward to get round, with helpful data like occasion entry gates, highway closures, up to date transit schedules, pedestrian walkways, and extra. F1 followers can study all 24 Grand Prix circuits with the 2026 System 1® Tracks Across the World Information immediately in Maps, and customers attending the Australian Grand Prix also can uncover a few of Melbourne’s finest cafés, museums, and nightlife by way of a {custom} Hyperlocal information in Maps.
- Beginning with the Australian Grand Prix, Apple Music will characteristic free dwell audio broadcasts of the races, providing an effective way for U.S. followers to catch the published commentary dwell whereas on the go. It can additionally spotlight The Sounds of System 1, a vacation spot the place followers can discover music to soundtrack the season, in addition to System 1: Sounds of the Circuit, a playlist that spotlights the deep connection between music and the circuit. Apple Music subscribers can moreover discover driver-curated playlists — together with playlists by Purple Bull Racing driver Isack Hadjar and by Haas drivers Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman — together with unique DJ mixes by prime DJs like Anna Lunoe dropping all through the season. Further content material will roll out within the F1 devoted area. Followers also can take pleasure in an unique dialog with four-time, consecutive System 1 World Drivers’ Champion Max Verstappen and Apple Music Radio host Ebro Darden. The interview explores the worldwide celebrity’s previous, current, and future, in addition to what followers can anticipate heading into the 2026 season. Watch the interview on Apple TV’s YouTube channel and on Apple TV.
- When followers comply with System 1 on Apple Information, their pursuits additionally sync seamlessly throughout Apple TV and Apple Sports activities. In Apple Information, followers will get entry to personalised System 1 protection from main publishers, together with The Athletic, ESPN, and Motor Sport, in addition to highlights from F1 and dwell blogs for every race from The Athletic. Followers also can choose in to well timed notifications in order that they by no means miss main headlines, breaking information, or race outcomes all through the season. And coming later this season, Apple Information will give followers a real-time glimpse of the motion occurring on the monitor with Dwell Look In. With Dwell Look In, followers catching up on the most recent headlines and protection will have the ability to merely faucet to leap straight into F1 on the Apple TV app.
- Apple Podcasts is bringing System 1 followers nearer to the motion with enhanced curation and a brand new devoted System 1 assortment. The expertise places followers on the middle of the game, that includes prime System 1 official podcasts like F1 Nation, the favored present with race reactions and skilled commentary; and F1 Past The Grid, which delivers weekly deep-dive interviews with drivers and workforce principals. This curated vacation spot makes it simpler than ever for racing fans to remain related to the world of System 1, multi functional place.
How one can Watch F1 on Apple TV
F1 on Apple TV is offered within the U.S. on the Apple TV app on iPhone; iPad; Apple TV 4K; Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional; Mac; well-liked sensible TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL, and others; Roku and Amazon Hearth TV gadgets; Chromecast with Google TV; PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles; and at television.apple.com, for $12.99 per thirty days with a seven-day free trial for brand spanking new subscribers. For a restricted time, eligible prospects who buy and activate a brand new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, or Mac can take pleasure in three months of Apple TV without cost. Go to apple.com/tvpr and see the complete checklist of supported gadgets.
Apple TV presents hundreds of hours of unique Apple Originals with new releases weekly and no adverts. Subscribers also can watch all of System 1 (within the U.S.), MLS, and “Friday Night time Baseball” dwell. Launched in November 2019 as the primary international all-original streaming service, Apple TV is residence to history-making, Emmy Award-winning hits, together with The Studio, Severance, and Ted Lasso. The service additionally includes a rising slate of acclaimed, award-winning sequence corresponding to Pluribus, Shrinking, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Hijack, and Gradual Horses, amongst others. Apple TV’s increasing lineup of Apple Unique Movies consists of the Academy Award-nominated summer season blockbuster F1 The Film, Eternity, and the Emmy Award-nominated hit The Gorge, together with new premieres that embrace End result, The Dink, Mayday, Matchbox The Film, and Approach of the Warrior Child.
Extra Methods to Watch
Apple TV is working to convey extra methods to look at F1 to much more followers and screens within the U.S.
- For the primary time ever, Apple is working with the favored free streaming service Tubi to supply its viewers unique dwell F1 altcasts for a number of races throughout the 2026 System 1 season — out there without cost and throughout each gadget within the U.S. The altcasts will characteristic prime creators who’re specialists on the game to offer sharp race perception paired with entertaining commentary. Tubi is the second-largest free AVOD service in reaching customers age 18+, and this programming is designed to increase F1’s attraction and broaden entry for brand spanking new, youthful, and extra digitally native audiences. The supported races with dwell F1 altcasts shall be introduced at a later date.
- Apple will increase entry to dwell System 1 protection by way of a brand new streaming collaboration with Yahoo Sports activities. Dwell follow periods and qualifying periods will stream within the U.S. throughout the Yahoo Sports activities platform. Protection of follow periods will characteristic Apple TV’s predominant broadcast feed protection, and qualifying periods will supply a blended onboard feed that switches between driver cameras all through the race to offer a dynamic, multi-angle view of the motion. With greater than 100 million month-to-month lively customers within the U.S., Yahoo Sports activities presents vital attain to attach much more followers to the game.
- By a brand new collaboration, Apple and TelevisaUnivision are increasing the Spanish-language attain of System 1 within the U.S. Univision, the main tv community for Hispanic audiences, will simulcast one race (to be introduced), with devoted pre- and post-race programming. As well as, TelevisaUnivision will promote Apple TV’s F1 protection all through the season throughout its multiplatform ecosystem, together with highlights on studio applications La Jugada and Contacto Deportivo.
- IMAX is working with Apple TV to convey the 2026 FIA System One World Championship dwell to pick IMAX theaters throughout the U.S., amplifying the inaugural season of Apple TV because the official U.S. broadcaster for F1. 5 of probably the most iconic Grands Prix in F1 — Miami, Monaco, Silverstone, Monza, and Austin — shall be out there throughout no less than 50 IMAX theaters nationwide.
- DIRECTV prospects now have entry to Apple TV’s dwell sports activities programming — together with F1 within the U.S., MLS matches, and “Friday Night time Baseball” — all out there immediately inside their properties, on the go, or at any of the 300,000-plus sports activities bars, eating places, lodges, and different industrial venues served by DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS. Anybody who subscribes to Apple TV by way of DIRECTV can uncover and watch Apple TV’s dwell sports activities immediately inside their DIRECTV expertise.
- EverPass is providing industrial institutions entry to stream Apple TV’s full dwell sports activities portfolio — together with F1 within the U.S., MLS, and “Friday Night time Baseball” — out there to new and present EverPass prospects by way of the EverPass Core bundle.
- Comcast is providing Xfinity prospects an built-in viewing expertise for Apple TV’s dwell sports activities. Prospects who subscribe to Apple TV by way of Xfinity may have seamless entry to F1 within the U.S., “Friday Night time Baseball” video games, and all MLS matches in English and Spanish. Apple TV’s protection shall be immediately built-in into the Xfinity X1 and the Xfinity Stream app channel information so prospects can simply discover and watch Apple TV protection alongside their different dwell sports activities. Moreover, the combination means Xfinity prospects can now take pleasure in Apple TV’s dwell protection by way of X1’s well-liked viewing options like Xfinity Multiview, making it straightforward to comply with the motion of F1, MLB, and MLS whereas watching different dwell sports activities on the identical time.
- Roku prospects within the U.S. can now subscribe to Apple TV by way of Premium Subscriptions on The Roku Channel to entry all F1 races and all of Apple TV’s titles in a single seamless expertise.
- Prime Video prospects within the U.S. can entry F1 races by subscribing to Apple TV, which incorporates Apple TV authentic programming and dwell sports activities.
- To observe F1 on Apple TV, viewers are required to have a U.S. Apple TV subscription. An Apple TV subscription doesn’t embrace third-party branded subscription companies, or content material out there for rental or buy within the Apple TV app.
- P1, P2, and P3 are solely out there for Race and Dash periods.
- Multiview is offered on supported gadgets, together with Apple TV 4K, iPad, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
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