The 2022 Formula 1 flavour was one of the most exciting in years, regardless of your take on what happened in the flavour finale in Abu Dhabi.

For the 2022 season, a multifariousness of new technical regulations mean a brand new generation of F1 car. The changes should pb to closer racing and more overtaking but - more than than that - a higher degree of unpredictability and - in turn - even more than excitement for fans.

That wasn't exactly borne out in the first circular in Bahrain which - aside from an heady few laps where Charles LeClerc and Max Verstappen swapped places for the lead - it seemed like business as usual. Except that Mercedes wasn't as competitive as in previous years: Ferrari and Crimson Bull fought it out for the top iv places.

Of course, you're here because yous want to know how to spotter the next race. And then without further ado, here's everything you need to know nearly catching the activeness on TV and online in the UK.

You lot'll also find dates for the 2022 calendar along with the published race start times. Nosotros have a similar article for the 2022 MLB season.

When does the Saudi arabia Grand Prix start in the Great britain?

Timings for the race weekend are below and are in UK fourth dimension, not local time. On Sunday, that means British Summer Time, but times for exercise and qualifying are in GMT, equally clocks don't change until 1am on 27 March.

  • Round two: Jeddah Corniche Street Excursion
  • Date: Sun 27 March 2022
  • Race start fourth dimension (BST): 6pm (remember that clocks become forward on Sunday morning time)
  • Race highlights: 10.30pm Aqueduct iv

Practice, qualifying & race times for the Jeddah F1 GP

All times are in GMT, which is the same as UTC, except for the race, which is in BST.

  • Practice 1: Friday 25 March on Sky Sports F1, 1.thirty-3.15pm
  • Practice 2: Friday 25 March on Heaven Sports F1, x-11.30am
  • Practice 3: Saturday 26 March on Heaven Sports F1, 1.45-3pm
  • Qualifying: Saturday 26 March on Sky Sports F1, 4-6.30pm; Channel 4 highlights, eight.30pm
  • Race: Sunday 27 March. Race begins at 6pm on Sky Sports F1; Highlights on Channel iv, 10.30pm

If you're unable to go to a TV or record broadcasts, you can watch them later on Sky Go and on All 4 - the app for Aqueduct 4. You tin can also catch up with much shorter highlights on the official Formula ane YouTube aqueduct.

How to watch every F1 race for free in the UK

  • Heaven showing live races
  • Extended qualifying, plus highlights on Channel 4 shown two.5 hours afterwards live race ends

F1 is fast condign a pay-to-watch sport. But in that location are ways to lookout without paying, especially if you're happy to lookout highlights subsequently in the day.

Heaven nevertheless has the exclusive rights to bear witness live races in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland (as well every bit Italy and Germany), meaning the only coverage on free-to-air Telly in the UK volition be available on Channel iv.

This arrangement runs until 2024 and - until the end of the 2022 flavor - extended highlights of both qualifying and races can be shown on Aqueduct 4 only two and a half hours later the race ends.

This doesn't hateful all broadcasts will be shown this shortly, and if yous want to stream those highlights, yous might have to wait a lot longer for them to appear on Channel 4'due south streaming service - All4.

The highlights show lasts 2.5 hours and is allowed to comprehend 70 percent of the activeness.

You can watch Aqueduct 4 on your TV, of course, but you lot can also lookout using the All4 app on your phone or tablet (merely non alive), or in a web browser via Aqueduct 4's website.

Every bit in previous years, the British Grand Prix volition be shown live on Channel 4.

The other manner to watch for free - especially if y'all want to lookout races alive - is to use a VPN and stream them from broadcasters in other countries which show races on free-to-air channels (simply not necessarily with English commentary).

For more details, see the section beneath on how to lookout races alive for free.

How to watch F1 races in 4K HDR

If you're happy to pay a subscription fee so you can lookout man entire races live, so Sky is the only choice in the UK. While Liberty operates an online streaming service – F1 TV Pro – yous tin't picket information technology in the UK because of Heaven'south exclusive deal.

For the first time, races will be broadcast in 4K HDR and, as nosotros understand information technology, you'll need a Heaven Glass Tv, or a Sky Q box that's capable of sending the 4K HDR betoken to your compatible TV. That ways one which supports the HLG blazon of HDR, because that'southward what Sky uses. Y'all'll also need the appropriate Ultra HD add-on for your Heaven TV package.

Unfortunately, that ways no 4K or HDR for At present customers, or those who receive Sky channels via BT TV.

Yous can get Heaven Sports F1 for £18 per month on top of your normal Sky packet - significant a minimum cost of £41 per calendar month in reality - or Complete Sports (all the sports channels) for £25 per calendar month, again for an 18-month contract.

The other choice for UHD HDR is to sign upward to F1 TV, the official streaming service for the sport. Run across below for more than details, merely information technology isn't available in the Britain.

Sentinel F1 on Now

If you don't want to pay for Sky TV (perhaps because you but want F1) and so in that location is an alternative: yous tin subscribe via Sky'south streaming service, Now (formerly Now Telly). That'south available on your telephone, tablet, games consoles, via a web browser and also via an Amazon Fire Television Stick, Roku device and others.

It isn't much cheaper though: information technology's £33.99 per month for the Sky Sports Pass, although in that location is currently an good offer which gets y'all whole season for £twenty per month.

BT broadband customers can also get Heaven Sports channels as function of a Now bolt-on to their BT TV package -  run into more details in our BT VIP review.

Can you lot get F1 TV Pro in the UK?

Annoyingly, no, you tin can't. In example you didn't know, F1 Boob tube Pro is the official streaming service of Formula 1 just you can't subscribe in the UK because of Heaven's exclusive deal for live races.

F1 Tv Pro is only available the US where information technology costs $79.99 per year. You tin can also buy information technology in a few other countries including the Netherlands where it is €vii.99 per month.

In the Great britain, all you can admission is the alive timing service which costs £2.29 per calendar month. Nosotros don't advise using a VPN to buy the service from the US or Netherlands: information technology's likely your VPN volition be detected and Liberty Media, which runs F1, says your subscription will be terminated with no refund.

If y'all don't want to pay for F1 TV Pro and yous're in the United states of america, F1 races will exist shown on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC.

Tin I watch F1 online in 2022?

Indeed y'all can. Coverage is available using the following apps:

  • All four, bachelor for Android and iOS
  • Heaven Go for Android or iOS (requires Heaven subscription)
  • At present Tv set, for Android and iOS, Xbox One and PC (requires subscription)

How to watch F1 races online - highlights

Note that y'all cannot watch alive on the All 4 app.

Unlike BBC iPlayer, you can't bring together a alive broadcast and you lot may have to wait hours for the race highlights to appear in the app.

Heaven

To spotter races online with the Heaven Go app y'all showtime demand to subscribe to its Tv service. Sky will be broadcasting exercise, qualifying and races in Ultra HDR, but as explained to a higher place, you'll need the right equipment to get it, and this is not available via Sky Go. You tin can detect out more on Sky's website.

At present

As mentioned above, you can watch Sky Sports F1 without being a Sky TV customer as the channel is also available on At present (formerly Now TV) equally yous tin also get At present as part of a BT Idiot box package.

Now is Sky's streaming service, which you can sentry via the Now app on a laptop, PC, Mac, phone or tablet. It tin also be found or installed on Amazon Fire TV Stick streaming devices, LG TVs, Samsung TV, YouView boxes (not early ones), Apple Telly, Sony TVs, Google Chromecast, PS4, PS5, Xbox I and Xbox Series South/X.

You'll need the At present Sports membership which costs £33.99 per month or £9.98 per day. But at the time of writing, the monthly subscription was discounted to £20 for the whole F1 season.

How to scout F1 online with a VPN

If you're non in the same country as the TV broadcaster, you won't be able to watch F1 online without a VPN. For example, y'all can no longer sentinel away using the Sky Go app on your phone or tablet because of Brexit.

Similarly, you can't sentry highlights on the All 4 app unless you lot use a VPN with a United kingdom server.

We recommend using NordVPN, Surfshark and VyprVPN.

A VPN makes it announced that y'all're located in the same country as the broadcaster when you connect to a server in the appropriate country.

Read our guide to the best VPN services for more than information.

Is there a way to watch F1 races alive for free?

Officially, no. Simply there is a way. In 2022 and 2023, F1 volition exist shown on free-to-air channels ServusTV and ORF in Austria, plus on Match TV in Russia. Races are also broadcast alive on Belgian TV aqueduct RTBF.

Y'all'll need a VPN (see above) to watch these channels outside of those countries, and then connect to the appropriate country - Austria or Russia - and and then head to their respective websites and figure out how to navigate to the correct channel and you'll be ale to watch the live stream.

Obviously unless you speak those languages the commentary won't be at all useful, only the proficient news is that yous tin can listen to English commentary by tuning into Radio five Live. You don't demand an actual radio of grade: you tin likewise listen via the BBC Sounds app, or on the BBC website.

Hither are the website links:

  • ServusTV
  • ORF
  • Friction match TV

If you fancy watching on the big screen rather than your laptop, then here'due south how to hook up your laptop to a Boob tube. You could too cast from Android, if you're using a VPN and web browser on your phone or tablet. Similarly, those with iPhones or iPads can mirror their screen to the Television using an Apple tree Television set.

Other than this, the sport is all just behind a paywall at present. You used to be able scout races live on RTL Germany but Sky Germany at present has exclusive rights (as in the Britain) to show alive races in Germany as well.

Concluding yr a deal between the two was done so that RTL could evidence the four events below (including the Lord's day races) live, and something like may well happen in 2022.

  1. Italy (Imola)
  2. Spain
  3. Italia (Monza)
  4. Brazil

You can watch races on RTL in the UK if y'all have a satellite dish and tin can effigy out how to tune into Astra satellite at nineteen.2E.

I'thousand also reliably informed past a Tech Advisor reader that F1 is shown gratuitous to air on an Arabic satellite channel service chosen MBC Activeness MBC Persia. They're available on a number of satellites at varying frequencies, but they require a very proficient satellite installation and setup to pick upwards the signals.

F1 Calendar 2022

ane

20 Mar

Bahrain GP

Bahrain International Circuit

2

27 Mar

Saudi Arabian GP

Jeddah Street Excursion

three

ten Apr

Australian GP

Albert Park

iv

24 Apr

Emilia Romagna GP (Italy)

Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari

5

8 May

Miami GP (USA)

Miami International Autodrome

vi

22 May

Spanish GP

Circuit de Catalunya

vii

29 May

Monaco GP

Excursion de Monaco

8

12 Jun

Azerbaijan GP

Baku City Circuit

9

nineteen Jun

Canadian GP

Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

10

3 Jul

British GP

Circuit Silverstone

11

10 Jul

Austrian GP

Scarlet Bull Ring

12

24 Jul

French GP

Excursion Paul Ricard

13

31 Jul

Hungarian GP

Hungaroring

xiv

28 Aug

Belgian GP

Spa-Francorchamps

15

4 Sep

Dutch GP

Circuit Zandvoort

16

11 Sep

Italian GP

Autodromo Nazionale Monza

17

ii Oct

Singapore GP

Marina Bay Street Circuit

18

9 Oct

Japanese GP

Suzuka Circuit

19

23 Oct

Usa GP

Circuit of the Americas

xx

30 Oct

Mexican GP

Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez

21

13 November

Brazilian GP

Autodromo Jose Carlos Step Interlagos

22

20 Nov

Abu Dhabi GP

Yas Marina Circuit

Sprint Qualifying races in 2022

The format volition exist run at three races this season:

  • Round 4: Italy
  • Round 11: Austria
  • Round 22: Brazil

Instead of being run on the Sabbatum, normal qualifying (with Q1, Q2 and Q3 sessions) takes place on Friday afternoon. This determines the grid society for Sprint Qualifying, which is a brusque 100km race that is held on Saturday afternoon.

The rules have been tweaked this twelvemonth. The driver who sets the fastest time in qualifying will be given pole position on Sunday. Last year, it was the driver who won the Sprint who secured pole. The grid lodge for the sprint race itself will be determined by qualifying times from the Fri sessions, as before.

Points have been changed, too. Now, the pinnacle eight drivers in the sprint race are awarded points, from 8 for the winner downward to one point for coming P8.

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