Every F1 schedule 2026 page I checked this week is wrong about the next race. The two biggest ones still print a 24-round calendar, one of them lists Bahrain as round 17 on 11 October, and none of them gives a single start time.
The real calendar has 23 rounds, not 24. Bahrain and Saudi Arabia were cancelled, Malaysia came back after nine years to replace one of them, and 15 rounds are done with eight to go. Round 16 is on Sunday, and in the United States it starts at 3am Eastern on a service that did not carry F1 last season.
So this page does the thing the schedule pages skip: every remaining race with its date and its start time in UTC, US Eastern and UK time, which round is the last sprint, where to watch it in both countries, and — because this is GridOdds — what the prediction markets say the schedule is actually worth. Every time below is converted from the official session time in the Jolpica F1 feed, and every price was read from the Polymarket Gamma API on 3 October 2026.
Key takeaways
- Eight races remain, from 4 October to 6 December. The 2026 season is 23 rounds, down from the 24 originally published — the April Bahrain and Saudi Arabian rounds were cancelled and only one was replaced.
- Round 16 is officially the "Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia." It runs at Sepang on 4 October, Malaysia's first F1 race since 2017, and it keeps the Bahrain name.
- Singapore on 11 October is the only sprint left all season. It is worth 8 extra points to the winner and it is the single biggest swing available in the title fight.
- Apple TV is the exclusive US broadcaster from 2026 at $12.99 a month, with F1 TV Premium included at no extra cost. ESPN carries nothing.
- Kimi Antonelli is 92.5% to win the drivers' title and Mercedes 97.5% for the constructors'. Antonelli leads by 66 points with 208 still available; the earliest he can clinch is Austin on 25 October.
The F1 Schedule 2026: Every Remaining Race and Start Time
These are the eight rounds left, with the race start converted from the official session time rather than copied off another schedule page. US Eastern and UK clocks change mid-season, which is why the Austin and Mexico City slots differ by an hour in ET while sitting at the same UTC time, and why Las Vegas appears on Saturday night in America and Sunday morning in Britain.
| Rd | Grand Prix | Circuit | Race start (UTC) | US Eastern | UK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Bahrain GP in Malaysia | Sepang, Kuala Lumpur | Sun 4 Oct, 07:00 | Sun 4 Oct, 03:00 EDT | Sun 4 Oct, 08:00 BST |
| 17 | Singapore GP (sprint) | Marina Bay | Sun 11 Oct, 12:00 | Sun 11 Oct, 08:00 EDT | Sun 11 Oct, 13:00 BST |
| 18 | United States GP | Circuit of the Americas, Austin | Sun 25 Oct, 20:00 | Sun 25 Oct, 16:00 EDT | Sun 25 Oct, 20:00 GMT |
| 19 | Mexico City GP | Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez | Sun 1 Nov, 20:00 | Sun 1 Nov, 15:00 EST | Sun 1 Nov, 20:00 GMT |
| 20 | Brazilian GP | Interlagos, São Paulo | Sun 8 Nov, 17:00 | Sun 8 Nov, 12:00 EST | Sun 8 Nov, 17:00 GMT |
| 21 | Las Vegas GP | Las Vegas Strip Circuit | Sun 22 Nov, 04:00 | Sat 21 Nov, 23:00 EST | Sun 22 Nov, 04:00 GMT |
| 22 | Qatar GP | Lusail | Sun 29 Nov, 16:00 | Sun 29 Nov, 11:00 EST | Sun 29 Nov, 16:00 GMT |
| 23 | Abu Dhabi GP | Yas Marina | Sun 6 Dec, 13:00 | Sun 6 Dec, 08:00 EST | Sun 6 Dec, 13:00 GMT |
Two rows are worth circling. Sepang is a 3am start on the US east coast, the worst slot of the eight for American viewers, and it is the race immediately in front of us. Las Vegas is the only round that lands on a different calendar day in the two countries: 11pm Saturday in New York, 4am Sunday in London. Our next race page carries the full session list and the weekend weather for whichever round is closest.
The season ends at Yas Marina on 6 December, two weeks later than a normal year because of the mid-season reshuffle. That matters for the markets, because Polymarket's two championship events do not settle until the result is official.
Why Round 16 Is the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia
This is the detail every schedule page gets wrong, and it is not a typo. Round 16 is officially titled the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia, it runs at Sepang International Circuit outside Kuala Lumpur, and it is Malaysia's first world championship race since 2017.
The reason is contractual rather than sporting. Bahrain and Saudi Arabia were scheduled as an April double-header. Both were cancelled as a result of the US-Israeli war with Iran, and rather than drop two rounds, F1 moved one of the two race slots to a circuit that could take it and kept the original race name attached to it.
| Change | Original plan | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| Bahrain GP | April, Sakhir | Relocated to Sepang, 4 October, name retained |
| Saudi Arabian GP | April, Jeddah | Cancelled, not replaced |
| Imola | On the 2025 calendar | Dropped for 2026 |
| Madrid GP | New for 2026 | Added as round 14, and it carries the Spanish Grand Prix title |
| Barcelona | Spanish GP | Retitled the Barcelona Grand Prix, round 7 |
| Round count | 24 | 23 |
The knock-on is that Spain hosted two rounds under two different names, and that a round called Bahrain is run 6,500km away in southeast Asia. If a schedule page still shows 24 races, it was written before these changes and every round number after 15 on it is off by one. The official 2026 calendar is the one to check against.
How to Watch F1 on TV in 2026: US and UK
The US picture changed completely this season and it is the most common question we get. Apple TV is the exclusive US home of Formula 1 from 2026, on a five-year deal, and ESPN — which had the rights from 2018 — carries nothing. Every practice, qualifying, sprint and race streams in the Apple TV app.
The part most people miss is the bundling. Apple's own announcement states that F1 TV Premium — the onboard-camera, team-radio, live-telemetry product that used to be a separate subscription — "remains available exclusively in the U.S. through Apple TV and is included at no additional cost for subscribers."
| Market | Live races | Cost | Free option |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Apple TV (exclusive, all sessions) | $12.99/month, 7-day trial | Select races and all practice sessions in the Apple TV app; race audio on Apple Music; altcasts on Tubi |
| United Kingdom | Sky Sports F1 (every session) | Sky subscription | Channel 4 highlights of every qualifying, sprint and race |
| F1 TV Premium (US) | Included with Apple TV | No extra cost | n/a |
| Formula 2, 3, F1 Academy | F1 TV app via Apple TV sign-in | Included | n/a |
In the UK nothing changed: Sky Sports F1 carries every session, and Channel 4 holds free-to-air highlights of every qualifying session, sprint and grand prix through the end of this season. One caution on the free US races: the "select races" list is set by Apple and is not published as a season-long schedule, so do not plan a race weekend around one.
What the Title Odds Say With Eight Rounds Left
Here is where a schedule becomes a betting document. I read the Polymarket 2026 F1 Drivers' Champion event directly rather than taking it off an odds table, because the gap between the price and the points is the interesting part.
| Driver | Points | Wins | Polymarket | Market volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) | 302 | 8 | 92.45% | $4.52m |
| George Russell (Mercedes) | 236 | 3 | 3.80% | $2.92m |
| Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) | 199 | 1 | 1.05% | $5.52m |
| Lando Norris (McLaren) | 186 | 2 | 0.65% | $6.89m |
| Max Verstappen (Red Bull) | 163 | 0 | 0.65% | $6.32m |
| Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) | 179 | 1 | 0.15% | $5.42m |
| Oscar Piastri (McLaren) | 120 | 0 | 0.05% | $6.50m |
Note the ordering problem. Leclerc has 179 points to Verstappen's 163 and is priced at a quarter of him, and Norris on 186 is level with a Verstappen 23 points behind. That is not a mispricing — it is the market saying a Red Bull is a more plausible winner of the remaining races than a Ferrari, independent of what the table says today. Volume is no guide either: Norris's market has traded $6.89m against Antonelli's $4.52m, because cumulative volume measures how long a market has been quoted and how hard it has been argued over, not what anyone currently believes.
Our drivers' championship page carries these prices live and recomputes them every ten minutes.
Points Still Available After Each Remaining Round
This is the arithmetic that decides the season, and it is three lines of maths that nobody publishes next to a schedule. A grand prix pays 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1. The Singapore sprint pays 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 to the top eight. There is no fastest-lap point — that was abolished from 2025.
So the maximum any driver can still score is 8 × 25 + 8 = 208, and it shrinks on a fixed ladder:
| After round | Grand Prix | Date | Driver points left | Team points left |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | now, after Baku | 3 Oct | 208 | 359 |
| 16 | Sepang | 4 Oct | 183 | 316 |
| 17 | Singapore (sprint) | 11 Oct | 150 | 258 |
| 18 | Austin | 25 Oct | 125 | 215 |
| 19 | Mexico City | 1 Nov | 100 | 172 |
| 20 | São Paulo | 8 Nov | 75 | 129 |
| 21 | Las Vegas | 22 Nov | 50 | 86 |
| 22 | Lusail | 29 Nov | 25 | 43 |
| 23 | Abu Dhabi | 6 Dec | 0 | 0 |
Team maxima are higher because a constructor scores with both cars: 43 per grand prix for a one-two, plus 15 from a sprint one-two. Look at the Singapore row — it drops the driver figure by 33 in one weekend rather than 25, which is why one race on this calendar is worth a third more than any other. The mechanics of that weekend are in F1 sprint weekend odds, and you can run your own permutations on the 2026 points calculator.
When Antonelli Can Clinch the Drivers' Title
A title is mathematically won when the leader's margin exceeds the points still available. Antonelli leads Russell by 66 with 208 available, so nothing is settled — but the ladder above says it can be settled surprisingly soon. I ran three scenarios.
| Scenario | Assumption | Clinches at | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earliest possible | Antonelli wins Sepang, the Singapore sprint, the Singapore GP and Austin; Russell scores nothing | Round 18, Austin | 25 Oct |
| Season form | Both keep scoring at their 2026 per-round average (Antonelli 20.1, Russell 15.7) | Round 20, São Paulo | 8 Nov |
| Russell fights back | Russell outscores Antonelli by 9 a round, as he did at Baku | Not before round 23 | 6 Dec |
The middle row is the one to hold on to. On the form both Mercedes drivers have actually shown across 15 rounds, the drivers' championship is decided at Interlagos on 8 November, with three rounds dead. That is the honest reading of a 92.45% price: not "it is over", but "it is over about five weeks before the season is".
The earliest case needs Antonelli to win three straight and a sprint while his own team-mate scores zero across four sessions. Russell has finished every race this year, so I would not price that highly — but it is the reason the market will not go above the mid-90s yet. Round-by-round permutations live in Antonelli's title clinch scenarios.
Mercedes Can Seal the Constructors' Title at Singapore
The constructors' championship is further gone than the drivers'. Mercedes has 538 points to Ferrari's 378, a 160-point lead with 359 available, and Polymarket prices it at 97.5% against Ferrari's 0.8% and McLaren's 0.35%.
| Team | Points | Wins | Polymarket |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercedes | 538 | 11 | 97.50% |
| Ferrari | 378 | 2 | 0.80% |
| McLaren | 306 | 2 | 0.35% |
| Red Bull | 263 | 0 | 0.05% |
| RB | 83 | 0 | 0.00% |
Run the same test on it. Two Mercedes one-twos at Sepang and Singapore plus the sprint would put the team on 639 against a scoreless Ferrari, a 261-point lead with 258 left — mathematically champion on 11 October, round 17 of 23. On the margin Mercedes has actually averaged over Ferrari, 10.7 points a round, the clinch lands at Mexico City on 1 November. Either way it is finished well before Las Vegas. The full board is on our constructors' championship page and the permutations in the constructors' clinch guide.
How the Market Repriced the Last Six Weeks
We snapshot both championship markets several times a day, so the schedule has a price history attached to it. Here is what the last four race weekends did — and the pattern is cleaner than I expected.
| Date | Event | Antonelli | Russell | Mercedes | Points gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Aug | after Zandvoort (R12) | 75.0% | 5.9% | 86.5% | 59 |
| 5 Sep | Monza, race eve | 71.2% | 9.6% | 90.5% | 59 |
| 6 Sep | Italian GP (R13) | 84.8% | 6.2% | 95.7% | 66 |
| 13 Sep | Spanish GP, Madrid (R14) | 91.0% | 2.2% | 96.0% | 81 |
| 25 Sep | Baku, race eve | 90.4% | 4.0% | 96.1% | 81 |
| 26 Sep | Azerbaijan GP (R15) | 91.5% | 4.7% | 96.5% | 66 |
| 3 Oct | today | 92.5% | 3.8% | 97.8% | 66 |
Read the last two rows together, because they are the whole lesson of a late-season schedule. Russell won in Baku, took 25 points out of a 91-point swing opportunity, cut the gap from 81 to 66 — and his title price moved from 4.0% to 4.7%. A race win bought him seven tenths of a percentage point. Antonelli finished fifth that day and his price went up, from 90.4% to 91.5%.
That is not the market being slow. It is the ladder in the previous section doing its work: a round that closes the gap by 15 also removes 25 points from the pool, so a comeback has to outrun its own calendar. With eight rounds left, time is a bigger factor in these prices than form is. Why the two venues quote this differently, and how resolution works, is covered in F1 on Polymarket.
The Three Rounds That Actually Matter
Eight races, but they are not worth the same. Stated plainly so it can be marked wrong:
- Singapore, 11 October (round 17). The last sprint of the season and the only weekend paying 33 points. Marina Bay is also the longest, hottest, highest-attrition race on the remaining calendar. If the title is going to get interesting again, it happens here.
- Austin, 25 October (round 18). The earliest mathematical clinch date, and the first race of the season in a US time slot that American viewers will actually be awake for — 4pm Eastern.
- São Paulo, 8 November (round 20). The clinch date on current form, and historically the most weather-disrupted round on this list. A wet Interlagos is the one scenario that keeps Russell's 3.8% honest.
The three I would skip if I only had three Sundays: Sepang at 3am, Lusail, and Abu Dhabi — the last two are low-attrition circuits that will almost certainly be running after both titles are settled. Weather risk by circuit is in F1 weather odds.
How to Follow the Schedule and the Odds Together
Two pages do the work of this article continuously, so you do not have to re-read it in November:
- Next race — session times and race-week weather for whichever round is closest.
- Live odds board — every F1 market on Polymarket, refreshed automatically, including markets that open later in the season.
- Stats — the standings and per-round scoring that the clinch maths above is built from.
Race dates and official session start times come from the Jolpica F1 feed for the 2026 season, cross-checked against the published calendar, after round 15. Championship points are the official standings after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on 26 September 2026. Prices and volumes were read from the Polymarket Gamma API on 3 October 2026 and move continuously. GridOdds earns a referral commission if you open a Polymarket account through links on this site; it costs you nothing and does not change what we write. Nothing here is betting advice.
Related Analysis
- Antonelli Title Clinch 2026 — every round-by-round permutation behind the Austin and Interlagos dates above.
- F1 Title Race Scenarios 2026 — what has to happen for the 3.8% outcome to land.
- F1 Constructors' Title Clinch 2026 — the Mercedes maths in full.
- F1 Points Calculator 2026 — run your own remaining-round permutations.
- F1 Sprint Weekend Odds — how the Singapore format changes the pricing.
- F1 Odds This Weekend — the race-by-race markets as each round arrives.