F1 Calendar 2026: Final Seven Races and Start Times

Seven grands prix remain on the F1 calendar 2026: Singapore, the United States, Mexico City, São Paulo, Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, with the season ending at Yas Marina on Sunday 6 December. Sixteen of the 23 rounds are complete, so the championship now runs through seven races in nine weeks. Below is every remaining race date with its start time in local time and UTC, plus the format changes worth knowing before you plan your weekends.

Singapore (Round 17, 9-11 October). The Marina Bay race starts at 20:00 local time on Sunday 11 October, which is 12:00 UTC. It is the last sprint weekend of the year and the first sprint ever held in Singapore, so Friday has a single practice session followed by sprint qualifying, and Saturday combines the sprint with qualifying for the grand prix.

United States (Round 18, 23-25 October). The race at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin moves to a 15:00 local start for 2026, putting lights out at 20:00 UTC on Sunday 25 October. Clocks in the UK go back that same morning, while the United States stays on daylight saving time for one more week, so British viewers get an 8pm start rather than 9pm.

Mexico City (Round 19, 30 October-1 November). The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez race starts at 14:00 local time on Sunday 1 November, or 20:00 UTC. Mexico no longer observes daylight saving time, so the UTC start matches Austin's even though US clocks change on the same day.

São Paulo (Round 20, 6-8 November). Interlagos has a 14:00 local start on Sunday 8 November, which is 17:00 UTC. That makes it the friendliest slot for European audiences in the three back-to-back American races, and unlike 2025 there is no sprint in Brazil this year.

Las Vegas (Round 21, 19-21 November). Las Vegas is again a Saturday night race: lights out at 20:00 Pacific time on Saturday 21 November, which is 04:00 UTC on Sunday 22 November. It is the only race left on the schedule that does not run on a Sunday in local time, and qualifying follows the same pattern, taking place late on Friday night on the Strip.

Qatar (Round 22, 27-29 November). Lusail runs under floodlights with a 19:00 local start on Sunday 29 November, or 16:00 UTC. Qatar hosted a sprint in 2025 but returns to a conventional weekend this time, which gives teams three practice sessions to prepare for one of the most physically demanding tracks of the season.

Abu Dhabi (Round 23, 4-6 December). The finale at Yas Marina starts at 17:00 local time on Sunday 6 December, which is 13:00 UTC. As usual the race begins in daylight and finishes under the lights after sunset, a format that has decided several championships in the past.

The calendar has also changed since it was first drawn up. Round 16, officially the Bahrain Grand Prix, was staged in Malaysia on 2-4 October, and the current schedule lists no Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, which is why the season runs to 23 rounds. The official F1 calendar 2026 page on formula1.com now shows rounds 1 to 16 as completed and Singapore as the next event.

The sprint picture is settled too. The 2026 season has six sprints: China, Miami, Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Singapore. Montreal, Zandvoort and Singapore are first-time hosts, while Silverstone returned to the sprint calendar for the first time since the format debuted in 2021. Once Singapore's sprint is done, every remaining weekend uses the standard format of three practice sessions, qualifying and the grand prix, so Austin, Interlagos and Lusail, all sprint venues in 2025, revert to conventional weekends.

All start times above were published in advance by Formula 1 and broadcasters, and session times can still shift, so check the official timetable or the F1 app during race week. For viewers in Asia, Singapore, Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi fall at comfortable hours, while the three races in the Americas land in the early hours of Monday morning.