The 2021 Formula 1 season continues as we head down to Mexico for the 2021 Mexico City Grand Prix. The home race for Red Bull driver Sergio "Checo" Perez comes in the midst of a heated battle between his teammate Max Verstappen and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton for the drivers championship. Meanwhile, the F1 world is abuzz amid a boost of interest following the 2021 United States Grand Prix, which was won by Verstappen.
In 2011, Sky Sports signed a seven-year deal with the BBC , to show live Formula One on Sky in the United Kingdom for the first time. The deal which ran between 2012 and 2015 saw Sky Sports show live coverage of every session of the season on their own F1 dedicated channel, Sky Sports F1. Sky Sports F1 show all races and qualifying sessions live without the interruption of adverts. At the same time it was announced that Sky will broadcast all events in ultra-high-definition from 2017. Sky Sports F1 have broadcast every practice, qualifying and race since 2017 in 4K Ultra-HD, exclusively for Sky Q 2TB customers.
F1 TV is the official Formula 1 channel around the world, giving fans are more intimate view of the pit lane and talking points across every F1 weekend. You even get access to team radio clips during races that don't go out on TV! Although live racing isn't available on the streaming service in Australia, yet, it is packed with over 650 archived Grand Prix available to watch on demand, as well as exclusive documentaries. All 22 featured weekends on the F1 calendar will be broadcast in Australia on Fox Sports, which is available to watch on the Kayo Sports streaming service, as well as Foxtel, Foxtel from Telstra and Foxtel Now. This includes every qualifying and practice session shown live, with no ad breaks during racing to enhance your viewing experience.
Televisa broadcasts in Mexico a one-hour almost complete race show hosted by Mexican sports journalists Rafael Bolaños and Carlos Jalife, sometimes accompanied by a third commentator which has been Ignacio Alva, Giselle Zarur or Sam Reyes in the past. The show edits the races to about 50 minutes from start to the checkered flag and is broadcast around midnight on race days on free air TV, channels 4 or 9 in Mexico. They also broadcast live the Mexican Grand Prix from Practice 1 to the Race from the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, since 2015, with Rafael and Carlos accompanied by Eric Fisher. Alongside the main World Feed, FOM also produce a Pit-lane channel, showing shots from the pitlane and alternative camera angles, along with detailed weather and tyre information, and extra team radio.
FOM also produce onboard channels, showing live video from cameras installed on the drivers' cars. The channels switch between different cars throughout the session. FOM also make available a "Driver tracker" channel, showing live positions of all the cars on the track during a session, as well as a timing screen showing live lap-times and circuit sector information. In the pay-per-view channel DAZN, which holds the rights of the entire championship exclusively in Spain from the 2021 season replacing Movistar F1, the main commentator is journalist Antonio Lobato. Co-commentators for the qualifying and the race are former Arrows, Jaguar, McLaren, Sauber and HRT driver Pedro de la Rosa and F1 engineer Toni Cuquerella, who worked for Williams, Ferrari, and HRT.
Cuquerella is also the co-commentator for Free Practice 3 while journalists Jacobo Vega and Cristobal Rosaleny alternate the co-commentating on the Friday Free Practices. They comment from a TV studio in Madrid, except for the Spanish Grand Prix, where journalist Nira Juanco acts as presenter. Pit reporters are journalist Noemí de Miguel and former F1 engineer in Super Aguri and HRT Albert Fàbrega.
Also, Ferrari test driver Marc Gené provides analysis from the circuit before, during and/or after every session. Other contributors include Miguel Portillo and former GP2 driver Roldan Rodriguez. From 2018, Formula 1 officially started to show live streaming of each race online with many other features. The F1 TV service includes many other features like a live view of each driver's car and replay of all Formula 1 races. As of 2019, Formula 1 TV restricts viewing to the country of residence, and requires the user to have a valid credit card in that same country. Due to rights restrictions, it is not possible to watch F1 TV from outside one's home country.
On 14 October 2012, NBC Sports signed a four-year deal to broadcast Formula One races in the United States. The majority of its coverage (including most races, and all practice/qualifying sessions) was broadcast by the pay channel NBCSN , while four races were aired by the free-to-air NBC network per-season. The network also streamed additional camera feeds through its digital platforms. You can also watch Formula 2, Formula 3 and Porsche Supercup coverage. Sky's race day coverage of this weekend's Abu Dhabi grand prix will also simulcast on Channel 4, as mentioned above.
All Sky customers will have access to qualifying on Saturday and the race via Sky Showcase. However, Sky Sports F1 will be the only place where you can watch every session, including free practice, as well as the Formula 2 finale. MBC Group covers all races live with the full coverage on practice sessions, qualifying and race in two languages. Jordanian Firas Nimri is the commentator in Arabic, alongside Khalil Beschir as the expert. Iranian Hamed Majd commentates in Persian and it's been co-commentated by Iranian racing driver, Kourosh Khani. BBC. Following the commencement of their deal with Sky, the BBC continued to broadcast live coverage of half the races and all 20 races had "extended highlights".
In 2012, they broadcast live coverage from China, Spain, Monaco, Europe , Britain, Belgium, Singapore, Korea, Abu Dhabi and Brazil. They also showed live coverage of practice and qualifying sessions from those races. The deal set that the British Grand Prix and the final race had to be shown live on the BBC. The second of the back-to-back races at the Red Bull Ring saw Verstappen pick up where he left off, delighting the Austrian crowd with pole position and then leading every lap of his team's home grand prix. A huge number of Dutch fans also mad there way to Austria to watch their hero dominate proceedings. Going into the final grand prix of the year at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina circuit, Max Verstappen and Sir Lewis Hamilton are tied on 369.5 points each.
The last time where the two leading Formula 1 drivers in the championship went into the final race tied on points was in 1974. The final race on the Formula 1 calendar is the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2021 (10-13 December), with every session shown live and exclusive viaFox Sports 506(Foxtel/Kayo). Foxtel and Kayo Sports also have the most extensive live TV coverage of the Supercars Championship, as well as each and every weekend of the entire 2021 MotoGP racing season. Channel 4 will continue to broadcast free-to-air highlights of every qualifying session and race throughout the 2021 Formula 1 season, plus live coverage of the British Grand Prix weekend on July. For those on a budget, once again there are extended highlights of all F1 races on Channel 4, with additional live coverage of the British Grand Prix in July. A last-minute rights deal meant the Channel 4 also showed live coverage of the Abu Dhabi finale, though using the Sky Sports F1 feed and commentary.
Highlights were also available on the channel's on-demand service, All 4. Channel 4's commentator called the inaugural Saudi GP "an incredible day of confusion," which is an understatement – this will go down as one of the most contentious races of all time. But it delivered on thrills and means a final race of the season with the two leading drivers tied on points, as the incredible 2021 season reaches its conclusion. Kayo Sports – Australia's dedicated sports streaming service – has access to every Formula 1® practice session, qualifying session and full Grand Prix race live and on demand.
As of 2019, Sky Sports F1 is the primary English-language broadcaster within the UK. David Croft commentates with Martin Brundle or occasionally Paul di Resta. Depending on the race, one of Ted Kravitz or Karun Chandhok contributes from the pit lane.
For practice sessions, Croft is often joined by Paul di Resta, Anthony Davidson, Johnny Herbert, or Chandhok with Brundle providing trackside analysis. This coverage is used for highlights on the F1 YouTube channel. In Teledeporte, the sports channel of the Spanish national public TV, which offers a 60-minutes time highlights of every race , journalist Marc Martí is the main commentator, with GP3 Series driver Alex Palou as co-commentator. In the live broadcast of the Spanish Grand Prix, they were joined by FIA World Endurance Championship and former Manor Marussia F1 driver Roberto Merhi and journalist Juan Carlos Garcia, who was the pit reporter. Hamilton earned the 100th pole position of his career in Barcelona, but duly gave up first position on the first corner of the grand prix, having no option but to sacrifice the spot to an aggressive move by Max Verstappen.
If you're happy to pay a subscription fee so you can watch entire races live, then Sky is the only option in the UK. While Liberty operates an online streaming service – F1 TV Pro – you can't watch it in the UK because of Sky's exclusive deal. ESPN networks have live and tape-delayed coverage of F1 practices, qualifying and races all season long. ESPN is again teaming with Sky Sports and Formula 1 to bring Sky Sports' award-winning presentation of Formula 1 racing to American viewers. Alpine are due to give new Formula 2 champion Oscar Piastri some track time, while both Ferrari and Haas will test another Formula 2 driver, Robert Shwartzman.
Mercedes welcomes Formula E champion Nyck de Vries, and Formula 2's Logan Sargeant makes his debut in a Williams. All teams will be obliged to run rookies in free practice sessions from 2022, so expect to see a lot more of them during grands prix weekends. You can expect to see a couple of Formula 2 drivers from Red Bull's long-running academy programme in action, including Juri Vips and Liam Lawson . McLaren will welcome IndyCar star Pato O'Ward, after he fulfilled a bet with team boss Zak Brown by winning his first race in the series earlier this year (he's spent some time in the simulator and been for a seat fitting already).
Sky Sports has aired Formula 1 live and without ad breaks in the UK since 2013, on a dedicated channel, and will continue to do so in 2022. Its grand prix weekend coverage also covers the FIA's feeder series, Formula 2 and Formula 3. Channel 4 has free-to-air Formula 1 qualifying and race highlights which usually start airing a few hours after the chequered flag has been waved. It also has live free-to-air coverage of the British grand prix every year, and is home of the all-women's W Series. Sky customers can add individual channels for just £18 per month or add the complete sports package to their deal for just £23 per month. Sky Sports customers can also live stream F1 races via the Sky Go app on a variety of devices.
If you are in the UK, you can watch every practice session, qualifying and race on Sky Sports F1. Highlights will be broadcast on Channel 4 on Saturday and Sunday evenings, with just one race – likely the British Grand Prix – shown live. The Briton leads Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas by five points after winning the last two races before the break. He is also the bookmakers favorite to triumph at Silverstone, where he has won a record six times, including 12 months ago. Presenter Rob Kamphues led the coverage from studio in Hilversum and joined by regular analysts Robert Doornbos, Tom Coronel, Tim Coronel and numerous guest analysts including Giedo van der Garde, Robin Frijns or Ho-Pin Tung. Main commentator is Jack Plooij on free practice and Olav Mol on qualifying and race.
2021 will be Ziggo's last season after nine years of broadcasting as their confirmed the loss of the broadcast licence. In Hungary, the commentator is Zoltán Szujó, who had been previously pit reporter between 2002 and 2012. The colour commentator is the former Seat Leon Eurocup Champion and the former chief-editor of F1 Racing Hungary, Gábor Wéber. The studio analysts are the two-time FIA European Truck Racing Championship champion, Norbert Kiss, the two-time WTCC Yokohama Driver's Trophy winner and WTCR champion, Norbert Michelisz, and the current TCR Europe, former WTCC driver, Dániel Nagy. The pit reporters are Róbert Bobák, Máté Ujvári and Ádám Szeleczki.
The translator of the after-quali and after-race interviews is Lőrinc Pattantyűs-Ábrahám. From 2019 Spanish Grand Prix, Szujó left/was fired from M4 Sport channel, he was replaced on the race by Máté Ujvári. From the Monaco Grand Prix, Wéber taking the role of main commentator, and Norbert Kiss and Norbert Michelisz will be the colour commentators . The pit reporters also will taking part in broadcasting of the practices. The first Hungarian commentators were Sándor Dávid and Jenő Knézy. At one time Andrew Frankl also participated in the broadcasts.
The most famous Hungarian commentator was László Palik, who commented the races between and 2010 , who had a unique commenting style with emotions in exciting situations, also with funny moments, mistakes, but also teased his colleague, Gyula Czollner. Their couple was the most famous and notorious in the history of Formula-1 Broadcasting in Hungary. Live broadcasts of Formula One Championship races on ORF are commentated by ORF's sport correspondent Ernst Hausleitner with aid from Alexander Wurz. Occasionally other co-commentators like Adrian Sutil or Christian Klien substituted for Wurz. In 2021, they share the broadcast with ServusTV with different commentators. Andrea Schlager presenting the coverage, while Andreas Gröbl joined by Nico Hülkenberg and Christian Klien in the commentary position.
On 4 October 2017, ESPN announced that it had acquired rights to Formula One under a multi-year deal beginning in 2018. ESPN had previously broadcast Formula One from 1984 to 1997. The majority of coverage will be carried by ESPN2, but two races will be carried on the main ESPN channel, and three races , as well as an afternoon encore of the Monaco Grand Prix , will be broadcast free-to-air on ABC.
Unlike the previous contract with NBC Sports, Formula One will retain over-the-top rights, ESPN will reportedly not pay a traditional rights fee, and it was originally announced that the broadcasts would rely primarily on the world feed. However, it was later announced that ESPN would utilize Sky Sports' coverage. In 2018, FOM launched an over-the-top streaming platform known as F1 TV, providing live commercial-free coverage of all races including access to all on-board cameras.
The service launched initially in Germany, France, the United States, Mexico, Belgium, Austria, Hungary and parts of Latin America. Another exciting element of the 2021 F1 season was the debut of Sprint Qualifying. The 100km races determined the starting grid for Sunday's grands prix and awarded championship points to the top three drivers. The other way to watch for free - especially if you want to watch races live - is to use a VPN and stream them from broadcasters in other countries that show races on free-to-air channels.
Formula 1 Race Schedule 2020 Mexico's favorite racing son is back, this time with a chance to win his home race at the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday, while his Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen and Mercedes' Lewis Hamiltonbattle for the season championship. In all, there are 23 scheduled races into the 2021 F1 season, with the Portuguese Grand Prix sliding across the leaderboard in the first week of March. The originally scheduled Vietnam Grand Prix was scrapped after the arrest Nguyen Duc Chung, while the Chinese Grand Prix was in progress. It was originally scheduled for April 11 but most likely won't happen this season. In the event of one of these relatively unlikely outcomes leading to a tie on points, the driver who has claimed the most wins of the season would take the title. This season, Max has won nine grands prix while Lewis has won eight, which would therefore make Max the drivers' champion if they were tied on points.
In the event two drivers had the same number of points and grand prix victories, the countback continues through the highest number of second places, highest number of third places and so on. The 2020 F1 calendar was inevitably impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, but nevertheless featured 17 Grands Prix across little more than six months. It was a season dominated by Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes, the former matching Michael Schumacher's record seven drivers' titles, the latter taking a record seventh consecutive championship double. Max Verstappen's star continued to rise – he won twice for Red Bull and was on the podium at every race he finished bar one – and there were maiden victories for AlphaTauri's Pierre Gasly and Racing Point's Sergio Perez. Formula 1 offers a unique viewing experience, whether streaming the action live to your mobile phone, watching at home on a large screen.
To make sure you know when the next race gets underway, we have put together this year's entire calendar here. Channel Ten will continue to show highlights of all ten rounds of the 2021 FIA Formula One World Championship on free to air TV. Ten will show one-hour highlights on the Monday night after the event. Live F1 season races are exclusive to Fox Sports (Foxtel/Kayo), with the exception of the Australian GP, which normally airs live on Ten but has been cancelled for 2021.
Here you can find out the next F1 qualifying time as well as practice sessions and the race itself. Watch the F1 schedule below live and direct from Abu Dhabi in HD. Coverage of the British Grand Prix is also covered live by Channel 4.
Channel 4 also produces a highlights show for each race with an exclusive set of commentators. Play-by-play is handled by Alex Jacques, while ex-F1 driver David Coulthard acts as the analyst. Ben Edwards and Mark Webber occasionally cover for both Jacques and Coulthard respectively.
Lawrence Barretto and Lee McKenzie serve as the main relief presenters and reporters. Eddie Jordan, Mark Webber, and Billy Monger also contribute as analysts. In Mexico and Latin America, The races are called by Argentine motorsports journalist Fernando Tornello, with Mexican motorsports journalist Luis Manuel "Chacho" López as analysts and Juan Fossaroli handling the pit reports and pre-race interviews. This coverage is airing on Fox Sports Latin America , ESPN Latin America, Fox Sports Chile, STAR Premium Latin America, and also available on ESPN Deportes in the US. Pit reports are provided by Spanish sports journalist Nira Juanco, who previously worked on Antena 3's F1 broadcasts, and has been with Canal F1 since its launch in 2015.