If you want to watch F1 TV live anywhere, the simplest route is to use StreamLocator with your streaming location set to Canada, then sign up for F1 TV Pro in the F1 TV app or on the website to watch every race session live from wherever you are. For Formula 1 fans in countries where F1 TV Pro is unavailable, blocked, or simply priced too high, Canada is about $8 a month, which is one of the cheapest region we have found.
This guide breaks down where F1 TV Pro is and is not available in 2026, how prices vary by country, how to sign up from outside supported regions, which payment methods work, the Austria option for watching for free, and how the main viewing routes compare so you can pick the cheapest reliable way to follow the full season.
That is it. F1 TV offers live streaming of every race session, so you can watch live with every onboard camera, live timing, and the full archive by getting around local geo-blocks from wherever you are.
Formula 1 sells its broadcast rights market by market, and F1 TV Pro is held back in countries where a local broadcaster holds an exclusive deal. That is why the service is missing entirely in some places and priced very differently in others.
United States. Apple TV holds exclusive United States rights from 2026 on a five-year deal. Every practice, qualifying session and race streams there, and F1 TV Premium is included with an Apple TV subscription at $12.99 a month. Standalone F1 TV Pro was withdrawn: annual plans stopped selling on 17 October 2025, annual renewals ended on 17 November 2025, and monthly subscriptions ended on 8 December 2025. If you are in the United States, Apple TV is your route and you already have access to it. The reason to read on is if you would rather not pay for a general Apple TV subscription purely to watch Formula 1, in which case F1 TV Pro through Canada is the cheaper option.
United Kingdom. Sky Sports F1 holds the rights, available through a Sky contract or through NOW without one. Neither carries the F1 TV feature set.
Austria. The season is free to air, split between ServusTV and ORF ON, in German.
Everywhere else. If F1 TV Pro is not offered where you live, or the local price is high, Canada and the Netherlands are the two locations StreamLocator supports for F1 TV.
F1 TV Pro is closer to a broadcast truck than to a television channel. Alongside the main world feed you get:
F1 TV Premium sits above it and adds 4K UHD and HDR live coverage, multi view so you can keep an onboard feed or the timing screen open beside the race, and streaming on up to 6 devices simultaneously on supported hardware. It is worth having on a large screen, but Pro is the tier that matters for watching every session live with ad-free viewing of all sessions, and it is the one this guide prices.
StreamLocator supports both. Canada is the cheaper place to create a new F1 TV subscription, at about $8 a month, though creating a new F1 TV account there typically requires a local payment method. The Netherlands sells F1 TV Pro at €11.90 a month, roughly $14, and new Dutch subscriptions are monthly only, with the €94.99 annual price available to existing subscribers renewing.
Your subscription is not locked to the country you created it in. An F1 TV account created through Canada can be used through the Netherlands location and the other way round, which is useful if you travel or if one location is behaving better on a given weekend. For further details on the Dutch route, visit our guide to F1 TV Netherlands.
For a new subscription, pick Canada.
Once it is set up it stays set up, so on a race weekend you just open the app.
F1 TV does not accept local cards on this route, so the practical way to subscribe is through the app store: create a Canadian Apple ID, top it up with Canadian Apple gift cards, and buy the subscription inside the F1 TV app. Set your streaming location to Canada before you start.
F1 TV and StreamLocator are two separate subscriptions. Formula 1 charges you for the races, StreamLocator charges you for the access that reaches the country where Pro is sold, and the same StreamLocator subscription works with other streaming services.
Worth knowing before you pay for anything: the whole 24-race calendar is free to air in Austria, split evenly between two broadcasters. ServusTV shows 12 races and ORF ON shows the other 12, and both need nothing more than a free account. With StreamLocator set to Austria you can watch either from anywhere.
The trade-off is real, though. Commentary is German only, and neither service carries the onboard cameras, live timing, Formula 2 or Formula 3 that make F1 TV Pro worth paying for. If you speak German and want the races and nothing more, this is the cheapest legitimate way to follow the season.
Here is the full landscape on one screen, each route priced on its own cheapest committed plan.
The sections above work through the recommended route in detail. If your situation is closer to one of the others, follow the link in that row.
Formula 1 is one of the few sports where the streaming service is genuinely better than the broadcast: it lets you watch every session race live with driver data, any driver's onboard camera, team radio and live timing, all on one screen. The only reason most people do not have it is that Formula 1 does not sell it where they live, or sells it at a price that is hard to justify.
Start your free 7-day trial, set your location to Canada, and watch the season from anywhere.
Yes. F1 TV Pro is only offered in some countries because Formula 1 sells its rights market by market. With StreamLocator set to Canada or the Netherlands, F1 TV sees a connection from a country where Pro is sold, so you can subscribe and watch from anywhere.
About $8 a month, which is the cheapest F1 TV Pro region we have found. F1 TV does not accept local cards on this route, so the practical way to subscribe is with a Canadian Apple ID topped up with Apple gift cards.
Not as a standalone subscription. Apple TV holds exclusive United States rights to Formula 1 from 2026 on a five-year deal, and F1 TV Premium is included with an Apple TV subscription at $12.99 a month. Standalone F1 TV Pro was withdrawn in the US: annual plans stopped selling on 17 October 2025, annual renewals ended on 17 November 2025 and monthly subscriptions on 8 December 2025.
Access covers live timing, telemetry, replays, highlights and the F1 archive, but not live races. Pro adds live streaming of every Formula 1, Formula 2, Formula 3 and Porsche Supercup session, driver onboard cameras, team radio and ad-free viewing. Premium adds 4K HDR, Multiview and more simultaneous streams on supported devices. Which tiers are offered varies by country.
No. They are two separate subscriptions. Formula 1 charges you for F1 TV, and StreamLocator charges you for the access that lets you reach a country where F1 TV Pro is sold. The same StreamLocator subscription works with other streaming services too.
Yes, in German. ServusTV and ORF ON in Austria carry the season between them, 12 races each across the 24-race calendar, at no cost beyond a free account. With StreamLocator set to Austria you can watch both from anywhere. The commentary is German only, and neither service carries onboard cameras, live timing, Formula 2 or Formula 3.
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