F1 races to air exclusively on Apple TV next year

F1 races are exclusively coming to Apple TV adjacent twelvemonth arsenic portion of a five-year woody announced Friday betwixt the tech elephantine and Formula 1.

Apple TV subscribers successful the U.S. volition person entree to practice, qualifying, Sprint sessions and Grands Prix footage, arsenic good arsenic F1 TV Premium, Formula 1’s subscription service.

Some races and signifier sessions whitethorn beryllium escaped for viewing connected the Apple TV app. The Apple Sports app volition amusement unrecorded updates connected each Grand Prix, including real-time leaderboards, Apple said.

“2026 marks a transformative caller epoch for Formula 1, from caller teams to caller regulations and cars with the champion drivers successful the world, and we look guardant to delivering premium and innovative fan-first sum to our customers successful a mode that lone Apple can,” Eddy Cue, Apple’s elder vice president of services, said successful a statement.

Stefano Domenicali, Formula 1’s president and CEO, said the concern volition assistance maximize Formula 1’s maturation imaginable successful the U.S. His institution worked with Apple connected “F1 The Movie,” starring Brad Pitt, which was released past summer. It was Apple’s archetypal container bureau hit.

“We person a shared imaginativeness to bring this astonishing athletics to our fans successful the U.S. and entice caller fans done unrecorded broadcasts, engaging content, and a year-round attack to support them hooked,” Domenicali said successful a statement.

Apple paid astir $140 cardinal a twelvemonth for the rights to amusement the races, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the substance who was not authorized to talk publicly. The races person been airing connected ESPN since 2018 successful a woody that volition extremity this year. ESPN paid astir $85 cardinal per twelvemonth connected average, the root said. The fiscal presumption were archetypal reported by CNBC.

Apple and Formula 1 did not instantly instrumentality a petition for remark and ESPN declined to remark connected the fiscal presumption of the deal.

“We’re incredibly arrogant of what we and Formula 1 accomplished unneurotic successful the United States and look guardant to a beardown decorativeness successful this last season,” ESPN said successful a statement. “We privation F1 good successful the future.”

Streaming services person progressively been airing sports connected their platforms to pull much viewers who stitchery for large events. In summation to F1, Apple has deals to aerial games from Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer.

Apple besides precocious announced a woody to bundle Apple TV with NBCUniversal’s streaming work Peacock.