When is the next F1 race? Race times in Australia and how to watch

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The next Formula 1 race is the São Paulo Grand Prix at Interlagos this weekend, 6-8 November. In Australia it is a middle-of-the-night race: the Grand Prix starts at 2pm in Brazil on Sunday, which is 4am on Monday 9 November in Sydney and Melbourne (AEDT). Qualifying is at 5am on Sunday morning. Kimi Antonelli has already clinched the drivers' title, and Mercedes could seal the constructors' title in Brazil, according to Al Jazeera.

Every session is live on Kayo and on the Fox Sports channels on Foxtel. The broadcast announcements name the Australian Grand Prix as the only free-to-air race, so São Paulo is subscription only.

São Paulo Grand Prix start time in Australia

The race is on Sunday 8 November in Brazil, at 2pm local time (Brazil is on UTC-3 all year). These are the start times in every Australian state and territory.

São Paulo weekend schedule in Australian time

F1 publishes the weekend in São Paulo time. We converted each session to AEDT (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart) by adding 14 hours. Brisbane is 13 hours ahead of São Paulo, Adelaide 13.5 hours, Darwin 12.5 hours and Perth 11 hours, so take an hour or more off the AEDT times for those cities.

Session	Brazil (local)	Sydney and Melbourne (AEDT)
Practice 1	Friday 6 Nov, 12:30pm to 1:30pm	Saturday 7 Nov, 2:30am to 3:30am
Practice 2	Friday 6 Nov, 4pm to 5pm	Saturday 7 Nov, 6am to 7am
Practice 3	Saturday 7 Nov, 11:30am to 12:30pm	Sunday 8 Nov, 1:30am to 2:30am
Qualifying	Saturday 7 Nov, 3pm to 4pm	Sunday 8 Nov, 5am to 6am
Grand Prix (71 laps or two hours)	Sunday 8 Nov, 2pm	Monday 9 Nov, 4am

There is no Sprint in São Paulo this year. The "Sprint" sessions on the timetable belong to the Porsche Sprint Challenge Brazil support series. Fox Sports 506 carried every session of the Australian Grand Prix in March, but the channel number can change from one weekend to the next, so check Foxtel's guide on the day. Everything is also on Kayo.

What is at stake in Brazil

Antonelli has 380 points, 119 ahead of Max Verstappen, after winning the title in Mexico City on 1 November. Mercedes lead Ferrari by 126 points, 630 to 504, and Al Jazeera reported that they could clinch the constructors' championship this weekend. Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc are third and fifth in the drivers' standings, with George Russell fourth. The full season picture, winners and calendar are in our F1 season guide.

The last three races of 2026

Weekend	Grand Prix	Race day (local)	Gap to Sydney (AEDT)
19-21 November	Las Vegas	Saturday 21 November	Sydney is 19 hours ahead
27-29 November	Qatar	Sunday 29 November	Sydney is 8 hours ahead
4-6 December	Abu Dhabi	Sunday 6 December	Sydney is 7 hours ahead

Add the gap to the local start time to get the time in Sydney or Melbourne. Las Vegas is a Saturday race in Nevada, so it is Sunday in Australia. We have not listed the Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi start times because the ones we found did not state their time zone; we will add them when F1 publishes a timetable we can check.

How to watch F1 live

Kayo shows every practice, qualifying session and race live, and Foxtel Group says racing is ad-break free. The same coverage is on Foxtel's Fox Sports channels, and Foxtel Group says Foxtel subscribers can watch everything on Kayo as well. The Australian Grand Prix, which Network 10 shows free, is not until 2-4 April 2027.

If you would rather sleep, Kayo's F1 Minis are the short replays of each session. The set-up steps, plans and devices are in our guide to streaming F1 on Kayo.

What comes after São Paulo

The 2027 season starts in Bahrain on 12-14 March, followed by Saudi Arabia on 19-21 March and the Australian Grand Prix, a Sprint weekend for the first time, on 2-4 April. The full 24-round calendar is in the F1 season guide. While you wait, our other motorsport guides cover V8 Supercars, where the Sandown 500 is on this weekend, and MotoGP, where the title could be decided in Qatar.

What changed on this page

This page used to carry the 2025 calendar. It now covers the current weekend and the last races of 2026, and the São Paulo times come from the Formula 1 timetable published on formula1.com. We rewrite it each race week.