{"id":22613,"date":"2025-04-15T17:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22613\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:58:10","slug":"how-to-watch-the-race-for-free-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22613\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch the race for FREE in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix is upon us this weekend, and for viewers based in the UK, here is a handy guide for how you are able to watch the race live.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It could be another thriller under the lights in Jeddah, but with paid and free-to-air options in the United Kingdom, here is a look at how to keep up with all the action on TV this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>How can I watch or live stream the Bahrain Grand Prix in the UK?<\/p>\n<p>Viewers in the UK can stream every F1 race live <a rel=\"noopener nofollow sponsored\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbfa8trk.com\/8LJN3\/7XDN2\/?uid=23\" target=\"_blank\">with a Sky Sports subscription<\/a> or a\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener nofollow sponsored\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbfa8trk.com\/8LJN3\/9B9DM\/\" target=\"_blank\">NOW Sports Month Membership<\/a>. With NOW TV, there is no contract in place and you can cancel any time!<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>Sky Sports F1<\/strong> carrying live coverage of every session throughout the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix weekend, here is a look at when broadcasts will begin in the UK, with when each session starts in brackets:<\/p>\n<p><b>Friday 18 April<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Free practice 1: 2pm [session starts at 2.30pm]<br \/>Free practice 2: 5.45pm [6pm start]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 19 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Free practice 3: 2.15pm [2.30pm start]<br \/>Qualifying: 5pm [6pm start]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 20 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Race: 4.30pm [6pm start]<\/p>\n<p>More key information for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix this weekend<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/saudi-arabian-grand-prix-start-times-schedule-how-to-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saudi Arabian Grand Prix: Start times, schedule and how to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/f1-2025-qualifying-head-to-head-team-mates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F1 2025: Head-to-head qualifying records between team-mates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How to watch the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix for free in the UK<\/p>\n<p>For free-to-air viewers, Channel 4 will be showing highlights of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix all weekend, which will be broadcast at the following times:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Qualifying:<\/strong> 9.30pm, Saturday 19 April<br \/><strong>Race:<\/strong> 10.30pm, Sunday 20 April<\/p>\n<p>But to follow the race live without a paywall, you can also follow every lap and get involved with our popular live race Watchalong with <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/@F1Word\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The F1 Word<\/a> on YouTube, powered by PlanetF1.com.<\/p>\n<p>How to listen to the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in the UK<\/p>\n<p>For radio listeners, <strong>BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra<\/strong> will be carrying a full live commentary of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix from 5.50pm BST.<\/p>\n<p>Read next:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/f1-schedule-next-race-calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F1 schedule: When is the next race and where is\u00a0it\u00a0being\u00a0held?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix is upon us this weekend, and for viewers based in the UK, here&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,225,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-22613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-home-page","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114343281480584398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}