How to Watch the Singapore Grand Prix in Australia

How to Watch the Singapore Grand Prix in Australia - News Summary

• No free-to-air coverage, Network 10 only has the Australian GP
• Marina Bay hosts its first ever Sprint, Saturday 8:00pm AEDT
• Qualifying ticks past midnight on the east coast
• Antonelli leads Russell by 84 points, so the title can't be won this weekend

Lights out for the Singapore Grand Prix is 11:00pm AEDT on Sunday, October 11, and the only place to watch it live in Australia is Fox Sports, either through Kayo Sports or a Foxtel subscription.

That covers the whole weekend, including the first Sprint ever held at Marina Bay. Brisbane gets the race at 10:00pm and Perth at 8:00pm.

Daylight saving started on the east coast the weekend before, so any guide still quoting a 10:00pm start for Sydney or Melbourne is an hour out.

Round 17 comes a week after the mess at Sepang, where the relocated Bahrain Grand Prix saw Max Verstappen finally win a race in 2026 and George Russell's power unit give up five laps from the end.

Kimi Antonelli left Malaysia 84 points clear with seven rounds to go, and Singapore is the last weekend of the year with Sprint points on offer.

Singapore Grand Prix 2026: The Details

• Event: Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix 2026, round 17
• Circuit: Marina Bay Street Circuit, 4.927km, 62 laps
• Format: Sprint weekend, the sixth and final one of the season and the first in Singapore
• Race date: Sunday, October 11, 2026
• Lights out: 8:00pm local time, which is 11:00pm AEDT
• Qualifying: Saturday, October 10, 9:00pm local time, which is midnight AEDT
• Broadcast in Australia: Fox Sports, via Kayo Sports and Foxtel, live and ad-break free during racing
• Free-to-air: none

Singapore is one of the longer races on the calendar.

There is a two-hour cap, and recent editions have run for around an hour and 40 minutes, so east coast viewers should expect the chequered flag at about 12:45am Monday.

Plan the Monday morning accordingly.

The F1 2026 calendar has every remaining round if you want to see what the rest of the run home looks like.

How to Watch the Singapore GP in Australia

Fox Sports has held the Australian F1 rights since 2015 and signed a fresh multi-year extension with Formula 1 in March 2026, right before the season opener in Melbourne.

Every practice, qualifying session, Sprint and Grand Prix is live, and Fox simulcasts the Sky Sports F1 coverage with no ad breaks while the cars are on track.

There are two ways in.

Kayo Sports

Kayo is the easiest option for most punters. It streams the full Fox Sports F1 coverage to phones, tablets, smart TVs, gaming consoles and the web, and every session is available on demand afterwards if midnight qualifying is a bridge too far.

Kayo runs a Standard plan and a Premium plan.

Standard covers one screen in Full HD, while Premium adds a second simultaneous stream and 4K, which is the one to have if you want Marina Bay under lights on a big telly.

Pricing changes from time to time, so check Kayo directly for the current monthly rate.

Foxtel and Foxtel Now

Foxtel subscribers need the Sports pack to get Fox Sports, either on a set-top box or through the Foxtel Go app. Foxtel Now, the streaming version, needs the sports add-on as well. Same coverage as Kayo, just a different front door.

No Free-to-Air Coverage

Network 10 holds free-to-air rights to the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne and nothing else, because that race sits on the anti-siphoning list. Singapore, like every other round, is pay TV only in Australia.

Singapore Grand Prix Session Times in Australia

The good news for anyone east of Perth is that Singapore is the friendliest race of the second half of the season. Most sessions land in the evening rather than the small hours.

Here is the full weekend, converted by state.

Practice 1, Friday 9 October

• Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart: 7:30pm AEDT
• Brisbane: 6:30pm AEST
• Adelaide: 7:00pm ACDT
• Darwin: 6:00pm ACST
• Perth: 4:30pm AWST

Sprint Qualifying, Friday 9 October

• Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart: 11:30pm AEDT
• Brisbane: 10:30pm AEST
• Adelaide: 11:00pm ACDT
• Darwin: 10:00pm ACST
• Perth: 8:30pm AWST

Sprint, Saturday 10 October

• Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart: 8:00pm AEDT
• Brisbane: 7:00pm AEST
• Adelaide: 7:30pm ACDT
• Darwin: 6:30pm ACST
• Perth: 5:00pm AWST

Qualifying, Saturday 10 October

• Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart: 12:00am AEDT, Sunday 11 October
• Brisbane: 11:00pm AEST, Saturday
• Adelaide: 11:30pm ACDT, Saturday
• Darwin: 10:30pm ACST, Saturday
• Perth: 9:00pm AWST, Saturday

Grand Prix, Sunday 11 October

• Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart: 11:00pm AEDT
• Brisbane: 10:00pm AEST
• Adelaide: 10:30pm ACDT
• Darwin: 9:30pm ACST
• Perth: 8:00pm AWST

If you only catch one session live outside the race, make it Saturday's Sprint. It starts at 8:00pm on the east coast, it carries points, and it is the first time anyone has raced a Sprint around these streets.

Qualifying is the awkward one. It ticks over into Sunday in Sydney and Melbourne, which catches people out every year.

How the Sprint Weekend Changes Singapore

Teams get a single one-hour practice session on Friday afternoon before Sprint Qualifying that same night.

That is not much running at a bumpy, walled-in street circuit where most drivers spend the first session finding the limit by brushing the barriers, so expect a scrappy Friday and a few teams arriving at Sprint Qualifying with a car they are still guessing about.

The Sprint runs over roughly 100km on Saturday evening with no mandatory pit stop, and the top eight score points on a sliding scale from eight down to one. Grand Prix qualifying follows later that night and sets the grid for Sunday.

The two are completely separate, so a bad Sprint has no effect on where a driver starts the main race.

Overtaking at Marina Bay is hard work, which makes Saturday night qualifying the session that decides most of Sunday. The pole here is worth more than at almost any other track on the calendar.

What's at Stake in Singapore

Antonelli leads on 320 points, Russell sits second on 236 and Lewis Hamilton is third on 214 after his recovery drive to the podium at Sepang. Charles Leclerc is fourth, with Verstappen and Lando Norris level on 188.

The title cannot be decided this weekend. Singapore is worth a maximum of 33 points to any one driver, Sprint and Grand Prix combined, and there are still 150 Grand Prix points on the table across the six rounds that follow.

Even a perfect weekend for Antonelli with Russell scoring nothing leaves the gap short of what is needed. Realistically, though, another strong result here and Russell will need something close to a miracle from the American swing onwards.

Russell won this race last year, which gives him a reason to fancy Marina Bay. The reliability question is the problem. Toto Wolff admitted after Malaysia that Mercedes were not reliable enough, and it was the team's fourth reliability DNF of the season.

Verstappen is the man with momentum. Red Bull were quick all weekend in Malaysia, he won from pole, and Singapore is one of the very few tracks where he has never won a Grand Prix, which tells you something about how tricky it is.

The Australian Angle

Oscar Piastri arrives seventh on 128 points and is now mathematically out of title contention, which is a tough place to be one year after leading the championship for most of 2025.

He finished sixth at Sepang, where McLaren were short on pace, and Norris was ninth after a trip through the gravel.

Marina Bay has been decent to him before. Piastri finished third here in 2024, and a street circuit that rewards precision over raw straight-line speed gives McLaren more of a chance than Sepang did. 

A podium would be a genuine result for him at this stage of the year.

Betting on the Singapore Grand Prix

The Sprint adds a second race to bet on across the weekend, with its own winner and podium markets settling on Saturday night, a full day before the Grand Prix. If you want to look beyond this round, there are more motor racing markets to explore too.

For the Grand Prix itself, Verstappen comes in off the back of his first win of the season and the market has taken notice, while Antonelli remains the driver most punters will have in mind given how consistent he has been all year.

Russell is the defending Singapore winner, but recent reliability problems make him harder to trust.

The tyre and pit-stop calls that decide races like this one are covered in our F1 strategy guide.

Marina Bay had a safety car in every race until 2024, although the last two have run clean. It only takes one brush with the wall to scramble a race that looked settled after qualifying. Keep that in mind before having a punt on anything that depends on a clean run.

For the latest Singapore Grand Prix odds and markets, check out our dedicated odds page here at Sportsbet. If you are new to F1 markets, our guide on how to bet on Formula 1 covers win, each-way and head-to-head bets.