Find out how to watch 2024 F1 pre-season testing within the USA

F1 automobiles will quickly be again on monitor with pre-season testing at Bahrain Worldwide Circuit on the 21-23 February. 

That’s only a week earlier than the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on the 29 February-2 March, so preparations are firmly underway for the upcoming marketing campaign. 

Latest weeks have seen pleasure construct for the 2024 season with groups unveiling their livery for the yr forward, amid varied different information like Lewis Hamilton’s shock transfer to Ferrari for 2025. 

It means the seven-time world champion has only one season left with Mercedes, who will look to shut the hole on Pink Bull. 

Pink Bull heads into 2024 after a very dominant season the place it gained 21 of twenty-two grands prix in 2023 with triple world champion Max Verstappen claiming a record-breaking 19 victories. 

So, will it change into clear in pre-season testing that Pink Bull and Verstappen are as soon as once more the team-driver pairing to beat, or will there be a shock package deal? 

Max Verstappen, Pink Bull Racing RB20

Photograph by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Pictures

When is F1 pre-season testing? 

• Date: 21-23 February
• Begin time: 2am Japanese Time/10am native time on Wednesday 21 February

F1 pre-season testing in Bahrain begins at 2am ET and 10am native time on Wednesday 21 February 2024 to kickstart three days of operating.

Every day of F1 pre-season testing will begin on the identical time with the morning classes lasting 4 hours, earlier than operating will get going once more after lunch in Bahrain at 7am ET and 3pm native time. 

How can I watch F1 pre-season testing within the USA? 

UPDATE: American viewers can watch pre-season testing through F1TV and its US TV companion ESPN.

F1TV and ESPN’s Plus streaming platform will begin protection on Wednesday morning nevertheless it is not going to be one steady reside programme attributable to a lunch break every day.

F1TV is a reside streaming service which can be utilized on as much as six separate gadgets directly together with the web, its app or a sensible tv. ESPN+ can also be a subscription reside and on-demand streaming service.

The motion from Bahrain can be adopted through Motorsport.com, who shall be operating reside textual content commentary. 

F1TV & ESPN+ occasions for pre-season F1 testing

When can I watch F1 pre-season testing highlights? 

Components 1 pre-season testing highlights shall be obtainable through the official F1 YouTube channel the place, final yr, it uploaded a package deal of round 5 minutes quickly after every day had completed.

F1TV Professional subscribers may also have the ability to watch highlights through the streaming service. 

Who’s testing for every F1 group? 

F1 groups solely have one automobile on monitor for every session, in order that they often look to separate operating between its two drivers throughout pre-season testing, handing them 1.5 days every within the automobile. 

In 2023, for instance, Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz drove two morning classes and one afternoon whereas team-mate Charles Leclerc did the alternative. 

Different groups might go for one thing totally different. Final yr Pink Bull gave Max Verstappen all of day one and Sergio Perez all of day three, whereas they each break up duties on day two. 

Often a reserve driver would possibly get some operating as 2021 noticed Roy Nissany drive day one for Williams, whereas Felipe Drugovich partook for Aston Martin in 2023 attributable to Lance Stroll’s biking crash accidents – however events like this are uncommon. 

Official particulars of who shall be driving when on this yr’s F1 pre-season testing are but to be revealed, so keep tuned to Motorsport.com

A parachutist arrives with a US flag on the US GP

Photograph by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Pictures

How can I watch F1 races in 2024 within the USA? 

ESPN holds F1’s broadcasting rights within the USA and it’s contracted to indicate the sequence till a minimum of 2025 after first airing the championship in 2018.

ESPN broadcasts Sky Sports activities’ protection, which is produced within the UK, to its American viewers throughout its channels together with community ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU and ESPN Deportes (Spanish language).

How can I stream F1 races in 2024 within the USA? 

When you don’t have ESPN included in a cable package deal, a subscription is required to look at F1 race weekends in America.

F1 protection is on the market to reside stream by means of ESPN, so the sequence will be watched on both a laptop computer, cellphone or pill gadget. Its devoted streaming app ESPN+ is on the market for $10.99 per thirty days or $109.99 a yr for brand new prospects.

However widely-used digital platforms corresponding to Fubo TV, Hulu + Stay TV, Sling TV and YouTube TV may also provide ESPN’s protection.

F1TV additionally holds the rights to reside broadcast the sequence in America – plus a number of different nations however not the UK – with the platform obtainable yearly for $80 or month-to-month for $9.99.

An F1TV Professional subscription provides followers the possibility to look at every session throughout a grand prix weekend reside, in addition to full race replays, reside timing options, historic documentaries and extra.