United States GP 2026

Round 18 of 23 runs at Circuit of the Americas, Austin, USA, with the race on Sun 25 Oct at 22:00 EET Finnish time. This is a conventional weekend: three practice sessions, qualifying on Saturday, one race. Every session below is given in Finnish time first, with the circuit's own clock beside it.

This is round 18 of 23 on the 2026 Formula 1 calendar, a conventional weekend, with 5 Grand Prixs after it. 6 of the 23 rounds use the sprint format. The full F1 calendar lists every one in Finnish time and the fantasy guide explains how this weekend scores.

United States GP F1 Session Times In Finnish Time

All 5 sessions, converted with the Europe/Helsinki zone rather than a fixed offset — which matters this season because six rounds fall in EET and round 18 straddles the October changeover. The right-hand column is the circuit's own local clock.

How To Watch The United States GP In Finland

Every session of the 2026 Formula 1 season is on Viaplay in Finland, including practice. That is the only Finnish Formula 1 rights-holder, so there is no free-to-air alternative for this Grand Prix. The weekend opens with Practice 1 at 20:30 EEST on Fri and closes with Race at 22:00 on Sun — the countdown at the top of this page tracks whichever comes next.

Our Formula 1 desk covers the weekend as it happens, and the F2 and F3 desk covers the support races that share the bill at most Grand Prix weekends.

If you are reading from outside Finland, the countdown adds your own local clock beside the Finnish time rather than replacing it. Every other F1 round is listed the same way on the 2026 Formula 1 calendar, and the F1 results archive carries each Grand Prix once it has run.

The Circuit: Circuit of the Americas

The United States GP is held at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, USA, at 30.1328, -97.6411. The reference record for this circuit, including its full history of Formula 1 rounds, is the circuit's own entry.

Track knowledge is why an F1 Grand Prix page is worth keeping separate from a season page: a Formula 1 lap at Circuit of the Americas is not an F1 lap anywhere else, and the pit lane, the grid slot that matters and the corner that decides this Grand Prix are specific to Austin.

The most recent championship round here went 56 laps, which is the distance to plan a viewing around.

Worth noting: 2026 runs 3 rounds in USA — this one and Miami GP, Las Vegas GP. They are different circuits, so form at one does not transfer to the other, and the two have separate pages here for exactly that reason.

What This Grand Prix Means For The F1 Championship

Round 18 has not run yet, so there is no post-race table to show. The standings going into it, and every completed round this season, are in the results archive; the full calendar has the rest of the season in Finnish time.

The Standings Going Into Round 18

Where the championship actually stands as this round approaches, after 11 rounds: Andrea Kimi Antonelli on 219 points, 50 clear of Lewis Hamilton. Those are the numbers this weekend will move.

Constructors Going Into This Round

Mercedes lead the teams' table on 379 points with 8 wins, from Ferrari on 307. The teams' order is the better read on whether a car is actually improving, because it averages out one driver having a bad afternoon.

Form: What Happened At Round 11

The most recent race before this one was the Hungarian GP, where Lando Norris won for McLaren from grid slot 1. The top five there is the most current read on the order.

F1 Points Still Mathematically Available

Counting this round, 6 rounds remain, 0 of them sprint weekends. That is 150 points still on the table for a driver who wins everything — 6 race wins at 25 plus 0 sprint wins at 8.

Against a 50-point lead at the top, that means the championship is still arithmetically open to everyone within 150 points of Andrea Kimi Antonelli — which on the current table is 7 of the ten drivers listed above.

The Finnish Angle On This F1 Grand Prix

Valtteri Bottas is the only Finn on the 2026 grid, in his first season with Cadillac after a year out. Whether the seat survives 2027 is the open question, and this round is another data point on it.

Away from Formula 1 the Finnish contingent is larger: 6 Finns are in the World Rally Championship, where Sami Pajari is 2th on 171 points for Toyota GR WRT2. The driver pages track all of them round by round, and the junior ladder is where the next ones come from.

Next Sessions Across The Season

Previous And Next F1 Round

• Round 17: Singapore GPThe round before this one, with its result and standings.
• Round 19: Mexico City GPWhat follows, with session times already in Finnish time.
• The full 2026 calendarAll 23 rounds and 115 sessions, downloadable as a calendar file.
• 2026 results archiveEvery completed round and the current championship table.

This page is currently showing the schedule and the championship going in. It is rebuilt as the F1 weekend progresses rather than replaced by a separate report, so this one address carries the preview beforehand and the result afterwards.

Session times are converted to Europe/Helsinki from the RacingNews365 match centre; the classification, championship positions, sprint result and previous runnings are the official record via the Jolpica Ergast mirror. Both sources agree round for round on the 2026 calendar. Checked 26 August 2026.