Blog · fact-checked 2026-10-28
F1 TV Pro by country: where it's sold and which VPNs have servers there
F1 TV Pro follows each year's TV deals, so the right country changes. What F1 itself confirms for 2026, where reports disagree, and which VPNs have servers in each country fans try.
Published 2026-10-28 · 5 min read · every claim links to its source
F1 TV Pro is Formula 1’s own stream: every session live, onboard cameras for all 22 drivers, replays and the archive. It is also the most-searched sports question that lands on this site, and nearly every version of it is the same question: which country do I connect through? The honest answer is shorter than the guides make it, and it has a date on it.
Short version
- F1 says Pro is “available in selected countries”. The list follows each year’s TV rights deals, so it changes.
- In the United States, F1 TV Premium is now sold only through Apple TV and is included with an Apple TV subscription, according to F1’s own announcement of March 5, 2026.
- Pro is not sold in the UK, where Sky holds the live rights, and is widely reported as closed to new subscribers in Germany for the same reason.
- The countries fans most often try (the Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria) are not confirmed by anything F1 publishes in a form we could read. Reports disagree on the Netherlands for 2026.
- So the only reliable check is F1’s own location tool, opened while connected to the country you want to use, before you pay.
Why the answer keeps changing
F1 sells Pro directly only where it hasn’t sold exclusive live rights to a broadcaster. When a broadcaster buys exclusivity, Pro either disappears from that country or drops to a highlights-only tier. That’s why the UK has never had Pro, why the US moved to Apple TV for 2026, and why a country that worked last season may not work this one. In Japan, for example, F1 signed a long-term exclusive deal with Fuji TV. Any guide that gives you one fixed “best country” without a date is guessing.
Which VPNs have servers in the countries people ask about
This is the part we can answer with data. The table reads each provider’s own server list, so it updates when they add or drop a country.
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Server presence from each provider’s own public list, fetched 2026-10-28. Units differ by provider; see each provider’s server list for cities.
Every one of the eight has servers in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria and Belgium, so the provider rarely decides whether F1 TV Pro works. What decides it is whether F1 sells Pro in that country this year, and whether its servers there are on IP ranges F1 hasn’t flagged. Our F1 TV page keeps the picks and the full server table current.
The catches the guides skip
- Your account is tied to where you subscribed. Reviewers report that the plan you see follows the country you signed up and paid from, so connecting somewhere new later may not change what you can watch.
- It may break the terms. Using a VPN to reach a plan sold for another country is generally against streaming terms of service. People do it; we’d rather you know.
- Test before race weekend. Datacenter IP ranges get flagged without warning. Check on a Thursday, not ten minutes before lights out.
- In the US, you may not need a VPN at home. Apple TV carries every session, and F1 says some races and all practice sessions are free to watch in the Apple TV app this season.
Sources link inline. F1’s own statements are given as fact; secondary reports are labelled as reports. If F1 confirms a country we’ve marked unconfirmed, tell us and the table changes with a new date.