Las Vegas Grand Prix Weekend Streams Free on Apple TV for US Viewers

The most expensive seat in American racing next weekend is free. Every session of the Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend — all three practices, qualifying and the Saturday night race — streams on Apple TV in the United States without a subscription, running from Thursday, November 19 through the 50-lap race on Saturday, November 21.

The schedule runs on Las Vegas time. First practice opens Thursday at 4:30 p.m. Pacific, second practice follows at 8 p.m., and Friday repeats the pattern with third practice at 4:30 p.m. and qualifying under the lights at 8 p.m. The race itself starts Saturday at 8 p.m. Pacific — 11 p.m. on the East Coast — over 50 laps of the 6.201-kilometer Strip Circuit.

There's one trap for the casual viewer, and it's a small one. Apple's standard event listings can still show a subscription trial offer, but the dedicated Las Vegas collection in the app carries the weekend as a free promotion. Start from the collection, not from a generic listing, and the trial prompt is a page you took a wrong turn onto — not the price of entry.

Free doesn't mean everything. Premium camera feeds and Multiview may still sit behind a subscription, so the five sessions come free in their standard form while the extra angles stay a paid product. The offer is also a United States promotion — nothing in the announcement extends the same free weekend to viewers in other countries.

The context is Apple's first season as Formula 1's exclusive U.S. broadcast partner, at the start of a five-year deal that replaced ESPN and runs through 2030. The agreement lets Apple open selected race weekends to non-subscribers, and the Austrian Grand Prix in June was the first full weekend offered free. Las Vegas is the second — and it's the one staged in American prime time, on a Saturday night, in front of the Strip.

The timing isn't an accident. Las Vegas opens a season-ending triple-header — Lusail follows on November 27–29 and Yas Marina closes the year on December 4–6 — and second place in the drivers' championship is still live, with Max Verstappen leading a five-way fight behind champion Kimi Antonelli. A free window on the one U.S. night race, with an unsettled standings fight attached, is the biggest sampling opportunity the sport gets all year.

Access is broad. The Apple TV app runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Android and Windows devices, game consoles and in a web browser at tv.apple.com, so the free weekend doesn't require owning Apple hardware — it requires opening the right page in the app before Thursday's first session.

What Apple is buying with the giveaway is obvious: a night race in its home market, at a friendly hour, with the championship's supporting fight still undecided. What viewers get is simpler. Five sessions, three nights, no card required — as long as they enter through the Las Vegas collection and don't mistake the trial prompt on a different listing for the deal.

To actually watch, the route is short. Open the Apple TV app, go to the Formula 1 hub and enter through the Las Vegas collection rather than a standard event page, and the five sessions play without a subscription or a trial sign-up. The same collection is the one Apple's own guide points to — the distinction between the free collection and a trial prompt on another listing is the single detail the whole offer turns on.

Las Vegas isn't the only free element of the deal, either. Under the agreement as reported when the weekend was announced, every practice session across the season is available free, and Apple can open selected full race weekends to non-subscribers — Austria in June was the first, and Las Vegas is the highest-profile one, staged in U.S. prime time on a Saturday night. What stays paid is the full season: every race, on demand, plus the premium feeds.

The free window closes as fast as it opens. Las Vegas is a named promotion, not a standing rule for the races that follow — Lusail and Abu Dhabi return to the subscription model, which is the point of the exercise from Apple's side: three free nights in November as the shop window for the two paid weekends that finish the season, and for the four seasons of the deal still to run.