F1 Shanghai, race hub: all the useful links
To best follow the live broadcast of free practice 1 of the Chinese F1 GP, here are all the useful links from the race weekend in Shanghai, second round of the 2026 World Championship:
F1, the live commentary of the FP1 of the Chinese GP
Live coverage of free practice 1 of the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix will begin at 4.15am on Friday 13 March
F1 GP China, free practice 1 live
Goodnight to all of you, dear readers of . We are live to tell you about them free practice 1 of the weekend of Chinese F1 GPwhich will start at 4.30 am Italian time and end at 5.30 am. It will be a decisive first session for the rest of the weekend, given that this weekend is also the first with the Sprint Race format, and therefore at 8.30 in the morning we will tell you not about FP2 but the first of the two qualifying sessions scheduled on the Shanghai track.
So there is no shortage of important themes already in this session, with the teams looking for the right balance of set-up and charging settings, because immediately afterwards we will start to get really serious. Maximum attention obviously on Mercedes which dominated the opening weekend but also on the Ferrariwhich goes on the attack with the debut on the track of the much discussed new so-called mobile rear wingMacarena“. Will it be useful to shorten the gap from the pacesetters? Let’s find out together by following and commenting live on the news of free practice 1 on F1 Chinese GP 2026.
