Motorsport — Where to Watch

Motorsport is not one sport with one rights deal, and that is the single most useful thing to know about it. Formula 1, MotoGP and NASCAR are three separate championships sold to three separate broadcasters, often in the same country. Below them sit rally, Formula E, endurance racing, IndyCar, touring cars and Superbikes, each negotiated on its own. There is no such thing as a motorsport subscription that covers the sport.

We cover the three biggest series on their own pages, because in each case the country-by-country picture is detailed enough to need it.

Formula 1 — the broadcasters by country, Apple TV’s US deal and F1 TV.
MotoGP — including the January 2027 change in Portugal.
NASCAR — the US position and the international rights.

What follows is everything else: the series that are large enough to have their own fans, and small enough that the rights rarely make headlines.

Series	Who carries it	Free option
World Rally Championship (WRC)	DAZN carries rally in several markets, including the UK and Czechia, usually under the Rally TV channel name. Sport TV holds it in Portugal, Sky Österreich in Austria, Oneplay in Czechia and MTV Katsomo in Finland.	ServusTV, a free-to-air Austrian channel, carries the WRC. Portugal’s Rally de Portugal is on the Portuguese listed-events list.
Formula E	Max, the Danish version of HBO Max, carries Formula E. SPOTV has it in South Korea, Vision+ in Indonesia, and blue Sport in Switzerland.	None confirmed.
Endurance (Le Mans)	Max in Denmark carries Le Mans among its sport add-on rights. This is the only confirmed broadcaster we could find for the endurance calendar.	None confirmed.
IndyCar	Sky Österreich carries IndyCar in Austria, and WOW lists it among the channels in its German sports package.	None confirmed.
Supercars	Kayo Sports, in Australia, as part of the same subscription as the AFL, the NRL and Formula 1.	None confirmed.
World Superbikes (WorldSBK)	From January 2027 WorldSBK moves to DAZN in Portugal, alongside MotoGP. SPOTV NOW carries it in Malaysia and Vision+ in Indonesia, and DAZN España includes it in its Motor plan.	None confirmed.
Rallycross, DTM, speedway	ServusTV carries the DTM and Superbike racing in Austria. Max in Denmark carries speedway. Max Sport in Bulgaria carries the World Rallycross Championship.	ServusTV’s DTM and Superbike coverage is free-to-air in Austria.

Can you watch motorsport free?

At the edges, and mostly in Europe. Motor racing is one of the sports that several countries protect by law, but the protection is narrow: it usually covers a home Grand Prix rather than a season. Italy requires its motor races to be free to air, Spain lists the Grands Prix held on its soil, Portugal lists the Rally de Portugal and the Portuguese MotoGP round, and France lists the French Grand Prix. What that buys you is a handful of weekends a year.

The one broadcaster that stands out is ServusTV, which is free-to-air in Austria and carries a genuinely wide motorsport portfolio: the WRC, the DTM, Superbike racing and a share of MotoGP. Its streaming service is available worldwide but most of the sport on it is geo-blocked to Austria and Germany.

Austria — ServusTV, free-to-air: the WRC, the DTM, Superbike racing and MotoGP. ORF shares Formula 1 with it.
Italy — TV8, free, carries Saturday qualifying and sprint races, some races live and the rest delayed. The split changes race by race.
Germany — RTL carries four Formula 1 races a year free-to-air, plus qualifying sessions.
UK — Channel 4 has the British Grand Prix live and highlights of every other race.
Netherlands — NOS carries the Dutch Grand Prix live.
Switzerland — SRF carries Formula 1 qualifying, sprints and races live on its free public-service service.

Rally and endurance are the hardest rights to verify. Formula 1, MotoGP and NASCAR are covered closely enough that a wrong broadcaster gets corrected quickly. The World Rally Championship, the endurance calendar and the touring-car series are not, and the same broadcaster may hold them in one country and nothing in the next. Where we have named one above, that is what we could confirm — treat the gaps as gaps rather than as an oversight. If you know of a rights holder we have missed, tell us and we will check it.

The cheapest legal route

One race, UK. Channel 4, free, if it is the British Grand Prix.
Motorsport in Spain. The DAZN Motor plan at €19.99 a month carries full Formula 1 and MotoGP, plus NASCAR and WorldSBK — the widest single motorsport package we found in Europe.
Motorsport in India. FanCode’s season pass at ₹899 covers Formula 1, Formula 2, Formula 3 and F1 Academy, and its motorsport pass at ₹999 a year adds MotoGP.
South-East Asia. SPOTV NOW’s Malaysian annual plan at MYR 115.90 includes MotoGP, WorldSBK, NASCAR and Formula E, which is unusually broad for the price.
Australia. Kayo Standard at A$29.99 a month covers Supercars and Formula 1 together.

Because the series are sold separately, the honest advice is to work out which two or three championships you actually watch before buying anything. A package that calls itself motorsport usually means one series, and often a delayed version of it.

Is there one subscription that covers all motorsport?

No. Formula 1, MotoGP and NASCAR are three separate rights deals, and rally, Formula E, endurance racing and Superbikes are four more. The closest thing to a broad package is DAZN’s Motor plan in Spain, which carries Formula 1, MotoGP, NASCAR and WorldSBK together.

Where can I watch motorsport free?

Mostly on public or free-to-air broadcasters in Europe, and mostly one weekend at a time. ServusTV in Austria is the widest free portfolio we found, carrying the WRC, the DTM, Superbike racing and MotoGP. Italy, Spain, France and Portugal all protect their home Grands Prix, and Channel 4 has the British Grand Prix free in the UK.

Who carries the World Rally Championship?

DAZN carries rally in several markets, including the UK and Czechia, often under the Rally TV channel name. Sport TV has it in Portugal, Sky Österreich in Austria, Oneplay in Czechia and MTV Katsomo in Finland. ServusTV shows it free in Austria.

Why do the same races appear on different channels in different countries?

Because motorsport rights are sold territory by territory, like almost every other sport. The series sells to a broadcaster for one country, and that broadcaster decides what to do with it — which is why the German, Austrian and Italian answers to "where is Formula 1" are three different answers.

Where to go next

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